{"id":4963,"date":"2021-07-22T14:55:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T19:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=4963"},"modified":"2021-07-22T15:27:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T20:27:06","slug":"the-church-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=4963","title":{"rendered":"The Church and Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The churches of God have always had a role influencing politics &#8211; whether by the blood of their own spent by a persecuting state which then awakens to the guilt of its actions or by it own guidance of the state when it has acquired power.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what is the church to do with its heretics when they come to power?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider the cases of Nancy Palosi and Joe Biden.&nbsp; Both claim to be &#8220;devout Catholics&#8221;!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what has been the response to this blasphemy (their ascendancy under the apparent approval by church authorities)?&nbsp; Any rebuke from the respective priests in charge of either of these two?&nbsp; Any DISCIPLINE?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or are they left as examples for the millions of Roman Catholic sheep out here looking for good Catholics Christians to emulate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One wonders at the fall out of this folly for generations to come.&nbsp; What kind of membership will be tolerated for the many Hitlerian characters who may arise?&nbsp; What cover and justification will they find from the toleration of these blasphemers by the &#8220;Holy&#8221; Church?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This enduring crime of toleration of such holocaustian heretics is nothing but disgustingly nauseating.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It arouses he sentiments which must have arisen in the time of the Reformation when grave errors were perpetrated by the Roman Church and rejected by the faithful.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, as the Fathers said long ago, the church is semper reformanda et semper reformata.&nbsp; And does it need it!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Begin the reformation by excommunicating the heretics!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Got pro-aborts in your congregation?\u00a0 Kick them out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, there is peace with Him, harmony among brethren,  and salvation for those ex-communicants who repent and get saved! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 July, 2021<br>MBray<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The churches of God have always had a role influencing politics &#8211; whether by the blood of their own spent by a persecuting state which then awakens to the guilt of its actions or by it own guidance of the state when it has acquired power.&nbsp; And what is the church to do with its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,9,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4963"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4970,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963\/revisions\/4970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}