I still read her as she is crystal clear on many issues and has great economic expertise, but have to avert my eyes from any posts connected to Pope Francis as she has completely lost her bearings on this.
I have a beautiful two hour video on Mother Theresa which I treasure. It follows her mission throughout the world in the 1980s. One of the striking facts, is Mothers love and acceptance of all people no matter what faith they followed. Even Musloids!!!! Mother Theresa had the knack of seeing...... Christ in all people. How strange Mother Theresa was! In the video Mother Theresa goes into the lion’s den in Lebanon in the 1980's and saves the lives of countless disabled moslem children,woman and yes even the evil moslem men who would have died miserable deaths of starvation or even worse without her rescueing them or assisting them. On the other hand Ann Barnhardt sounds very zealous, just like many good men before her, slighly reminiscent of the inquisition and witch hunts in Europe in the 1600-1700's; it's an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth and then some. Ann Barnhardt's words conjure up anger that seems slightly excessive to me and it looks like there is no way she's going to turn even a lambs cheek on the BBQ, to accommodate Christs teachings. As so many Catholics seem to agree with her, I'm just trying to work out whether, I should follow Blessed Mother Theresa or Ann Barnhardt?
Maybe it's not an either or question but the right answer is a mix of both? I mean when dealing with the radical jihadists who are coming after you trying to literally slaughter and crucify us then they get the Ann Barnhardt treatment. But when dealing with the moderate and peaceful Muslims then they get the Mother Theresa treatment.
It's interesting that a comparatively few mad Arab nobodies with guns are validly assumed to represent the faith of the whole of Islam while some of the same protagonists decry the absolute leader of Catholicism as not representing the true faith of his people . Just say'in.
Is this the Ann Barnhart you were writing about? She sounds a fun gal: https://whatisupwiththesynod.com/index.php/author/ann/
I like Ann Barnhardt. She's smart, She found Christ through the Catholic Church, She says what she means and means what she says and is under no illusions about what we are dealing with in the Manifest Evil called Radical Islam! ....... and what we will have to do if faced with "The Gravest Extreme" on a personal level! As for her thoughts about Pope Francis, the Pope has given many good and descent Catholics good cause, on many fronts, for concern and pause! Ann's "Visual Aid" for what's coming View attachment 3883 GOD SAVE ALL HERE!!
An even better example of bravery is our own Pope Francis. He is out there and putting his life on the line for The Faith all the time. He is the target for ISIS bullets and knives and the pink anti-Jihadist schismatic Ann Barnharft with whose bullets and cuts of false accusation he has also to contend. And he does it without threat of reveange killing. Sure it's good to stand up to the likes of ISIS to rightly defend yourself and to protect the lives of others when they attack. It sends the message that the West will not be a pushover. Is it good, however, to actually invite them into your home and country as Ann's gauntlet has done? I don't know.
Multiculturalism is a failed experiment. But there seems to be no way back to nation-states with full independence as in previous generations.
I have known quite a few very peaceful, kind and hospitable Muslims who claim that their goodness is inspired by the Koran. That doesn't change what Muhammed was. ISIS jihadists also claim that their jihad is inspired by the Koran. They all can use Muhammed as their role model. I have known some very nasty, vicious, vengeance ridden Catholics. That doesn't change who Jesus was. Nobody committing cruel, inhuman or vengeful acts can use Jesus as their role model. That's the difference. This is the first I have ever heard of Ann Barnhardt, but I take it that your tongue was lodge firmly in your cheek when you asked whether she or Mother Theresa is a better example of using Jesus as a role model.
??? The civilisation of Rome, and its partial spiritual successor, Christianity might disagree. Though MOG might yet prove you right.
Multiculturalism is one of those "words" that can be twisted to match one's political and/or religious outlook. Multicultural used to work in our USA and it was, once, what made US great ... The Great Melting Pot ..... No Longer! Too many immigrants not assimilating, too many unaffordable Socialist "Freebies", too many religious & civic traditions lost, too many "lessons" of history long forgotten and ........... it pains me to say/think it but ...... the USA's Golden Goose is dead and we have just become a Nation of disparate groups fighting over the dead carcass ... this sad fact only hit me about six weeks ago whilst I was attending a Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) Council of Chapters meeting. The entire meeting revolved around what/how benefits we could get/demand from our State/Federal Governments ..... no different than any other Group/Lobby in the late great USA GOD SAVE ALL HERE & THE REPUBLIC!!! PS: Anybody who believes that The Muslim "Migration" ongoing Worldwide will have a positive-n-happy outcome for Christians-n-Others is totally ignorant of 1300 years of History and is, quite simply, a damned fool!! ......... of course .... we are told to be Fools for Christ. Let Us Pray the The Storm is designed to save fools.
The Roman Catholic Church is one culture that shelters many sub-cultures beneath her, but all these latter are subservient to that prime Catholic culture. It is not a multiculture.
Like you say DeGaulle, The Roman Catholic Church is one culture that shelters many sub-cultures beneath her. Just like a good mother of many children. The children are all different in their natures and their age and require different advise and guidence at different times but she loves and cares for all equally.
Mark Mallet's last blog on The Crisis of the Refugee Crisis is really great, a must read. It goes into Isalm also. there are also 2 short videos in the body of it, one backing up the title of this thread and the other highlighting the hypocrisy of our current Canadian PM. http://www.markmallett.com/blog/the-crisis-of-the-refugee-crisis/
This Ann Barnhart packs a punch. I don't agree with some of her views but I have learnt something at least about the evils of effeminacy, which has seeped its way into our culture and the Church. https://whatisupwiththesynod.com/in...f-pleasures-more-than-of-god-now-these-avoid/
I would say that many cultures can exist beneath the Faith (providing they accept it in its entirety), but that the Faith itself is not multicultural. By definition, any culture within the Faith is a Christian one. This commonality would exclude the notion of a true multiculture, in my opinion.
