Fr. Pontifex - We Hold These Truths
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- "We Hold These Truths" is a video that we felt needed to be produced in order to clearly state the main issue in regards to the (HHS) Health and Human Services Mandate. The main issue is Religious Liberty. The mandate, as it stands right now, violates the Constitution and specifically the 1st Amendment. We have a right to the free exercise of our religion without violating our consciences. Every American should see this as an important issue. It is not a Catholic issue. It is an American issue. Join the movement at phatmass.com/ac...
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Directed, Shot & Edited: Rob Kaczmark
Lyricist: Fr. Claude (Dusty) Burns aka Fr. Pontifex
Producers: dUSt, Danny Hidalgo, Kyle Escamilla, Rob Kaczmark
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Lyrics:
At this time in America we've come to the crossroads
Standing with our religious freedom and what we have been told.
We hold these truths to be self evident all men created the same
Endowed with certain unalienable rights that can't be taken away
They cannot be taken away by man, they were given by the creator
God almighty in Heaven, greater than any legislature
No system, No policy, No mandate has the power
To trample on our conscience and rob us of what is ours
Things that violate health, we are told we must provide
Using faulty percentages to justify conquer and divide
This is not about one issue that we need to just let go
It's not simply about contraception but about government control
A Year to comply? A Year to deny?
A Year to turn the other way and let our conscience die?
A Mandate that violates the corporate conscience of our faith
And once this door is open every religion and creed is at stake
Every American should see this as a threat to our country's foundation
Religion doesn't make us second class, settling for an accommodation
Our conscience is sacred; our freedom of religion is a treasure
Handed to us by Soldiers who fought and sacrificed beyond measure
The 1st amendment protects the free exercise of Religion
To exercise our freedom without living a contradiction
As faithful Americans we HOLD THESE TRUTHS
Life, Liberty and Happiness' pursuit
This isn't to be partisan or to endorse a candidate
This is about a plea to the administration to rescind this mandate
And as you deliberate for freedoms sake just remember
We get to use our rights and cast our two cents in November
Fr. Claude (Dusty) Burns
Aka Pontifex
2/24/12
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Keep preaching Father. We must stand resolute. Life matters. I am adopted. My spouse and brothers and sister-in-law. All adopted and all of us mattered. God bles our birth-mothers who knew this simple truth. Life mattered even in the womb; it is special and holy. Thank you to them and to you father. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for your support and God Bless we appreciate it
I am not even Catholic, and I find this man amazing. He has a powerful message, and it needs to be heard.
We needed that today thank you Heather
Beautifully said: “Our conscience is sacred. Our freedom of religion is a treasure, handed to us by soldiers who fought and sacrificed beyond measure. The First Amendment protects our free exercise of religion. Free to exercise our faith without living a contradiction. As faithful Americans we hold these truths. ”
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I am not Catholic I am non-denominational, but I love God and believe in Jesus Christ. I have viewed Fr. Pontifex and his video's and I find them profoundly challenging and have a biblical foundation that is undeniable no matter what your denomination is. We may not agree on all things, but at the end of the day what is important is that we agree on this one fact God is God and he uses us people to make a difference in other people's lives. Love the video's! Blessings!
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God bless this holy Priest for speaking the truth in love.
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Thank you father for this video. We must stand up for our rights. Thanks for educating people about the danger we are in as christians in this country.
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Ad Orientam altar featuring an icon of St. Thomas Moore?! Awesome!!!!
We are glad that you liked the video Audie !
I stand with you Father! This IS the final battle of Good vs Evil we are in right now! I know where I will stand...IN THE LIGHT!
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Speak the truth! you just keep saying this. I am adopted as are many in my family. We mattered from the moment of our conception. The HHS will attempt to force us to violate this most basic belief. I will not comply with laws that violate my deepest held religous principles; no matter the cost to myself. If not resolved, I stand ready to peacefully resist an over reaching government. God bless us all, even if you do not agree.
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When the Catholic Church fights, it looks beautiful, sounds beautiful and for a noble cause.
Fight on.
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Way to knock it out of the park Father! Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much this means so much for us
God doesn't work magic, his work is what we call rationality, pure rationality, as God is pure holiness. Holiness is perfection so yes, God would use the same method every time to lead us back to him in holiness.
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This is fantastic! Keep standing up for our rights!
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This is a very timely video! Thanks!
Thank you we appreciate it God Bless
I love this Sanctuary. I can't believe I live so close to where this was filmed and never visited it. I am going to visit this St. Thomas More in Chicago this week. Great message. Well done Father and all who helped post this. No more lying power grabs. Vote this administration out. We could easily have covered those with pre-existing conditions or long-term displaced workers for far less than this new million page regulations and law will cost us.
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Great video, awesome message!!
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I wish you guys would fight against our several ongoing wars with this same fervor...
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way to go Father! we have to fight for our rights! =)
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Great vid, and spoken word...
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yes!
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Pax!Avé Maria!Santo Padre,em nome de Maria,a Santissima Senhora e como a mais pobre das Suas filhas venho rogar prostrada que passemos das palavras aos actos.É a hora de cumprir ipsis verbis e de coraçao contrito o qu foi pedido com insistência pela Senhora:CONSAGRAÇÂO AO IMACULADO CORAÇÃO DA RÚSSIA! Não ousemos mais ignorar a escada que o PAI nos oferece!Amen.
Amen. Obrigada por isso, ficou lindo! Deus abençoe.
Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly...Albert Einstein
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Thank you for your message - it has not gone out to my over 3000 email list - vote your conscious in November - if we lose in November we will never be able to reclaim our birthrights
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Fantastic video! Really gets you thinking, doesn't it?
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Way to go Father!
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a thousand thumbs up.
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@menarddr my senior year theology teacher is the youngest of 13 kids, his parents don't think a baby is a burden but a blessing to be celebrated... him and his twin were both welcomed into the world after a doctor told their mother she should abort and do you want to know where the twins are now? they both are priests!
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Amen! ....and....Thumbs up if you came from The Blaze.
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I got the chils! GREAT VIDEO SPIRIT JUICE! You should continue with these series! We from Croatia will translate and spread WORD! God bless you and greetings from Croatia! :)
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I hope you keep making these videos !!!
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I view it more as a contrast! This is my favorite part: “Our conscience is sacred. Our freedom of religion is a treasure, handed to us by soldiers who fought and sacrificed beyond measure. The First Amendment protects our free exercise of religion. Free to exercise our faith without living a contradiction. As faithful Americans we hold these truths...” RESCIND OBAMA!
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"All men are created equal." A great quote to use, when promoting a move that jepordizes women's health and safety. Way to go guys.
Happy Women's Day, by the way.
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You rock as always!
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I love your church.where is it?
St Thomas More Church. 8100 S. California, Chicago, Il
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And if I am crazy it is only because anti-religious people have driven me to my limits of sanity.
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@bigmoneyownsUSA It would still mandate that all insurers must include coverage for the objectionable services in all the policies they would write. self-insuring religious employers, and religious insurance companies, are not exempt from this mandate.
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very nice
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I'm not a joke, your projecting your life on me. Look at thing through the Truth of God and you will understand.
Thank you for this Andrew
Hear the word of the LORD:"If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. If any mischief follows, then you shall give life for life" Human life begins at conception.If God demanded the death penalty on accidental deaths when a woman was pregnant who will defend the wicked murder of babies for profit? Ex 21:22-23
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Purpose of government is to protect life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. People should be free to buy contraception, not enslaved to buy it for others.
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@249Jackson You might take note that Ms. Fluke is not a law-student in real-life. She is a payrolled lawyer.
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God bless you man.. Thanks for saying the Latin Mass... Please pray for me. I am a sinner.
On a side note, though I feel sorry for the church, I think it has brought a lot of this on itself. It has compromised too much in the past with the likes of the Kennedy family. The chickens have come home to roost. Dont worry about the church Ps43 : Judica me Deus, et discerne causam meam de gente non sancta: ab homine iniquo et doloso erue me.
Quia tu es Deus fortitudo mea. God have mercy on us all..
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@holymotclare I see your point about having to dispense the contraceptives being different (although I totally don't agree ;) ). Thanks for not writing me off as a troll and answering my question.
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@hecdc we've been doing it for the last 2,000 years and guess what we are still here and we'll keep fighting! =)
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@menarddr Since you've decided to bring an offline online.
His claim of NFP effectiveness came without a scientific study to back it up. I asked for a study to substantiate his claim. He has not yet provided one.
Me "getting my feathers ruffled" was me telling him those topics were not relevant to our discussion about the effectiveness of NFP, and indicating that he seemed to have a deep hatred of the Church and that seemed to be biasing his opinion of NFP.
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Religion aside...when you peel back the many layers of obfuscation, the core issue is the continued erosion of the American Constitution. Originating from the men and women sworn to uphold this doctrine makes the issue all the more frightening.
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@menarddr I don't care what some Catholics may do. It is their personal decision, and I'm not interested in judging their actions.
Conception can occur with any method of contraception even BCPs. As a practical matter NFP has statistical use as good as BCPs when the method is followed.
Again no one is forcing NFP on you if you don't want to use it. You can purchase and use whatever contraception you think is appropriate.
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I really like this video. It cuts to the core of the issue in an interesting way. And I'd like to point out to the leftists here that refusing to pay for contraception is not the same thing as trying to ban it. However, passing a mandate that requires someone to do something that goes completely against their religion like this is wrong and should be considered unconstitutional. I guess Christians are an easy target since they don't burn down embassies and the like.
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@menarddr A classic and defeated argument to keep faith out of the public sphere. That crass secularism is dead. America is a post-secular multitheistic nation.
Respect that.
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Epic
Thank you June for the support
@LiberalElitistMedia yes, there is a separation of Church and state, but that means that the state can't make any laws that interfere with the beliefs of a religion...
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@LionWebMedia ...YES!!!
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@bigmoneyownsUSA The church would be forced to perovide something that is against the teachings of our church. We have a right to practice our religion without interference from the government.
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@bigmoneyownsUSA no, it forces someone to provide a service or product that is morally opposed to their beliefs. in the case where the employee and insurer agree to add the objectionable coverage, that coverage is STILL PROVIDED as a part of the objecting employer’s plan, financed in the SAME way as the rest of the coverage offered by the objecting employer. providing abortifacients is morally unacceptable to the church.
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@cdawndra Well on my sterilization claim I clearly have to withdraw that part of that argument. Though my sister was authorized for direct sterilization due to health issues at a Catholic hospital, ERD suggests that was against USCCB policy.
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@menarddr Telling someone they may not do something which is within their religious doctrine because it is illegal is completely different then telling someone they *must* do something against their religious doctrine. The former being protection of rights, the latter being the trampling of them.
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@musiciangirl591 America was the first nation in history founded as a secular nation with separation of church and state written right into it's constitution
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@cdawndra Yes it is also NEARLY impossible for all sorts of unlikely events to occur including conception without intercourse. But yes it has happened. From Science Daily "Researchers have found that a method of natural family planning that uses two indicators to identify the fertile phase in a woman's menstrual cycle is as effective as the contraceptive pill for avoiding unplanned pregnancies if used correctly" I'm sure you can find the study with that. It agrees with other studies.
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Read the article: "Contraception rule respects religion" on HHS website for the truth on this.
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This is still true today. 03/10/24.
I know right, thanks for watching!
I casnnot believe that RUclips insults this video with an Obama ad!!! Come on!
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Our Catholic Priests are annointed by God they are sent by Jesus Himself. unlike those sects who just mushroomed around the corners of the world feasting on third world Ignorance.
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Humanae Vitae #17: I told you so
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@Melodikiller What you got Ultra Conservative presidential candidates like Rick Santorum suggesting that education, college is corrupting the minds of Americans youth it assures me my sense of intellectual superiority over Christians in not misplaced
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@zinnercs Read the article from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops if you want the truth. Interestingly there is not one bishop who has not spoken out against this mandate.
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He may be quoting from the Bible, which includes all the books for 1567 years before the Reformation, the Catholic Catechism,which contains everything we hold as Truths of the Church, and believe in faith, and that are not made up on the moment. The Magistrum is the Teaching body of the Church. The Pope is simply the succor to Peter. Not all he says is infallible; but a body the Church, must have a head, or leader. Peace and goodness
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@menarddr He was not mandated to do something he refused to do, he of his own volition did something illegal. Two different situations. Until you can grasp that you are going to go in a circle on this issue.
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Well, I'll take my chances. If I were you however I might rethink trashing the church He established.
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@cdawndra The churches stance on the use of barriers is irrelevant to the study. Well OK not totally irrelevant. Those using barriers during the fertile phase instead of abstaining had a slightly higher chance (0.6% vs 0.4%) of becoming pregnant. So what you could conclude if you insist on relating it back the the Church sanctioned NFP method is that the Church method of abstinence during fertility is slightly more effective than using barriers during fertility.
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Be more respectful to those trying to lead moral lifes, if anything you are the one brainwashed not to believe their is a God by the common lies of society. Peace.
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@Thuban so guess what happens if i skip an epilepsy pill? i have a seizure, i don't feel liberated at all by it even though my doctor told me i should
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@menarddr how are they getting more poltical and having a temper can be useful time to time
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We don't NEED to go through Mary to get to God. We do so because Mary was selected and favored by God himself and is the holiest of saints. She, therefore, has a much greater pull when it comes to God than a typical person. I'm not at all saying God doesn't listen to our prayers, but when there are so many saints in heaven who can be praying for you too, why not get the extra help? look up "why do catholics pray to mary" on google and click the second link at catholicdoors. its got scripture.
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@holymotclare "Laws are made for the government of actions, and while they cannot interfere with mere religious beliefs and opinions, they may with practices. . . . Can a man excuse his practices to the contrary because of his religious belief? To permit this would be to make the professed doctrines of religious belief superior to the law of the land, and in effect to permit every citizen to become a law unto himself. Government could exist only in name under such circumstances." - Reynolds V US
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@cdawndra Ah there you go again. Some participants used a barrier during the "Fertile Phase" rather than abstain. I fail to see how the fact that some participants in the study elected to use barriers during fertile periods rather than abstain has any relevance to the discussion on the scientific effectiveness of NFP. This sounds like an emotional argument about how you want NFP to not work, rather than a scientific reason why it doesn't.
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Also, who is the other faithful chosen one you are referring to? I can't think of any human more favored by God than the woman, who was without sin, that he chose to bear his son. He entrusted many people with important tasks, but none more important than Mary's. Joseph was also very important, as was John the Baptist, but no one more than Mary. After them, the next most "chosen" was Peter, to whom he entrusted the Church, which is the Catholic church as St. Peter was the first pope.
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I'm not American, but somehow it seems as though I know your Constitution better than your President does...
Totally epic video.
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Pius XII also took a public stance concerning the Jews of Italy: "The Pope spoke out strongly in their defense with the first mass arrests of Jews in 1943, and L’Osservatore Romano carried an article protesting the internment of Jews and the confiscation of their property. The Fascist press came to call the Vatican paper ‘a mouthpiece of the Jews.’
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@cdawndra NFP is a scientific method with a 99% success rate. It is not rhythm. It is not what our ancestors used. It is a scientific method of observing fertility signs and from those signs making decisions about whether or not to have intimate relations with your spouse.
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You imitate our virtues, and say they can be lived without God or Creed, but they follow our Moral Structure, and you deny you follow our lead.
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@bigmoneyownsUSA She's a 30 year old activist.
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@909051 Statements like "and Catholics, you guys can't even follow the 10 commandments" are not only over generalized, but also completely unfounded.
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@menarddr Umm. No. I speak for myself; I am a simple layman and cannot speak for the Catholic Church or any member of the Church's clergy. If you have issues with the Church's conduct I suggest you take it up with them not me.
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@bigmoneyownsUSA This is america and if one wishes to use contraceptives so be it, but don't expect me as a catholic employer to provide something that is in contradiction to my religious beliefs. It is about religious liberties and the right to exercise our faith in good conscience. You just don't get it.
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@menarddr what does it matter what EWTN is doing, they are standing up for their rights... since when is that illegal or a political move?
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@menarddr You know alot more about that program than I do as I never watch it. Sorry. Don't know Raymond Arroyo either. You seem to be a little obsessed with him however. Have you ever talked to someone about this? Couldn't hurt!
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@holymotclare How so? Your objection to the contraception mandate (as I understand it) is that paying for contraception is against your religious beliefs and therefore interferes with your constitutional rights to practice your religion. I do not see how paying for a war could possibly not be interfering with the same rights if I were to follow that same reasoning. I genuinely would like someone to answer this and not write it off as "a red herring".
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Our unalienable rights “were given by the creator.” These rights could also be proven scientifically. See the book titled: Scientific Proof of Our Unalienable Rights.
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@holymotclare Do paying for the wars interfere with the practice of your religion?
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@Kingokings123 What is there to seriously debate? There is many great examples of the conviction in which people believe in the supernatural . Everything from Stonehenge the pyramids, our beautiful cathedrals, our music, art and even a willingness to die. A tradition of having an all powerful king to rule over us has existed since before we gained the power of written communication. I don't need convincing just how strongly you know in your heart that god exists.
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The I love Jesus but Hate Religion guy wants his video back
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@fforrett We have no argument when it comes to the historic means in which religion has silenced those who dared to question ;) Wouldn't the world be a better place if we were all Protestant? or better yet all Baptist or even better yet all Southern Baptist ?
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@holymotclare I hear Pakistan and Afghanistan are country's where government does not interfere with faith based truths ?
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@menarddr Really why the news covers one topic and not another? Your question should be directed at Journalists not Catholics. I can't speak intelligently about the business decisions in someone else's profession.
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Everyone should read, before Election Day, the newly released book titled: “Scientific Proof of Our Unalienable Rights”
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@menarddr It would be unconstitutional for the government to force you to serve in the military, which is why I oppose conscription, but I digress. Your tax dollars go to the military in general. This mandate would specifically force Catholic organizations to do something they strongly oppose, and as I pointed out, refusing to pay for something is not the same as trying to ban it. No one has the right to get these things for free, so it's not a women's rights issue.
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@JGtime The 98% number is a misleading number that has been created out of thin air to exaggerate the number of dissenting Catholics. Even if the number is accurate, it is un-American to force those who find it morally unacceptable to pay for something that is not essential to staying alive. The mosque issue is completely different as people of a certain faith are not being forced to fund what is morally unacceptable. It was merely bad manners to build next to a site of 2,000 American deaths.
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@menarddr Yeah well theres a little thing called the constitution. Have you heard of it?
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@menarddr You mean the one that doesn't cite a source? Is your keyboard broke? Can't you link it? Do you really need me to post for you?
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