Wednesday, November 17, 2004

And one more from "Town Talk"...

Election about God, gays and guns

God didn't help Bush get re-elected because God is against war and the death penalty. The Pope is the real leader of the Catholic Church. Arch Bishop Burke is not the leader of the Catholic Church. Real moral values are not going to war and killing our young soldiers or innocent people. Real moral values are taking care of our own people who are hungry and out of jobs, not spending 200 billion dollars in Iraq. This war was Bush's choosing not a necessity. This election was about God, gays and guns not the important issues like jobs, social security, healthcare and the deficit. We got the shaft.
"God is against war and the death penalty." How can this statement be reconciled with Sacred Scripture? Simply put, it cannot be. Certainly, God is against unjust wars and the unjust application of the death penalty, but the statement made above is patently false and demonstrates an ignorance of God and God's Revelation.

"Archbishop Burke is not the leader of the Catholic Church." Contrary to this opinion, he is a legitimate successor of the Apostles, and as such, he is the leader of the Church in the Archdiocese of St. Louis and is in union with the Holy Father.

"Real moral values are not going to war and killing our young soldiers or innocent people." Sometimes, war is inevitable, and may even be the only morally obligatory thing to do. The intentional killing of innocent human beings is ALWAYS wrong and immoral - this includes unborn children. It appears that someone has not read the Catechism to obtain a basic understanding of what is moral and what is not.

"Real moral values are taking care of our own people who are hungry and out of jobs." And as Christians, we should be doing all we can to help those people. However, it not the responsibility of government to provide jobs to those who do not have them. Its policies should enable business to grow in such a manner as to permit job creation. Government should refrain from creating policies which stifle and choke businesses which result in job loss.

"This election was about God, gays and guns..." Pure speculation, unsupported by any factual data.

"We got the shaft." God does, indeed, work in mysterious way, does He not?

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