Things are backwards. And many are confused.
It has left me not knowing how to blog about this....so I've said nothing until now.
We are about to vote on Amendment One here in North Carolina. The measure states,
“Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State. This section does not prohibit a private party from entering into
contracts with another private party; nor does this section prohibit courts from
adjudicating the rights of private parties pursuant to such contracts."
If you are a Catholic in NC, your bishop is urging you to vote FOR Amendment One this Tuesday.
There are many people who are opposed to Amendment One. For anyone undecided, I urge you to check out this link
I have been appalled by some of the people who are against this amendment, and it has frankly left me speechless, sick to my stomach and very upset. It makes me upset because I feel like this very dim lightbulb and the darkness seems to be creeping in around me. ("I tell you that He will bring about justice for them quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?" Luke 18:8) I've had to temporarily remove myself from Facebook because I literally felt like the only one who was going to vote FOR this amendment, and I was overcome with this grief for people who are lost.
Because there is not another explanation for this. They are lost. Without the light of Jesus, without the Truth of the Gospel, they are like seeds caught up in the breeze and floating through the sky....to wherever the wind takes them. They have no roots. No good soil in which to plant themselves.
In the midst of all of this, I read a blog post. This is for your discernment, but it certainly made sense to me:
2 John 1:9 Anyone who is so “progressive” as not to remain in the teaching of the Christ does not have God; whoever remains in the teaching has the Father and the Son.
“My beloved, cling firmly to the truth, for I am the Truth. Those who teach false doctrines, those who water down the wine of salvation belong neither to me nor to the Father, but are pawns of the enemy. My children, do not stray from the teachings, but embrace them, cling to them. Waver neither to the right nor to the left but let the teachings of Christ in his Church be the rudder that steers your life on a straight path to everlasting life. I have given you these teachings so that you will not be lost. Let the Church be your guiding star. Then you will never have to fear becoming lost.”
And then I came to this blog and read the following:
I believe few realize the prophetic thrust of Pope Benedict’s words that were carefully chosen on the eve of the winter solstice—the darkest day of the year in the northern hemisphere.4 He was comparing the decline of Rome with our generation. He was underlining how “the key principles of law and of the fundamental moral attitudes underpinning” our society, are beginning to collapse:
…our world is at the same time troubled by the sense that moral consensus is collapsing, consensus without which juridical and political structures cannot function… Only if there is such a consensus on the essentials can constitutions and law function. This fundamental consensus derived from the Christian heritage is at risk… In reality, this makes reason blind to what is essential. To resist this eclipse of reason and to preserve its capacity for seeing the essential, for seeing God and man, for seeing what is good and what is true, is the common interest that must unite all people of good will. The very future of the world is at stake. —Ibid.
And I realized that is EXACTLY what has been troubling me. Moral consensus is collapsing. What was right is now wrong, and what was wrong is now right. And the question is not only where that will lead our society....but where will that lead the individual? Where does it lead you, my friend?
When it is all right to kill your child in the womb.....it's okay...it's her choice.
When it is all right to for men to have sex with men and women to have sex with women...... why not? Don't impose your religious beliefs on everyone else. Keep your religion to yourself.
Well guess what? It's not...just...religion. One day you will discover this. You certainly don't answer to me. You don't answer to the person next door. You only answer to God Almighty. And you will find out then. But in the mean time, I am praying....I am praying that our merciful God will open hearts and fill you up with His grace. Because He is the Only Way, the Only Truth and the Only Life. This may mean nothing to you now, but I-will-pray-for-you.
"Their minds are full of darkness; they wander far from the life God gives because they have closed their minds and hardened their hearts against him." Ephesians 4:18
7 comments:
You hit it right on the nail. Couldn't agree more!
You stated it so well! Keep up the good fight. I am sure I am about to get my booty handed to me on FB, but I simply can't sit by and listen to people think they are standing up for women when really they are oppressing them! Women are more than their pills, people! I am so grateful for the Catholic and Christian bloggers that help me feel like I do not have a third eye!
Bingo!
Our society is choosing to reject more and more our Christian values thinking they are outdated and no longer needed, unfortunately those who continue to push these "ideals" hypothesis fail to understand the death, destruction, loss of dignity and freedom that occur. What non-chritian society truly values freedom and respect? China? Iraq?
I realized that society can decide to do what it wants regarding marriage. It is to be expected that since society is rejecting Christian values, it will reject the christian perspective on marriage. Marriage is a Sacrament like Baptism and Confirmation, so the church might be the only one who will administer it as we move more and more towards an anti-christian society. This is interesting because Protestants don't accept the Marriage as a Sacrament. Yet, as marriage disintegrate more and more they may see the Catholic position. Human societies have regulated marriages because it is how we primarily have children, but the Catholic Church has an added understanding to the sacredness of marriage. However societies don't need to regulate Sacraments.
Amen!
You said it!! I know what you mean, sometimes it's VERY overwhelming to feel like there's a deluge all around you. It does make me very sad, too, to see how lost and misguided some people are.
Amen, amen, amen, amen!
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