Thank you for your posts. Great job. Just at a time when I was starting to need it again, like our good Sister Simone, you provided some inspiration.Thanks for the reassurance…it is very timely.
I’ll just think about maybe calling you partially “Christ-like”. Figuratively speaking of course. God bless!Do I think that the uninsured/under-insured should continue to suffer, die or go destitute just to NOT prevent something that people have been doing legally for decades anyway? My answer is a resounding, “No”.
So in these statements, I gather you two think the rest of us want this? This is the disconnect.Your answer is my answer. seekerz. NO.
Thanks for being honest in your choice.
Who said she or you or any one wasn’t Catholic…I’m lost.
Non Catholic Christians and Catholics agree on a lot of things. But no I am not a higher authority than your church to speak on your church’s teachings. Never have claimed to be. Seeker though has been helpful to me in discussing your church’s teaching in relation to how Sister Simone and the nuns on the bus can be involved in the battle for the WH.
How is this an excellent post? first prove the disdain for the poor is real, which is sad that you would be that cynical, second, please show how i showed any notion of lack of genuine concern for the unborn. Both false statements about me and others whom you disagree with, this is the rhetoric which needs to stop.
Left wing politics disguised as religion…very old story.
I’m obviously not a Catholic or the word Catholic would be part of my religion. But as far as Sister Simone, we just had the discussion about you saying she could call herself whatever she wants but it would false. That would have been you. But nevermind. Moving on.
Lapey, I’m sure and Seekerz I’d say thinks so too, that as a deacon of your church you have a concern for the poor and concern for the unborn. But I think you actually have to read and absorb what Seekerz wrote to understand how the post was excellent. He/she (sorry seeker, I think I remember but unsure of your gender to specify here) said and I’ll quote: “Call it a generalization if you like, I call it an ideological stance”. Seeker spoke of Romney and then went on to speak of an ideology.
Great line! “Blast the dissenters”. It would be even funnier if it wasn’t so true. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve been blasted here because I disagree. The word “evil” for something I said might even have been thrown in for good measure. I’ve been called a heretic and told I was on my way to hell and so on. I never have suggested something someone said was evil just because they disagreed with me nor have I resorted to such attacks. Nor has Seekerz to my knowledge. God bless Lapey and peace.I guess the basic salient theological facts on the evaluation of the presidential candidates is less interesting than fending off non-existent charges of ‘guilt’…
I never said she wasn’t Catholic, I did say the social justice she believes in is not Catholic social justice as taught by the Church. I did make the comment you mention here, but this is not what I meant. I was talking about if memory serves me, the comment she made about being a “pro-life” person. Sorry, but you cannot support a party platform like the democrat platform and be prolife. Furthermore, to say you are pro-life and vote for a candidate whose platform is the democrat’s you support both, to say otherwise is not intellectually honest. If I vote for a democrat I own what he stands for. Same is true where it comes to the death penalty, I preach against it but the candidate I will vote for is for it as far as I know. In this case I am voting for the lesser of two evils. Abortion is greater than the death penalty according to the church.
I will point out that both of these are objectively true statements.
You’re on a Catholic forum telling us what you believe Catholics should think. It sounds like you think you’re a higher authority to me. You want a Christianity that doesn’t exclude or drive away liberals. I don’t know of any form of Christianity that excludes liberals. As far as driving liberals away, it’s my opinion that the arrogance of liberals thinking that they know better than the Church that drives them into self-exile.
Good for you Lapey. Because let me assure you a lot of people think differently. Again God bless and peace (do I say “be with you” or as a deacon, “with your spirit”?)
In any case peace.I’ve been wondering the same, regarding those condemning anyone considering voting for anyone but Obama. (The Left, in the lamestream media, is fond of demonizing those who disagree with them, calling them “hateful” toward the poor.)
I’ve been wondering the same, regarding the poster’s opinion of St. Paul.
I hear you Matt, my objection as I illustrated in another post was about throwing the term “disdain” around, making those type generalizations. Also thinking for others. Mitt Romney holds the poor in disdain, really? We can talk about ideology if you like but every time someone opposes he/she, sorry couldn’t resist, it gets old simply being dismissed. There are legitimate apposing ideologies to liberalism, conservatives are not as bad and dumb as some liberals may think, and I know the same is true about liberals.Lapey, I’m sure and Seekerz I’d say thinks so too, that as a deacon of your church you have a concern for the poor and concern for the unborn. But I think you actually have to read and absorb what Seekerz wrote to understand how the post was excellent. He/she (sorry seeker, I think I remember but unsure of your gender to specify here) said and I’ll quote: “Call it a generalization if you like, I call it an ideological stance”. Seeker spoke of Romney and then went on to speak of an ideology. No need to get too defensive or to take it so personally.
Your last paragraph though had me
No I’m doing no such thing. You can think whatever you want. I am merely discussing different faith beliefs and politics. As far as the liberal thing, from what I’ve gathered here, a person can’t be part of your church if being faithful and practicing means they can’t be a liberal or would have to pretend they’re not or would have to be a Republican or couldn’t vote for Barack Obama. And get nearly crucified otherwise. So yes I seek a Christianity that does not exclude or drive them away. You’re entitled to your own opinion though certainly. Peace.
I have no idea what you are talking about. Please stop personalizing my comments - I am opposing a mindset not a person; I have been opposing that same mindset before ever exchanging posts with you. No need for martyrs here, just rational debate.