CATHOLIC AND DEMOCRAT: CAN YOU BE BOTH?
I will demonstrate that there are irreconcilable differences today between the Democratic Party and the Catholic religion. The engine behind the propagation of the culture of death is the liberal Democratic Marxist machine which seeks to silence the Catholic Church and turn America into Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Huxley describes a futuristic society that has an alarming effect of dehumanization through the absence of spirituality and family, the obsession with physical pleasure, and the misuse of technology.[i]
This describes today’s culture of death; we are witnessing before our very eyes the destruction of Western civilization by the Democratic Party.
Let us not forget that Western civilization was built by the Catholic Church; we took the great thinkers from Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome. Then synthesized and purified their thoughts and speech with the gospel of Jesus Christ. The result of this is Western civilization in and through the Catholic Church. The oldest example of Western civilization is the Catholic Mass, a Sacred Liturgical Ritual which came from the Last Supper.
Andrew Breitbart used to say that “politics is downstream from culture.” However, I would add that culture is downstream from religion, it is the cycle of 1. Religion (Christianity), 2. culture, and 3. politics (in that order) that sustains American civilization. The leftist anti-civilization woke politicians and their forces want to replace (the Christian) religion with divisive, anti-American, Marxism – that’s what they mean when they chant “build back better.”
Hilaire Belloc – “Culture springs from religions, ultimately the vital force which maintains any culture is its philosophy, its attitude toward the universe, the decay of a religion involves the decay of the culture corresponding to it.” Cult and culture come from the same root latin word, whatever you worship will define your culture.
The Gospel of Life (1995) paragraph 19 states: “A culture of death, taken as a whole, betrays a completely individualistic concept of freedom, which ends up becoming the freedom of ‘the strong’ against the weak, who have no choice but to submit” (St. John Paul II).[ii]
I feel obligated to inform all Catholics and people of good will to open their eyes and hearts to the complete opposition that exists today between the Democratic Party and the Catholic religion on those moral issues that are non-negotiable’ which the Magisterium has declared them to be ‘intrinsically evil.’ The Catholic faith is not right versus left, it is right versus wrong. Catholics are called to shine the light of truth upon the culture of death and put the spotlight firmly upon the unjust immoral laws passed and supported by the Democratic Party. Catholics must form our moral conscience so that we follow the dictates of right reason based on the Word of God, this will lead to right action. Catholics and American people of good will need moral clarity. We must be prepared to “fight the good fight of faith” (1 Tim 6:12) because generations to come are counting on us at this moment in history.
St. John Paul II stated: "It is a mistake to apply American Democratic procedures to the faith and the truth; you cannot take a vote on the truth."[iii] Unfortunately, secular immorality has infiltrated religion more than religion has infiltrated the secular culture. Morality shapes a person’s attitudes. Attitudes shape a person’s actions. Actions shape a nation’s future. "Today, as in the past, people who wish to be Christ's disciples are called to go against the tide" (Pope Benedict XVI).[iv] Don’t go with the flow, many saints will be forged in the crucible of fire in the third millennium, make sure you are among them. Remember our Lord said, “Do not fear, only believe…” (Luke 8:50).
To all my Catholic brothers and sisters who have been deceived by the modernist liberal mainstream propagandist woke media, I hope this information helps the “scales to fall off your eyes” (cf. Acts 9:18).
Endnotes
[i] Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. Edited by Mark Spencer Ellis, Longman, 1983.
[ii] “Evangelium Vitae (25 March 1995).” Vatican. VA, 25 Mar. 1995, https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_....
[iii] “Pope John Paul II Quote: ‘It Is a Mistake to Apply American Democratic Procedures to the Faith and the Truth. You Cannot Take a Vote on the Truth....’” Quotefancy.com, https://quotefancy.com/quote/891235/Pope-John-Paul-II-It-is-a-mistake-to.... Accessed 11 Jan. 2024.
[iv] CNA. (2007, November 9). Benedict XVI proclaims: Christians, especially the youth, must go against the tide. Catholic News Agency. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/10932/benedict-xvi-proclaims-chr...