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I was once a Democrat many years ago before they all converted to the party of death. Now, it's impossible to find even one authentic Christian among them and those who call themselves "Catholic" are the worst ones. Once upon a time a long, long time ago there were pro-life Catholic Democrats elected to public office and one after one they joined the "Demon Brigade" which is now known as the Democratic party.

Since I’ve only been popping back-and-forth to this blog sporadically since last spring, I’ll be very brief and to the point, and so with a lot of nuance that you Jay, or any reader can make sense of (i.e. probably mis-interpret or misappropriate) as she or he will.

This post only confirms what I’ve observed over the last couple of years, namely, this supposed Catholic “apologetics” site’s morphing into a conservative Republican pulpit. Jay, your constant setting up god-less democrats against “Christian” Republicans is boring, narrow minded, and historically near-sighted.

You claim that the democratic party is about abortion, gays (we all love our gays – convenient whipping boys), gay marriage, and public displays of religion. Others call it the “party of death.” All of this sort of Christo-Republican (made that up! but I don't like it) rhetoric eventually works its way out into single party, single issue voting which is wholly irresponsible – but very simple and easy since it does not require the hard work involved with considering all of the issues and the history behind them.

You narrow politics and this blog down to moralities (a good “cash” currency) that cut into the sensibilities of a conservative North American culture that sees itself threatened. This “community” which perceives itself under threat assuages its own fears and reaffirms its “moral identity” by setting up issues as black-and-white, inside-out, Christian-not Christian. “The Good” = “us” conservative Christian Republicans; “The Bad” = those stupid Democrats; “The Ugly” = the starving, tortured, and voice-less poor who reap the bottom end of the global economy that keeps us fat and complacent.

Very simple, painlessly simple – and painlessly idolatrous!

Christo-Republicans fail to consider the issues that deal out death in numbers, manner, and cruelty that dwarf abortion (for instance), because IF such issues are actually addressed, actually considered, then the Christian would be called to radically change his/her lifestyle – I’m talking what we drive, what we eat (and how much), what we buy, and what we sell, the clothes we wear, how many houses we own (!!), and on and on. But we all sure like our lifestyle, and we gloat in the fact that “the terrorists (or illegal aliens) are just ‘jealous.’” Why shouldn’t people across the globe be ‘jealous’ of our conspicuously consuming lifestyle, when that lifestyle has cost them and the rest of the world so much pain and death? Why shouldn’t they want to enjoy “life, liberty, and the pursuit of property” (oops, I meant happiness!, but Locke knew what he was talking about, eh?).

Yes Jay, some of the vocabulary is “global economy,” “colonialism,” “economic colonialism,” “free market economies” (that we love so long as we’re on top!), “poverty,” “oil,” “environmental degradation,” the global sale of “arms” – the cry of the earth is indeed, the cry of the poor. Jesus obviously knew very well that we would always have the poor with us, because of the hardness of the human heart. But if single issue-minded, Christo-Republicans bothered to learn more about the consequences of our lifestyle (rather than idolatrously claiming the US’s position as the sole mega [consuming]-power on earth is a “blessing” from God!!!), then we might discover that we don’t like what we know. And that would confront each of us with THE question: “Should I change my lifestyle?” Hmmmm…

Jay, I’m a Roman Catholic democrat (yes, a member of the party of death!!!!). But I recognize that both the Democratic and the Republican party push agendas that deal in death. And, I think it is a shame that this blog constantly peddles partisan politics under the guise of Roman Catholic Apologetics. Why not change your name to "To God is all 'that is Republican'" rather than "glory"?

The Earth is not ours, but Gods! The very reason why God gave us the Torah is to avert disparity of resources, wealth and property that we so cherish – Democrats AND Republicans. A disparity that results in death on a world-wide scale.

It is time for us to wake from sleep Jay!

The Knights of Columbus have a tradition of inviting presidential candidates to their annual convention as guests of honor. Before the election, however, they invited only George Bush.

As a Catholic, I firmly believe that the Democratic Party is the party of death. I am fed up with what they have done to this country.

That is why I became one, after being in the Right to Life party for years.

Every chance I get, I will vote in the primaries with my little vote, to trounce their agenda-

& then vote in the elections for the best pro-life candidate- which will most likely be a Republican.

Amen.

As a survivor of both attacks on the World Trade Center in 1993 and 2001, I can only Thank God The Almighty for being here right now. But I also feel very disheartened with how we've become 5 years later. I thought that after this terrible event we would all finally come together as Americans and solidify our love for each other and our country,
no matter what origin, color, creed, religion and especially what political views we believe in. Instead, we have become more polarized as a nation than ever. I am a moderate Catholic and while I don't necessarily agree with abortion,
I also do not believe in the narrow minded agenda that some people have with the term "Right To Life". What does that mean exactly? If you are Pro-Life, then shouldn't you also be concerned with the hundreds of thousands of children that are dying in the U.S. because they don't have health coverage, live below the poverty level, or are neglected and bounced around the foster care system because nobody wants them? What kind of LIFE do these children have? We should be thinking about the suffering of these children that are already born as well as the unborn if you truly believe in "Right To Life"

Who said they weren't concerned for the living?

If the living had the proper respect for God, then everyone would respect Him first, each other, and themselves...

& then there would be no starving children.

But as respect for God has decreased, so has respect for each other, including the unborn.

Imagine everyone obeying God's laws.

How likely is that?

Well, we can pray, because there is always hope.

Rhapsody,

Our lifestyle demonstrates a deadly indifference, if not a deadly ignorance, of ALL LIFE. Conspicuous consumption, waste, pollution!

And our cherished position on the top of a global economy - resources move up to us for our consumption, the waste (our waste) moves back down to the impoverished "un-developed" and "developing" nations. This is a fact of "life" for us - a fact of death for most other people on the planet.

The victims of our life-style "CHOICES" far outnumber the victims of abortion - who are as well, ultimately victims of our deathly lifestyle too.

Ironically, most "pro-lifers" are also "pro-choice" and they don't even know it, or they don't want to know it. They make lifestyle CHOICES everyday that result in the death of millions. And they would defend their right to make such CHOICES to the grave.

Unfortunately, "pro-life" politics, that is, single-issue abortion politics, distracts us from the "inconvenient truth" of our lifestyle.

Jack

You and I have problems with insular thought and spacious generalization... I think we both like the truth.

Then why without any empirical support do you paint with a stale roller the "consumerist" conservative?

I am a greenie and I am independent...I have stayed out of these political melees until now. I am calling you out for as bad as you call out Jay. As a former greenpeace member I can't stand two faced democrats! You have no support for calling the republicans the "rich" and the "consumers."

The richest people I know are democrats...see Warren Buffet for example! Here are some more sick rich democrats that scream "oh we need oil independence! we need wind power (ya their hot air)." As soon as the windmills were to go in their back yards to become the most productive alternative energy project in the nation and possibley drop their property values, they say not in my back yard. Birds are of more value. Hey guess what I love birds too but that is where they live... the air. I bet if the mill could be stuck in your or my back yard and kill the last boobie they would be all for that.

http://www.augustafreepress.com/stories/storyReader$40128

In Love

when we were one

I'm find it odd that only pro-lifers get told by others they need to avoid the dangers of "one-issue" politics. When pro-choicers refuse to back a pro-life candidate, no one thinks this odd or overly simplistic.

I'll consider abandoning "one-issue" voting the day a pro-choicer considers abandonding "one-issue" voting. Until then, I'll continue to view this "one-issue" accusation as nothing more than a cheap ploy that has deceived far too many people who ought to know better.

Jack,

Please go into a bit more detail regarding our life-style choices. You made very strong accusations without drawing from any specifics. It is easy to demonize the people of your own country, especially when you are in an academic environment and discussing the U.S. The U.S. is not perfect - we are far from it. But I would encourage you to take a more realistic approach in your critique of U.S. culture. It takes more than mean-spirited verbal attacks on our way of life to produce positive results.

In today´s political scene, the U.S. is hated throughout the world. Our strong support of Israeli and its policies is one of the main reasons for that, but people like yourself give red meat to those who look to eliminate our global influence. There are many groups and countries out there who want to take over the leadership of the world. You may think that is a good idea, but I don´t.

I would encourage you to study the groups in power in Moscow, Beijing, Tehran, Damascus, Caracas and Havana, instead of spending your the majority of your down time reading books about the horrible nature of the everyday American.

Michael O.

When we were One,

My hyperbole is just that, hyperbole, and in response to the pattern of this blog – apologetics(?), politics, and the vilifying of democrats in general. When writing rhetorical polemic (or even invective), I have as much right to refer to Republicans as “rich” and “consumers,” as Jay has for always posting things calling into question the intelligence of Democrats in general. And finally, this is a blog! I feel no compunction to provide “empirical evidence” that is easy for anyone, everyone to corroborate on their own. Though I invite you to go to a library and research on a good database – LexisNexis for example.

Burnt,

I have backed pro-choice candidates often in the past, when it was evident that they make an effort to embrace and so promote a consistent ethic of life. I find it strange, really strange!, how many pro-lifers are in favor of capital punishment! But that is an obvious policy of death embraced, for example, by our present administration. A consistent ethic of life challenges single issue pro-lifers (for whom abortion is the only issue) to consider the costs of our lifestyle let alone to question the inconsistency of a pro-life/pro capital punishment ethic.

Michael O,

Why do you say its easy to demonize the people of your own country especially when one is in a academic environment? It is a good suggestion, and I suspect the reason for it is that folks in academia are usually spending more time studying the issues in depth, and exercising a good dose of self-criticism – something I see our culture lacking. But of course, conservatives, generally speaking, have vilified academia as such. Academia does the dirty work, and what it finds out about the issues, it does not like. But at least academia does the digging, and calls things into question.

I don’t read any books during my “down time” that demonize American Culture. Heck, I participate in the culture – with fear and trembling. Most liberals do. But they make efforts to change their lifestyles – their patterns and volume of consumption of all resources – and not just to save a buck, but because they make themselves conscious of the cost in human life, and in all life. May I suggest Michael, that in your down time that you read about Joseph Cardinal Bernadine’s consistent ethic of life.

Peace

This is ridiculous.

Bush is republican, am I right?

He says he is against abortion and pro-life, but when he was governor of Texas, the state was performing the most death penalties in the country. (more than the rest of the country combined). He also did not support the idea of investigating the 9/11 attacks, and underfunded it (gave only about $600,000 to investigate), but that is beside the point. If he really wanted to save lives..maybe he'd recall the way he destroyed so many of them and rethink his ways.

Republicans have gotten into fighting a "war for peace" (quite an oxymoron I must say). Obviously that hasn't been very successful, and again more lives have been lost (yes, this sounds quite Christian). Bush and his party have been ruling through lies and instilling fear in his people. I don't quite see how this make the Republican party the party of "life" and the Democrats the evil ones.

Someone said, "some of the richest people i know are democrats". Okay? There might be some rich people who are democrats, but they truly do not outweigh the rich republicans. You can't just pick a few rich democrats and fit them as the stereotype, it just doesn't cut it.

On a final note..it is possible to be Pro-Life and pro-choice at the same time. After all, choice is a gift from God, and it isn't our duty to take that away.

Abortion kills only the innocent.

Please Rhapsody,

Tell me who among the hundereds of thousands of victims every year of starvation and malnutrition, civil war, and genocide are guilty, and then tell me who among them are innocent.

I know this child is innocent.
http://mmpregnancy.com/images/Cycle%20of%20Life/16%20week%20unborn%20baby.jpg

Is this child innocent, or guilty?
http://www.lpb.bwue.de/aktuell/bis/1_2_05/bilder/dafur.jpg

And this one?
http://www.bio.davidson.edu/people/kabernd/seminar/2002/tech/malnutrition.jpg

How 'bout any of these?
http://nzz.ch/images/2005/10/14/al/newzzEES0P6XL-12/Dafur.jpg

You were right to say in an earlier post that we can always pray. Is there anything more that we can do?

Jack,

You should read more about the work of U.S.A.I.D. and US NGOs abroad. Better yet, you should visit some of these countries to see the extent of the problems and how US support helps them. No other country in the world gives as much support to these causes as the US.

The US government has been working with Sudanese leaders on both sides of the fight to stop the horrible slaughter in the Sudan for many years.

You write as if the US doesn't do anything about humanitarian causes. That is absolutely wrong. The US government needs to do more, especially on the public relations front (in the US to cinics like you, Jack), in order to better communicate its work abroad.

Michael O.

Someone please explain to me how Bush and the Republicans numerous failures to uphold the culture of life (capital punishment, oppression of the poor) somehow justifies the Democrats support for abortion. Some children starve so we should murder our own?

Michael,

USAID and the NGOs are as such good, I am aware of them. I am also aware that they are a good "side" of a vicious cycle.

The problem lay with the historical, root causes - Western colonialism, economic colonialism, global economy.

Frankly, I am tired of hearing the strained suggestion "Look at how MUCH MORE the US gives in trying to aid these poor wretches" as if that is going to change anything substantively and in the long run. It sure helps me rest easier though - assuages my conscience, sure!

Michael, it is about parity. Parity! Parity in consumption. The US per capita consumes more of the earth's resources than any other country on the planet. Now, what percentage of the population do we make up?

There is no parity in this. God gave Israel the Torah to try to ensure distributive justice for all. We've come a long way baby.

Peace!

In this beautiful United States, today we are not united. Our moral value has gone away, even those who would want us to believe them to be Christians, have lost sight of "the heart of Jesus" "We all like sheep have gone astray"! Not just Democrats, but Republicans also, all you have to do is look at the news, there is not integerity in man, we must look to whomever we feel is the best. That is all we can do, seperate him/she from her party and look at what they stand for personaly. "Where have all the real Christians gone?" Not into Politics obvisiouly.

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