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Has been opened.\u00a0 Looks like Edward Peters is saying it\u2019s time to stop horsing around with Nancy Pelosi<\/a>, and others who are joining forces with those who would invoke the power of the state to crush the right to hold non-liberal Catholic beliefs in America.\u00a0 I know, I know.\u00a0 That\u2019s a tough one.\u00a0 It\u2019s easy to say \u2018exciommunicate the sinner!\u2019, assuming that it will stop before it gets to me.\u00a0 But there is also a danger in the great \u2018moral equivelancy\u2019 that so many turn to nowadays.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

When Ron Paul is asked about American foreign policy, he makes it clear that other countries would be offended at what we\u2019ve done.\u00a0 Fair enough.\u00a0 Hitler was, too.\u00a0 So was Mussolini and so was Tojo.\u00a0 What does that mean?\u00a0 Did what America do to the American Indians equal the Holocaust?\u00a0 To some, yeah.\u00a0 Is Christianity no different than Radical Islam?\u00a0 Sure, some would say. <\/p>\n

And in some general, overarching way that\u2019s probably true.\u00a0 But is it completely true?\u00a0 Do we really think we should look at things from Hitler\u2019s point of view?\u00a0 Not really.\u00a0 Maybe in the years leading up to the war, but not too often do we weep for Hitler\u2019s rage against the allied war on his nation.\u00a0 Likewise, most Christians at least like to point out differences between little old ladies in Bible studies and Islamic terrorists who fly jets filled with innocent people into skyscrapers filled with innocent people.\u00a0 Somehow, we know there are differences. <\/p>\n

Same here.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t want the Church to go crazy and start dropping the axe on anyone who fails to live up to the perfection to which Christ calls us.\u00a0 That would be the end of me!\u00a0 Nor do I want to see the Church going after anyone over diverse opinions, or even disagreements; even if those disagreements are with the Church.\u00a0 And I would extend that to folks who openly disagree with the Church.\u00a0 And maybe even those who openly oppose the Church and act on it.\u00a0 But when the State makes such a flagrant move against the Church, a move that is only to crush the right not to be liberal in America, and threatens to openly persecute the Church for failing to conform to this mandate, that\u2019s serious.\u00a0 And it is serious when a Catholic politician not only openly opposes the Church, and acts on that opposition, but agrees to get the kindling for the fire that will be used to burn non-liberal heretics at the stake.\u00a0 Then it might be time to take action.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 But I know the Faith has had its share of Quislings over the years, those who have cozied up to the latest tyranny that seeks to destroy the Orthodox faith and force it to conform to the latest, hippest heresy or nightmare philosophy.\u00a0 I also know that when these folks do such things, many have suffered as a result.\u00a0 Perhaps something should be done.\u00a0 I\u2019ll say that\u00a0since I\u2019ve been a Catholic, it\u2019s the first time I could honestly say that in this case, it might be time for the Church to do something drastic.\u00a0 That, in itself, shows my concern for what this mandate portends.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"