Yet he was a good king with feet of clay and genitals nothing to brag about.
It looks like America may once again elect a king David figure, Donald Trump. His sexual sins can now be blessed by the Church. His corruption may be another matter, but let’s face it, he’s no worse and no better than King David.
Four years of lying Trump, corrupt Trump and despicable Trump led to four years of no wars that concerned America. It let to a Supreme Court that overturned Roe V. Wade and it provided economic stability.
I know this will drive some crazy, but most Catholic countries like Italy, don’t care about the religiousity or sanctimonious morality of their political candidates, not one iota.
Should we give into Protestant puritanicalism as it concerns our political leaders? It doesn’t seem to me to be the Catholic way.
Trump will be the Republican candidate for the President of the USA. Do we want a corrupt moral figure, meaning Joe Biden who is suffering from dementia, or do we want a corrupt moral figure, who has energy and will be the Republican candidate unless the Democrats can convict him or the Supreme Court declares that he can’t run because of his indictments and moral morass?
Time will tell.
A King David who is strong and well-built, sexy and adulterous and murderous might be better than a corrupt Catholic who is senile but goes the Mass each Saturday Night.
What to do? What to do? Oh! What are we to do????
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Just ask yourself this question:
Which one of these men, as president, is less likely to impede my right to worship and free speech?
You know what to do.
I am somehow supposed to believe that Joe Biden is the most popular president of all time.
Orthodox Physicist:
I wouldn't believe that either. However, Joe Biden IS a success of sorts. He's the most effective fundraiser for Republican candidates that I've ever seen.
I love how the folks suffering from TDS can never mention how, exactly, DJT is corrupt/evil - (other than those things that have been investigated and proved unfounded). So, yes; you get mean tweets and egomania; he did get hoodwinked by Fauci (et al) - and he did not build the wall. You also got the lowest unemployment in decades (or ever for the POC), no wars, booming economy and good judges.
Trump is a saint compared to Ted Kennedy, Joe Biden and Bill Clinton. Working men and women were thriving under Trump compared to now under the Grifter in Chief and the Biden Crime Family. Trump started no new hot wars but that is meaningless to the Idiocracy in charge of the media and places of “higher learning.” And to top it off we have a Globalist Pope, an economic novice, pushing for the Globalist Abortion loving morons at Davos whose policies would make it far worse for the people he claims to love. Ronald Reagan/Pope John Paul II to Joe Biden/Pope Francis. How far we have fallen. Satan is smiling
What to do? Oh, What are we to do? Step one, take off your silly glasses.
"Should we give into Protestant puritanicalism as it concerns our political leaders? It doesn’t seem to me to be the Catholic way."
Being concerned about a candidate's morality is very much the Catholic way.
From Archbishop Carroll's Prayer for our government:
"We pray O God of might, wisdom and justice, through whom authority is rightly administered, laws are enacted, and judgment decreed, assist with your Holy Spirit of counsel and fortitude the president of these United States, that his administration may be conducted in righteousness and be eminently useful to your people over whom he presides; by encouraging due respect for virtue and religion; by a faithful execution of the laws in justice and mercy; and by restraining vice and immorality."
Fr K Orwell,
Yes you should be concerned about the morality of an alleged Catholic who is rabidly pro abortion and supports the genital mutilation of children
This is for the fake Catholics who post here:
Self-professed Catholic President Joe Biden marked the fifty-first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s now-defunct 1973 Roe v. Wade decision by pledging to fight for the supposed “right” to kill unborn babies via abortion.
In a statement released on Monday, Biden took the opportunity to mourn the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe’s invention of the constitutional “right” to abortion and sent the issue back to individual states. He also painted Republicans as “dangerous” and “extreme” for passing laws banning or restricting abortions and accused them of putting “lives…at risk”:
I guess the unborn babies are not lives in Bizarro World of Dem Politics
I honestly don't think rejecting the puritanical values of certain self-righteous Protestants is the same thing as abandoning morality. I'm sure everyone here has certain moral concerns.
Everyone here should also be realistic. Both men have been caught exaggerating, lying or telling us part of the truth to aggrandize their position or standing.
On one hand, we have a purported "Catholic" who stands against just about every moral principle the Catholic Church represents. He is demonstrably senile. He makes up stories for every situation, with himself as the hero in every one. He's a proven plagiarist. He can't stay out of the faces of young girls. He turned the U.S. Capitol into a mockup of North Korea as political theater during his inauguration. He has a brother who takes naked selfies with his camera and a son who videotapes everything from drug use to sexual encounters and openly brags about how "The Big Guy" can make deals happen and a wife who..aw, I'm not gonna pick on her.
Then we have a certified playboy/egomaniac who is on his 3rd (4th?) wife, manipulates the tax code and bankruptcy laws for maximum profit, makes up put-down nicknames for anyone he disagrees with and doesn't believe he needs forgiveness for anything, claims he reads the Bible, but can't cite one verse.
Let's get real, our moral concerns are legit, but this is what we have to vote for. One of these guys at least respects and defends the Constitution. The other is a pathetic, exhausted opportunist. I've already made my choice. It would be immoral to let us fall into the hands of the bumbler for another four years.
The Most Catholic President Ev-ah (TM) supports all sort of depravity. Orange Man Bad (TM) politically opposes the same to some degree or another, although engaging in his own sins, sometimes notoriously.
Hmmm... whom to choose. The pure, clean-hearted (I jest) MCPE who is trying his hardest to ensure that millions more evil acts are committed, more wars started, etc., or OMB, who would stem the tide, even if he is still not a good choice for a variety of reasons.
That is, of course, without considering that the administration of the MCPE has been the one most dangerous to Catholics in generations.
Gee, what a hard choice. But I guess Jesus would tell us to vote for the Catholic, even if he says "Go and sin no mo--I mean, get an abortion" and compare anyone who disagrees to segregationists.
Nick
Jerome, Here are some puritanical values I admire. From John Winthrop's sermon aboard the ship Arabella in 1630 as he and his party were preparing to disembarck in the New World.
"Now the only way to avoid this shipwreck, and to provide for our posterity, is to follow the counsel of Micah, to do justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with our God. For this end, we must be knit together, in this work, as one man. We must entertain each other in brotherly affection. We must be willing to abridge ourselves of our superfluities, for the supply of others’ necessities. We must uphold a familiar commerce together in all meekness, gentleness, patience and liberality. We must delight in each other; make others’ conditions our own; rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, as members of the same body. So shall we keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. The Lord will be our God, and delight to dwell among us, as His own people, and will command a blessing upon us in all our ways, so that we shall see much more of His wisdom, power, goodness and truth, than formerly we have been acquainted with. We shall find that the God of Israel is among us, when ten of us shall be able to resist a thousand of our enemies; when He shall make us a praise and glory that men shall say of succeeding plantations, “may the Lord make it like that of New England.” For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world. We shall open the mouths of enemies to speak evil of the ways of God, and all professors for God’s sake. We shall shame the faces of many of God’s worthy servants and cause their prayers to be turned into curses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whither we are going."
Some will find it a socialist approach to life. (It is.) Some will say it takes from the wealthy to give to the poor. (It does.) Some will say that it is unworkable in the "real" world. (So was walking on water, healing the man born blind, or turning Lot's wife into a statue of salt.)
Yes, politics is the art of the possible, and our choices are limited. I will not vote to put the nation in the hands of the Bumbler Trump again.
I don't think aligning with Protestant near-theocrats is really the way forward, even if it means getting to dunk on a Trump voter. Maybe I'm not sophisticated enough.
Nick
Father K Orwell, an alleged Catholic priest prefers:
Biden the warmonger and anti-semite
Biden the abortion extremist and pervert who denies parents control over genital mutilation
Biden the destroyer of the working class livelihoods through his inflationary policies and war on fossil fuels
Biden the user of lawfare to destroy his political opponents like in a banana republic
Father McDonald why is this sicko still a priest in good standing?
Fr K’s political “values:”
Shutting down debate
Putting your innocent political opponents in jail
Forcing faithful Catholics to pay for killing the unborn
Forcing faithful Catholics to give up control of their children to the State
We have had corrupt, evil and braindead priests from the beginning
Oh TJM, why are you holding back? Why don't you tell us what you REALLY think?
Jerome - TJM's imagination is pretty amazing, isn't it?
Thinking about current political candidates, the words of Alexander Hamilton offer guidance:
"When a man unprincipled in private life[,] desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper . . . despotic in his ordinary demeanour — known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty — when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity — to join in the cry of danger to liberty — to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion — to flatter and fall in with all the nonsense of the zealots of the day — It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may 'ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.'"
And here is something for Faher K Orwell:
@JoeBiden
Give me a Democratic House of Representatives and a bigger Democratic Senate, and we will pass a new law to restore and protect Roe v. Wade.
I will sign it immediately.
So that is what YOU are voting for. Enjoy Hell
TJM - As I said to Jerome, your imagination is pretty amazing.
I don't think TJM needed much imagination to write what he did. The record of the Democratic Party (and again, I used to be one) demonstrates that his "imaginary" concerns are quite valid.
I just thought it was quite cheeky for him to put it here so bluntly.
Jerome - "Warmonger...anti-semite... denies parents control...give up control of their children...political opponents in jail...."
It's all nonsense, from the deepest, darkest regions of a very fragile and troubled imagination.
The unhinged aren't cheeky - they're daft.
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