The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have revived their ultimate scare tactic for getting their congregants to follow directions on how to vote. Catholics who vote wrong risk losing their salvation.
Abuses of authority like this once led to the Reformation.
Is a God who designed a world in which billions of "unborn babies" are spontaneously aborted by natural causes and sends people to hell for voting for politicians who support access to contraception worthy of worship?
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This statement by the bishops is transparently disingenuous. There is no consistent way for them to ignore or dismiss as irrelevant the rampant violations of their historic "ethic of life."
Apparently it is politically all right to support an "unjust war," widespread use of capital punishment, active euthanasia, and the refusal to support adequate health care to keep people alive when that is possible, or feeding the starving poor. But only this one matter of keeping abortions legal is sufficient to cut a politician off from the Church.
The widely recognized fact that making abortion illegal would have very, very little effect, if any, on the frequency of abortion in this country, is apparently irrelevant to their political shibboleth. The fact that there are number of different social structural changes in our society that would significantly lower the frequency of abortions is blithely ignored.
Clearly, decreasing the frequency of abortions is not what they are trying to accomplish. Their position has no basis in any consistent theology.
So, just why are they jerking the chain on politicians who are nominal catholics???
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