I am thoroughly disgusted with this Presidential election season. The Democratic candidates are utterly evil, one being a murderous pathological liar and the other being a communist radical. Both advocate the infanticide of the pre-born with the sale of their internal organs on the open market and the sanctification of the filth of homosexual sodomy. The Republican candidates are foolish clowns arguing over wives, bodily features, and all manner of nonsensical topics, trading insult and disparagement for insult and disparagement while ignoring the weightier matters of Constitutional compliance and the defense of the Republic. Truthfully I can support no current candidate. I think we have reached the point at which Rome transitioned from Republic to Empire with the assassination of Iulius Caesar. The question is this: will our nation disintegrate into a civil war of battling factions, or will an Augustus rise up to continue unity in an Empire. Both are bad alternatives, but in different ways, and in both scenarios authentic orthodox Christians, whether Catholic, Eastern Orthodox or Protestant, will be persecuted as our spiritual forefathers were under the ancient pagan Roman Emperors. But as St Paul reminds us in Romans 11:16-24, God will prune His tree (the Church) and that pruning has yet to begin.
| Quod si primitiae sanctae sunt, et massa; et si radix sancta, et rami. Quod si aliqui ex ramis fracti sunt, tu autem, cum oleaster esses, insertus es in illis et consocius radicis pinguedinis olivae factus es, noli gloriari adversus ramos; quod si gloriaris, non tu radicem portas, sed radix te. Dices ergo: “ Fracti sunt rami, ut ego inserar ”. Bene; incredulitate fracti sunt, tu autem fide stas. Noli altum sapere, sed time: si enim Deus naturalibus ramis non pepercit, ne forte nec tibi parcat. Vide ergo bonitatem et severitatem Dei: in eos quidem, qui ceciderunt, severitatem; in te autem bonitatem Dei, si permanseris in bonitate, alioquin et tu excideris. Sed et illi, si non permanserint in incredulitate, inserentur; potens est enim Deus iterum inserere illos! Nam si tu ex naturali excisus es oleastro et contra naturam insertus es in bonam olivam, quanto magis hi, qui secundum naturam sunt, inserentur suae olivae. |
