I have been puzzled ever since I read the poll that 53% of Americans considered America to be a Christian nation. This would mean that 47% of Americans mean that it is not. That is a tremendously high number and I refuse to accept this as being accurate. Even people who don't necessarily go to church ALL THE TIME consider themselves "Christian" and I don't necessarily think one must attend church to be a Christian. Jesus never said that was a requirement. I can't find it anywhere it the Bible.
But lately there has been a lot in the press about Catholic Universities and institutions and problems they are having with their priests, their policies, their parishes, etc. and they seem to be falling off. Now, I'm going to say something here that will probably make some people MAD and is controversial to some people. I do NOT consider Catholics CHRISTIAN. This is because the Canons of the Catholic Church are in direct opposition to the Bible. This is plain and simple. If one is Christian (as in believes in the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Trinity; the Holy Spirit, God and Jesus), one cannot be a practicing Catholic. Not up for discussion here. I will not debate it. Here is some food for thought, however. Going to a Catholic church won't send a person to hell, just so long as they don't adhere to the damnable teachings of Catholicism. The false teachings of the Catholic church will definitely send a person to hell if they follow them. I'm certain that there are true believers who foolishly go to the Catholic church.It is possible for an immature believer to attend Catholic services, but it is wrong.Salvation is not dependent upon any works, only simple faith in Christ.
Let me be clear...anyone who trusts in the seven sacraments, baptism, holy Eucharist, the pope, the priest, the church, good works, confession, the Rosary, Mother Mary, or self righteousness is NOT a Christian. ONLY through exclusive 100% faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can any person be saved. No true Catholic will go to heaven because Roman Catholicism is a lie of the devil. Catholicism is of the devil.
A true Christian who attends a Catholic church is carnal, not in good fellowship with God. No true Christian can attend a Catholic church service with God's blessing. We should not feed at the devil's table.
Now....
Look at it this way, perhaps CATHOLICS are becoming CHRISTIANS. Therefore they are no longer Catholics and if the media is measuring our country's "religiousness" by the number of practicing Catholics, well the number would be down.
I read the following written by Pat Buchanan and I began to think that it definitely must be the Catholic Church that has a problem. I don't think Christians are falling by the wayside. This is something that the media would have people think. God is as strong as ever and is working WONDEROUS WORKS here before he takes his people home.
We are living in the end times.
At the request of the White House, Georgetown University covered up all the symbols in Gaston Hall before the Great Man spoke, including IHS, the millennia-old monogram for the name of Jesus Christ.
Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, had adopted the monogram in his seal and it became an emblem of the Jesuit order.
When it comes to rendering unto Caesar, Georgetown is not going to be outshone by Notre Dame, which stole a march by offering the nation's avatar of abortion a doctorate of laws degree, honoris causa.
Actually, it is regrettable the IHS in Gaston Hall was not covered up in shame the first week of Lent. For that week Georgetown's feminist and homosexual clubs, such as GU Pride, put on a Gomorrah festival about alternative lifestyles called "Sex Positive Week."
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Monday, according to The Newman Club, featured a speaker for Black Rose, which "provides a forum for many different expressions of power in love and play. This can include dominance & submission, bondage and discipline, fetishism, cross-dressing, to name a few."
Ash Wednesday's talk was "Torn About Porn," advertised as a "discussion about arguably alternative forms of pornography that are not supposed to be exploitative, but rather radical and empowering."
Saturday's talk was by a pornographic film director and was titled "Relationships Beyond Monogamy."
At Loyola of Chicago that week, the Student Diversity and Cultural Affairs Office presented "Brother to Brother," a film, the Newman Society reports, about "a homosexual African-American who is transported in time to cavort with the allegedly homosexual Langston Hughes."
The movie is said to be part of "a semester-long 'Color of Queer Film Series,' sponsored by the university."
At Catholic Seattle University, that first week of Lent was "Transgender Awareness Week," featuring a "session on allegedly transgender Bible heroes and heroines and 'Criss-Cross Day' where students are encouraged to 'come dressed for the day in your best gender-bending outfit.'"
This is surely anecdotal evidence to confirm Newsweek in the conclusion reached in its cover story of Holy Week, "The End of Christian America."
Indeed, not only are many once-Catholic colleges and universities now wandering in what Pope Benedict XVI calls a "desert of godlessness," Catholic belief and practice are not remotely what they were before Vatican II. Where three-fourth of Catholics attended mass weekly in the 1950s, today it is one-fourth. A third of all Catholics raised in the faith have fallen away.
One in 10 American adults is a lapsed Catholic. Catholicism's quarter of the population is maintained only by mass immigration and, secondarily, by conversions.
Self-identified Christians in the United States have fallen from 86 percent of the population in 1990 to 76 percent today. Those who say they have no religion have doubled as a share of the nation from 8 to 16 percent. Where 69 percent of Americans said we are a Christian country in 1990, only 62 percent say that today.
America is being systematically de-Christianized and secularized.
For the social, moral and cultural revolution of the 1960s, rooted in non- and anti-Christian beliefs and values, has captured the culture, and converted many of the young. Among Americans 18 to 29, a fourth profess to be atheist, agnostic, or of no religious faith.
The figure is surely higher among the college young.
Second reason for the triumph of secularism is that it long ago captured the Supreme Court. Since the Everson decision of 1947, justices have expunged Christianity and all its books and symbols from the public square and public schools.
Voluntary prayer, the Ten Commandments, Bible reading, Christmas plays and carols, Nativity scenes, Easter vacation, before-game prayers, benedictions at graduations – all have been ordered terminated by unelected judges – against the will of the majority.
Abortion on demand, too, was imposed by judicial fiat.
Thus, as America ceases to be a Christian country, it is ceasing to be a democratic one.
Consider. In every referendum in 16 states, where homosexual marriage has been on the ballot, majorities ranging from 52 to 86 percent have voted to outlaw it as an absurdity and an abomination.
Yet, in Massachusetts, California and Iowa, unelected judges have imposed it, as they will in other states, regardless of what the people want or how the people vote. For secularism has become the established religion of the American state and judges are the high priests of the new order.
Yet, one wonders if they know what lies at the end of the road upon which they have set the nation.
For five decades, Americans resisted Godless Communism. If they come to realize they did so to save Godless Capitalism, or Godless Socialism, what happens to loyalty and love of country?
To love one's country, said Edmund Burke, one's country ought to be lovely. If this is not God's country anymore, whose country is it?
Quote of the Day:
"If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels."
-Mark 8:38
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