The Vice Presidential debate tonight will be between two Roman Catholics: Will Biden-Ryan debate be a ‘Catholic smackdown’? Here are some thoughts to keep in mind while you are watching the Vice Presidential debate tonight.
"Arrest the Pope on suspicion! For the finger points that way." That is what 19th century pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon said regarding whether he thought the Antichrist was going to be a Roman Catholic Pope.
We've come a long way since then. In 1987, Televangelist Robert Schuller said: "It's time to go to the Shepard [the Pope] and ask, 'What do we need to do to come home?"
In a previous post I expressed my concern that not only was Romney's Vice Presidential choice a Roman Catholic, but that 6 of the 12 justices on the Supreme Court were also Roman Catholics (See A Marxist, a Mormon and a Catholic go into a Bar...). I mentioned my concern to a friend of mine, a staunch Romney supporter, and he just stared at me wide eyed. He could not believe that anyone in 2012 would give a second thought to the religious beliefs (or lack therof!) of someone running for public office.
Times change. Human nature does not. The Roman Catholics have coexisted peacefully with Protestants in America thus far because they have been in the minority. It is not that way in other countries where the Roman Catholic Church is the dominant religion. And it certainly has not been that way in history.
One of the sites I check regularly for my Today in the News feature is Canada Free Press. I was disappointed recently with an article by the editor of that website, Judi McLeod, titled: The Miracle that would Save America from Obama-Imposed American Marxism.
The 'miracle' Ms. McLeod is referring to in this article 'exists somewhere within the 77.7 million [Americans] who declared themselves Catholic in 2011.'
Canada Free Press is an excellent website, and I continue to check it every day for my Today in the News feature. But Ms. McLeod is mistaken if she thinks that the 77.7 million Roman Catholics in America are going to save this country from Obama.
Recommended reading & listening:
A Woman Rides the Beast - A History of the Roman Catholic Church in the Last Days, by Dave Hunt
The Pope's Funeral, by Dr. David Murray
