“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” —Matthew 7:15
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We like to think that our gallant little independent-minded State of South http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3019 did the last time around.)
The flourishing of the Reverend Mr. http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2817 involved and get some moral input into the political process. That has been a total unmitigated failure—unless you consider bringing power and pelf to a few “religious leaders” to be a sign of success.It was child’s play for the politicians to bribe and flatter the “leaders” into delivering the votes in exchange for a few bromides about “family values” and “right to life.” The role of Protestant minister, in the less structured denominations, is accompanied by a great deal of temptation for the ego (which perhaps effects Catholics only further up the hierarchy). Their status being somewhat infra dig and, like most Americans, lusting most of all for “respectability,” the “evangelical” and “fundamentalist” leaders were easily seduced by a few nods from Power.
This is an old, old story in American history. It was the fanatical http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2753, Jr., whose moral crusade against slavery was marked by egomania, lying, and sexual predation.)
Such ecclesiastical politicians for decades after the War kept up the Republican demagoguery of “Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion.” They glorified World War I as a noble crusade and foisted on the country the corruption of Prohibition, in defiance of all common sense and State’s rights. So corrupted by politics were the 1960s representatives of the faith that we endured such abominations as “freedom-riding” nuns and the murder of the unborn reduced to a “civil rights” issue.
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