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<span class="drop-cap">O</span>n June 8, 1978, a man with a craggy
face and a beard came to Harvard University, where I was then a graduate
student, to give the annual commencement address. The man was not a
Harvard graduate. He was not a professor. He was not an American. He did
not speak English. His address, given in his native Russian with
simultaneous English translation, was not universally well-received. I
suspect that some Harvard officials regretted their decision to invite
him to speak.<br />
The man’s name was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He was a brilliant
novelist who had spent several years as a political prisoner in the
gulag in the Soviet Union. He was a strong Orthodox Christian and a
fierce critic of atheistic communism and Soviet tyranny. His writings
had exposed the corruption, cruelty, and injustice of the communist
regime that had come to power in Russia in the Bolshevik Revolution of
1917 and would remain in power until 1989—a regime that had enslaved its
own people and reduced those of many other nations to serfdom under
puppet governments. It was a regime as totalitarian and as murderous as
the Nazi regime in Germany, which the U.S. and Britain had allied with
the Soviets in World War II to defeat.<br />
In 1978, the Cold War was raging, and the U.S. was still reeling from
its humiliation in the disastrous war in Vietnam. Anti-Americanism was
flourishing both abroad and at home. Many Americans—particularly young
Americans—had lost faith in their country, its institutions, its
principles, its culture, its traditions, its way of life. Some proposed
communism as a superior system; many suggested what came to be known as
“moral equivalency” between American democracy and Soviet communism. By
1978, to suggest such equivalency had become a mark of
sophistication—something to distinguish one from the allegedly backward
hicks and rubes who believed in the superiority of the American to the
Soviet system. There were many such “sophisticated” people at Harvard.
And Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn came to Harvard to confront them and others.<br />
His speech was not, however, an encomium to America or the West. On
the contrary, it was a severe critique—one might even say a prophetic
rebuke—and a warning. Of course, Solzhenitsyn did not argue for the
moral equivalency, much less the superiority, of the Soviet system. He
hated communism in all its dimensions and he loathed the gangsters who
ruled the Soviet empire. What he faulted America (and the West more
generally) for was its abandonment of its own moral and, especially,
spiritual ideals and identity.<br />
He viewed the West’s weakness, including its weakness in truly
standing up to Soviet aggression, as the fruit of the materialism,
consumerism, self-indulgent individualism, emotivism, and narcissism—in a
word, the immorality—into which we had allowed ourselves to sink.
Solzhenitsyn, the (by then) legendary human rights activist, warned
America and the West that we had become too focused on rights and needed
to refocus on obligations. We had come to embrace a false idea of
liberty, conceiving of it as doing as one pleases, rather than as the
freedom to fulfill one’s human potential and honor one’s conscientious
duties to God and neighbor.<br />
At the heart of this moral confusion and collapse, Solzhenitsyn
argued, was a loss of faith, and with it the loss of a particular
virtue—the virtue of courage.<br />
Here are Solzhenitsyn’s own words:<br />
<blockquote>
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature, which
an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world
has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each
country, each government, each political party, and, of course, in the
United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable
among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an
impression of loss of courage by the entire society. Of course, there
are many courageous individuals, but they have no determining influence
on public life.</blockquote>
I submit to you today that, despite the American victory in the Cold
War (for which we should all be grateful) and the collapse and
disappearance of the Soviet Union, nothing has changed that would
diminish the force or relevance of Solzhenitsyn’s words. The virtue we
lack—and it is an indispensable virtue—is courage. And we must recover
it. Our young men and women must regain it—not to defend us from a
hostile foreign power armed with nuclear weapons, but to protect us from
a far more dangerous foe, a truly deadly enemy: our own worst selves.<br />
<br />
At
all times and in all places all of the virtues are needed. No virtue is
superfluous or dispensable. But it seems that at any given time in any
particular society there is a particular virtue that is lacking and
therefore desperately needed. Moreover, because the virtues are
integrally connected to one other—they are like a network—the loss of
any one virtue tends to weaken and imperil all the others. Or worse, the
loss of a given virtue threatens to turn other virtues into engines of
vice.<br />
<br />
Take, for example, the virtue of compassion. It is an
essential virtue—like the others. It can move us to work selflessly and
even heroically for the good of our fellow human beings—especially those
who are needy or suffering. We cannot do without it. We rightly praise
the compassionate for their good deeds in caring for the least, the
last, and the lost. But consider what can happen when compassion remains
strong but other virtues, such as love of truth and justice, have
eroded or disappeared. Operating by itself, in isolation from the other
virtues, compassion can motivate every manner of evil—from the killing
of the unborn in abortion to the killing of the disabled and the frail
elderly in euthanasia. We can convince ourselves that kindness calls for
these things.<br />
<br />
Well before the Nazis gave eugenics a bad name,
well-intentioned, decent, compassionate people in places such as
Germany, England, and the U.S. embraced eugenics, precisely out of a
sense of compassion. It was they, not the Nazis, who invented the
doctrine of <i>lebensunswertes Leben</i>—“life unworthy of life.”
Because they did not want people to suffer, they supported mandatory
sterilization for some classes of persons and even “mercy killing” for
those whose lives they considered so burdensome as to be “not worth
living.”<br />
<br />
We live at a time of great moral confusion. If anything,
our situation is worse today than it was when Solzhenitsyn visited
Harvard in 1978. There has been, to borrow a concept from Friedrich
Nietzsche, a “transvaluation of values” in many spheres. What is
good—such as marriage considered precisely as the conjugal union of
husband and wife—has been redefined as bad. What is bad—such as sexual
immorality of a wide range of types—has been redefined as good. To
defend the conjugal understanding of marriage and traditional ideas
about sexuality and morality is to be accused of “hatred” by people on
one side of the political divide today. To welcome the migrant and the
refugee is to court being accused of disloyalty to your country by some
on the other side. To stand up for the sanctity of human life in all
stages and conditions, beginning with the defense of the precious and
vulnerable child in the womb, is to risk being labeled a “misogynist.”
To speak out for religious freedom and the rights of conscience is to
invite being smeared as a “bigot.”<br />
<br />
It is not pleasant to be
subjected to these types of abuse and defamation. And these days it goes
well beyond unpleasantness. To speak moral truth to cultural power is
to put at risk one’s social standing, one’s educational and employment
opportunities, one’s professional advancement; it is to place in
jeopardy treasured friendships and sometimes even family relationships.
And the more people, in reaction to these threats, acquiesce or go
silent, the more dangerous and therefore more difficult it becomes for
anyone to speak the truth out loud, even if they know it in their
hearts. Anyone who succumbs to the intimidation and bullying—anyone who
acquiesces or goes silent out of fear—not only harms his or her own
character and fails in his or her Christian duty to bear faithful
witness to truth, he or she also makes things harder for others. We owe
it not only to ourselves to be courageous, but to our brothers and
sisters too. And because we owe it to ourselves and others, we owe it to
God.<br />
Our own worst selves are our unvirtuous selves. Our own worst selves
are our selves when we lack the self-mastery that possession of the
virtues—including the virtue of courage—makes possible. Our own worst
selves are slaves—not to alien masters, but to our own weaknesses and
wayward desires. Our own worst selves are what we are encouraged by so
much of our culture today to be. When we are our own worst selves, what
we seek are ephemeral and ultimately meaningless things, such as
pleasure, status, social acceptability, wealth, power, celebrity—things
that are not bad in themselves, since they can be used for good ends,
but things that are not good in themselves, either. And they can lure us
into supposing that—and acting as if—they were. When we are our own
worst selves, we fail in our duty to bear faithful witness because a
desire for ephemeral things and a fear of losing them paralyzes us.
When we are our own worst selves, we lead lives that are marked by
those vices against which Solzhenitsyn railed forty years ago:
materialism, consumerism, self-indulgence, narcissism. We place the
focus on doing as we please, no matter what we please; getting what we
want, no matter what it is we happen to want. Instead of seeking what is
true because it’s true, what is good because it’s good, what is right
because it’s right, we seek what we desire, for no better reason than
our happening to desire it; indeed, we fall into the profound moral and
philosophical error of imagining that the human good consists in the
satisfaction of human desires.<br />
Thus it is that we rationalize our failing to behave like rational
creatures—creatures blessed with the powers of reason and freedom—and
our behaving instead like brute animals, slaves of our passions. By
definition, slaves to passions can never be masters of themselves; and
no one who lacks self-mastery can practice and exemplify the virtue of
courage. Courage always presupposes a willingness to sacrifice oneself
for others or for something higher; someone who is not master of
himself, someone who cannot rise above his own wants, desires, and
passions, can never give himself to, or live for, others, or give
himself to, or live for, something higher. Self-mastery is a
precondition of the willingness and ability to live self-sacrificially.
One cannot give oneself to others if one is not first master of oneself.
Lacking self-mastery, one simply has nothing to give.<br />
The Christian story is all about self-giving, self-sacrificial
living—and dying. God himself sends his only begotten Son to us, in our
sinfulness, to be our Redeemer and Savior by a supreme act of
self-sacrificial love. We, as disciples of Jesus, are to model our lives
on his, emptying and sacrificing ourselves for others. Bearing witness
to truth, no matter the cost.<br />
I have suggested that Solzhenitsyn saw a connection between the
decline of courage and a loss of faith. Five years after his Harvard
address, in a 1983 speech accepting the Templeton Prize in Religion, he
stated this in the most explicit terms. The title of the speech could
not have made the point more clearly. That title was “Men Have Forgotten
God.” Here is its opening paragraph:<br />
<blockquote>
As a survivor of the Communist Holocaust I am horrified to
witness how my beloved America, my adopted country, is gradually being
transformed into a secularist and atheistic utopia, where communist
ideals are glorified and promoted, while Judeo-Christian values and
morality are ridiculed and increasingly eradicated from the public and
social consciousness of our nation. Under the decades-long assault and
militant radicalism of many so-called “liberal” and “progressive”
elites, God has been progressively erased from our public and
educational institutions, to be replaced with all manner of delusion,
perversion, corruption, violence, decadence, and insanity.</blockquote>
Thirty-five years later, who can deny the truth of Solzhenitsyn’s
lament? Today, the cultured despisers of Christianity and
Judeo-Christian values do not speak of communism or its ideals—communism
having been discredited by Soviet gangsterism. They speak instead of
“liberation” or of “equality,” by which they seek to marginalize and
stigmatize the principles of Judeo-Christian morality and justify acts
and practices that contravene those principles. And they are certainly
aggressive—moving, to cite just one of many examples, from the
legalization of abortion, to the demand for its approval and even public
funding, to the insistence that people or institutions—including
religious institutions such as Catholic hospitals—who refuse to perform
or refer for abortions be made to suffer professional or civic penalties
or disabilities.<br />
What is behind all this? According to Solzhenitsyn, the moral decline
of the West has behind it the same factor that produced the horrors of
communism, namely this: “Men have forgotten God.” People worship
themselves, deify their own desires, fall into an idolatry of the self,
because they have forgotten that there is something—indeed
someone—higher. They have forgotten God. And absent faith in God, how
can they—how can we—muster the courage to bear bold witness, as
Solzhenitsyn himself did, to Christian values in an increasingly hostile
culture and world? How can there be courage in the absence of faith?
Fear is a powerful emotion—a very powerful emotion indeed. Faith alone
can overcome it.<br />
When people forget God, when they come to suppose that they don’t
need Him or His grace and guidance, when they fall into the hubristic
error of imagining that they are too smart and sophisticated to believe
in Him, a catastrophe always ensues.<br />
This was no novel insight or discovery of Solzhenitsyn’s. It is the
central teaching and theme of the prophets—all prophets, and not just
the Biblical ones.<br />
In March of 1863 another man with a craggy face and a beard spoke to
the American people words of critique and prophetic warning of precisely
the sort spoken by Solzhenitsyn at Harvard and in his Templeton
Address. Abraham Lincoln, reflecting on the catastrophe of the Civil War
and on its causes, issued a Proclamation of a National Day of Prayer
and Fasting. What he said in that proclamation was, in a sense, echoed
by Solzhenitsyn, and we would do well to heed it today. Indeed, we fail
to heed it at our mortal peril. Here are Lincoln’s words:<br />
<blockquote>
Whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own
their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins
and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that
genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the
sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all
history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord. And,
insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations like individuals
are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not
justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates
the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our
presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a
whole People? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of
Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and
prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other
nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the
gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched
and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness
of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior
wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have
become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and
preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!</blockquote>
It has been 155 years since Lincoln wrote those words. And yet, it is
as if he wrote them yesterday and directed them to us today. Yes, as a
culture, as a people, we have forgotten God. That is reflected in our
laws, in the edicts of our Supreme Court, in our public policies, in our
news and entertainment media, in our schools and universities, in our
economic and cultural institutions, on the streets of our cities, and
even, alas, in many homes. We “have vainly imagined, in the
deceitfulness of our hearts,” that our “blessings were produced by some
superior wisdom and virtue of our own.” And, as a result, we find
ourselves in the condition so accurately and brutally diagnosed by
Solzhenitsyn.<br />
But what has been forgotten may be remembered. What has fallen into
decay can be renewed. What has been lost can be rediscovered. But for
these things to happen, those who remember God and sincerely seek to do
His will must look to Him for the grace necessary to be His courageous
and faithful witnesses—to be, in the words of another modern prophet,
Pope John Paul II, “signs of contradiction” to a world that has
forgotten God. This, allow me humbly to say, is your mission. You must
remember God to a world that has forgotten him. By the example of your
lives, as well as by the words of your mouths, you must be the salt and
light that repairs what is broken and points the way to true freedom for
those who have fallen into forms of slavery that are all the more
abject for masquerading as liberation.<br />
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<i><i>Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and
director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and
Institutions at Princeton University.</i></i><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12537581.post-48605185787432636162018-08-02T07:54:00.003-07:002018-08-05T06:24:00.370-07:00<div class="mtm _5pco" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">
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"Goodness, patriotism, honesty and loyalty are losing their battles not
by conflict, but by default. Those who are called to be defenders of
what is right are not wounded in the battle: they flee. Courage has
always been in the past the attribute of those who have faith: now the
moral leaders become defenders only of the feeble. They are afraid to
speak on vital truths to their troops, fearful that they may incite a
revolt or be unloved. The result is "every man does what is right in his
own eyes." Actually, the troops are yearning for strong leaders who
will challenge them and sound trumpets with clear notes. But seeing the
shepherds uncertain and afraid of wolves, the sheep scatter.<br />
Why
are leaders in a nation, in education, in religion afraid to speak out
with courage? Partly because they are not themselves practicing what
they ask others to do: partly because they are afraid of being unloved
or because they do not rely on Divine strength to aid them in their
defense of what is right and just. When Peter and John were arrested and
brought before judges for preaching Christianity, the judges were
struck by first their "boldness" and secondly by the fact that they were
unlearned. Their strong convictions came not from academic degrees, but
from their being filled with the Spirit of God. When David's commander
Joab "saw the battle was against him in front and rear" he and his
brother Abishal pledged mutual support, shored up their moral courage
and left the final decision in the hands of God. "If the Aramaeans are
too strong for me, then you shall help me, Joab said, but if the
Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come and help you. Be of
good courage and let us fight bravely for our people, and for the cities
of our God: and may the Lord do what seems good to Him."<br />
In the
area of religion, the secret of courage is: "I will fear no evil, for
thou art with me." Responsibilities are no longer burdensome if one
realizes that the Divine works in us. Want of courage is want of Faith.
If a bishop, for example, is afraid to tell a minister in the sanctuary
not to appear in patched overalls and leather jacket, it is because he
is less-in awesome concern for the glory of God than he is dread of the
cutting rejoinder of the hippie. All the fears of life are expelled by a
great love, and love is the only thing that can successfully cope with
them. On the contrary, the fear of evil is essentially an unbelieving
thing. All weakening anxieties have their roots in practical unbelief.<br />
The tragedy in the loss of courage and boldness on the part of leaders
is the latent courage in the young and their readiness to follow those
who have a high ideal. The so-called generation gap does exist: it is a
spirit-gap — The distance between the leaders who are not on fire with
ideals and the followers who are unlighted torches waiting for the
flame. The young are as quick to pick out phonies as they are anxious to
be inspired by those who are unafraid of being unpopular once truth is
at stake. <br />
Our democratic process sometimes makes for weakness
than strength. A candidate for office keeps his finger on the pulse of
the electorate: he finds out by survey what they want and then he
promises to give it to them, generally at the expense of the public
treasury. His campaign is directed to the desires of the people, but
never to their needs. The result is, the electorate is rarely offered a
chance to vote for a real leader, it is worth recalling that the
majority vote about the Isrealites going into the Promised Land was 10
to 2. Only Caleb and Joshua favored it. The masses would have killed the
two of them if Moses had not interceded. In religion and politics
alike, leadership will return when a man will not be afraid to make
enemies because he loves God above all things."<br />
(Fulton J. Sheen, D.D., Ph.D. 'Leaders', 1973.)</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt";"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><u>This Is The Legacy Of The Nazis</u></b>. <u><b>The <i>Real</i> Nazis...</b></u> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span class="yiv1338058358" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt";"><span style="font-size: large;">On the morning of April 29, 1945, my father, US Army Sgt. Joe C. Sacco, and his battalion helped liberate the notorious Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, Germany.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As the son of a liberator, what I present here is not a political statement, but rather an American one. I have never been nor do I have plans to become a member of the mindless crowd that willingly hands over its intellect to the groupthink of a political party. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In order for the following to make sense, one must perform the difficult task of suspending his or her political herd mentality, if only for a moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To those who now carelessly and, in truth, ignorantly portray the great men and women who serve our nation in their roles as ICE agents, border patrol agents, police officers, and the like as “Nazis” who are “marching kids off to the showers,” you deserve nothing but the contempt of our citizenry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To those on the increasingly-unpopular network and cable news programs who recklessly accuse fellow Americans of being Nazis, here’s a one-sentence summary; the real Nazis ripped innocent people from their homes, put them in horrific concentration camps, and murdered them by the millions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Those imprisoned were not people who had snuck into Germany to take advantage of government handout programs. They were, instead, legal citizens of Germany, Poland, Austria, Italy, and surrounding countries who, oftentimes, wanted to escape Europe altogether so as not to be rounded up and killed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Their possessions were confiscated and they were transported to the camps, where they were systematically murdered, all for the crime of being Jews or other undesirables. They were starved, they were beaten, they were stabbed, they were shot, they were hung, they were used in shockingly inhumane medical experiments, and they were decapitated. The teenagers were even used as target practice. And then their bodies were cremated so as to make room for more victims.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To those who breathlessly - and mindlessly - say, “But separating children from their illegal immigrant parents is how it all started,” you are wrong. As usual. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It started when a group of self-proclaimed elites began accusing those who disagreed with them of being evil … just as you now do on a daily basis. So sober up and knock it off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Such ill-informed rhetoric is an open call to do violence against those with whom one may disagree and who, therefore, must be evil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is a deep and foreboding chasm between the actual evil of the Holocaust and those who attempt to manufacture it for the purpose of political gain. From deep within that gorge will forever echo the cries of millions who were murdered by people who had positioned themselves as morally superior.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know that many in the media, while pointing to photographs from circa 2014, hysterically accuse current government officials (including ICE and border patrol agents, members of Congress, and even our President) as heartless and evil. These same media members made no mention of the dilemma back when the photos were actually taken. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Such a misrepresentation is as stupid and dangerous as having a doctor look at someone else’s old X-Rays and then prescribing a course of treatment for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But perhaps most appalling is the willingness with which many in the media accuse other Americans of being Nazis in order to serve some idiotic, convoluted political agenda. Such viciousness is not only monumentally insulting, it is a betrayal of both the victims and the liberators of the real Holocaust. In addition, it sends the younger generation the asinine message that the Holocaust might not have been such a big deal after all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Holocaust ended the minute the American soldiers, my father included, entered the camp. But Dachau’s liberators did not enter as Democrats or Republicans, liberals or conservatives. They were Americans first, foremost, and forever. As such, they were victorious over real - not imagined - evil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">ICE Agents = Not Nazis</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Border Patrol Agents = Not Nazis</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Police Officers = Not Nazis</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Members of US Military = Not Nazis</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Members of Congress = Not Nazis</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Democrats = Not Nazis</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Republicans = Not Nazis</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Libertarians = Not Nazis</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Independents = Not Nazis</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Donald Trump = Not a Nazi</span></div>
<span class="yiv1338058358" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt";"><span style="font-size: large;">Mike Pence = Not a Nazi</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">First Family = Not Nazis</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Barack Obama = Not a Nazi</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hillary Clinton = Not a Nazi</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">American politicians in general = Lots of hidden agendas that are almost never in your best interest, but not Nazis</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">People who may disagree with you = Not Nazis</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So now, on behalf of the millions murdered by the real Nazis and on behalf of my father and his buddies who were among those who put an end to the truly evil atrocities of the Third Reich, I share with you one singular, horrifying image of what an actual concentration camp looked like. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The photos in my book are just of few of the many taken by my father on the day of Dachau’s liberation. They provide only a glimpse of the evil he and his fellow soldiers found when they entered the camp.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Among the scenes he described was an especially poignant one in which he stared down into one of the railcars in which Jewish prisoners had been locked and starved. There, leaning against a corner, was a young lady nursing her infant son. Both mother and baby were dead. My father, who was 20 at the time, knew that no matter how long he lived, he would never see anything so profoundly tragic as this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the legacy of the Nazis. The real Nazis.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.joycemeyer.org/America.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>TAKE A STAND</b></i></span></a></div><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #574e54; font-family: "clarendon w01 light_692104" , "times" , serif; font-size: 1rem;">I believe that now more than ever, Christians need to take a stand for what is right and defend the godly principles that have made this nation great.</span></p>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #574e54; font-family: "clarendon w01 light_692104" , "times" , serif; font-size: 1rem;">In so many areas of society—whether it’s government legislation, indecent displays in public places, or what is now considered “acceptable” in TV and movies—immorality has taken center stage.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #574e54; font-family: "clarendon w01 light_692104" , "times" , serif; font-size: 1rem;">That’s why it is so important to let our voices be heard in a loving way and </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #574e54; font-family: "clarendon w01 light_692104" , "times" , serif; font-size: 1rem;">to defend the incredible freedoms and liberties we’ve been given. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #574e54; font-family: "clarendon w01 light_692104" , "times" , serif; font-size: 1rem;">I believe if enough people will stand up for what is right, those in government will listen, and change will take place. Dave Meyer</span></div>
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is suffering from tolerance: tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error,
virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so much overrun
with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded. The man who can make up
his mind in an orderly way, as a man might make up his bed, is called a bigot;
but a man who cannot make up his mind, any more than he can make up for lost
time, is called tolerant and broadminded. A bigoted man is one who refuses to
accept a reason for anything; a broadminded man is one who will accept anything
for a reason—providing it is not a good reason. It is true that there is a
demand for precision, exactness, and definiteness, but it is only for precision
in scientific measurement, not in logic. The breakdown that has produced this
unnatural broadmindedness is mental, not moral. The evidence for this statement
is threefold: the tendency to settle issues not by arguments but by words, the
unqualified willingness to accept the authority of anyone on the subject of
religion, and, lastly, the love of novelty.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Voltaire boasted that if he could find but ten wicked words a day
he could crush the “infamy” of Christianity. He found the ten words daily, and
even a daily dozen, but he never found an argument, and so the words went the
way of all words and the thing, Christianity, survived. Today, no one advances
even a poor argument to prove that there is no God, but they are legion who
think they have sealed up the heavens when they used the word “anthropomorphism.”
This word is just a sample of the catalogue of names which serve as the excuse
for those who are too lazy to think. One moment’s reflection would tell them
that one can no more get rid of God by calling Him “anthropomorphic” than he
can get rid of a sore throat by calling it “streptococci.” As regards the use
of the term “anthropomorphism,” I cannot see that its use in theology is less
justified than the use in physics of the term “organism,” which the new
physicists are so fond of employing. Certain words like “reactionary” or “medieval”
are tagged on the Catholic Church and used with that same disrespect with which
a man may sneer at a woman’s age. Mothers do not cease to be mothers because
their sons grow up, and the Mother Church of the Christian world, which began
not in Boston but in Jerusalem, is not to be dispossessed of her glorious title
simply because her sons leave home. Some day they may be glad to return and
their return will be the truest “homecoming” the world has ever seen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Not only does the substitution of words for argument betray the
existence of this false tolerance, but also the readiness of many minds to
accept as an authority in any field an individual who becomes a famous
authority in one particular field. The assumption behind journalistic religion
is that because a man is clever in inventing automobiles, he is thereby clever
in treating the relationship between Buddhism and Christianity; that a
professor who is an authority on the mathematical interpretation of atomic
phenomena is thereby an authority on the interpretation of marriage; and that
am an who knows something about illumination can throw light on the subject of
immortality, or perhaps even put out the lights on immortality. There is a
limit to the transfer of training, and no one who paints beautiful pictures
with his right hand can, in a day and at the suggestion of a reporter, paint an
equally good one with his left hand. The science of religion has a right to be
heard scientifically through its qualified spokesmen, just as the science of
physics or astronomy has a right to be heard through its qualified spokesmen.
Religion is a science despite the fact that some would make it only a
sentiment. Religion is not an open question, like the United Nations, while
science is a closed question, like the addition table. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Religion has its principles, natural and revealed, which are more
exacting in their logic than mathematics. But the false notion of tolerance has
obscured this fact from the eyes of many who are as intolerant about the
smallest details of life as they are tolerant about their relations to God. In
the ordinary affairs of life, these same people would never summon a Christian
Science practitioner to fix a broken windowpane; they would never call in an
optician because they had broken the eye of a needle; they would never call in
a florist because they hurt the palm of their hand, nor go to a carpenter to
take care of their nails. They would never call in a Collector of Internal
Revenue to extract the nickel swallowed by the baby. They would refuse to
listen to a Kiwanis booster discussing the authenticity of a painting, or to a
tree‐surgeon settling a moot question of law. And yet for the all‐important
subject of religion, on which our eternal destinies hinge, on the all‐important
question of the relations of man to his environment and to his God, they are
willing to listen to anyone who calls himself a prophet. And so our journals
are filled with articles for these “broadminded” people, in which everyone from
Jack Dempsey [a famous boxer at the time] to the chief cook of the Ritz Carlton
tells about his idea of God and his view of religion. These same individuals,
who would become exasperated if their child played with a wrongly colored
lollipop, would not become the least bit worried if the child grew up without
ever having heard the name of God.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Would it not be in perfect keeping with the fitness of things to
insist on certain minimal requirements for theological pronouncements? If we
insist that he who mends our pipes knows something about plumbing and that he
who gives us pills knows something about medicine, should be not expect and
demand that he who tells us about God, religion, Christ, and immortality at
least say his prayers? If a violinist does not disdain to practice his musical
scales, why should the modern theologian disdain to practice the elements of
religion? </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Another evidence of the breakdown of reason that has produced this
weird fungus of broad‐mindedness is the passion for novelty, as opposed to the
love of truth. Truth is sacrificed for an epigram, and the Divinity of Christ
for a headline in the Monday morning newspaper. Many a modern preacher is far
less concerned with preaching Christ and Him crucified than he is his
popularity with his congregation. A want of intellectual backbone makes him
straddle the ox of truth and the ass of nonsense, paying compliments to
Catholics because of </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">their great organization</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> and to sexologists because of their </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">honest challenge to the youth of this
generation.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Bending the knee to
the mob and pleasing men rather than God would probably make them scruple at
ever playing the role of a John the Baptist before a modern Herod. No accusing
finger would be leveled at a divorce or one living in adultery; no voice would
be thundered in the ears of the rich, saying with something of the intolerance
of Divinity: </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It is not lawful for
you to live with your brother’s wife.” Rather would we hear: </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Friend, times are changing! The acids of modernity
are eating away the fossils of orthodoxy. If you'r</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">e noble sex‐urge to self‐expression finds its proper stimulus and
response in no one but Herodias, then in the name of Freud and Russell accept
her as your lawful wife to have and to hold until sex do ye part.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: 9pt;"></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Belief in the existence of God, in the Divinity of Christ, and in
the moral law are considered passing fashions. The latest thing in this new
tolerance is considered the true thing, as if truth were a fashion, like the
hat, instead of an institution, like a head. At the present moment, in
psychology the fashion runs towards Behaviorism, as in philosophy it runs
towards Temporalism. And that it is not objective validity which dictates the
success of a modern philosophical theory, is borne out by the statement a
celebrated space‐time philosopher of England made to the writer a few years
ago, when he was asked where he got his system. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">From my imagination,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> he answered. Upon being challenged that the imagination was not
the proper faculty for a philosopher to use, he retorted: </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It is, if the success of your philosophical
system depends not on the truth that is in it, but on its novelty.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ </span></span></span></span><br />
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truth is novelty, and hence </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">truth</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> changes with the
passing fancies of the moment. Like the chameleon who changes his colors to
suit the vesture on which he is placed, so truth is supposed to change to suit
the foibles and obliquities of the age, as if the foundations of thinking might
be true for the pre‐Adamites and false for the Adamites. Truth does grow, but
it grows homogeneously, like an acorn into an oak; it does not swing in the
breeze, like a weathercock. The leopard does not change his spots nor the Ethiopian
his skin, though the leopard be put in bars or the Ethiopian in pink tights.
The nature of certain things is fixed, and none more so than the nature of
truth. Truth maybe contradicted a thousand times, but that only proves that it
is strong enough to survive a thousand assaults. But for any one to say, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Some say this, some say that, therefore there
is no truth,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> is about as logical
as it would have been for Columbus, who heard some say, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The earth is round,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and other say, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The earth is flat,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> to conclude: </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Therefore there is no earth at all.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: 9pt;"></span></span></div>
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sheep and his second coat of wool, between Napoleon and his three‐cornered hat,
between the substance and the accident, the kind that has begotten minds so
flattened with broadness that they have lost all their depth. Like a carpenter
who might throw away his rule and use each beam as a measuring‐rod, so, too,
those who have thrown away the standard of objective truth have nothing left
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<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The giggling giddiness of novelty, the sentimental restlessness of
a mind unhinged, and the unnatural fear of a good dose of hard thinking, all
conjoin to produce a group of sophomoric latitudinarians who think there is no
difference between God as Cause and God as a </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">mental projection</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">; who equate Christ and Buddha, St. Paul and John Dewey, and then
enlarge their broad‐mindedness into a sweeping synthesis that says not only
that one Christian sect is just as good as another, but even that one world‐religion
is just as good as another. The great god </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Progress</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> is then enthroned on
the altars of fashion, and as the hectic worshipers are asked, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Progress towards what?</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> The tolerant answer comes back, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">More progress.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> All the while sane men are wondering how
there can be progress without direction and how there can be direction without
a fixed point. And because they speak of a </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">fixed point,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> they are said to be
behind the times, when really they are beyond the times mentally and
spiritually.</span></span></span></span><br />
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is intolerance. The mass of people have kept up hard and fast distinctions
between dollars and cents, battleships and cruisers, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">You owe me</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> and </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I owe you,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> but they seem to have lost entirely the
faculty of distinguishing between the good and the bad, the right and the wrong.
The best indication of this is the frequent misuse of the terms </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">tolerance</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> and </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">intolerance.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> There are some minds that believe that
intolerance is always wrong, because they make </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">intolerance</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> mean hate,
narrow mindedness, and bigotry. These same minds believe that tolerance is
always right because, for them, it means charity, broad‐mindedness, American
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towards evil, and a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or
inflicting punishment. But what is more important than the definition is the
field of its application. The important point here is this: Tolerance applies
only to persons, but never to truth. Intolerance applies only to truth, but
never to persons. Tolerance applies to the erring; intolerance to the error.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">What has just been said here will clarify that which was said at
the beginning of this chapter, namely, that America is suffering not so much
from intolerance, which is bigotry, as it is from tolerance, which is
indifference to truth and error, and a philosophical nonchalance that has been
interpreted as broad‐mindedness. Greater tolerance, of course, is desirable,
for there can never be too much charity shown to persons who differ with us.
Our Blessed Lord Himself asked that we </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">love those who calumniate for us,</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> for they are always persons, but He never told us to love the calumny.
In keeping with the Spirit of Christ, the Church encourages prayers for all
those who are outside the pale of the Church, and asks that the greatest
charity be shown towards them. As St. Francis de Sales was wont to say: </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It is easier to catch flies with a drop
of honey than with a barrel of vinegar.</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: 9pt;"></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">If some of us who are blessed with its sacred privileges
believed the same things about the Church that her slanderers believe, if we
knew her only through the words of traitors or third‐rate lies of dishonest
historians, if we understood her only through those who were never cradled in
her sacred associations, we would perhaps hate the Church just as much as they
do. The bitterest enemies of the Church, those who accuse her of being
unpatriotic, as Christ was accused of being before Pilate; of being unworldly,
as Christ was accused of being before Herod; of being too dogmatic, as Christ
was accused of being before Caiaphas; or being too undogmatic, as Christ was
accused of being Annas; of being possessed by the devil, as Christ was accused
of being before the Pharisees — these do not really hate the Church. They
cannot hate the Church any more than they can hate Christ; they hate only that
which they mistakenly believe to be the Catholic Church, and their hate is but
their vain attempt to ignore. Charity, then, must be shown to persons, and
particularly to those outside the fold who by charity must be led back, that
there may be one fold and one Shepherd.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Thus far tolerance, but no farther. Tolerance </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-italic" , serif; font-size: large;">does not apply to truth or principles</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">. About these things we must be intolerant,
and for this kind of intolerance, so much needed to rouse us from sentimental
gush, I make a plea. Intolerance of this kind is the foundation of all
stability. The government must be intolerant about malicious propaganda, and during
the World War it made an index of forbidden books to defend national stability,
as the Church, who is in constant warfare with error, made her index of
forbidden books to defend the permanency of Christ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʹ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">s life in the souls of men. The
government during the war was intolerant about the national heretics who refused
to accept her principles concerning the necessity of democratic institutions,
and took physical means to enforce such principles. The soldiers who went to
war were intolerant about the principles they were fighting for, in the same
way that a gardener must be intolerant about the weeds that grow in his garden.
The Supreme Court of the United States is intolerant about any private
interpretation of the first principle of the Constitution that every man is entitled
to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and the particular citizen who
would interpret </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">liberty</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> in even such a small way as meaning the
privilege to </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">go</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> on a red traffic‐light, would find
himself very soon in a cell where there were no lights, not even the yellow —
the color of the timid souls who know not whether to stop or go. Architects are
as intolerant about sand as foundations for skyscrapers as doctors are
intolerant about germs in their laboratories, and as all of us are intolerant
of a particularly broad‐minded, </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">tolerant,</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> and good‐natured
grocer who, in making our bills, adds seven and ten to make twenty.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Now, if it is right — and it is right — for governments to be
intolerant about the principles of government, and the bridge builder to be
intolerant about the laws of stress and strain, and the physicist to be
intolerant about the principles of gravitation, why should it not be the right
of Christ, the right of His Church, and the right of thinking men to be
intolerant about the truths of Christ, the doctrines of the Church, and the
principles of reason? Can the truths of God be less exacting than the truths of
mathematics? Can the laws of the mind be less binding than the laws of science,
which are known only through the laws of the mind? Shall man, gifted with
natural truth, who refuses to look with an equally tolerant eye on the
mathematician who says two and two make five and the one who says two and two
make four, be called a wise man, and shall God, Who refuses to look with an
equally tolerant eye on all religions, be denied the name of </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Wisdom,</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> and be called an </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">intolerant</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> God?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Shall we say that the reflected rays of the sun are warm but the
sun is not hot? This we are equivalently saying when we admit intolerance of
the principles of science and deny it to the Father of science, Who is God. And
if a government, with the inflexible principles of its constitution, distant
from the foundation of government by miles and separated from it by lifetimes,
can empower men to enforce that constitution, why cannot Christ choose and
delegate men with the power of enforcing His Will and spreading His
benedictions? And if we admit intolerance about the foundations of a government
that at best looks after man</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʹ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">s body, why not admit intolerance about the foundations of a
government that looks after the eternal destiny of the spirit of man? For
unlike human governments, </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">there is no other
foundation upon which men can build than upon the name Jesus.</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Why, then, sneer at dogmas as intolerant? On all sides we hear
it said today, </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The modern world
wants a religion without dogmas,</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> which betrays how little thinking goes with that label, for he
who says he wants a religion without dogmas is stating a dogma, and a dogma that
is harder to justify than many dogmas of faith. A dogma is a true thought, and
a religion without dogmas is a religion without thought, or a back without a
backbone. All sciences have dogmas. </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Washington is the capital of the United States</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> is a dogma of geography. </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Water is composed of two atoms of
hydrogen and one of oxygen</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> is a dogma of
chemistry. Should we be broad‐minded and say that Washington is a sea in
Switzerland? Should we be broad‐minded and say that H</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">2</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">O is a symbol for sulfuric acid?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We cannot verify all the dogmas of science, history, and
literature, and therefore we are to take many of them on the testimony of
others. I believe Professor Eddington, for example, when he tells me that </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Einstein</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʹ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">s law of gravitation asserts that ten principal coefficients of
curvature are zero in empty space,</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> just as I do not believe Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes when he tells
me that </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">the cockroach has
lived substantially unchanged on the earth for fifty million years.</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> I accept Dr. Eddington</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʹ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">s testimony because, by his learning and
his published works, he has proved that he knows something about Einstein. I do
not accept Dr. Barnes</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʹ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">s testimony about
cockroaches because he has never qualified in the eyes of the modern world as a
cockroach specialist. In other words, I sift testimony and accept it on reason.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">So also, my reason sifts the historical evidence for Christ; it
weighs the testimony adduced by those who knew Him, and the testimony given by
Himself. It fails to be swayed by those who start with a preconceived theory,
rejecting all the evidence against their theory and accepting the residue as
the Gospels. In the search, it comes across such works as those of Renan and
Strauss, which are critical, but it also comes across such works as those of
Fillion and Grandmaison: it knows the name of Loisy, but it also knows
Lagrange; it knows the theory of Inge, but it also knows D</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʹ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Herbigny. And this reason finally leads
me to accept the testimony of Jesus Christ as the testimony of God. I then accept
these truths — truths which I cannot prove, as was Professor Eddington</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʹ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">s statement about Einstein — and these
truths become dogmas.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">There can thus be dogmas of religion as well as dogmas of
science, and both of them can be revealed, the one by God, the other by man.
Not only that — these fundamental dogmas, like the first principles [elements]
of Euclid, can be used as raw material for thinking, and just as one scientific
fact can be used as the basis of another, so one dogma can be used as the basis
for another. But in order to begin thinking on a first dogma, one must be
identified with it either in time or in principle. The Church was identified
with Christ in both time and principle; she began thinking on His first
principles and the harder she thought, the more dogmas she developed. Being
organic like life, not institutional like a club, she never forgot those
dogmas; she remembered them and her memory is tradition. Just as a scientist must
depend on the memory of the first principles of his science, which he uses as
the ground for other conclusions, so too the Church goes back into her
intellectual memory, which is tradition, and uses former dogmas as the foundation
for new ones. In this whole process she never forgets her first principles. If
she did she would be like the undogmatic dogmatists of the present day, who
believe that progress consists in denying the fact, instead of building on it;
who turn to new ideals because they have never tried the old; who condemn as </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">obscurantist</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> the truth that has a parentage, and
glorify as </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">progressive</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> a shibboleth that knows not either its
father or its mother. They are of the school that would deny the very nature of
things: free the camel of his hump and call him a camel; shorten the neck of a
giraffe and call him a giraffe; and never frame a picture, because a frame is a
limitation and therefore a principal and a dogma.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">But it is anything but progress to act like mice and eat the
foundations of the very roof over our heads. Intolerance about principles is
the foundation of growth, and the mathematician who would deride a square for
always having four sides, and in the name of progress would encourage it to
throw away even only one of its sides, would soon discover that he had lost all
his squares. So too with the dogmas of the Church, of science, and of reason;
they are like bricks, solid things with which a man can build, not like straw,
which is </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">religious experience,</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> fit only for burning.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">A dogma, then, is the necessary consequence of the intolerance
of first principles, and that science or that church which has the greatest
amount of dogmas is the science or the church that has been doing the most
thinking. The Catholic Church, the schoolmaster for twenty centuries, has been
doing a tremendous amount of solid, hard thinking and hence has built up dogmas
as a man might build a house of brick but grounded on a rock. She has seen the centuries
with their passing enthusiasms and momentary loyalties pass before her, making
the same mistakes, cultivating the same poses, falling into the same mental
snares, so that she has become very patient and kind to the erring pupils, but
very intolerant and severe concerning the false. She has been and she will
always be intolerant so far as the rights of God are concerned, for heresy,
error, untruth, affect not personal matters on which she may yield, but a
Divine Right in which there is no yielding. Meek she is to the erring, but
violent to the error. The truth is divine; the heretic is human. Due reparation
made, she will admit the heretic back into the treasury of her souls, but never
the heresy into the treasury of her wisdom. Right is right if nobody is right,
and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. And in this day and age we need, as
Mr. Chesterton tells us, </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "palatinolinotype-roman" , serif; font-size: large;">not a Church that is
right when the world is right, but a Church that is right when the world is
wrong.</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: large;">ʺ</span></span></div>
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important question may be brought home by the story of the two women in the
courtroom of Solomon. Both of them claimed a child. The lawful mother insisted
on having the whole child or nothing, for a child is like truth — it cannot be
divided without ruin. The unlawful mother, on the contrary, agreed to
compromise. She was willing to divide the babe, and the babe would have died of
broadmindedness.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">WHY THE DECLINE OF
PATRIOTISM?</span></div>
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b<span style="font-family: Calibri;">y Fulton J. Sheen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">There are two reasons, the first reason I believe is that we
live in an age of anti-hero’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today the
spirit of America is “I’ve got to me” and so if anyone else is above us with
the the spirit of sacrifice and dedication, we try to drop them to our
level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s a reproach to us that
Patriot and hero.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is one of the
reasons I think why the lives that are written about our great Patriots today
are almost like gossips.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look at the
recent lives of Washington that shows how much money he spent, Jefferson, that
he consorted with a Black woman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Abraham
Lincoln is called a racist, imagine, and now the attacks on Kennedy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As soon as we find a great man we ask, wonder
why he acts that way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We impugn his
motives. So it’s difficult to have a hero and Patriot. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Another reason is, we have been humiliated and we take it
out on our country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have been brought
up on the great American dream; we have more televisions and electric shavers,
radios, automobiles, gadgets than any other country in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We believed in definite progress that gets
better and better, nothing could stop us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then the Arabs shut off the oil and we begin to find dishonesty in high
places and low places and we took it out on our country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We began to demean it, and the result is
there is a great decline in Patriotism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What is it that makes a Patriot? Well I will tell you one
thing that doesn’t make a Patriot, when you have a country that is concerned with
the values of people being on a horizontal line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If people believe that the only important
thing is making money or body sense/body pleasures or the love of power, if you
believe that you will never have Patriotism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They are living for themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What is required of Patriotism?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have to have a value over and above the
horizontal and earthly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have to have
a realm up here where there is life, the love of honesty, loyalty, justice,
sense of responsibility and God, the source of values.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only when men look to something transcendent do
they have Patriotism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then when they go
up to this higher realm to draw on the divine then they can come down here and
then their ready to dedicate themselves and sacrifice themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">George Washing in 1774 was presiding over the Burgess of
Virginia and word came down to him about an invasion of the civil rights in the
Commonwealth of <span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Massachusetts</span> and he
said we have been disturbed by what has happened in the Commonwealth of <span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Massachusetts</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So he
said that in order that we may be strong enough to defend these rights I’m
going to ask that on the first day of June there be a day of fasting, prayer
and reparation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He appealed to the
divine to receive courage to defend the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Incidentally George Washington wrote, and you
can look it up, in his diary on June 1<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">st</span></sup> that he went to church and
fasted all day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was Washington
appealing to the transcendent and therefore a Patriot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you know that for seven years he was
unable to visit his own Mount Vernon?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
dedicated to his country he did not see his Grandchildren until after the
battle of Yorktown and after he saw them he had to take the duties of being our
President.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Benjamin Franklin at the Convention of Philadelphia said “we
have been voting on the Constitution and we have as many I’s and Nay’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think we’re learning the weakness of human
nature and I think it is of great value now that we realize that when we were
at battle with Great Britain we invoked the Divine and now we have almost
forgotten the Divine aid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suggest that
every day we pray to the Father of Lights and that two Ministers of God be
invited to offer prayer at the beginning of this Convention”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He appealed to the Transcendent, to the
Divine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Abraham Lincoln is the only President of the United States
that ever gave us a philosophy of history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In one of the most beautiful documents in our American life Abraham
Lincoln said “we must remember that nations as well as individuals are subject
to God’s judgment and that only nations that invoke God are ever blessed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have been blessed in this country as no
other nation has ever been blessed, and yet we have forgotten God and may it
not be that the awful calamity of civil war which now devastates our land be
but a just punishment from God for our willful pride.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have believed that all of our successes
have been due to some virtue and powers of our own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It behooves us then to humble ourselves
before the Diving Majesty and to ask for forgiveness”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This is the way Patriots are made, their made because they
have values above the earthly and human.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12537581.post-8435388472230333162012-12-23T07:17:00.000-08:002012-12-23T07:17:12.172-08:00The greatest destroyer of love and peace is ...<a href="http://md4jc.blogspot.com/2008/06/mother-teresa-bill-clinton.html">http://md4jc.blogspot.com/2008/06/mother-teresa-bill-clinton.html</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12537581.post-86811807504587457412012-12-14T19:38:00.000-08:002017-12-20T18:08:01.828-08:00Culture...<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Perhaps it started when Cain slew his brother Abel and it
continued with the thousands of wars man has waged ever since.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In today’s world the weapons of death have
increased so much so that now evil people fire missiles to kill dozens of innocent
people hundreds of miles away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hate in man’s heart has only increased. And
why not?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Violence, cynicism and moral
irrelevance are so prevalent in TV, movies, music, media, speech, newspapers, books, social media venues and even video games that the acceptance of immoral actions <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">is</span> now the norm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If one concentrates solely on the gun as the
only problem he is missing the real issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The evil in man’s heart has been perpetuated, accepted and even
glorified in our culture so much so that to some the right to life means
nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you kill millions of children in the womb and call it choice, kill people in the streets through more violence,
euthanize the elderly and glorify death in movies and TV, you start to foster a
culture that has no respect for its people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you were to take away every single gun in America, the evil in men’s
heart would still find a way to hurt and kill someone else because our country is
quickly becoming a culture of death and not a culture of life.... if we’re not
there already.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12537581.post-1226760729373459072012-09-27T18:22:00.002-07:002012-09-27T18:22:26.671-07:00Prayer Always Works"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." (2 Chronicles 7:14) <br /> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12537581.post-59872711201367678872012-05-14T16:20:00.001-07:002017-12-20T18:06:10.470-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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