Sid
11-18-2006, 10:26 PM
The recent election reminds us that the Republican Party has slipped from its original conservative roots to a diluted, compromised, and confused state. It now faces a crossroads at which its members must decide if they want to rediscover those original roots and purpose and regain past greatness or continue to slide into the muck of mindless moderate surrender. Likewise, the Catholic Church now faces a similar crossroad as well. Faced with rampant modernization and compromise, its leadership must also decide if it will seek its origins or continue its path to subjective appeasement and compromise of principles.
It is a tragic irony that the more both institutions desperately struggle to keep membership and gain popularity through compromise and cowardice, the more they lose that membership. As any teacher can tell you, blindly seeking the approval and friendship of students will make you popular in the short-term only to make you a joke in the long run. Students, voters, and faithful do not need the institutions they believe in to be a wimpy friend. Rather, they seek structure, courage, identity, and loyalty to true principles from those institutions.
To be honest, it appears that things will get worse before they get better for both the GOP and the Catholic Church. Both institutions seem to be diluted, distorted, confused, and infected with the viruses of arrogance, corruption, appeasement, and cowardice. Both are also infected with RINOs and CINOs who have betrayed the very soul of each institution and only make their recovery more difficult. What is most tragic about this situation is that if all Republicans and all Catholics actually stood their ground and loyally defended the principles on which their respective institutions were founded, this country would be in a much better place politically, socially, and morally.
Republican Results Mirror Catholic Slide (http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=24969&catcode=13)
It is a tragic irony that the more both institutions desperately struggle to keep membership and gain popularity through compromise and cowardice, the more they lose that membership. As any teacher can tell you, blindly seeking the approval and friendship of students will make you popular in the short-term only to make you a joke in the long run. Students, voters, and faithful do not need the institutions they believe in to be a wimpy friend. Rather, they seek structure, courage, identity, and loyalty to true principles from those institutions.
To be honest, it appears that things will get worse before they get better for both the GOP and the Catholic Church. Both institutions seem to be diluted, distorted, confused, and infected with the viruses of arrogance, corruption, appeasement, and cowardice. Both are also infected with RINOs and CINOs who have betrayed the very soul of each institution and only make their recovery more difficult. What is most tragic about this situation is that if all Republicans and all Catholics actually stood their ground and loyally defended the principles on which their respective institutions were founded, this country would be in a much better place politically, socially, and morally.
Republican Results Mirror Catholic Slide (http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=24969&catcode=13)