Freedom, Women, and C*******m.
Jul 17, 2020 01:58:25 #
I believe every American should read this article. What I have highlighted here is the source of any -ism you could think of. Right now there is a major push in fighting r****m. I once asked a black man this question: "Would you rather be equal, or would you rather be free to be equal?"
The response was overwhelmingly, "I would rather be free to be equal." And the reason is because if you are equal someone has to determine what is equal. In a c*******t society, the ruling class decides what e******y is. So with out futher ado, I present for your reading entertainment tonight, this sermon of Arch Bishop Fulton Sheen:
C*******m and Woman by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
The proudest boast of Communism is that it has finally emancipated the woman. Marx writes: “Differences of age and sex have no longer any distinctive social validity. All are instruments of labor.” The key word is instrument, which reduces a human being to the dignity of a monkey wrench. The assumption was that woman was free as soon as she became available for production. One of the paradoxes of our irrational world is that a woman today is glorified when she produces an atomic bomb, but not when she can produce life. It is like praising violinists for producing sewer pipes instead of melodies.
At the very beginning of the Communist Revolution in Russia a decree was passed declaring that all women between the ages of seventeen and thirty-two became the property of the State, and that the rights of husbands were abolished.
In keeping with the idea that liberation means working in a factory rather than in a home, we read in a Soviet book published in 1935:
“Women’s labor has become one of the main sources from which industry could draw fresh supplies of workers. During the earlier years of the first Five Year Plan, there were about six million housewives in the towns. All the local C*******t organizations received orders to call up these reserves and attach them to production.” (Shaburova, Woman is a Great Power, 1935 edition, p. 32.) The women refused to accept what the C*******ts called “the emancipation for women from depressing domestic atmosphere” but they were ultimately forced into “emancipation” and began working in mines, sewers, and in the manipulation of pneumatic drills.
This idea of the emancipation of women through industrialization is not altogether a C*******t idea, but like many others has been derived from Western bourgeois capitalistic civilization, which thought of the liberation of woman in terms of e******y with men. The only difference is that the C*******t merely carried the idea to its logical extreme, and if it scandalizes us now it is because our bourgeois world never understood the full implication of its error.
The two basic errors of both C*******m and a capitalistic liberal civilization on this subject were: 1) Women were never emancipated until modern times. Religion particularly kept them in servitude; 2) E******y means the right of a woman to do a man’s work.
First, it is not true that women began to be emancipated in modern times and in direct proportion to the decline of religion. The fact is that woman’s subjection began in the seventeenth century with the break-up of Christendom and took on a positive form at the time of the Industrial Revolution. Under the Christian civilization women enjoyed rights, privileges, honors and dignities, which have since been swallowed up by the machine age.
In eighty-five guilds in England during the Middle Ages, seventy-two had women members on an equal basis with men in such professions as barbers and sailors. They were probably just as outspoken as men because one of the rules of the guilds was that “the sisters as well as the brethren” may not engage in disorderly or contumacious debates. In Paris there were fifteen guilds reserved exclusively for women, while eighty of the Parisian guilds were mixed. Nothing is more historically erroneous than the belief that it was our modern age that recognized women in the professions. The records of these Christian times reveal the names of thousands upon thousands of women who influenced society and whose names are now enrolled in the catalogue of Saints, Catherine of Siena alone leaving eleven large volumes of her writings. Up until the seventeenth century in England, women functioned in business perhaps even more than today. In fact, so many were in business that it was provided by law that the husband should not be responsible for her debts. Between 1553 and 1640 ten percent of the publishing in England was done by women. Because the homes did their own weaving, cooking and laundry, it has been estimated that women in pre-industrial days were producing half the goods required by society. In the Middle Ages women were as well educated as men and it was not until the seventeenth century that women were barred from education. Then at the time of the Industrial Revolution all the activities and freedom of women were curtailed as the machine took over the business of production and men moved into the factory. Then came a loss of the legal rights of women, which reached its fullness in B****stone, who pronounced woman’s “civil death” in law.
As these disabilities continued, woman felt the loss of her freedom, and rightly so, because she felt she had been hurt by man who robbed her of her legal rights, and she fell into the error of believing that she ought to proclaim herself the equal of man, forgetful that a certain superiority was already hers because of her functional difference from man. E******y then came to mean, negatively, the destruction of all privileges enjoyed by specific persons or classes, and, positively, as absolute and unconditioned sex e******y with all men. These ideas were incorporated into the first resolution for sex e******y passed in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848: “Resolved that woman is man’s equal, was intended to be so by the Creator, and the highest good of the race demands that she be recognized as such.”
This brings us to the second error in the bourgeois-capitalistic-C*******tic theory of women, namely, the failure to make distinction between mathematical and proportional e******y. Mathematical e******y implies exactness of remuneration; for example, two men who work at the same job at the same factory should receive equal pay. Proportional e******y means that each should receive his pay according to his function. In a family, for example, all children should be cared for by the parents, but it does not mean that because sixteen-year-old Mary gets an evening gown with an organdy trim, the parents should give seventeen-year-old Johnnie the same thing. Women, in seeking to regain some of the rights and privileges they had in Christian civilization, thought of e******y in mathematical terms, or in terms of sex. Feeling themselves overcome by a monster called “man,” they identified freedom and e******y with the right to do a man’s job. All the psychological, social, and other advantages that were peculiar to women were ignored until the inanities of the bourgeois world reached their climax in C*******m, where a woman was emancipated the moment she went to work in a mine. The result has been that woman’s imitation of man and her flight from motherhood have developed neuroses and psychoses that have reached alarming proportions. The Christian civilization never stressed e******y in a mathematical sense, but only in the proportional sense, for e******y is wrong when it makes the woman a poor imitation of man. Once she became man’s mathematical equal, he no longer stood when she came into a room, no longer gave her a seat in a bus, and no longer took off his hat in an elevator. The other day in a New York subway a man gave a woman his seat and she fainted. When she was revived she thanked him, and he fainted.
Modern woman has been made equal with man, but she has not been made happy. She has been emancipated as a pendulum from a clock and thereby no longer free to swing, or as a flower has been emancipated from its roots only to wither and die. She has been cheapened in her search for mathematical e******y in two ways: 1) by becoming a victim to man by becoming only the instrument of his pleasure, ministering to his needs in a sterile exchange of egotism, and 2) by becoming a victim to the machine by subordinating the creative principle of life to the production of non-living things, which is the essence of C*******m.
This is not a condemnation of a professional woman, because the important question is not whether a woman finds favor in the eyes of a man, but whether she can satisfy the basic instincts of womanhood. If it were the man that made a difference to a woman, and all that wifehood and motherhood entail, then the least womanly of all women would be found in convents. The fact is, however, that nowhere else are more normal, and certainly more happy women to be found on this earth. One might add, also, that nowhere else are there so many young women, for a peculiar quality about the spiritual life is that it keeps a woman young. Cosmetics, mud baths, sneezeless soaps are lacking, but they manage to keep young and unwrinkled because they are at peace.
What makes the difference in woman is not therefore a man, but whether certain God-given qualities, which are specifically hers, are given adequate and full expression. These qualities are principally, devotion, sacrifice, and love. They need not necessarily be expressed in a family, nor even in a convent. They can find an outlet in the social world, in the care of the sick, the poor, the ignorant — in a word — in the seven corporal works of mercy. It is sometimes said that the professional woman is hard. This may be true in a few instances, but it is not because she is in a profession, but because she has alienated her profession from contact with human beings in a way to satisfy the deeper cravings of her heart. It may very well be that the revolt against morality, and the exaltation of sensuous pleasure as the purpose of life, are due to the loss of the spiritual fulfillment of existence. Having been frustrated and disillusioned, such souls first become bored, then cynical, and finally, suicidal. Wherein lies the solution? In a return to the Christian concept wherein stress is placed not on e******y but on equity.
E******y is law. It is mathematical, abstract, universal, indifferent to conditions, circumstances and differences. Equity is love, mercy, understanding, sympathy - the consideration of details, appeals, and departures from the fixed rules of courts, which law has not yet embraced. In particular, it is the application of law to an individual person. It places its reliance on moral principles and is guided by an understanding of the motives of individual families, which fall outside the scope of the rigors of law. In the old English law of Christian days the subjects, in petitioning the court for extraordinary privileges, asked for them “for the love of God and in the way of charity.” For that reason the heads of courts of equity were the clergy who drew their decisions from Canon Law. In vain did the civil lawyers with their exact prescriptions argue against their opinions. The iron ring outside a Cathedral door, which a pursued criminal might grasp, gave him what is known as the “right of sanctuary” and while giving him immunity from the prescriptions of civil law, made him subject to the more merciful law of the Church.
Applying this distinction to women, we are saying that equity rather than e******y should be the basis of all the claims of women. It goes beyond e******y by claiming superiority in certain aspects of life. Equity is the perfection of e******y, not a substitute. It has the advantages of recognizing the specific difference between man and woman, which e******y does not have. As a matter of fact, they are not equal in sex; they are quite unequal, and it is only because they are unequal that they complement one another. The violin and the bow are not equal. Each has a superiority of function. Man and woman are equal inasmuch as they have the same rights and liberties, the same final goal of life and both have been redeemed by the Blood of Our Divine Saviour — but they are different in function. It is that t***h which solves the problem.
One of the greatest of the Old Testament stories reveals this difference. While the Jews were under Persian captivity, Aman, the prime minister of King Assuerus, asked his master to slay the Jews because they obeyed the law of God rather than the Persian law. When the order went out that the Jews were to be massacred, Esther, his Hebrew wife, was asked to approach the wicked king and plead for her people. There was a law that no one should enter the king’s presence under the penalty of death, unless the king extended his scepter as a permission to approach the throne. That was the law. But Esther said: “I will go in to the king, against the law, not being called, and expose myself to death and to danger” (Esther 4:16). Esther fasted and prayed and then approached the throne. Would the scepter be lowered? The king held out the golden scepter, and Esther drew near and kissed the top of it, and the king said to her: “What wilt thou, Queen Esther? What is thy request?” (Esther 5:3).
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The response was overwhelmingly, "I would rather be free to be equal." And the reason is because if you are equal someone has to determine what is equal. In a c*******t society, the ruling class decides what e******y is. So with out futher ado, I present for your reading entertainment tonight, this sermon of Arch Bishop Fulton Sheen:
C*******m and Woman by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
The proudest boast of Communism is that it has finally emancipated the woman. Marx writes: “Differences of age and sex have no longer any distinctive social validity. All are instruments of labor.” The key word is instrument, which reduces a human being to the dignity of a monkey wrench. The assumption was that woman was free as soon as she became available for production. One of the paradoxes of our irrational world is that a woman today is glorified when she produces an atomic bomb, but not when she can produce life. It is like praising violinists for producing sewer pipes instead of melodies.
At the very beginning of the Communist Revolution in Russia a decree was passed declaring that all women between the ages of seventeen and thirty-two became the property of the State, and that the rights of husbands were abolished.
In keeping with the idea that liberation means working in a factory rather than in a home, we read in a Soviet book published in 1935:
“Women’s labor has become one of the main sources from which industry could draw fresh supplies of workers. During the earlier years of the first Five Year Plan, there were about six million housewives in the towns. All the local C*******t organizations received orders to call up these reserves and attach them to production.” (Shaburova, Woman is a Great Power, 1935 edition, p. 32.) The women refused to accept what the C*******ts called “the emancipation for women from depressing domestic atmosphere” but they were ultimately forced into “emancipation” and began working in mines, sewers, and in the manipulation of pneumatic drills.
This idea of the emancipation of women through industrialization is not altogether a C*******t idea, but like many others has been derived from Western bourgeois capitalistic civilization, which thought of the liberation of woman in terms of e******y with men. The only difference is that the C*******t merely carried the idea to its logical extreme, and if it scandalizes us now it is because our bourgeois world never understood the full implication of its error.
The two basic errors of both C*******m and a capitalistic liberal civilization on this subject were: 1) Women were never emancipated until modern times. Religion particularly kept them in servitude; 2) E******y means the right of a woman to do a man’s work.
First, it is not true that women began to be emancipated in modern times and in direct proportion to the decline of religion. The fact is that woman’s subjection began in the seventeenth century with the break-up of Christendom and took on a positive form at the time of the Industrial Revolution. Under the Christian civilization women enjoyed rights, privileges, honors and dignities, which have since been swallowed up by the machine age.
In eighty-five guilds in England during the Middle Ages, seventy-two had women members on an equal basis with men in such professions as barbers and sailors. They were probably just as outspoken as men because one of the rules of the guilds was that “the sisters as well as the brethren” may not engage in disorderly or contumacious debates. In Paris there were fifteen guilds reserved exclusively for women, while eighty of the Parisian guilds were mixed. Nothing is more historically erroneous than the belief that it was our modern age that recognized women in the professions. The records of these Christian times reveal the names of thousands upon thousands of women who influenced society and whose names are now enrolled in the catalogue of Saints, Catherine of Siena alone leaving eleven large volumes of her writings. Up until the seventeenth century in England, women functioned in business perhaps even more than today. In fact, so many were in business that it was provided by law that the husband should not be responsible for her debts. Between 1553 and 1640 ten percent of the publishing in England was done by women. Because the homes did their own weaving, cooking and laundry, it has been estimated that women in pre-industrial days were producing half the goods required by society. In the Middle Ages women were as well educated as men and it was not until the seventeenth century that women were barred from education. Then at the time of the Industrial Revolution all the activities and freedom of women were curtailed as the machine took over the business of production and men moved into the factory. Then came a loss of the legal rights of women, which reached its fullness in B****stone, who pronounced woman’s “civil death” in law.
As these disabilities continued, woman felt the loss of her freedom, and rightly so, because she felt she had been hurt by man who robbed her of her legal rights, and she fell into the error of believing that she ought to proclaim herself the equal of man, forgetful that a certain superiority was already hers because of her functional difference from man. E******y then came to mean, negatively, the destruction of all privileges enjoyed by specific persons or classes, and, positively, as absolute and unconditioned sex e******y with all men. These ideas were incorporated into the first resolution for sex e******y passed in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848: “Resolved that woman is man’s equal, was intended to be so by the Creator, and the highest good of the race demands that she be recognized as such.”
This brings us to the second error in the bourgeois-capitalistic-C*******tic theory of women, namely, the failure to make distinction between mathematical and proportional e******y. Mathematical e******y implies exactness of remuneration; for example, two men who work at the same job at the same factory should receive equal pay. Proportional e******y means that each should receive his pay according to his function. In a family, for example, all children should be cared for by the parents, but it does not mean that because sixteen-year-old Mary gets an evening gown with an organdy trim, the parents should give seventeen-year-old Johnnie the same thing. Women, in seeking to regain some of the rights and privileges they had in Christian civilization, thought of e******y in mathematical terms, or in terms of sex. Feeling themselves overcome by a monster called “man,” they identified freedom and e******y with the right to do a man’s job. All the psychological, social, and other advantages that were peculiar to women were ignored until the inanities of the bourgeois world reached their climax in C*******m, where a woman was emancipated the moment she went to work in a mine. The result has been that woman’s imitation of man and her flight from motherhood have developed neuroses and psychoses that have reached alarming proportions. The Christian civilization never stressed e******y in a mathematical sense, but only in the proportional sense, for e******y is wrong when it makes the woman a poor imitation of man. Once she became man’s mathematical equal, he no longer stood when she came into a room, no longer gave her a seat in a bus, and no longer took off his hat in an elevator. The other day in a New York subway a man gave a woman his seat and she fainted. When she was revived she thanked him, and he fainted.
Modern woman has been made equal with man, but she has not been made happy. She has been emancipated as a pendulum from a clock and thereby no longer free to swing, or as a flower has been emancipated from its roots only to wither and die. She has been cheapened in her search for mathematical e******y in two ways: 1) by becoming a victim to man by becoming only the instrument of his pleasure, ministering to his needs in a sterile exchange of egotism, and 2) by becoming a victim to the machine by subordinating the creative principle of life to the production of non-living things, which is the essence of C*******m.
This is not a condemnation of a professional woman, because the important question is not whether a woman finds favor in the eyes of a man, but whether she can satisfy the basic instincts of womanhood. If it were the man that made a difference to a woman, and all that wifehood and motherhood entail, then the least womanly of all women would be found in convents. The fact is, however, that nowhere else are more normal, and certainly more happy women to be found on this earth. One might add, also, that nowhere else are there so many young women, for a peculiar quality about the spiritual life is that it keeps a woman young. Cosmetics, mud baths, sneezeless soaps are lacking, but they manage to keep young and unwrinkled because they are at peace.
What makes the difference in woman is not therefore a man, but whether certain God-given qualities, which are specifically hers, are given adequate and full expression. These qualities are principally, devotion, sacrifice, and love. They need not necessarily be expressed in a family, nor even in a convent. They can find an outlet in the social world, in the care of the sick, the poor, the ignorant — in a word — in the seven corporal works of mercy. It is sometimes said that the professional woman is hard. This may be true in a few instances, but it is not because she is in a profession, but because she has alienated her profession from contact with human beings in a way to satisfy the deeper cravings of her heart. It may very well be that the revolt against morality, and the exaltation of sensuous pleasure as the purpose of life, are due to the loss of the spiritual fulfillment of existence. Having been frustrated and disillusioned, such souls first become bored, then cynical, and finally, suicidal. Wherein lies the solution? In a return to the Christian concept wherein stress is placed not on e******y but on equity.
E******y is law. It is mathematical, abstract, universal, indifferent to conditions, circumstances and differences. Equity is love, mercy, understanding, sympathy - the consideration of details, appeals, and departures from the fixed rules of courts, which law has not yet embraced. In particular, it is the application of law to an individual person. It places its reliance on moral principles and is guided by an understanding of the motives of individual families, which fall outside the scope of the rigors of law. In the old English law of Christian days the subjects, in petitioning the court for extraordinary privileges, asked for them “for the love of God and in the way of charity.” For that reason the heads of courts of equity were the clergy who drew their decisions from Canon Law. In vain did the civil lawyers with their exact prescriptions argue against their opinions. The iron ring outside a Cathedral door, which a pursued criminal might grasp, gave him what is known as the “right of sanctuary” and while giving him immunity from the prescriptions of civil law, made him subject to the more merciful law of the Church.
Applying this distinction to women, we are saying that equity rather than e******y should be the basis of all the claims of women. It goes beyond e******y by claiming superiority in certain aspects of life. Equity is the perfection of e******y, not a substitute. It has the advantages of recognizing the specific difference between man and woman, which e******y does not have. As a matter of fact, they are not equal in sex; they are quite unequal, and it is only because they are unequal that they complement one another. The violin and the bow are not equal. Each has a superiority of function. Man and woman are equal inasmuch as they have the same rights and liberties, the same final goal of life and both have been redeemed by the Blood of Our Divine Saviour — but they are different in function. It is that t***h which solves the problem.
One of the greatest of the Old Testament stories reveals this difference. While the Jews were under Persian captivity, Aman, the prime minister of King Assuerus, asked his master to slay the Jews because they obeyed the law of God rather than the Persian law. When the order went out that the Jews were to be massacred, Esther, his Hebrew wife, was asked to approach the wicked king and plead for her people. There was a law that no one should enter the king’s presence under the penalty of death, unless the king extended his scepter as a permission to approach the throne. That was the law. But Esther said: “I will go in to the king, against the law, not being called, and expose myself to death and to danger” (Esther 4:16). Esther fasted and prayed and then approached the throne. Would the scepter be lowered? The king held out the golden scepter, and Esther drew near and kissed the top of it, and the king said to her: “What wilt thou, Queen Esther? What is thy request?” (Esther 5:3).
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Jul 17, 2020 01:59:21 #
This story has been interpreted through the Christian ages as meaning that God will reserve to Himself the reign of justice and law, but to Mary, His Mother will be given the reign of mercy. During the Christian ages, Our Blessed Mother bore a title that has been forgotten, but it is revived in two modern non-Catholic writers, Henry Adams and Mary R. Beard. Adams described the Lady of Equity in the Cathedral of Chartres. Stretching through the nave of the Church are two sets of priceless stained glass windows, the one given by Blanche of Castile, the other by Pierre de Dreux. Both families seem to “carry on across the very heart of the cathedral” a lonely kind of civil war, both interceding for her benediction on their children. Over the main altar, however, sits the Virgin Mary, the Lady of Equity, with the Holy Child on her knees, presiding over the courts, listening serenely to pleas for mercy in behalf of their Sons. As Mary Beard beautifully put it: “The Virgin signified to the people moral, human or humane power, as against the stern mandates of God’s law.” And we might add, this is the woman’s special glory — mercy, pity, understanding, intuition of human needs, call it anything you please. When women step down from the role of the Lady of Equity and her prototype Esther, and insist only on e******y, they lose their greatest opportunity to change the world. Law has broken down today. Jurists no longer believe in a Divine Judge behind Law. Obligations are no longer sacred. Shall women, in this day of the collapse of justice equate themselves with men in rigid exactness, or shall they rally to Equity, to mercy and love, and give to a cruel and lawless world something that e******y cannot give? Whence shall come a devotion to causes, if women who are capable of greater devotion than men, insist on a cold e******y? How shall wars be stopped and the taking of young life, if women, like men, trust only in law?
But if women, in the full consciousness of their creativeness say to the world: “It takes us twenty years to make a man, and we rebel against wars of every generation snuffing out that manhood in war.” Such an attitude would do more for the peace of the world than all the covenants and pacts that have no other basis than expediency and deceit. Did women but recognize the t***h hidden in the Lady of Equity, love might be restored to homes and families. The reason there is little love now is because in the human order there is never any love between equals. There may be justice, but no affection. If man is the equal of woman, then she has rights, but what heart ever lived on rights. All love demands ine******y or superiority. The lover is always on his knees, the beloved must always be on a pedestal. Whether it be man or woman, the one must always consider himself or herself as undeserving of the other. Even God humbled Himself in His Love to win man, saying He came not to be ministered unto, but to minister. And man, in his turn, approaches that loving Saviour in Communion with the words: “Lord, I am not worthy.”
Not then because women enter professions do some harden and become frustrated. Professional careers do not of themselves defeminize women; otherwise the Church would not have raised political women to sainthood, as was the case with Saint Elizabeth and Saint Clotilde. The cause of tragedy in woman today is that by stressing e******y, they have lost those specifically feminine qualities, which have given her superiority of function. These qualities are dev**edness and creativeness. No woman is happy unless she has someone for whom she can sacrifice herself, not in a servile way but in the way of love. Added to the dev**edness is her love of creativeness. A man is afraid of dying, but a woman is afraid of not living. Life to a man is personal; life to a woman is otherness. She thinks less in terms of perpetuation of self and more in terms of perpetuation of others — so much so that in her dev**edness she is willing to sacrifice herself for others.
The level of any civilization is the level of its womanhood. This is because there is a basic difference between knowing and loving. In knowing something you bring it down to the level of your understanding. An abstract principle of physics can be understood by an ordinary mind only by examples. But in loving we always go up to meet the demand of the one loved. If you love music you have to submit to its laws and disciplines. When man loves woman, it follows that the nobler the woman the nobler the love, the higher the demands by the woman, the more worthy a man must be. That is why a woman is the measure of the level of our civilization. It is for our age to decide whether woman shall claim e******y in sex and the right to work at the same lathe, or whether she will claim equity and give to the world that which no man can give. In these pagan days when women want to be only equal with men, they have lost respect. In Christian days when men were strongest, woman was respected. As the author of Mont St. Michel puts it: “The twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a period when men were at their strongest; never before or since have they shown equal energy in such varied directions, or such intelligence in the direction of their energy; yet these marvels of history — these Plantagenets; these Scholastic philosophers; these Marco Polos; these crusaders who planted their enormous fortresses all over the Levant; these monks who made the wastes and barrens yield harvests — all, without apparent exception, bowed down before the woman. Explain it how you will! Men rushed like sheep to escape the butcher, and were driven to Mary; only too happy in finding protection and hope in a being who could understand the language they talked, and the excuses they had to offer . . . Society has invested in her care nearly its whole capital, spiritual, artistic, intellectual, and economical, even to the bulk of its real and personal estate.” As Abelard said of her: “After the Trinity you are our only hope . . . you are placed there as our advocate; all of us who fear the wrath of the Judge, fly to the Judge’s mother who is logically compelled to intercede for us and stands in the place of a mother to the guilty.” To the Lady of Equity once again modern women must look, as even those who have the Faith must see fulfilled in her those spiritual functions which no priest can perform; queen, mother and woman. Christianity does not ask the modern woman to be exclusively a Martha or a Mary; the choice is not between a professional career and contemplation, for the Church on the Feast of the Assumption of the Lady of Equity reads the Gospel of Martha and Mary to symbolize that she combines both the speculative and the practical, the serving the Lord and the sitting at His Feet. If woman wants to be ever a revolutionist, then the Lady is her guide for she sang the most revolutionary song ever written- The Magnificat, the burden of which was the abolition of principalities and powers, and the exaltation of the humble. She breaks the shell of woman’s isolation from the world and puts woman back into the wide ocean of humanity as she who is the Cosmopolitan Woman gives the Cosmopolitan Man, for which giving all generations shall call her blessed.
But she was the inspiration to womanhood, not because she claimed there was e******y in sex, for peculiarly enough this was the one e******y she ignored, but because of a transcendence in function which made her superior to a man inasmuch as she could encompass a man, as the prophet foretold. Great men we need like Paul with a two-edged sword to cut away the bonds that tie down the energies of the world, and men like Peter who will let the broad stroke of their challenge ring out on the shield of the world’s hypocrisy, and great men like John who with a loud voice will arouse men from the sleek dream of unheroic repose. But we need woman still more; women like Mary of Cleophas who will raise sons to lift up white hosts to a Heavenly Father; women like Magdalen who will take hold of the tangled skeins of a seemingly wrecked and ruined life and weave out of them the beautiful tapestry of saintliness and holiness; and women, above all, like Mary, the Lady of Equity, who will leave the lights and glamours of the world for the shades and shadows of the Cross where saints are made. When women of this kind return to save a world with equity, then we shall toast them, we shall salute them, not as the modern woman, once our superior now our equal, but as the Christian woman — closest to the Cross on Good Friday, and first at the tomb on Easter Morn.
Jul 17, 2020 02:13:57 #
Therefore, C*******ts make you feel emancipated, when in reality, they control you. Freedom is only free, if law and order is established. For you cannot have freedom without Law and order. It is here that there are two types of freedom. 1. freedom with responsibility, or Honorable freedom and 2. irresponsible freedom, that is freedom without responsibility.
This years e******n is a choice, every American has to make. Either we live honorably as a free people, or we live irresponsibly as a nation that is devoured by the c*******t party. The choice is between Trump, the honorable free, or Joe Biden, the wolf of c*******m. That's it folks. I h**e to break the t***h to you all but we must not allow our freedoms to be devoured by people who do not have a clue of what freedom is. And it starts with a man, functioning as a man. And a woman functioning as a woman. Then we can establish, what an American is, with in the function of an American. And under this form of freedom, there is no B***k A******n, there is just American. Until we can grasp and understand that harassment, of any sort is evil, and that harassment, whether or not it is from a man to a woman, or a woman to a man, a white person to a black person, or a black person to a white person, and anyone in between is evil. We shall never be free.
If harassment, is weighted by who is the harasser, and who is the harasse, rather than the act of harassment, true justice shall never be found. And without true justice, there is no order, therefore no freedom.
Donald Trump has been the most harassed president of the United States, yet he is still going, still succeeding.
Law and order, brings peace. Peace, brings freedom. Freedom brings innovation and opportunity. Through this opportunity comes strength. This strength provides protection. This protection brings Law and order, thus we have a strong society.
Beware, whenever a politician promises e******y, he is telling you what is equal. Being told what is equal, robs you of your basic right to establish for yourself what is equal. Therefore you are never free.
It is your choice, Lazy Joe Biden, or fighter Donald Trump. Who do you admire?
This years e******n is a choice, every American has to make. Either we live honorably as a free people, or we live irresponsibly as a nation that is devoured by the c*******t party. The choice is between Trump, the honorable free, or Joe Biden, the wolf of c*******m. That's it folks. I h**e to break the t***h to you all but we must not allow our freedoms to be devoured by people who do not have a clue of what freedom is. And it starts with a man, functioning as a man. And a woman functioning as a woman. Then we can establish, what an American is, with in the function of an American. And under this form of freedom, there is no B***k A******n, there is just American. Until we can grasp and understand that harassment, of any sort is evil, and that harassment, whether or not it is from a man to a woman, or a woman to a man, a white person to a black person, or a black person to a white person, and anyone in between is evil. We shall never be free.
If harassment, is weighted by who is the harasser, and who is the harasse, rather than the act of harassment, true justice shall never be found. And without true justice, there is no order, therefore no freedom.
Donald Trump has been the most harassed president of the United States, yet he is still going, still succeeding.
Law and order, brings peace. Peace, brings freedom. Freedom brings innovation and opportunity. Through this opportunity comes strength. This strength provides protection. This protection brings Law and order, thus we have a strong society.
Beware, whenever a politician promises e******y, he is telling you what is equal. Being told what is equal, robs you of your basic right to establish for yourself what is equal. Therefore you are never free.
It is your choice, Lazy Joe Biden, or fighter Donald Trump. Who do you admire?
Jul 17, 2020 02:36:24 #
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Loc: Vista, CA
Ranger7374 wrote:
Therefore, C*******ts make you feel emancipated, w... (show quote)
Excellent!
A well-thought-out and reasoned exposition on freedom and liberty. If the world loses America and we quit fighting for these values, the world will descend into another Dark Ages.
One does not have to admire Donald Trump to know that he is fighting against l*****t and evil forces trying to destroy America and everything she stands for. Joe Biden stands for nothing and only serves one master... v**es! The v**e counts to get elected. He will say or do wh**ever will get him elected because that is all he really cares about. Politics has been his means to accumulate wealth for himself and his family. Getting elected is the means to his ends for wealth and f**e public admiration that is fleeting. His legacy is bankrupt of values as he is now in the "golden years" of his life. But he still does not have enough gold to be satisfied.
Jul 17, 2020 02:50:48 #
Ranger7374 wrote:
Therefore, C*******ts make you feel emancipated, w... (show quote)
Thank you for sharing Bishop Sheen's, and your own, words of wisdom
Jul 17, 2020 04:17:16 #
[quote=Ranger7374]Therefore, C*******ts make you feel emancipated, when in reality, they control you. Freedom is only free, if law and order is established. For you cannot have freedom without Law and order. It is here that there are two types of freedom. 1. freedom with responsibility, or Honorable freedom and 2. irresponsible freedom, that is freedom without responsibility.
This years e******n is a choice, every American has to make. Either we live honorably as a free people, or we live irresponsibly as a nation that is devoured by the c*******t party. The choice is between Trump, the honorable free, or Joe Biden, the wolf of c*******m. That's it folks. I h**e to break the t***h to you all but we must not allow our freedoms to be devoured by people who do not have a clue of what freedom is. And it starts with a man, functioning as a man. And a woman functioning as a woman. Then we can establish, what an American is, with in the function of an American. And under this form of freedom, there is no B***k A******n, there is just American. Until we can grasp and understand that harassment, of any sort is evil, and that harassment, whether or not it is from a man to a woman, or a woman to a man, a white person to a black person, or a black person to a white person, and anyone in between is evil. We shall never be free.
If harassment, is weighted by who is the harasser, and who is the harasse, rather than the act of harassment, true justice shall never be found. And without true justice, there is no order, therefore no freedom.
Donald Trump has been the most harassed president of the United States, yet he is still going, still succeeding.
Law and order, brings peace. Peace, brings freedom. Freedom brings innovation and opportunity. Through this opportunity comes strength. This strength provides protection. This protection brings Law and order, thus we have a strong society.
Beware, whenever a politician promises e******y, he is telling you what is equal. Being told what is equal, robs you of your basic right to establish for yourself what is equal. Therefore you are never free.
It is your choice, Lazy Joe Biden, or fighter Donald Trump. Who do you admire?[/quote
Great post!
This years e******n is a choice, every American has to make. Either we live honorably as a free people, or we live irresponsibly as a nation that is devoured by the c*******t party. The choice is between Trump, the honorable free, or Joe Biden, the wolf of c*******m. That's it folks. I h**e to break the t***h to you all but we must not allow our freedoms to be devoured by people who do not have a clue of what freedom is. And it starts with a man, functioning as a man. And a woman functioning as a woman. Then we can establish, what an American is, with in the function of an American. And under this form of freedom, there is no B***k A******n, there is just American. Until we can grasp and understand that harassment, of any sort is evil, and that harassment, whether or not it is from a man to a woman, or a woman to a man, a white person to a black person, or a black person to a white person, and anyone in between is evil. We shall never be free.
If harassment, is weighted by who is the harasser, and who is the harasse, rather than the act of harassment, true justice shall never be found. And without true justice, there is no order, therefore no freedom.
Donald Trump has been the most harassed president of the United States, yet he is still going, still succeeding.
Law and order, brings peace. Peace, brings freedom. Freedom brings innovation and opportunity. Through this opportunity comes strength. This strength provides protection. This protection brings Law and order, thus we have a strong society.
Beware, whenever a politician promises e******y, he is telling you what is equal. Being told what is equal, robs you of your basic right to establish for yourself what is equal. Therefore you are never free.
It is your choice, Lazy Joe Biden, or fighter Donald Trump. Who do you admire?[/quote
Great post!
Jul 17, 2020 05:10:19 #
Ranger7374 wrote:
color=blue br br This story has been interprete... (show quote)
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I'll just focus on one issue of this topic.
This topic is very timely, and fitting, a great awakening to all of us who think that people must strive for e******y.
In the God given gift of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, is still not e******y. We have to earn and achieve that, to have equal results with others. It does not come freely. We work for it.
Many women and ethnic races think that e******y is necessary with all human. It is not. There is no such thing as e******y with other people.
Because everybody is uniquely designed by God but every body has its own equity, or value. The uniqueness of a woman is love, compassion, loyalty to husband, naturally gentle in spirit, that is why the baby craves for mother,s arm, who can feel comfort and love. That is just example.
While men are different. They have their own equity, uniqueness of strength of a man in various ways. But I think I won't desire to compete and be equal, taking that equity of men. That is just how I feel, but I don't know about others. I will try to nourish and develop my own equity as a woman, though I think my brain in a mathematical equation could function at different levels similar to that of a male.
Our country is currently filled with violence when millions of people crave for e******y with others, which could not be achieved because each of us is unique.
But when they could not reach that e******y, then violence emerge.
In a family, nobody is treated equally. We are treated according to our values or equity, and our needs.
Jul 17, 2020 05:39:46 #
Ranger7374 wrote:
I believe every American should read this article.... (show quote)
C*******t use laborers as their s***es while l*****ts use the race card to induce b****s into s***ery and the Femin**i's use guillable women to gain their elitist radical power and ens***e women.
Jul 17, 2020 06:30:13 #
[quote=Ricktloml][quote=Ranger7374]Therefore, C*******ts make you feel emancipated, when in reality, they control you. Freedom is only free, if law and order is established. For you cannot have freedom without Law and order. It is here that there are two types of freedom. 1. freedom with responsibility, or Honorable freedom and 2. irresponsible freedom, that is freedom without responsibility.
This years e******n is a choice, every American has to make. Either we live honorably as a free people, or we live irresponsibly as a nation that is devoured by the c*******t party. The choice is between Trump, the honorable free, or Joe Biden, the wolf of c*******m. That's it folks. I h**e to break the t***h to you all but we must not allow our freedoms to be devoured by people who do not have a clue of what freedom is. And it starts with a man, functioning as a man. And a woman functioning as a woman. Then we can establish, what an American is, with in the function of an American. And under this form of freedom, there is no B***k A******n, there is just American. Until we can grasp and understand that harassment, of any sort is evil, and that harassment, whether or not it is from a man to a woman, or a woman to a man, a white person to a black person, or a black person to a white person, and anyone in between is evil. We shall never be free.
If harassment, is weighted by who is the harasser, and who is the harasse, rather than the act of harassment, true justice shall never be found. And without true justice, there is no order, therefore no freedom.
Donald Trump has been the most harassed president of the United States, yet he is still going, still succeeding.
Law and order, brings peace. Peace, brings freedom. Freedom brings innovation and opportunity. Through this opportunity comes strength. This strength provides protection. This protection brings Law and order, thus we have a strong society.
Beware, whenever a politician promises e******y, he is telling you what is equal. Being told what is equal, robs you of your basic right to establish for yourself what is equal. Therefore you are never free.
It is your choice, Lazy Joe Biden, or fighter Donald Trump. Who do you admire?[/quote
Great post![/quote]
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You got it Rick. Without law and order, nobody could be free. At present, there is no law and order. Yesterday, several peace loving people and law enforcement officers, were beaten by several thugs with baseball bats. Their heads were bleeding.
There is no such thing as e******y, cause we were not born equal, but unique from one another. And to be equal and free, we have to earn it.
If we want to be a multi-millionaire, to be equal with Buffet, we strive to earn it. How? We invest, we work. It does not come free.
Violence is not the answer. But I notice recently, that B*M violence of k*****g police officers is rewarded with a multi-billion dollar price by banks and several large businesses. They still used baseball bats beating innocent people marching peacefully . There are still violence.
President Trump will restore peace. I emailed him this morning about our national security. Thugs must be arrested for beating peaceful people using their 1st Amendment Rights. De Blasio is one of the thugs.
President Trump is a historic president. The time when the China v***s spread all over the world which k**led hundreds or more of our fellow Americans. He is historic because despite of relentless harassment and assaults, he still prevailed. Because the righteous always wins. The t***h and the facts always prevail.
And he will win again.
Joe is leading us to c*******m. The antithesis of our liberty or freedom founded by the sacrifices and blood by the ancestors, the men or women dead or alive
so that we will live free. Please don't give this hard earned liberty away Joe Biden. You're a little dummy and your socialist associates will dictate to you what you'll do
President Trump is patriotic who gave his honor, sacrifice and fortune, to saving our constitutional republic. We must keep him for 4 more years.
This years e******n is a choice, every American has to make. Either we live honorably as a free people, or we live irresponsibly as a nation that is devoured by the c*******t party. The choice is between Trump, the honorable free, or Joe Biden, the wolf of c*******m. That's it folks. I h**e to break the t***h to you all but we must not allow our freedoms to be devoured by people who do not have a clue of what freedom is. And it starts with a man, functioning as a man. And a woman functioning as a woman. Then we can establish, what an American is, with in the function of an American. And under this form of freedom, there is no B***k A******n, there is just American. Until we can grasp and understand that harassment, of any sort is evil, and that harassment, whether or not it is from a man to a woman, or a woman to a man, a white person to a black person, or a black person to a white person, and anyone in between is evil. We shall never be free.
If harassment, is weighted by who is the harasser, and who is the harasse, rather than the act of harassment, true justice shall never be found. And without true justice, there is no order, therefore no freedom.
Donald Trump has been the most harassed president of the United States, yet he is still going, still succeeding.
Law and order, brings peace. Peace, brings freedom. Freedom brings innovation and opportunity. Through this opportunity comes strength. This strength provides protection. This protection brings Law and order, thus we have a strong society.
Beware, whenever a politician promises e******y, he is telling you what is equal. Being told what is equal, robs you of your basic right to establish for yourself what is equal. Therefore you are never free.
It is your choice, Lazy Joe Biden, or fighter Donald Trump. Who do you admire?[/quote
Great post![/quote]
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You got it Rick. Without law and order, nobody could be free. At present, there is no law and order. Yesterday, several peace loving people and law enforcement officers, were beaten by several thugs with baseball bats. Their heads were bleeding.
There is no such thing as e******y, cause we were not born equal, but unique from one another. And to be equal and free, we have to earn it.
If we want to be a multi-millionaire, to be equal with Buffet, we strive to earn it. How? We invest, we work. It does not come free.
Violence is not the answer. But I notice recently, that B*M violence of k*****g police officers is rewarded with a multi-billion dollar price by banks and several large businesses. They still used baseball bats beating innocent people marching peacefully . There are still violence.
President Trump will restore peace. I emailed him this morning about our national security. Thugs must be arrested for beating peaceful people using their 1st Amendment Rights. De Blasio is one of the thugs.
President Trump is a historic president. The time when the China v***s spread all over the world which k**led hundreds or more of our fellow Americans. He is historic because despite of relentless harassment and assaults, he still prevailed. Because the righteous always wins. The t***h and the facts always prevail.
And he will win again.
Joe is leading us to c*******m. The antithesis of our liberty or freedom founded by the sacrifices and blood by the ancestors, the men or women dead or alive
so that we will live free. Please don't give this hard earned liberty away Joe Biden. You're a little dummy and your socialist associates will dictate to you what you'll do
President Trump is patriotic who gave his honor, sacrifice and fortune, to saving our constitutional republic. We must keep him for 4 more years.
Jul 17, 2020 14:06:07 #
What I don't understand about the left and the Democrats is that they indicted Donald Trump for colluding with both Russia and Ukraine, both countries that are c*******t and Marxist. Yet they themselves are practicing c*******m and Marxism through their actions. The destruction of our national monuments which testify to the struggle for freedom are being destroyed to pave the way for s***ery under the disguise of e******y when equity is true Freedom. The post from archbishop Fulton Sheen demonstrates the function of the woman in equity, and the equity of the Man. Without men and women there would be no race, white, black, or any race in-between. Once we grasp the equity of men and women we can then grasp the equity of race.
Justice has no social value, nor does justice have no racial value, because justice is blind and deaf. Justice only heard and sees, fact through reason, not fact through feelings. Therefore judgment does use feelings based upon justice. Only through reason and fact can t***h be found. Once t***h is brought to the light, then it is the duty of mankind to determine just judgement. Just judgement meaning judgement based not on feelings but on t***h.
People don't speak this way anymore, because we have lost understanding in the core values of justice, which we need to relearn. Social justice and racial justice is the way of masters over s***es. True justice is righteous, and a force that provides prosperity. Social justice and racial justice does not provide for prosperity but rather causes destruction. Until law and order is reestablished the people will be fooled by the evils of social and racial justice.
Without God, the t***h of the principles cannot see the light of day and t***h is suppressed. How can one provide Mercy if justice is not established? Therefore social and racial justice is a controlled aspect of evil. But Justice, is controlled by God and Nature.
When will America practice Wisdom?
Justice has no social value, nor does justice have no racial value, because justice is blind and deaf. Justice only heard and sees, fact through reason, not fact through feelings. Therefore judgment does use feelings based upon justice. Only through reason and fact can t***h be found. Once t***h is brought to the light, then it is the duty of mankind to determine just judgement. Just judgement meaning judgement based not on feelings but on t***h.
People don't speak this way anymore, because we have lost understanding in the core values of justice, which we need to relearn. Social justice and racial justice is the way of masters over s***es. True justice is righteous, and a force that provides prosperity. Social justice and racial justice does not provide for prosperity but rather causes destruction. Until law and order is reestablished the people will be fooled by the evils of social and racial justice.
Without God, the t***h of the principles cannot see the light of day and t***h is suppressed. How can one provide Mercy if justice is not established? Therefore social and racial justice is a controlled aspect of evil. But Justice, is controlled by God and Nature.
When will America practice Wisdom?
Jul 18, 2020 21:25:20 #
Ranger7374 wrote:
What I don't understand about the left and the Dem... (show quote)
Thank you for earlier post, well thought-out and all very true! I am struck about your reasoning in the beginning of this post, due to the fact that it is also so true, yet rarely has any body seen or pointed out that same dichotomy in the Democrats collective reasoning!
For 4 years President Trump has been harassed, h**ed, demeaned & treated to almost every evil accusation you could throw at someone, yet what they were accusing him of doing; siding with or looking for direction in Socialist/C*******t/Marxist countries (Russia, Ukraine) is exactly what they are now advocating for our country to become!
IF that were truly the case, it seems they should have lauded his "supposed" choices instead of trying to destroy the man and his position! But ALAS, we NOW SEE the fallacy of that reasoning, because what they tried so hard to accuse him of and blame him for, was NOT THE REAL REASON they wanted to destroy him at all!
The TRUE REASON was that Trump was about to EXPOSE the TRUE DIRECTION that the Democrats and Rhinos in this country have been taking our country toward since the 1930's! Obama had taken us on a very large step, but the true picture was still unclear to most American citizens! Hillary would have sealed the deal! Trump threatened all that they had worked so hard to conceal & to accomplish for so long and most thought it was just within reach! Trump upset their apple cart in a VERY BIG WAY! But, they also KNEW that America would never buy that if they were t***hful about it!
But now they know this may be their last chance, so the Democrats are no longer trying to hide what they have become and what they are after! They are EXPOSING themselves everyday like the porn stars that they are! They have pulled out all the stops, are using every opportunity (like the v***s) & ordered all their brown-shirt troupers like B*M & A****a to do their bidding in their final push to gain complete and final surrender of the USA to their evil Marxist/C*******t empire!
BEWARE AMERICAN - AWAKEN FROM YOUR SLUMBER - WE MUST RE-ELECT PRESIDENT TRUMP IN NOVEMBER!
Jul 18, 2020 21:29:37 #
Jul 19, 2020 10:09:42 #
Auntie Dee wrote:
Thank you for earlier post, well thought-out and a... (show quote)
I maybe wise but you articulate more beautiful then I. You are correct about the lies. But one has to think that perhaps the Democrats don't really have faith in their Marxist/c*******t ideas. The reason is really unknown. Hillary Clinton could have easily defeated Donald Trump. However, the Democrats defeated Hilary. Especially one James Comey. The Dems are in an internal civil war, that their trying to involve all of us in.
Is it lack of wisdom? Is it faulty psychology? Is it the foolishness of the young? Who knows? However, the Democrats of today, cannot lead, nor can they administer, let alone govern. I think it is time that the Democrat party as a whole, be retired.
Don't worry you liberals, you still have George Soros, B*M, A****A, and other organizations of the such. What do they need the failing Democrat party for anyways?
But as for the rest of us, B*M, and A****A, should be listed as D******c T*******ts.....and George needs to be investigated McCarthy style.
Now it really amazes me that the Democrats have used history to charge Trump. Look at how they systematically charged him. Russian collusion-1950s McCarthyism. Didn't act quick enough on the c****-** v***s.....Wilson and Hoover on the Spanish Flu. The economy, Roosevelt. They are desperately trying to repeat last century. Damn. This is getting even more interesting and fascinating....need more research.....
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