I did not 'defend dictatorship as a form of government'. I am pointing out that the Catholic Church has never promoted democracy. There is no commandment to make the world safe for democracy. Therefore, in the eyes of the Church, a dictatorship isn't necessarily guilty of degeneracy. A specific one might be, but the same applies to democracies and the evidence is that all democracy seems to ultimately decline to degeneracy. Of course, there is at least half the population of the US opposed strongly and, in many cases, demonstrably to abortion. However, the ones that are in power are enthusiastic abortionists and they're the ones primarily engaging in this war.
I didn't say that they are not engaging in mortal sin. The same can be said of the West, but it is the establishment in the latter that is trying to normalise abortion worldwide as a human right and as standard 'healthcare'. Perhaps, you should read my post again.
Yes, and what's more, she is a member of the Green party. This party wanted to be pacifist not so long ago. And now many politicians of the Green party are the ones who demand the loudest weapons and even more weapons...
It's a bit sickening to hear a German, of all nationalities, getting up on her high horse about another invading power. The French ought to have a quick word in her ear. Invaded thrice by the Bosch, in only seventy years.
Napoleon? https://www.quora.com/I-know-German...y-times-before-1870-did-France-invade-Germany Related Given that Germany invaded France 3 times in modern history (1870, 1914, 1940), how many times before 1870 did France invade the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation? Well, notwithstanding the fact that Germany did not exist prior to 1871 and was composed of a series of independent and semi-independent duchies, kingdoms and whatnot, the number is about 30 times between 1400 and 1870. For most of the period from 1500 leading up to 1871, France was, and was seen, as a very aggressive and expansionist military power. Most of the wars during the 1600s to 1800s period were essentially conflicts between all of the major countries of Europe trying to prevent French expansion. Below is a listing of French territorial expansion between 1552 and 1798.
We could mention the invasions of the United States, British, Swedes, Norwegians, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Lithuanians to mention just a few members of NATO, the organisation so self-righteously condemning this latest invasion.
You know I never really knew the true meaning behind Mortal sin which I suppose is embarrassing I knew that it was really bad and a bit scary but I had an intense awakening on what it actually is.. A wound to the soul a slice with a sword that cuts deep and places a distance between ourselves and God.. Thankfully confession stiches that wound and aids it to heal..thank you Jesus..
Excellent post, Steve. Unfortunately, it reveals much irrationality. The devil is in the works: pride and weapon suppliers in bed together. Lord have Mercy!
Reasons not to be governed by a dictator. The Church has never condemned dictatorship as a form of government? But Leo XIII (in the encylical Rerum Novarum) urged a form of government, subsidiarity, which is the opposite of centralised control which is the definition of dictatorship (every Catholic should read it). Even the Roman republicans realised that total, unlimited and life-long power in the hands of one man, not only corrupts him but can drive the power holder mad, no matter how benevolent they initially seem (Caligula, anyone?). Madness in a leader, they perceived, does not make for a great form of government. Many constitutions limit the terms of executive leaders to ensure that the acknowledged addictive properties of power do not prevent a future and peaceful change of power holder by limiting the number of terms that may be served. Unfortunately, the Russian constitution merely barred consecutive terms and so we have had Putin in charge, or effective charge, for 22 long years. Hitler, a dictator par excellence, came to power with an oligarchy in situ. Such companies as Krupps, Volkswagen, BMW and Hugo Boss (who designed and produced military uniforms) and several others were already big and profitable. These companies were given the choice, cooperate and prosper or defy us and die. They chose the former. Putin did not have a ruling financial class but a group of relatively wealthy individuals that had been offered, for various reasons, the chance to buy state assets (mostly oil and gas) at cents on the dollar as long as they undertook to support the regime and as long as they greased the palms of those who had given them access to almost unlimited wealth (since the leadership could not have such riches in their own names). And so we have a ‘system’- the leadership enriches the tame oligarchs and the oligarchs promise unlimited support to the leadership. But what if things go wrong? Some of the oligarchs are (predictably) as opinionated as the leadership and sometimes express their views. If those views clash with the leadership, what happens? Examples have to be made, and so: (This list is not exhaustive though I am exhausted researching the deaths of a few of those Russian oligarchs or wannabe oligarchs who have died in such numbers, so violently and over such a relatively short period). Nikolai Glushkov - 2018, the former deputy director of the Russian national air carrier Aeroflot was found hanged in his home in New Malden, London. He had publicly and bravely complained that a quarter of Aeroflot staff were FSB or military agents who the airline had been forced to employ and who interfered with the efficient and profitable running of the business. Glushkov was a notable Kremlin critic and a close friend of: Boris Berezovsky another critic of Putin, who had been found hanged in 2013. Aleksandr Tyulyakov – A senior executive at Gazprom. Body found on the morning after Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022. According to the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, his body was found hanged in his garage. Mikhail Watford (formerly Tolstoysheya) – A former oil and gas magnate found hanged at his home in Surrey in the UK on 28/2/22, the week of the invasion. Vasily Melnikov – Found stabbed to death with his wife and two sons aged 10 & 4 years in March 2022 in a provincial Russian city. Russian police are treating this as a murder/suicide by the father. Melnikov was the owner of a medical supply company which could have been expected to profit from the invasion and had interests in oil and gas companies. Leonid Shulman, 60, was found in the bathroom of his house in St. Petersburg in April 2022 with slashed wrists, local news reported. He was a top executive in the gas company, Gazprom which has coincidentally suffered the loss of other directors and executives to apparent suicide. Vladislav Avayev, 51 – formerly the vice-president of Gazprombank, Russia's third-largest bank and one of the main channels for payments for Russian oil and gas. He, his wife and daughter were shot dead in April 2022 in their luxury home in Moscow. Russian police are treating this as murder/suicide. Sergei Protosenya – a Russian oil tycoon worth an estimated $44 million whose body was found together with that of his wife and 18 year old daughter who had all been killed by blows from an axe in a villa in Spain in April 2022. Spanish police are treating this as suicide/murder though the surviving son of the family says that it is clearly murder and that his father had no reason whatever to kill himself or his wife and daughter. Aleksandr Subbotin - a former top manager of Lukoil was found poisoned in the basement of a residence in a Moscow suburb in May 2022. Police say that he was using toad venom as a medicine but overdosed. Ravil Maganov - the chairman of the board of Russia's largest private oil company (Lukoil) which had called for an end to the ‘special operation’, died in what Russian news agencies cited as an ‘accidental’ fall from a 6th floor hospital window on 1/9/22. (Sergei Skripal – Not an oligarch but a Russian secret serviceman and spy for the west who had been exchanged in a ‘spy swap’. Was poisoned in March 2018 together with his daughter in the UK with the nerve agent Novichok. Both survived after several months in hospital but an innocent British woman third party who had been contaminated subsequently died.) Anyone for a dictatorship?
Yes, the whole development is bad. For many, German Chancellor Scholz is acting too hesitantly when it comes to arms deliveries. For weeks, great media pressure has been built up on him, demanding that he finally release these tank deliveries. Politicians from home and abroad have demanded this. The mainstream media are happy to play the warmongering game and only allow politicians who are in favor of more weapons and more escalation to have their say. It is reported again and again in the media that Germany should take on a "leadership role". Whatever that means. Now Germany is supplying 14 Leopard tanks out of a total of 88 that Ukraine is to receive. Yesterday the chancellor said that he excludes the delivery of fighter jets. Today, this is apparently demanded by the Polish president, who, from my point of view, wants to act most aggressively towards Russia. However, the chancellor is probably only playing his role in this theater. In Germany, it is the far-left party and the far-right party, of all parties, that are positioning themselves against this war policy. They want a negotiated solution and a friendly relationship with Russia. But both parties have no influence. As already mentioned, politicians from the green party are the biggest war-mongers. They belong to the three-party government coalition.
That is what they are. It is perhaps worth noting that the Green foreign minister Baerbock was part of the WEF's Young Global Leaders program. She is continuously doing a bad job, is inexperienced, naive and has no diplomatic skills at all. Presumably this naivety and ease of influence qualified her for the WEF program. It is very clear that she has an ideological agenda and nothing else. In alternative media, it is also seen that the Green Party has the mission to destroy Germany from within. They are doing that well, destroying the economy and prosperity in Germany with the Green Minister of Economics. If I had no faith and knew nothing about the background of the events, it is primarily a spiritual struggle of good against evil, then I would probably despair.
I'd recommend "Liberty or Equality-The Challenge of Our Time" by Erik von Kuhnelt Leddihn, who deals in detail with the subject of democracy. Pope Leo's comment was about scale, not style, of government. Anyway, wasn't Spain most fortunate to have had General Franco in power? They'd still be better off with him.
The fact that this is even being updated and published is insane…. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...blishes-list-medicines-nations-stockpile.html
Absolutely. Franco fought against the communists, who were killing priests and nuns, and anyone who went against their evil agenda. Franco saved Spain.
