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CRADLE TO THE GRAVE
Re: Philip Klein’s It’s A
Raid!
Despite any protests to the contrary, this is cradle-to-grave
welfare.
— Stan Welli
Aurora, Illinois
I return from an eco-tour of Central America to find the election over and Barack Obama installed as our new president! At first I was quite sure one of my predictions for the future had come true: that a scheduled presidential election would not be held. But as I have since learned the Republicans have ceded this one to the socialists.
So let me make my predictions for the next four years based on an Obama presidency.
1. A weapon of mass destruction will be detonated in one or more of our larger cities killing hundreds of thousands of citizens.
2. The Dow Jones will dip significantly below 5000.
3. Social Security payments will be cut off for people with retirement incomes of approximately $40,000 plus.
4. Public transportation will be required in cities. No cars allowed.
5. Freedom of speech will be severely restricted — the so called fairness doctrine will be re-enacted by Congress as the first step.
6. The cost of medical care will skyrocket and the quality will plummet.
7. To keep track of us, an internal passport will be instituted and required to register in hotels, or to travel. All illegal aliens will be granted amnesty; registered democrat; and given the entitlements we had to work to provide for the lame and lazy; welfare, social security, medical care, food stamps etc.
8. The number of people living in poverty will increase by 15%
9. Unemployment will rise to 11%.
10. The rights conferred by the second amendment will be extinguished.
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Stuart Koehl| 10.27.08 @ 6:25AM
Regarding Mike Dooley's letter of 27 October, "Under Attack", while the Creed of Nicaea-Constantinople (to give the full and accurate title) as recited in the various Western Churches includes the famous (or infamous) Flioque clause (the Holy Spirit "who proceeds from the Father and the Son), in fact, the original Greek text of the Creed merely states that the Holy Spirit is "the Lord and Giver of Light, who proceeds from the Father". This has been, of course, the major bone of contention between the Churches of the East and West since the 9th century.
In an effort to resolve the matter, the Pontifical Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity issued in 1996 a "Clarification on the Procession of the Holy Spirit", which begins by stating that the original, uninterpolated Greek text of the Creed is the only "universally binding ecumenical symbol of faith". It also points out that the Fathe alone is the "Archos Anarche", from whom the Son is begotten and the Spirit proceeds, while at the same time noting that the Holy Spirit is sent into the world by the action of the Son.
Underlining the point, both John Paul II and Benedict XVI use the Creed without the Filioque when writing ecumenical documents. As a Byzantine Catholic--a member of an Eastern Catholic Church that follows Orthodox practices and beliefs while remaining in communion with the Church of Rome--I have not used the Filioque in any liturgical service since the mid-1990s, precisely because it is the policy of the Church of Rome to respect the Tradition of each particular Church in the Catholic Communion.
Moreover, the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops is at the present time completing the process of eliminating the Filioque from vernacular celebration of the Mass of the Latin (Roman Catholic) Church, "in order to bring liturgical practice into line with doctrine". When the Filioque is finally suppressed throughout the Latin Church, the cause of Christian unity will receive a tremendous boost by bringing all the apostolic Churches of the world under the same Symbol of Faith.
It's interesting that the Episcopal Church, which has in general walked away from all forms of Tradition in the last half century, should be clinging tendentiously to the Filioque, a doctrinal innovation of dubious theological import, at a time when it is jettisoning most of the other core doctrines it carried away when it broke from the Church of Rome back in the 16th century.
Craig Sarver| 10.27.08 @ 1:32PM
God, I hate this letters format!
ruth| 10.27.08 @ 4:50PM
Me, too! What was wrong with the old one?
J. Peter Freire | 10.27.08 @ 8:49PM
We're going to make this one page again -- sorry about this problem.
Pul DeSto| 10.28.08 @ 1:12PM
Thanks, Mr. Friere. I don't like the new letter format either.
Ms. Know| 10.30.08 @ 12:23AM
It is not over, the polls aren't votes. Majority of these polls are bias towards the liberal illuminati, so they mean nothing until next week.