It is time to shake off the cobwebs of doubt and put on the light of Faith

It is time to shake off the cobwebs of doubt and put on the light of Faith

As we look into the pages of tyranny and try to erase the Marxist scenario through anarchy, the end just gets more complicated and the innocent citizens are caught in a cross-fire of evil.   Our first armament should be the government which most of us voted into power.  However, this is where things went awry.  Power perhaps can be categorized as the leading thread of a rope that will strangle the freedoms God intended for us to have.

God created man a rational being, conferring on him the dignity of a person who can initiate and control his own actions.  “God willed that man should be left in the hand of his own counsel,” so that he might of his own accord seek his Creator and freely attain his full and blessed perfection by cleaving to him.”  (CCC 1730). 

 As alluded to in previous articles, we may be at the doorstep of a tyrannical government which if left alone by the people will become exactly Marxist phenomenon no one will be able to overturn.   Taking a moment to survey the nations in the Mid-east, Asia, and the Soviet Union (Russia), there are no signs of a democracy and they are certainly on a movement to destroy America.  Why, some may wonder, are we so inept in all of this, but it is those in Washington DC who are inept and doing nothing but placing themselves above God. 

Freedom is the power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act, to do this or that, and so to perform deliberate actions on one’s own responsibility.  By free will one shapes one’s own life.  Human freedom is a force for growth and maturity in truth and goodness; it attains its perfection when directed toward God, our beatitude.  (CCC 1731).

We must realize that at the heart of this year's presidential election are the freedoms of the Constitution that are really the crux of our future.  Perhaps the most vulnerable amendment at risk is the first one.  Within these few verses are layed out with this:  “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; ot the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Freedom is exercised in relationships between human beings.  Every human person, created in the image of God, has the natural right to be recognized as a free and responsible being.  All owe to each other this duty of respect.  The right to the exercise of freedom, especially in moral and religious matters, is an inalienable requirement of the dignity of the human person.  This right must be recognized and protected by civil authority within the limits of the common good and public order.  (CCC 1738).

As Christian people we have an obligation, directed by Almighty God, to stand up for the rights of all people, regardless of their religious beliefs or their political aspirations.  Without the willingness to become accountable for human rights, we shall be judged in a manner that alludes God;s Mercy.  

Threats to freedom.  The exercise of freedom does not imply a right to say or do everything.  It is false to maintain that man, the subject of this freedom, is an individual who is fully self-sufficient  and whose finality is the satisfaction of his own interests in the enjoyment of earthly goods.  Moreover, the economic, social, political, and cultural conditions that are needed for a just exercise of freedom are too often disregarded or violated.  Such situations of blindness and injustice injure the moral life and involve the strong as well as the weak in the temptation to sin against charity.  By deviating from the moral law man violates his own freedom, becomes imprisoned within himself, disrupts neighborly fellowship, and rebels against divine truth.  (CCC 1740).  

“For freedom Christ has set us free.”  (CCC 1748).

Ralph B. Hathaway