Read the
page: he imposed tithes.
You know, it would really help if you used an example of a saint that was a real comparison. That saint lived in a time where the Church was essentially the government. If you needed help, the Church or maybe mercenaries were about it. Establishing a tithe tax then was no different than us establishing a tax now to fund our military.
The fundamental difference here, which you ignore as do all those in favor of these creeping evils, is that the Church wanted the money. It didn’t force you to go shop at Blacksmith Orgenberry’s shop whether you wanted his goods or not. Obamacare forces you to buy a product against your will and at gunpoint. And yes, the power to tax is the power to destroy. And yes, it is at gunpoint because if you don’t pay, Johnny Law shows up at your door with a gun.
Another lie from another lying politician. During his primary, the difference between Obama and Hillary was that Obama declared he didn’t think it right to force people against their will to buy something they don’t want. He went back on that. He lied. But that’s what progressives do. Whatever it takes.
You would do well to use examples that are apples to apples rather than try and dishonestly box in other posters to get them to somehow confront the Church or her teachings. That would be the Christian thing to do. I doubt you or your ilk will do so, however. The evil at work here is staggering.
As to the others here:
The mental gymnastics being done right now by the Republican party to somehow claim a victory and justify the intellectually dishonest “judge” known as Roberts is laughable. Another liberty was stolen and the government just gained the power to force you to do anything because everything, including doing nothing, is taxable.
Both parties reject God. Don’t tell me what they say or put in a platform. Look at what they have done. That’s it. It’s a joke. Romney is going to fight his own plan? Wait, he said it was good for his state, it’s a state by state issue, but not a federal plan. If you have any principles, you’ll know that that forcing people at gunpoint to buy something from another private citizen is immoral. It’s evil. Our liberties came from God, not the state or the Constitution. When someone removes them, it’s evil. If this was wrong in Massachusetts, it’s wrong everywhere. This isn’t a question of raising a tax rate from 11 to 13 percent. This is a fundamental liberty murdered. And this is the guy that will serve as an alternative?
I’m sorry folks. Christians in the West, and that includes what should be the steadfast Catholic Church, have completely lost sight of what evil means. People keep buying into the logic of the world when you should only care about Christ. That’s how you discern these things. Put your faith in the truth of God, not in the machinations of political parties, elitist judicial decisions, and a culture that ridicules the truth. When you do that, you’ll see these folks for what they are: scum. Until the Church and others do that, you can forget it.
One of the rules here poses this quote: “Love without truth would be blind; truth without love would be like 'a clanging cymbal”. But what happens when a clashing cymbal is necessary to wake your brothers and sisters up? That is love, too, the kind of love Paul himself used in that very text when he described people using what today we might call uncharitable language/ And until people have the courage to embrace that kind of love, the kind of love that shakes people from their stupor and then offers to help them see the world anew, more and more folks will falter and look elsewhere.
