Thank God For 1776
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Why is that his ‘new favorite picture’ and of what relevance is this to 1776?
Last “King”? Or first “Caliph”?
Because Charles illustrates the drawback to heredity monarchy. His mother was an able Queen. The man has been a fool his entire life and putting a crown on his head has not changed that.
I believe he’s listening to a loop of Kamala Harris’s speeches from her failed presidential campaign. That explains the cringe factor.
There’s only 1 king. And He is timeless.
And the monarchy in England may be living on borrowed time considering the impacts of unfettered immigration. It’s entirely possible the country may do exactly what Henry the 8th did to the church. Steal its possessions.
He’s given us a public holiday and day off tomorrow. Happy Birthday King Charles and thanks.
I’m not sure there is a large pool of talent to choose from in the Royal Family if there ever were elections.
I saw a silly Poll in a tabloid article about “Royal Family favourability”- William comes out in-front with 75% favourability and his wife Kate at 72% favourability, Anne at 69% then Charles at 61%. Megan had 20 % (goodness knows why) and Harry at 27% favourability. Andrew, not surprisingly is only favoured by 5% of those polled. Probably by those who share his character traits.
Anyway.
Every so often, another Catholic YouTuber becomes a radtrad and starts condemning a representative republic or a free market economy ostensibly because a Pope from years past condemned them.
The traditional Catholic presence for monarchies belongs in a dustbin.
I agree with Penguins Fan. IMHO, the least dangerous form of government is a constitutional Republic. Democracies are two wolves and one sheep voting on what’s for dinner. Monarchies are hereditary autocracies and just as bad, except now it’s one very big wolf eating all the sheep. Only in a constitutional Republic are the rights of the minority protected against the dictatorship of either the majority (Democracy) or a single individual (Autocracy or Monarchy). And in a Republic, the incompetent can (theoretically) be turned out of office at the next election (which sadly we seem to fail at miserably with respect to our Congress).
And as for this idea of distributionism, who gets to decide to distribute the money of the wage earner to those who don’t work? Leveling wealth only makes everyone equally poor except the politicians doing the distribution and the corporate executives in bed with them. Only a free market economy (capitalism) has proven effective in raising the general standard of living. I for one am sick and tired of the false gospel of social justice, the common good, and peace at any price. No Democracy. No Monarchy. No Autocracy. No Distributionism (aka, Socialism). We need to restore the Republic and have a bona fide free market economy.
And the Institutional Church needs to go back to the Great Commission in Matthew 28:18-20 instead of involving itself in all these political and economic matters for which it has no competence or authority.
In 1776 America adopted the institution of government by the people, citizens., a constitutional Republic.
In a monarchy, the people are subjects, not free sovereign persons, but subjects to the person who announces himself as having “Divine Right”
The crown heads of Europe claim that Jesus Christ came down from the cross and escaped to France with Mary Magdalene where Christ and Magdalene bore children, divine children, the forebearers of the Merovingian and the Carolingian lines of royalty.
Had Christ not died and resurrected no human being would be saved; no saints in heaven; only death, war, famine and pestilence…and ignorance.
All people are the adopted children of God, all brothers and sisters in Christ, the Son of God. Christ would have committed incest had Christ had children with Magdalene, His sister in God.
Christ then would not be God. So either way there is no “Divine Right” in royalty, all royalty.
The “Divine Right” over life and death for the treason of Insulting the king or disagreeing with the king, or losing the king’s favor, all that resulted in death to another sovereign person is mindless since all men are “created equal.” by their Creator, not the state, nor the king.
Some individuals to lessen the genius of Thomas Jefferson have claimed that Jefferson was a Unitarian, that is, not believing in the Blessed Trinity.
In the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson cites “their Creator” creating all men equal (in free will, reason, sovereignty and human dignity) sovereignty being the power to institute their own government.
“And for the support of this Declaration with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence…” writes Jefferson. “Divine Providence is the Holy Spirit of God, the Love Who proceeds from the Father and the Son.
God is infinite and perfect Love. God’s Love needs a Beloved. The Beloved Son of God loves His Father in infinite and perfect love. The Love Who proceeds from God the Father and God the Son is the sovereign, infinite Person of the Holy Spirit.
Yes, Jefferson believed in the Triune God and invoked His Blessing for our America.. “IN GOD WE TRUST” is written upon every kind of American currency.
No atheist can use our currency and still claim to be an atheist. And atheists who do, need to be deported as men without a country. (And this includes Supreme Court Justices like Hugo Black who removed prayer from the public square)
Removing God from the public square actually removes a sovereign person’s, the sovereign citizen’s freedom, a sovereign citizen’s God given freedom, to use his free will to choose to believe or not to believe and to go in search of the Truth….You remember the “pursuit of Happiness”, the pursuit of the Truth?
A forty-five year old woman admitted that she had never heard of the Holy Spirit in her community. Now, whose fault is that? The Church of the Latter Day Saints, the Mormons do not believe in the Holy Spirit of God; absolute and perfect Love. Without Love?
Thanks to Hugo Black?
Recent Supreme Court ruling confirmed that freedom of having the choice in free will to chose to believe or to not believe when the state defines the Catholic Charites by their receivers instead of identifying the givers’ right to free will and the receivers’ right to free will. Freedom.
It is a shame that Cromwell and his associates failed in their attempts to establish a republic in the 1650s.
t is a shame that Cromwell and his associates failed in their attempts to establish a republic in the 1650s.
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What they established was a military dictatorship.
Bob:
This descendant of Irish Catholics would gently inform you that the Lord Protector and his armies murdered tens of thousands in Ireland for their Faith and race. General Monk did the the same in Scotland after the Scots (angry that their king was killed without their permission and only after driving the moderate Presbyterians out of the Commons at bayonet point to get a majority for death) crowned his son Charles II. The mass of the English turned on Cromwell and the Puritans rather quickly, and Pepys details the celebrations in the streets of London when the King returned in 1660.
Cromwell is as “good” an advertisement for republican government as Robespierre.
Art:
Pepys reported that when the Rump Parliament resigned, people ran (presumably a bit tipsy) through the streets with chucks of rump-roast on toasting forks, cry out “Kiss my Parliament!” The “republic” was not missed.
Because Charles illustrates the drawback to heredity monarchy. His mother was an able Queen. The man has been a fool his entire life and putting a crown on his head has not changed that.
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Well, he’s having wretched trouble with one of his children. So did his mother. Did you notice who weighed in with an open letter to Prince Harry advising him to keep his peace? It was Patty Reagan, explaining in part her own mentality ca. 1987 and why it was mistaken. You don’t have to be a monarch to have embarrassing children.
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He also married someone who appeared suitable in schematic outline but proved to be the sort of person psychiatrists call a borderline personality. Marrying her was an ill-considered idea. Now list the people around him who recommended he not do it. (He’s wanted to marry Camilla Shand but followed the advice of his great-uncle and did not ask her. He’d also wanted to marry his 2d cousin, who turned him down).
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He’s fond of organic gardening and pre-war architectural styles. I’m not seeing why that’s an issue.
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He spends too much money on staff? OK
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210323/Obama-family-costs-taxpayers-1-4BILLION-year.html
He’s fond of organic gardening
He talks to plants Art. The man has been a total narcissist his entire life, and his ideas have always marched in lock step with limousine liberalism.
If you look into the history, you will find that Cromwell in England (as opposed to Ireland) was quite lenient with respect to Catholic dissent during the Commonwealth, as he was active in discouraging irresponsible persecution of witches: it is a question of acquaintance with modern, responsible scholarship as against mindless acceptance of a traditional “black” legend.
“He talks to plants Art.”
It’s what they say back to him that’s disconcerting. Philodendrons have a bad attitude.
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Bob:
Cromwell blackened his own legend. He was a monster.
Everyone in the three kingdoms rejoiced at the passing of the Lord Protector, as evidenced by the absence of any Puritan analogue to the Jacobitism later to bedevil British politics. But I agree he did have fans in New England, where his “godly government” was legend and not fact, and they didn’t stint on persecuting either Catholics or alleged “witches”.
BTW English judges and juries, Royalist and Roundhead, were very skeptical of the latter charge even in the 17th century, and very few people were convicted of witchcraft specifically (as opposed to poisoning or extortion by threat of curse), and fewer still executed.
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