PELOSI, BIDEN, AND MATTERS OF FAITH.

PELOSI, BIDEN, AND MATTERS OF FAITH.

By R.J. Godlewski
©August 26, 2008, All Rights Reserved.

These words began as an attempt to test my new Dell® laptop. I am going back to school starting next week and I’m toying with a range of new technology, designed specifically, it would seem, to bring my archaic rump into the twenty-first century. I say this with some jest, for I love technology. For someone who played with a Commodore PET® in high school, the ability to sit here in my yard and correspond with people all from over the world armed only with my imagination and laptop is fantastic. For those of you still attached to dial-up connections, you really need to have a run at this Verizon® wireless stuff – it’ll knock your socks off (if they haven’t already been tormented by something like 10Mb cable internet speeds). Like I said, this article began simply as an attempt to learn what was relocated somewhere else; how, for example, Microsoft Word 2007® is drastically different than the version that I had been using for the past four and a half years or so.

Unfortunately, life never gives us a chance to complete a task in the same manner as we had initiated it. As I sat here playing with my new toy (tool for you young kids out there) I had the television playing in the background and, sure enough, it was cable news with all talk centered on the Democratic National Convention in Denver. If I hear one more word about how bright, intelligence, articulate and, most especially, how good looking Barack Obama is, I think that I’m going to walk straight into the middle of Nine Mile Road and wait for the next “Michigan train” to mow me down. I once lived as a truck driver, I might as well die by one…

Well, I dislike dwelling on the subject of Mr. Obama and so I won’t – at least this time. What drove my ire was hearing the latest quip of Ms. Nancy Pelosi during her interview with Tom Brokaw. Her statement that the Fathers of the Catholic Church had no clue as to when human life began and, more intensely, that St. Augustine actually believed that such life began at three months was ludicrous. Simply put, I wanted to upchuck my dinner. First, they did not believe that life began at three months – how could someone well over a thousand years ago understand the precise dates of human incubation? Secondly, any first week RCIA (courses for those inquiring of the Faith) student knows that Catholic Doctrine hasn’t changed for two thousand years. So, while I wanted to toy with new technology, I’m forced to migrate into one of ancient rites and screwy liberals. I could simply end this article now with a simple statement – either you are a Roman Catholic or you are not. That is, either you believe that the Church holds the final word on such matters of faith or you believe in some other, probably more modern, faith. Christian faith – and most especially Roman Catholicism – is not a bespoke product. Perhaps it is our very culture that blurs the distinction – we’re so used to being White Americans, African Americans, Native Americans, etc. that simple tasks as calling ourselves merely “Americans” is out of date.

What Nancy Pelsoi wants us to believe is that she can be both Catholic and liberal; that believing in abortion rights as a politician and accepting that this action is a horrible crime imparted upon the most innocent of all human beings as an individual member of society is not hard to consider. Yet, it is. Let’s say, for example, that I was to make an equally horrible statement that blacks (or Indians, or Hispanics) are a subhuman species. Would I be able to run as a “respectable” politician with personal beliefs such as those? Or would people rightfully expect that these personal beliefs would color (no pun intended) my professional judgment? The same holds true for matters of faith. Being Catholic means that the adherent holds that God Himself has bestowed upon us certain articles of conduct that are inseparable from our personal lives. We are allowed to (1) adapt our lives to match that of the local indigenous culture; and (2) to use these commandments to impart our values upon our responsibilities. Nowhere is it written that we can divorce our actions from our beliefs or our traditions from our future.

Similarly, when Senator Barbara Boxer spoke that John McCain was extremely “radical” because of his stance against abortion, I could not understand her own “radical” views – that somehow the wanton murder (intentional ceasing of human life) of the most innocent (unable to freely choose sin) is somehow a personal liberty. I can only console myself by believing that certain people cannot accept the concept of creation. They can only understand what they see and if there’s an umbilical cord attached, then human life merely becomes a part of a body. Hogwash. My beloved Sara was born three months premature. Had she remained within her mother’s womb, would she have been any less than the person that I loved more than anyone else on the planet? No. In fact, I suggest that she was born prematurely caused her to be the very woman that I loved. We simply do not know. What is also hard to believe is that we can arbitrarily pick some period – such as three months – to determine when human life begins.

By argument, I’ve already ruled out the notion that life begins at birth because that in and of itself is not well-defined. How many people around the world are born every day without someone there who can “officially” record the event? Therefore, life has to begin at some point prior to their leaving the womb. Now, is it three months? Six? Nine? There is absolutely no way of us knowing precisely when the Homo sapiens body is enveloped by the “office” of human person. Ergo, the only practical way to answer the question is to defer to traditional teachings – that the person has always been human and therefore life had to have begun as earliest as possible. What Nancy Pelsoi and every other “Catholic” liberal say is that they know better than two thousand years of Catholic teaching and tradition. It would be as if I were to say that I don’t believe that any human could kill an innocent child and so therefore Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Biden aren’t human themselves. After all, I wasn’t there when they were born. ;o)

Liberals are a deceiving bunch – almost Lucifericly deceiving. They cannot make a statement that is easy to understand and must always cloud the issue. I, for one, strive for simplicity. I believe that human life begins at conception and I will do everything in my personal and public power to end the horrific abomination that is abortion. All abortions. Why can’t Ms. Pelosi or Mr. Biden state something similar – that they are no longer part of the Catholic family and believe that abortions are a ‘right’ of women everywhere? Because they like to deceive. They want the liberal Left to know they share with them their political agenda and they want their Christian Right friends to think that they also share their same traditions and family values. No wonder Ms. Pelosi’s family is upset with her. She is a female Adolf Hitler – playing to all sides of the issue for her personal goal of exterminating an entire population, the unborn.

Anyone who has spent more than a minute or two examining the Roman Catholic faith understands intimately that its doctrine is based exclusively upon the care and social well-being of all humans. It has endured for two thousand years because this doctrine – if not its adherents – is quite infallible. One cannot – in any way, shape, or form – accept any type of abortion and still call themselves Roman Catholic. Those who have no intention of asking for forgiveness and going “forth and sin no more” cannot be accepted by the Christian community. Ms. Pelsoi and Mr. Biden serve no purpose but to deceive their way into our homes and hearts and for what? To announce that they know better than we do what our nation needs? If this is the kind of “change” they espouse – that their most fundamental traditions are a farce – then we Americans must be on our toes come this November.

Comments

[Debbie]

Thanks for the comments everybody and thank you Gotea for the kind words and for visiting Right Truth. Good luck with your new blog. I'll give you a plug later today.

Debbie

[Skunkfeathers]

Pelosi, Biden, and Oblahblah's philosophy is such that if they get control of the White House and maintain it in Congress, you can bet that their regressive thinking will be taking chunks out of the venerable Constitution and Bill of Rights, as they pack the Supreme Court with socialist judges. That will be a disaster for our constitutional republic of the first magnitude.

[David]

It is a shame that Nancy Pelosi even lacks the decency to do what Adolph Hitler did and kill herself. You're already G*dda**ed, senator. Get it over with -- NOW -- and let the souls of the unborn breathe a sigh of relief.

[Gotea]

Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the site.

[Katie]

What Pelosi said was idiotic. I'm not a Catholic, but I know what the Catholic Church's view on abortion is.

Pelosi is a politician trying to save her job. She has to be pro-choice, pro-gun control, anti-American to get the moonbats in San Francisco to vote for her.