God Designed the World with Moral Order

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By Dr. Patty Mann, Carlsbad, CA

We are only eight days into Lent, but often we need some encouragement at this point. If we had a slip in our efforts, the devil would love to entice us to give up. Let us not give him that satisfaction and begin again if we need to. This is a reprise on moral order that can inspire us.

By his acts man can neither add anything to God nor subtract anything from Him as He is in Himself, yet man can, so far as in him lies, offer something to God or deny Him something by observing or failing to observe the order God has instituted. St. Thomas Aquinas

Order is such an important word when we speak about God. He created this world in perfect order: Isaiah clearly states that God formed the earth to be inhabited. This would imply that every aspect of the environment has been designed for the growth and maintenance of life. This includes everything from the air we breathe, the water we drink, to even the various types of atoms and molecules from which life is made. Over the past century and a half, man has made great technological advances that have increased our knowledge and understanding of chemistry and the environment in which we live. With this increase, many have become acutely aware of just how uniquely suited the earth is for life.

God also designed the world with moral order. When our first parents were created their spiritual selves were in sync just as the physical world was. Their choice to sin and to disobey God broke the moral equilibrium of original justice; they ignored the natural law that was written on their hearts. Adam and Eve chose instead to decide for themselves what would be right and what would be wrong, and so they began to hide from God.

Fifty years ago, it was every bit as possible as it is now to choose wrong rather than right and try to justify ourselves for doing so, but fifty years ago it was also easier to know and agree on the difference between right and wrong. At that time, we still shared cultural values about the truth of the natural moral law. What is new today is that now the very idea of knowing right and wrong is called into question.

We can’t change the culture by ourselves, but we can follow St. Thomas’ guidance above. The world and our lives are perfected to the degree that we seek to live as best we can according to God’s created order. When we follow the commandments and embrace the beatitudes, we contribute to the order in our own lives, in those of whom we encounter, in the Church and in the world.

We cannot add anything to God’s greatness, nor does He experience happiness in the sense that we do. Yet by making our contribution to the divine order of things, we render Him the glory He deserves and offer Him living thanks for His generous gift of our lives.

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Dr. Patty Mann is a Catholic religious education teacher and writer in Carlsbad, California.

Let’s Make Sure Only Citizens Vote

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If you care about citizens only voting in America, the key US Senator is John Thune.

John Solomon of Just the News stated this morning that the Senator needs more pressure from us to sway his opinion to prioritize the Save America Act in the senate.

Please contact Senator John Thune at his Washington D.C. office by calling (202) 224-2321 or by visiting his website for more information. He also has offices in Aberdeen and Rapid City, South Dakota.

A Question for Liberal Progressive Women

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The Biden Administration let many people into the country unvetted. Among them were criminals exported from Latin American and Islamic countries. The majority of these men view women as property and expect them to be submissive. So why do liberal-progressive women want ICE to stop arresting and deporting men who pose a great danger to them?

It’s More than Time to Push Back

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True Americans must be “SEEN” and “HEARD” loudly! We must show actual 1st Amendment Constitutional nonviolent remedy for our government’s faulty actions, especially its emerging socialism.

It is time to hold it accountable for its dismal failure to safeguard “ALL” Americans and our American Way of Life.

The establishment media’s constant attempt to brainwash us into believing that all violent protests in our cities are a powerful force for political progress in America is an insult.

We, the people, have more electoral power than the Socialists and their street agitators, who coerce us with criminal violence to surrender our American Way of Life.

We are tired of the Socialists, globalists, and mainstream media pampering criminal anarchists like parents who fail to chastise their idiotic children for willful and harmful disobedience. We are tired of the blame games and racist cards being played over and over again, as if it makes reasonable sense that we are responsible for their failed and costly socialist policies’ suffering.

We reject the idea that American riches and success are entitlements rather than the result of hard effort, self-sacrifice, and ingenuity that motivate moral charity. We won’t be informed that sharing our affluence with family and religious communities is a skin color or birth status privilege.

— The Publisher

The Authoritarian Left Is Going To Be Ruthless

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“None of this is about ‘safety,’ it’s about purposely inflating a threat in order to assert political and cultural dominance.” — Liberal Reporter Michael Tracey

The believers of diversity and tolerance are showing us they are anything but. With nothing but a strand of an excuse, the corporate left shut down the President of the United States while allowing others to “incite violence.”

“The new corporate authoritarian liberal-left monoculture is going to be absolutely ruthless — and in 12 days it is merging with the state. This only the beginning,” Tracey warns. 

This development is NOT GOOD for anybody. It’s that simple.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2021/01/09/liberal-reporter-sees-right-through-big-techs-reason-to-ban-trump-n2582855

Understanding Voter Fraud

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We’ve all heard the joke. My Republican uncle died, now he’s voting Democrat.

In reality, that is not far from the truth these days. Despite technological breakthroughs in voting and vote counting, voter fraud continues to be surprisingly rampant.

That’s because of all secure transactions in the U.S. — from using a credit card to owning a gun, driving a car or getting into a federal building — the most insecure system and easily abused is the voter system.

To their advantage, Democrats keep it that way. Republicans, who are usually the victims, push harder and harder for greater security and voter ID laws, but generally to no avail.

In California, for example, ballot harvesting — at best an unethical practice where complete strangers are allowed to pick up and deliver ballots from seniors, the home bound and so forth — is now fully legal.

Consider this too. Almost every Republican who won on election night in November 2018 in California eventually lost when provisional (i.e. harvested and election day registrant) ballots were counted. In many cases, races weren’t determined and certified for as many as six to eight weeks!

This has to stop! Whether it’s ballot harvesting or mail-in ballot fraud, it’s important that Republicans get up to speed on how it happens and how to defend against these practices.

First, learn to recognize and understand the types of voter fraud as follows:

Fraudulent Use Of Absentee Ballots
Requesting absentee ballots and voting without the knowledge of the actual voter; or obtaining the absentee ballot from a voter and either filling it in directly and forging the voter’s signature or illegally telling the voter who to vote for.

Ineligible Voting
Illegal registration and voting by individuals who are not U.S. citizens, are convicted felons, or are otherwise not eligible to vote.

Impersonation Fraud At The Polls
Voting in the name of other legitimate voters and voters who have died, moved away, or lost their right to vote because they are felons, but remain registered.

Buying Votes
Paying voters to cast either an in-person or absentee ballot for a particular candidate.

Ballot Petition Fraud
Forging the signatures of registered voters on the ballot petitions that must be filed with election officials in some states for a candidate or issue to be listed on the official ballot

Duplicate Voting
Registering in multiple locations and voting in the same election in more than one jurisdiction or state.

False Registrations
Voting under fraudulent voter registrations that either use a phony name and a real or fake address or claim residence in a particular jurisdiction where the registered voter does not actually live and is not entitled to vote.

Altering The Vote Count
Changing the actual vote count either in a precinct or at the central location where votes are counted.

Illegal “Assistance” At The Polls
Forcing or intimidating voters—particularly the elderly, disabled, illiterate, and those for whom English is a second language—to vote for particular candidates while supposedly providing them with “assistance.”

Second, learn how to recognize Democrat talking points.

Democrats say, for example, if you can trust the Post Office to mail you your income tax refund and social security check, you can trust them with your mail-in ballot.

Sounds good, right? But the fact is, the role of the Post Office is completely irrelevant. It’s what happens when a ballot gets put in your mailbox then gets delivered to your home or place where others have access to ballots in a mail room, on a night stand, or a desk.

Thieves in the past have targeted nursing homes where an elderly voter has died or is suffering from severe memory problems. Ballots just start disappearing. Another problem is voters who let others vote for them, or worse, get paid to have someone else vote for them. It happens.

Until voter ID becomes the law of the land, be aware of where your ballot is, vote, and then walk it in to your local library or Post Office. The fewer the number of people who touch your ballot, the better.