MORE DIRTY TRICKS FROM THE CATHOLIC CHURCH?

Another insightful post from our friends at Coalition for a Democratic America~Dusty
By PraetorOne and Biblebelted

Do you remember how outraged you were during the 2004 Election Cycle when a group of conservative Catholic Bishops threatened to with hold communion from Democratic Presidential candidate, John Kerry? Well, if you thought the Bishops were through you have another thing coming. This year the two leading candidates, Obama and Clinton, are not Roman Catholics, so the Bishops have devised an more Draconian measure. Instead of threatening the candidates they are now threatening Catholic, American voters who would vote for either Clinton or Obama in the general election. That’s right, friends and neighbors. The bloviating Bishops have actually decided that they have the right to interfere in the electoral process of a primarily non-Catholic nation. Not that we should be surprised. This after all is the same church who has selected two recent Popes, John Paul II and Benedict XVI, both of whom trace(d) their loyalties back to Hitler’s Pope, Pope Pius XII, and perhaps more chillingly the war against modernism–a war which included efforts to combat labor unions, democracy, and the separation of church.

It seems to me that the Catholic Church has obsessed over the idea of abortion: so much so that it can’t see the forest for the trees. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that they are so obsessed with only one tree in the entire forest; refusing not only to admit that there is a forest, but failing to realize that there are other trees. In other words, it is just plain moronic to concentrate so intensely on a single issue while either ignoring or paying irrelevant lip service to others. For example. John Paul II routinely condemned the excesses capitalism. But in retrospect one has to wonder how serious he and his obsequious Bishops really were. One way to combat abortion is to improve the economy. When people, women in partilar, feel confident in the economic future of the country they are less likely to seek an abortion than they would be during hard economic times. But have the Bishops even bothered to condemn the pirate capitalism of the Bush regime? Of course not. Instead of threatening Republican voters for their support of pirate capitalism, the Bishops have opted to resume the war on modernism, which in addition to democracy, labor unions, and church/state separation, includes a war on birth control and women’s rights in general. The Bishops have obsessed over abortion, that much is for certain, but they also understand that the quickest way to gain control over women and even families in general is by asserting a direct control over what men and to an even greater degree, women, can do with their own bodies. The strategy could not be obvious. Control a person’s sexual activities and you can control any and every aspect of that person’s existence. And that’s the main objective–not the salvation of souls, but the undying obedience to the church hierarchy.

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