Wow! It’s not every day you hear an intellectually honest argument by an atheist in support of something he understands but does not believe in. Watch this incredible video of an interview by a “Catholic” (notice how I put quotations around Catholic), who disagrees with our Church, and Penn Jillette who is a devout atheist who understands orthodoxy and the importance of having a pope and Church.
Just incredible. Let me know what you think.
Equal rights should be praised between all genders, classes, races, and religions. This makes for a great democracy. But what about at the expense of one’s dignity? The Catholic Church holds that male and female are uniquely different, but equal in dignity. One is not better than the other, as we can see the uniqueness of each role.
For instance, men throughout the Testaments and Church history have been the ones to fight, lay down their lives, and head rebellions and revolutions. I don’t know how to put it more delicate than to say what it is: men are somewhat expendable to bring about a better world. Woman, on the contrary, with equal dignity as a created human, has not ever been so actively in the role of a bloody sacrifice, but has instead played the role of perpetual love and service. Thousands of men will lay down their lives, but a woman’s beauty, compassion, charity, and essence can win wars.
This would make sense if man and woman were made in the image and likeness of God. God became a man and won the greatest victory of all mankind through his bloody sacrifice. Millions of men have laid down their lives for lesser gains since. Through His Church the beauty, charity, compassion, service, and other typical feminine qualities of God are available to the whole world. God in the one hand fought, won, and laid down His life in the greatest battle between good and evil, and in the other He embraces, cares for, serves, and desires the salvation of the whole world, even His enemies.
Woman in the West has traded in her dignity for the sake of a false freedom and equality, first through her rebellion against her male partner in the early 20th century, then her rebellion against herself in her bra-burning, against her own fertility through contraception, and finally against her very nature of beauty, love, service, and compassion through abortion. The Western woman sees the Eastern woman as the slave because she might be expected to act or dress a certain way, presumably limiting her freedom. But what is the greater good? Losing the right to wear low-cut shirts to maintain the dignity of a woman, or to lose all of one’s dignity for the current idea of freedom and equality?
Now, in the news, it appears the U.S. military will allow the further perversion of woman’s dignity by allowing her to fight alongside men in the front lines of conflict. This places men in a unique role: not protecting the dignity of woman for which he has fought so long and hard for throughout the history of the world, and instead, allows her to bleed and die beside him. No wonder these at war with the dignity of woman are so much at war with our Church! We hold a virgin woman above the angels in heaven, the mother of our Lord!
If we don’t fight and die for the dignity of the human person in America, for what do we struggle for? Do we dare call it freedom?
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If you are religious, atheistic, liberal, conservative, black, brown, white, from a particular region, speak a particular language, or speak with a certain accent, you are among a people who have been persecuted at one time or another.
We can all agree on this without going into much detail.
Why is it then, that still, after so many eras of mankind, do we still allow persecution of people, even people we happen to disagree with? This past week, it has been found that Hobby Lobby, owned by evangelical Christians will have to pay the U.S. government fines upward of $1.3 million per day, or drop its healthcare for its employees, or give up its religious convictions and accept the Health and Human Services mandate that will force them to pay for abortions, sterilizations, and contraception. When Hobby Lobby’s owners do not obey, and do not pay the $1.3 million per day in fines, what then will happen to them when they are in violation of the law? Certainly jail will be the next step. Hobby Lobby is not in a vacuum, but is a test-run, a microcosm, of what is to come on a grand scale when all such companies will have to fight to keep their beliefs in a time of persecution by the Fed. Watch more on Hobby Lobby on Fox News.
In the name of fairness or equality for all, the U.S. government has targeted and is unfairly treating an entire sect of our nation; those of deeply held convictions and faith in God. If one’s deeply held beliefs go contrary to the government’s mandates, he is threatened with bankruptcy and violation of the law which will lead to incredible fines and jail time.
Beginning January 1, the largest persecution of one class of people since slavery will begin. Every business owner, charity, church organization, hospital, and others, will be forced to go out of business or give up its traditions, values, and formed consciences. There will be a fight, of course, and we already see it in the dozens of lawsuits already by states and organizations, and there will be plenty more legal battles once all the details of the HHS mandate and Obamacare become available and in practice.
Times of persecution roll out great saints, it’s been said. Nevertheless, having children in times of persecution is a heavy load. Continue to pray for this nation. There are many in its ranks who want to have no tolerance for the multitudes of faithful, in the name of tolerance for the few who would have their way even at the expense of their neighbor.
God’s love!
After all the war-on-Christmas media, complaints of religious imagery, the ever-evolving shift away from the true meaning of Christmas in society, etc., it’s great to realize that this day no one can take away. No matter if the whole world wanted to change Christmas to “Holidays”, the birth of our Savior will always be celebrated in His Church. What a blessed people we are who are in His Church!
God bless you all this Christmas day. The Christ is born!
