Most people who believe abortion is murder, believe also in Jesus Christ, and most people who don't believe in Jesus Christ, also do not believe abortion is murder.
That's an excellent post. Well written and insightful. I only wish I were as optimistic about our ability to overcome our own narcissism and selfishness when we have to. I think we are fast approaching one of those moments in history (and it in fact may already be overdue), and I'm just not seeing the will to rise to the challenge. We aren't pulling together, this time. We're just falling further and further apart as a people. Our leaders aren't leading, but are exacerbating the problems tenfold, instead. I'm just not hopeful this time.
Interestingly, in the past, it was either very bad times, or very good timed that inspired us to unite and effect real positive change. When the economy totally crashed, and the crops blew away in droughts and dust storms, and huge segments of the population found themselves homeless, we finally 'took the bull by the horns' and implemented some socialist ideals and practices that were long overdue. And we put things back aright. And later, when the United States came out of WW2 victorious, with no structural damage at home and an industrial juggernaut ready and willing to rebuild the rest of the world, and decades of prosperity ensued, we again found the determination to 'pull together' as a people, and start treating each other as true equals for the first time in our history.
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America is great because we have figured out how to live successfully without a king/monarchy; long-term. Our government, a constitutional federalist republic, turn's out to be the 1 very best way to do it, all thing's considered.
(You may prefer the parliamentary model, and thats fine, but the American founder's did not, and I don't have any reason at this point to think that we should discount America for not being more European: Europe hasn't undisputedly shown themselve's to be the cats meow, and until they do, I'll stick with the American model.
Whatever socialist advance's that Europe make's, while America isn't 1st to the party, we do watch and learn as Europe play's the part of lab rat, on themselve's. We adopt what work's and ignore the rest.
We are very, very careful, when it come's to changing our law's, especially the law's in the Constitution itself. The bar is very high when changing the highest law in the land, requiring a super-majority in Congress.
Every societies' greatness depend's upon Jesus. When the Church is organized and healthy and vibrant, that society flourish's. What we need right now is evangelism or evangelization. We need catechesis. We (the Church) must understand our shared faith better than we do now.
Our Lord want's whats best for us, including those of us who do not believe in Him (yet).
And what our Lord tell's us, in the temporal, secular, civil realm, is 1 very clear thing: Honor and protect the freedom of religion. And that is what our constitutional federalist republic is ultimately based upon, its founding document is founded upon it, and the reason the 1st European's left Europe for America was, in large part, because of the freedom of religion.
DJ
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You're presuming too much. It's working, but to claim it's the "very best" is quite a stretch, considering all the ways in which is it's NOT working well for us, at all.
If only that were true! If only! Unfortunately, we seem to learn nothing from experiences of other nations, because we're so idiotically myopic and self-grandiose that we can't imagine that any other nation or system of government could ever possibly be better than our own.
Yes, that's our main problem. The men who wrote the Constitution had no way of imagining the size and complexity that would be achieved by the nation they were founding, and the Constitution they created reflects that lack of understanding. As a result, we have no fundamental written guidance for the way we interact with other nations, the way we conduct commerce both internally and globally, the establishment and protection of human rights, and the responsibilities of government to it' people. There's more moral and ideological guidance laid out in the opening paragraph of the Declaration of Independence than there is in the whole Constitution. Which is why we behave so schizophrenically as a nation depending on who's in power every four years, and what "narrative" the general public happens to be swallowing at any given time.
Especially that permanent mar upon our legacy, "The Three-Fifth's Compromise." [SHUDDER][/SHUDDER]
Especially that permanent mar upon our legacy, "The Three-Fifth's Compromise." [SHUDDER][/SHUDDER]
The Constitution is not without moral merit though, for in it we find these divine word's: " . . . no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States," as if from Jesuses' own pen.
This document was created by Christian's! by and large.
The Second Amendment derive's from the Declarations' "Right to life," did you know that? It come's directly from that. The right to keep and bear arm's isn't from the old English Bill of Right's --its from our right to life, which is a gift of our Creator, according to our Declaration of "Independence."
DJ
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