And now to go on....
Beyond These Stone Walls is a website worth reading regularly. Fr. Gordon MacRae has lived within the stone walls of prison for almost thirty years, one of the innocent priests convicted during the clergy sex abuse frenzy. So often plea bargaining is used to get the innocent to "confess" to things they didn't do. Ask Dr. Simone Gold of the Frontlline Doctors who took a plea to avoid the hammer wielded by the "justice" department over the January 6 witch hunt. Fr. MacRae refused to do that. He could have been released in a few years, but he embraced the long, hard road of suffering. Every day he lives the corporal work of mercy "to visit the imprisoned." He has touched the lives of many!
Fr. MacRae and Bill Donohue who heads the Catholic League have a great article on the upcoming election titled Kamala Harris Has a Catholic Problem. It does a good job of summarizing the difference between the platforms of the two parties. One embraces evil incarnate. The other is flawed and far from perfect. Unfortunately the GOP embraces intrinsic evils like IVF and contraception, but it also stands for several principles Catholic can enthusiastically embrace. One quote from the GOP platform states:
We proudly stand for families and life. We believe that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States guarantees that no person can be denied Life or Liberty without due process, and that the States are free to pass laws protecting those rights.
That statement contrasts with Harris' promise to resurrect Roe v. Wade and permanently enshrine child murder in our Constitution. No real Catholic can support this.
We all need to be on our knees praying for God's will to be done in the upcoming election. The SSPX is urging us to pray the Sacred Heart novena for the next month. It began on the Feast of the Holy Rosary and ends November 7th after the election. Let us all storm heaven for our families and our poor, besieged country.
The Democrats are not just the godless Party of evil. They are the godless totalitarian Party of compelled evil - participation is mandatory, not voluntary.
ReplyDeleteThey are changing the basic rules of governance, shredding the Constitution and imposing a tyranny by fiat. There is no opt-out in the future Bolshevik States of America. Civic rules and morals is whatever they say it is and all must agree in thought, word and deed.
Christians who refuse to support the “flawed” Party over the “evil” Party are tacitly accepting this impending revolution of Bolshevik tyrannical evil.
As has been seen by some commenters on this blog … many Christians are doing just that -
https://www.newsweek.com/christians-not-voting-five-alarm-fire-trump-1965304
This is a terrible mistake of prudential judgement - and perhaps fatal.
There are Catholics saying they also cannot vote for Trump but will write in someone. That is the same as a vote for the evil party of death.
ReplyDeleteIf we had a choice between Hitler and Stalin but have reasons to think Hitler is slightly better should we claim that every Catholic who vote for Hitler is voting for Stalin and communism? What part of intrinsic evil don't people understand?
DeleteThat you could cooperate materially with evil without sinning doesn't mean you must.
Do you really think that's the choice we have in November? Read the two party platforms and try to make that argument. Your comment seems to me to be the straw argument if you are implying that there is almost no difference between Harris/Walz and Trump/Vance. Despite their flaws, Trump and Vance offer a stark difference from the abortion champion and child mutilation team of Harris/Walz.
DeleteTo understand American politics, you must be well read in the history of professional wrestling.
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ReplyDeleteYou have committed the fallacy of false equivalence.
- quote -
“*False equivalence* is a logical fallacy where someone incorrectly asserts that two (or more) things are equivalent simply because they share some characteristics, despite there also being substantial differences between them. For example, a false equivalence is saying that cats and dogs are the same animal, since they’re both mammals and have a tail.”
https://effectiviology.com/false-equivalence/
A dog has a tail
A cat has a tail
A dog is a cat.
I don’t like Trump.
I don’t like Hitler.
Trump is Hitler.
Actually, by this fallacy you are, yourself, materially cooperating with evil by acting to install a regime every bit as Bolshevik (or Maoist) as their heros in China. OTOH Trump is not Hitler - Trump is a very good leader who could be better on some issues. As Mary Ann said, read the Party platform. It’s very good, though it could indeed be better.
Cooperating materially with evil is acting to facilitate the Bolshevik revolution that will cram comprehensive, programmatic, institutional evil down every American’s throat. Your logical fallacy, if it were to prevail (I don’t think Americans are that dumb), will impose that evil, like a new Iron Curtain, on us all.
This scene is a true story, repeated countless times in the Bolshevik/Maoist communism you are facilitating in your fallacious reasoning … (2 minute Netflix clip)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aS8c6hLj7uA
Not a false equivalence. Perhaps you don’t understand just how evil what they both normalize are. Intrinsic evil is precisely that. Maybe you don’t understand the metaphor.
DeleteAnonymous 2:56
DeleteYours is a false equivalence.
It is not intrinsically evil to end abortion as a national mandate. Trump did that.
It is intrinsically evil to facilitate the election of a government that will *reinstate* abortion as a national mandate. Kamala will do that.
One severely limited abortion and opened the pathway to ending it - Trump.
The other will mandate abortion without restriction in every State and will close all pathways of ending it - Kamala.
No one thinks they are committing basic fallacies of logic. You definitely are, with massive spiritual implications.
In reference to those who say Trump supports abortion because Trump ended Roe and now wants States to decide whether abortion should be legal or not legal. His refusal to intervene with a national right to life law proves he is pro-abortion. That is the argument.
ReplyDeleteI have recently discovered the logic behind Trump’s position. It is sound.
Murder laws are ankways under State jurisdictions almost always with some very limited, narrow exceptions. There is no Federal Constitutional authority to define and take jurisdiction over crimes of murder. That is why Roe was wrongly decided. That is why we (those who support life) will *ONLY* prevail at the State level, *NEVER* at the Frderal.
Life depends on defining an unborn baby as an independent human being from the moment of conception with all human rights. We will do this in all 50 States. And only in all 50 States.
A baby is a person.
All persons have a right to natural life.
Taking away that life is murder.
Abortion is murder.
Those who commit abortion commit murder.
That is the path, and the *only* path to Life.
And so, once again, Trump was right. We will win (only) at the State level. We are wasting our time and moral force at the Federal.
Both anonymous above are “Aqua”.
DeleteThe system seems to be logging me out every time.
It helps to know who is saying what, for context, so I always try to post under my screen name. I’ll try to remember to check that and log in every time prior to posting.
What we *SHOULD* do, before all else, as top priority, is to begin a Constitutional Amendment process that defines what life is.
DeleteSimple. Two line Amendment:
“Life begins at the moment of conception. After conception, that life is distinct and entitled to all rights under the Constitution”.
We already have that amendment in the fourteenth. See Heritage.org "Can the Fourteenth Amendment be used to Protect Human Life before Birth?" Congress just needs to click its heals.
DeleteAlso, consider how pathetic it is to claim a right to choose abortion, when women can foreclose pregnancy by closing legs. Or, in the case of rape, they can be materially supported in pregnancy (and beyond, if they do not release baby to the many parents who would adopt) by means of the garnishing of the rapist father for life. Such garnish would effectively deter *many rapes* in the future and so would make the cause for abortion vanishingly small.
Anonymous 1:14
Delete14th A: “ All persons *born* or naturalized in the United States … “
That doesn’t help us at all. Quite the opposite. That precludes the charge of murder up to the moment of birth.
Kamala carves "life" out of the Declaration, but so does Trump by failing to support the obvious point that MAGA *should* mean "Make America Created Equal Again" by abolishing slavery's twin, abortion. Instead, he supports the slaveholders perspective, which is to leave things to the states.
ReplyDeleteTrump's cite of the Fourteenth Amendment in his rape of the GOP platform only serves out word salad by his negating 14A in the next clause of his sentence. President Lockdown/WarpSpeed has left the GOP platform, and the GOP, a battered shell of itself. He has left little rational hope of recovery of GOP promise to abolish abortion as it did slavery. There is arguably a rationale for writing in a truer prolife platform in ASP. If Trump is a Democrat Trojan Horse, then there is almost a precedent for leaving burning Troy in favor of Rome.
By the way, Father Stravinskas has been heterodox on Catholic homeschooling parental rights. I would not automatically credit his reasoning on voting.
I agree with you about Fr. Stravinkas and his antagonism toward home schoolers. He thought everyone should be in Catholic schools although how parents of many children are supposed to afford that is beyond me. I think he was also involved in promoting the bishops developing home school guidelines which caused a firestorm in the home school movement. At any rate, the point I was making from the article was that John Paul II defended voting for the candidate who would do the least harm, not Fr. Stravinkas' opinion. And can you please drop the Lockdown/Warp Speed lingo. Trump left the decisions to the states whether to lockdown or not. https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-donald-trump-ap-top-news-politics-united-states-c90b24e60a4853cebe96ec995b626f9b
DeleteIf I hold a brick a hundred feet above your head and release it, did Gravity kill you or did I?
ReplyDeleteThat brick was the declaration of quack emergency, the platforming of fauci, and the rolling out of helicopter cash to democrat! Governors to lockdown.
rohrbach, your brick-drop analogy is the fallacy of false cause:
Delete“A false cause fallacy, also known as post hoc fallacy, is a type of informal logical fallacy that involves incorrectly identifying a cause or causes. It's essentially attributing causality without sufficient supporting evidence”.
Trump had a part to play. But there were many actors, many “hands”, that held (and hold) the brick(s).
I never said Trump was not a controlled brick himself. But as top of the heap president, he should have been buck stops here accountable.
DeleteJust now came across your site by accident. I'm in the UK and am following this loosely. I was already highly perturbed to find so many (Trad) Catholics saying they can't support Trump any more and Michael Matt encouraging it (however much he denies trying to influence people): https://tinyurl.com/5kmzek78 People who think that their personal opinions override Trad. Catholic moral teaching on voting will be assisting an evil death party into power.
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