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The Election
By: Aidan Date: November 6, 2012, 6:28 pm
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Just watching the electoral map, good start for Romney so far.
:)
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Re: The Election
By: Doug Date: November 8, 2012, 10:13 am
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:'(
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Re: The Election
By: Kass Williams Date: November 8, 2012, 11:51 am
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Totally agree with above.
All my faith in American humanity has plummeted to a nearly
irrecoverable abyss.
(There is now a possibility that the world will indeed end in
December.)
:-X
Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
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Re: The Election
By: Allison Williams Date: November 8, 2012, 12:22 pm
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Once again America has rejected God's love and settled for total
darkness. Get ready for another LONG four years.
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Re: The Election
By: Doug Date: November 8, 2012, 1:12 pm
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Perhaps some words from the Holy Father may help keep things in
perspective.
"From the crisis of today the Church of tomorrow will emerge --
a Church that has lost much. She will become small and will have
to start afresh more or less from the beginning. She will no
longer be able to inhabit many of the edifices she built in
prosperity. As the number of her adherents diminishes, so will
she lose many of her social privileges. In contrast to an
earlier age, she will be seen much more as a voluntary society,
entered only by free decision. As a small society, she will make
much bigger demands on the initiative of her individual
members...In faith and prayer she will again recognize her true
center and experience the sacraments again as the worship of God
and not as a subject for liturgical scholarship."
"The Church will be a more spiritual Church, not presuming upon
a political mandate, flirting as little with the Left as with
the Right. It will be hard going for the Church, for the process
of crystalization and clarification will cost her much valuable
energy. It will make her poor and cause her to become the Church
of the meek."
"But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will
flow from a more spiritualized and simplified Church. Men in a
totally planned world will find themselves unspeakably lonely.
If they have completely lost sight of God, they will feel the
whole horror of their poverty. Then they will discover the
little flock of believers as something wholly new. They will
discover it as a hope that is meant for them, an answer for
which they have always been searching in secret."
"And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very
hard times. The real crisis has scarcely begun. We will have to
count on terrific upheavals. But I am equally certain about what
will remain at the end: not a Church of the political cult,
which is dead already with Gobel, but the Church of faith. She
will enjoy a fresh blossoming and be seen as man's home, where
he will find life and hope beyond death."
"Faith and the Future," Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI),
1969
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Re: The Election
By: Aidan Date: November 9, 2012, 4:16 pm
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Well this is really upsetting. Maybe we can all march on D.C.
and challenge Obama to a game of Capitalism. I bet he won't
know how to play... 8)
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Re: The Election
By: MaryCecilia Date: November 11, 2012, 2:38 pm
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While I understand that most of us are republicans (though I
myself am not, I'm more of a libertarian.) And I understand why
you would prefer not to have President Obama in charge, were you
hoping to achieve some goal if Romney was elected? If so, what?
It seems to me that the populous seems to think that the
president has so much power (gasp!) and can do anything he
wants. And, really he can't. Also, I found this rather odd with
last Sunday, and would like to commentate on that, because we
didn't go in depth to discussing it:
1) Someone expressed "Obama's going to take our guns!"
- No. No he isn't. Our government works in three branches: The
Legislative, made up of the House of Representatives (WHICH is
made entirely up of republicans, remember that because it's
important) and the senate, The Judicial (including the supreme
court) and finally that pesky Executive branch.
-The Legislative branch makes the laws, the Judicial branch
interprets the laws and the Executive branch enforces those
laws.
- The president has to put a bill through the legislative branch
(namely, the house of representatives) in order for it to pass,
and in order for it to pass, it has to be accepted by 2/3
majority vote in the House. If the president puts a bill through
that is against guns, it will not pass. Because the House is
entirely republican, and republicans like guns.
- Furthermore, the Judicial branch can deem any act of the
president or any law for that matter unconstitutional. While
Amendments can be repealed, it is a very lengthy process and
takes a long time. The Second Amendment, the right to bear arms,
will be called into effect. And honestly, there's still the
black market. Just like abortion, people will still get their
fix. It just wont be as safe, or clean.
I hate to seem rude or mean in any way. I'm sorry if I offended
anyone, but I thought that that needed to be expressed because I
feel that when necessary things need to be expressed, because, I
think that people should know how the government works before
they go on to actually do something about it. But, I understand
if people do not like my ideas.
P.S.: America is getting more and more hostile towards all
religions, they just prefer to pick on Catholics because they
like chaos. I mean, we COULD do that crusade
thing...again...that'd be pretty fun..
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Re: The Election
By: Aidan Date: November 12, 2012, 9:03 am
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@ Mary
I love libertarians, Ron Paul was clearly the most sane man
running. Too bad they knew he meant business and just sidelined
him.
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Re: The Election
By: MaryCecilia Date: November 14, 2012, 2:46 pm
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I know! I wanted to vote for him too, I even wrote him in on the
mock election we had in school.
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