And the MP, the 'Mother Church' of ROCOR/MP, is not a total tool of the Atheists? |
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Friday, May 29, 2015
One picture is worth a thousand words
What happens when you criticize Putin
What happens when you criticize Putin)- Near Death from Poisoning, But this could not be the work of V. Putin!!! (???)
A warning: The viewer just has to overlook all of the advertisements and items which are not connected to these Putin matters.
But
news of Putin having mobile crematoriums to burn up the dead bodies of
Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine, is alone, quite disturbing. But
then, his massive and very effective government propaganda tells the
world, that 'there are no Russian soldiers in Ukraine!', anyway.
Not only must we feel sympathy and sorrow for all those in Ukraine dying and suffering from Putin's mad military adventures, but also the poor Russian families who are loosing their precious sons, to his insane power delusions, the typical power dreams of all insane dictators in history. Such dictators don't care how many they cause to suffer and die. In fact, they seem to delight in it.
Not only must we feel sympathy and sorrow for all those in Ukraine dying and suffering from Putin's mad military adventures, but also the poor Russian families who are loosing their precious sons, to his insane power delusions, the typical power dreams of all insane dictators in history. Such dictators don't care how many they cause to suffer and die. In fact, they seem to delight in it.
Which brings to mind the pathetic words of another well known dictator, Adolph Hitler, a madman, to one of his generals, in his Berlin bunker, shortly before he took his own life: His general said to him: "My dear Fuhrer, the German people are suffering terribly!". Hitler's response: "They deserve to suffer, as they were never worthy of me!".
What is the difference with Putin's twisted mind? Russian families are paying the heavy heavy price for his monsterous world-domination power hungry plans. And when and how will it end? Will there even be any Russia, when he is finished?
But,
not to worry! We are assured by MP clergy spokesmen that: "Vladimir
Putin is a sincere Orthodox Christian: he goes to church, he lights
candles, he kisses and venerates the holy icons, he crosses himself many
times, he takes holy communion, he has a spiritual father who guides
him, and he is a defender of the Orthodox, world-wide", etc.
Greek State Government allowing for the Islamization of Greece
A General Sharing: The Leftist Pro-Marxist and Pro-Putin Government in Greece, is allowing for the Islamization of Greece: Thursday, May 21, 2015 Mosque to be built in Athens, Greece - Parliament Amends Law |
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'Freedom of Religion' in Putin's Russia
'Freedom of Religion' in Putin's Russia today-May 25, 2015 |
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Thursday, May 28, 2015
Old Believer Church transferred to Kundalini Yogis
Former Old Believer Church, in Moscow, Given/'Transferred to' "Kundalini Yoga" group- |
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Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Translation of Relics of St. Philaret
http://monasterypress.com/relicsaccmphil.html
The following is an informal account from a believer about the
"On the third of November, 1998 (O.S.), the coffin of Vladika Metropolitan Philaret was opened in the presence of some priests. I spoke with two of these priests.
They found Vladika's body all covered with a white substance. There was some white mold on the clothes. When they cleaned off this white mold they found the face and hands of Vladika to be completely intact. It was even noted that the body and the skin were in better shape and lighter in color than Vladika John's of Shanghai. The priest washed his hands and face with water and wine. He said that you could see the veins under the skin; and his beard was completely soft. His face was recognizable; even his mouth, which had a little paralysis on the left could be seen. They saw a part of the leg which was also completely intact and soft. They didn't look through the whole body because this is needed to be done by a commission appointed by a decision of the Synod.
What really surprised them was that the material in the coffin surrounding the body was still shining white. A funeral director remarked about this that usually after the third year this material turns black. The vestments of Vladika were shining and bright. The prayer rope in his hand, a green chotki, was like brand new. The piece of paper in the hand (Prayer of Absolution), had no mold and was very clean like fresh paper. On his mitre were paper icons that were bright and had no signs of fading or disintegration. The cloth that covered his face (which is put over the Holy Gifts on the Altar table), was also bright, like brand new.
One thing was affected by decay. The metal clasps on the Gospel were corroded and went to pieces when touched. This is important to note. It was being said by some that the reason for the incorruption of Vladika's body was due to the cold place, "like a refrigerator", in which his coffin had been laid . But the funeral director said that this is not the case at all. The metal parts which were corroded show the condition of the moisture in the coffin. The paper, the fabrics inside the coffin, and the body of Vladika were not affected.
Another point of note was the coffin of Vladika. It was painted black with a white cross. It was like brand new, as if it had been painted yesterday. There were no signs of rotting. The same was true of the mantia covering Vladika's body. It was clean and shining. One person who was there noted that a button on the mantia was corroded by the moisture.
I asked one of the priests what was the feeling when the coffin was opened. He said it was very peaceful, very calm, very solemn.
Then Vladika Laurus came and put a seal on the coffin. After that pannikhidas were served each day during that week, from Monday to Friday. I was there a couple of times. When people venerated his coffin they said they felt it was not an ordinary coffin; they felt some special grace there.
On Friday, the 8th of November (O.S.), the coffin was taken to the main church. It was a rainy day. There were lots of people in the church. A pannikhida was served. The coffin was put in the middle of the church at the beginning of the service, then it was put to the side, on the right, near where the confessions are usually heard. I noticed many people were coming with candles to the coffin and venerating it all during the service.
The next morning, Saturday, the Feast of the Archangel Michael and All Angels, there were about 300 people in church. There were about 30 clergy serving; there was Vladika Laurus, about eleven deacons, and the rest were priests.
At the Liturgy, Fr. Valery Lukianov gave the homily. He remarked on the last words found in Metropolitan Philaret's typewriter: "...hold that fast which thou hast...", (Rev. 3:11). Father Valery said that this is what we must do; to obey and be truthful to the Faith of the Church. He said that maybe Vladika wasn't so good an administrator, but he was a great man of prayer and a true faster. After Liturgies, they would gather to eat and Vladika wouldn't eat after all these services, just have some tea. A few times he would have a little something, but he would eat like a bird. This would surprise everybody because of all his praying and serving. Where did he get such strength?
He told how Vladika was a very merciful man. He helped many people. He helped many people with money and nobody knew about it; he did it in secret. Fr. Valery knew of one woman who came to Vladika; she was broke, with two children, whose husband had abandoned them. Vladika helped her. When Vladika was in his coffin, this same woman was there standing by his coffin, weeping with tears of gratitude for what he had done for her and her children.
Vladika was a very educated man, theologically, and knew the Fathers of the Church very well. Vladika's teaching against ecumenism was rooted in his knowledge of the teachings of the Fathers; it wasn't made up on his own. The greatest events took place while he was Metropolitan. He oversaw the glorification of many Saints: in 1981, the glorification of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, including the Royal Martyrs, also St. Herman of Alaska, Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg, and St. John of Kronstadt. These are truly significant events.
Vladika loved children and young people. At Synod he would have tea parties for boys and girls. He would invite them to talk and discuss things about Church life and the Bible. He truly loved the young generation and cared for their souls. There are many now (no longer young), who can remember how Vladika paid attention to them. He was very calm and very prayerful. He really was a great man of prayer. This and many more things did Father Valery say in his sermon.
After the Divine Liturgy, there was a Pannihkida. Vladika Laurus came out and spoke a few words then. What he said really surprised everybody. Many people who came were disappointed that the coffin was not opened. Some people came to Vladika Laurus to ask him about this. Vladika said that today, once more, we are saying "good-bye" to Vladika Philaret. He was a great man and he was sure that he will be glorified. He explained to the people, who were sorrowful that the coffin was not opened the reasons for this. There are some who felt that the coffin should be buried; let soil go back to soil. If he would open the coffin now it would already be like a veneration of relics and this shouldn't be done yet, as it is against canons. Some are ready to see his body as relics, but some are not ready to see his body as relics; so to prevent some wrong thoughts or feelings, the coffin wouldn't be opened. Vladika Philaret loved the canons, he obeyed them, so now we have to do everything according to the canons. Now a presentation will be made at the meeting of the Synod and we will wait for whatever the Synod will decide. We will just put the coffin in the hole, but not put soil over it. He repeated that people should not be sorrowful that the coffin was closed; Vladika is still with us. He was a holy man and he is with God, and now after seeing that his body was intact, it is an invitation for us to pray to Vladika. And if miracles occur, then it will be a sign, a confirmation to us for the glorification of Vladika Philaret, which he believes will soon take place. It will take place soon. Thirteen years Vladika has lain there and many times he received a request to move his coffin to a different place. Providentially, it did not happen. Now that we have opened the coffin and knowing the conditions where the coffin was, we can see how God showed glory in this man.
Some people said that they were not surprised that Vladika's remains were found incorrupt, because he was a holy man. The people who knew him well and were close to him knew him as a man of deep prayer, a wise spiritual struggler , a faster, and an immovable rock in upholding the integrity of the Faith."
*From witnesses to this event: and thanks to Very Reverend Fr. Andrew Kencis, in Edmonton, Alberta, and Monastery Press-
*From witnesses to this event: and thanks to Very Reverend Fr. Andrew Kencis, in Edmonton, Alberta, and Monastery Press-
The following is an informal account from a believer about the
translation of the remains of Metropolitan Philaret:
"On the third of November, 1998 (O.S.), the coffin of Vladika Metropolitan Philaret was opened in the presence of some priests. I spoke with two of these priests.
They found Vladika's body all covered with a white substance. There was some white mold on the clothes. When they cleaned off this white mold they found the face and hands of Vladika to be completely intact. It was even noted that the body and the skin were in better shape and lighter in color than Vladika John's of Shanghai. The priest washed his hands and face with water and wine. He said that you could see the veins under the skin; and his beard was completely soft. His face was recognizable; even his mouth, which had a little paralysis on the left could be seen. They saw a part of the leg which was also completely intact and soft. They didn't look through the whole body because this is needed to be done by a commission appointed by a decision of the Synod.
What really surprised them was that the material in the coffin surrounding the body was still shining white. A funeral director remarked about this that usually after the third year this material turns black. The vestments of Vladika were shining and bright. The prayer rope in his hand, a green chotki, was like brand new. The piece of paper in the hand (Prayer of Absolution), had no mold and was very clean like fresh paper. On his mitre were paper icons that were bright and had no signs of fading or disintegration. The cloth that covered his face (which is put over the Holy Gifts on the Altar table), was also bright, like brand new.
One thing was affected by decay. The metal clasps on the Gospel were corroded and went to pieces when touched. This is important to note. It was being said by some that the reason for the incorruption of Vladika's body was due to the cold place, "like a refrigerator", in which his coffin had been laid . But the funeral director said that this is not the case at all. The metal parts which were corroded show the condition of the moisture in the coffin. The paper, the fabrics inside the coffin, and the body of Vladika were not affected.
Another point of note was the coffin of Vladika. It was painted black with a white cross. It was like brand new, as if it had been painted yesterday. There were no signs of rotting. The same was true of the mantia covering Vladika's body. It was clean and shining. One person who was there noted that a button on the mantia was corroded by the moisture.
I asked one of the priests what was the feeling when the coffin was opened. He said it was very peaceful, very calm, very solemn.
Then Vladika Laurus came and put a seal on the coffin. After that pannikhidas were served each day during that week, from Monday to Friday. I was there a couple of times. When people venerated his coffin they said they felt it was not an ordinary coffin; they felt some special grace there.
On Friday, the 8th of November (O.S.), the coffin was taken to the main church. It was a rainy day. There were lots of people in the church. A pannikhida was served. The coffin was put in the middle of the church at the beginning of the service, then it was put to the side, on the right, near where the confessions are usually heard. I noticed many people were coming with candles to the coffin and venerating it all during the service.
The next morning, Saturday, the Feast of the Archangel Michael and All Angels, there were about 300 people in church. There were about 30 clergy serving; there was Vladika Laurus, about eleven deacons, and the rest were priests.
At the Liturgy, Fr. Valery Lukianov gave the homily. He remarked on the last words found in Metropolitan Philaret's typewriter: "...hold that fast which thou hast...", (Rev. 3:11). Father Valery said that this is what we must do; to obey and be truthful to the Faith of the Church. He said that maybe Vladika wasn't so good an administrator, but he was a great man of prayer and a true faster. After Liturgies, they would gather to eat and Vladika wouldn't eat after all these services, just have some tea. A few times he would have a little something, but he would eat like a bird. This would surprise everybody because of all his praying and serving. Where did he get such strength?
He told how Vladika was a very merciful man. He helped many people. He helped many people with money and nobody knew about it; he did it in secret. Fr. Valery knew of one woman who came to Vladika; she was broke, with two children, whose husband had abandoned them. Vladika helped her. When Vladika was in his coffin, this same woman was there standing by his coffin, weeping with tears of gratitude for what he had done for her and her children.
Vladika was a very educated man, theologically, and knew the Fathers of the Church very well. Vladika's teaching against ecumenism was rooted in his knowledge of the teachings of the Fathers; it wasn't made up on his own. The greatest events took place while he was Metropolitan. He oversaw the glorification of many Saints: in 1981, the glorification of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, including the Royal Martyrs, also St. Herman of Alaska, Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg, and St. John of Kronstadt. These are truly significant events.
Vladika loved children and young people. At Synod he would have tea parties for boys and girls. He would invite them to talk and discuss things about Church life and the Bible. He truly loved the young generation and cared for their souls. There are many now (no longer young), who can remember how Vladika paid attention to them. He was very calm and very prayerful. He really was a great man of prayer. This and many more things did Father Valery say in his sermon.
After the Divine Liturgy, there was a Pannihkida. Vladika Laurus came out and spoke a few words then. What he said really surprised everybody. Many people who came were disappointed that the coffin was not opened. Some people came to Vladika Laurus to ask him about this. Vladika said that today, once more, we are saying "good-bye" to Vladika Philaret. He was a great man and he was sure that he will be glorified. He explained to the people, who were sorrowful that the coffin was not opened the reasons for this. There are some who felt that the coffin should be buried; let soil go back to soil. If he would open the coffin now it would already be like a veneration of relics and this shouldn't be done yet, as it is against canons. Some are ready to see his body as relics, but some are not ready to see his body as relics; so to prevent some wrong thoughts or feelings, the coffin wouldn't be opened. Vladika Philaret loved the canons, he obeyed them, so now we have to do everything according to the canons. Now a presentation will be made at the meeting of the Synod and we will wait for whatever the Synod will decide. We will just put the coffin in the hole, but not put soil over it. He repeated that people should not be sorrowful that the coffin was closed; Vladika is still with us. He was a holy man and he is with God, and now after seeing that his body was intact, it is an invitation for us to pray to Vladika. And if miracles occur, then it will be a sign, a confirmation to us for the glorification of Vladika Philaret, which he believes will soon take place. It will take place soon. Thirteen years Vladika has lain there and many times he received a request to move his coffin to a different place. Providentially, it did not happen. Now that we have opened the coffin and knowing the conditions where the coffin was, we can see how God showed glory in this man.
Some people said that they were not surprised that Vladika's remains were found incorrupt, because he was a holy man. The people who knew him well and were close to him knew him as a man of deep prayer, a wise spiritual struggler , a faster, and an immovable rock in upholding the integrity of the Faith."
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Sunday, May 24, 2015
An ANTI-EPHRAIMITE BLOG
A Thoughtful Sharing: An ANTI-EPHRAIMITE BLOG
http://weareorthodox.com
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015
RocorMP priest displays Soviet and Pagan symbols in church
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Sharing to be fair: ROCOR/MP Priest Victor Potapov Defends Himself: |
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Potapov further reveals his true loyalties and his self-identity: A Comment from internetsobor.org, about ROCOR/MP priest Victor Potapov- |
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Monday, May 18, 2015
Odessa erects cross by village cemetery
SAVE AND PROTECT!-"Through the Cross, joy has come into all the world" !!
3/16 May 2015 in the village Egorovka Odessa region, where is the St. John Nunnery (ROCOR), with the permission of the local village council, with his donation, of the villager -
Иван Васильевич Злых, was recently installed a wayside cross near the village cemetery.
http://internetsobor.org/
3/16 May 2015 in the village Egorovka Odessa region, where is the St. John Nunnery (ROCOR), with the permission of the local village council, with his donation, of the villager -
Иван Васильевич Злых, was recently installed a wayside cross near the village cemetery.
http://internetsobor.org/
CHRIST IS RISEN! XRISTOS ANESTI! XRISTOS VOSKRESE!
There was installed a wayside cross, in the village of Egorovka, in the Odessa region, Ukraine, where is the ROCA Women's Monastery of St. John- PHOTOS
Author: Vera nun incl. May 16, 2015. Published in the ROCA (Views: 65)Saturday, May 16, 2015
MP trying to take church in Chile
(This is a no-bishop church which left the ROCOR with Metr. Vitaly's forced retirement.)
Moscow Patriarchate trying to capture the church in, Santiago, Chile
Rough machine-English translation (sorry!):
Moscow Patriarchate trying to capture the church in, Santiago, Chile
Rough machine-English translation (sorry!):
The Moscow Patriarchate is trying to capture the church in Chile
Author: Metropolitan Agafangel incl. May 16, 2015. Published in the ROCA (Views: 68)
Most Reverend
Metropolitan Hilarion N. of York
Pervoerarhu RZTS / MP
Your Eminence.
O Lord, holy!
We,
the parishioners of Holy Trinity and Our Lady of Kazan in Santiago,
Chile, appeal to you to attend to the problem faced by our parish.
The
fact that in 1956 the parishioners of our church was founded "Society
Cemetery Russian Orthodox living in Chile" to create and further
maintenance of Orthodox cemetery in Santiago.
In
its structure, "cemetery society ..." is exclusively secular
organization, and therefore has no right to interfere in the internal
life and, moreover, to appoint or remove the sacred-clergymen.
However,
in recent years, the Board "Cemetary of the Company ...", now
consisting of people distant from the Church carries out aggressive
attempts to shift the abbot and spiritual father of our community
Archimandrite Benjamin (Voznyuk), and impose as Ruling Bishop John
Bishop Karakaskogo (Berzinsha).
After
the death of our ruling Archbishop Leonty, followed in July 1971, our
parish, by the Decree of the Synod of Bishops, removed from the
jurisdiction of the Episcopate of South America, and Arch. Benjamin was
appointed Administrator of the Diocese of the Chilean translation under
the direct jurisdiction of the Synod of Bishops N.Yorka.
After
the death of Metropolitan Vitaly Ustinov Arch. Benjamin stopped
commemoration at the Liturgy of the episcopate of the ROCA, but did not
retreat from the canons of the Orthodox Church.
Representatives
of the Synod of Bishops repeatedly came to Chile for talks with Arch.
Benjamin. As a result of these discussions, it was found that by Arch.
Benjamin there are no violations of the dogmas of the Orthodox Church,
hitherto Arch. Benjamin was not subjected to any interdictions from
Svyaschennoierarhii.
However,
the Board "Cemetary Society ..." and, in particular, its Secretary
Buzhinskaya Alexander V. (Old Believers are not representative of Common
Faith Church), using false accusations Arch. Benjamin made by Bishop
John Karakaskogo adoption of the Decree on the Prohibition of the Arch.
Benjamin from serving (which is about. Benjamin personally never
received, but accidentally learned of the protocols Cemetery. Company)
for alleged separatist activities, any fact which was not provided.
At the same time, no decree of Bishop John Karakasky not appointed Ruling Bishop of the Orthodox parish in Santiago.
We
ask Your Excellency to intervene in the situation and, having used your
pastoral authority to stop lawlessness perpetrated by letting our dear
priest about. Benjamin continue his pastoral deeds for the glory of the
Most Holy Trinity.
Please
find attached our petition appeal prot. Alexander (Iwaszewicz) as
evidence that not only our parish but other Orthodox communities in
Latin America have repeatedly appealed to Bishop John to stop the unjust
persecution of about. Benjamin, what he did not heed.
Efforts
have also been evidence, in our view, evidence that some of the
statements and actions of Bishop John Karakaskogo contain heretical
teachings. In particular, the phrase expressed in Christmas gifts for
2015:
"... The Creator became a creature ..."
and
the fact that Bishop John nourishes (ie, remains in prayerful
communion) community of Old Believers-bespopovtsev in Bolivia, which is a
violation of the Rules of St. Apostles of praying with heretics.
* * *
His Grace Bishop John
Karakaskomu and Venezuelan.
Your Excellency,
Dear Lord, holy!
To you parishioners of Holy Trinity and Our Lady of Kazan in Santiago, Chile, and spiritual children Arch. Benjamin (Voznyuk).
We
express our deep concern and express our strong protest actions of the
Board of "Cemetary Company Russian Orthodox living in Chile" wearing
destructive with respect to our arrival and directly to our abbot and
confessor about. Benjamin.
We
deeply regret that you, being Orthodox bishops, and knowing canons of
the Orthodox Church, to encourage unlawful interference exclusively
secular organization, and, moreover, individuals who are not
parishioners of our church, in the internal life.
We strongly disagree with your decree banning from serving on. Benjamin, dictated by political rather than canonical motifs.
We
believe that you are aware of the fact that despite the fact that since
2007, about. Benjamin remembers not the Liturgy of the ROCA episcopate,
no rebuke from the Synod of Bishops to him were applied, although
representatives of the Synod, and you in particular, has repeatedly
traveled to Chile and had a conversation with. Benjamin.
As
Orthodox Bishop, you must understand that no secular organization can
not be the owner of churches and church property, and moreover, do not
have the right to invite or withdraw sacred-clergymen.
We
ask you to show common sense and listen to the opinion of permanent
parishioners of Holy Trinity and Our Lady of Kazan, as well as to the
treatment prot. Alexander (Iwaszewicz), and not to indulge the desires
of people distant from the Church and from the understanding of the
Orthodox canons.
With hope for your understanding and cooperation.
Parishioners of Holy Trinity and Our Lady of Kazan in Santiago, Chile.
Comments
# RE: trying to seize the Moscow Patriarchate church in Chile - Archdeacon German 05/16/2015 14:28
What
is happening now in Chile a prime example of what has become a fallen
fragment of the once glorious Church Abroad. In the first case, likened
the new owners and force, fraud, lies ready to take property from them
did not follow the path of treachery. On the strong do not go, but on
the weak - is another matter ... Just like the Moscow Patriarchate
selects overseas church property, from any side it does not belong, and
their bulk, with the help of civil structures, without neglecting the
help from the Mafia denies true Zarubezhnikov namolennye his temples.
And in Chile, which is t. N. mit. Hilarion and Bishop. John, with his
usual newfound their unprincipled th
bribing dubious public, among which some simply give themselves
atheists, and relying on soulless civil laws to take away 89-year-old
elder Archimandrite Benjamin magnificent temple of the Holy Trinity,
built by his hands and tools 34 years ago? Together with Archimandrite
Benjamin again suffer, how many times have broken life, ascetic Abbess
Juliana monastery with nuns and pupils of the orphanage. In 1948, the
nun Juliana had to run at night through the Bethlehem of the mountain
monastery, the cradle of her monastic transmitted civil authorities
counselor. Almost exactly half a century later, in 1997, a new
temptation and even more painful - stabbed in the back by as if '' its
'', but in fact it is not his, but from the Vl. Mark all in favor of the
same Soviet Patriarchate. All the more memory as Mother Abbess fought
bravely as her ruthlessly dragged his feet on the stone stairs. Before
superior force had to leave Igumen obedience to the Mount of Olives and
leave this gem of Russian Orthodoxy by the same forces of the enemy.
Mother thought Iuliyaniya find peace on a distant foreign land, in
Chile, but here the enemy: paw does not give her peace of mind. "But I
do not lose heart - I wrote my mother Juliana - GOD is not in power but
in truth. Only NKVDistami do not want to have anything to do. I remain
faithful to death to what we have been taught since childhood my
spiritual fathers, wise pastors, mentors and old women. "
Heed the cry of our Orthodox ascetic. Do not let 'them' is the new secret to make a moral crime. "Dali would live peacefully father Benjamin, not a lot of it remains," - writes more caring Mother, not losing hope to reach out to people of conscience, not just betrayed her.
Protodeacon. Herman
Heed the cry of our Orthodox ascetic. Do not let 'them' is the new secret to make a moral crime. "Dali would live peacefully father Benjamin, not a lot of it remains," - writes more caring Mother, not losing hope to reach out to people of conscience, not just betrayed her.
Protodeacon. Herman
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Revisiting of the First Election of Obama
An Eye-Opening Revisiting of the First Election of Barack Obama, and its Deleterious Effects on America-
*Shared by an Orthodox priest in America, who agrees with these astute observations.
Category: Our American scene-
November 7, 2012
Victory of the Demagogue
By Hyatt Seligman
Our newly re-elected, incompetent President is good at one thing: Chicago style politics. Kill your opponent by character assassination and promise freebies to your base. That's exactly how he beat Mitt Romney, a good and decent man, a man of substance, who would have been a great president to turn our economic mess around.
Instead the community organizing, empty-suit incumbent won by pandering to the Democratic base and defaming and distorting Romney into an evil caricature. His simple plan of dividing and conquering through fear, envy and class warfare trumped all else, barely. Appeals to race, gender and emotion triumphed over economic reason and self-interest and the good of the country.
What is that Democratic base? It's quite simple, a cobbled, bare majority of "victims" comprised of blacks, browns and women. It didn't matter to them that their unemployment was at record highs and their communities and lives devastated the last four years. It didn't matter that the President deliberately killed the oil, gas and coal industries and hundreds of thousands of jobs, or supported the teachers' unions over the right of their children to get vouchers to go to quality schools of their choice, or supported the auto unions over the mom and pop shareholders who owned stock, or that he crushed the middle class. It didn't matter to young people that they are personally bankrupt before they start out in life, already burdened by over $200,000 in national debt per person in their generation. And Obama ain't done yet.
Why? The external world is not real to them. What is real are their feelings and emotions. And why not? The modern American message to minorities and women is well learned by now. It's what our public schools have taught for fifty years. The most important thing about you is the color of your skin and what's between your legs. Don't believe it? Look at any high school American History or Civics book. Ten pages on the slave-holding, Founding Fathers and the American Revolution, thirty pages on FDR, the New Deal and Big Government saving America from the evils of capitalism and endless pages devoted to glorifying, heroic, victimized "Native Americans," and other minorities and, of course, demonizing our, evil white, imperialist, ancestors who exploited them and the earth itself. Such endless, sophomoric, guilt-ridden, pabulum has consequences, to wit, the blindness of navel-grazing.
Yes, Obama is the master of the "basic instincts" of his self-centered, narcissistic base. It's not complicated once you understand the con. To blacks he was one of their own and that was really all that mattered. They were in the bag from the start, 95% plus. To Hispanics, he bought their vote with his illegal, dictatorial, but hugely popular, to them at least, executive order for amnesty to young illegals. Result? 70% plus from a community that is Catholic, church-going, hard working, anti-abortion and generally conservative. To women he trotted out the classic Democrat ploy, the fear of losing control over their bodies and even added a new wrinkle, the "right" to free contraceptives even if you're a law student on the cusp of making $150,000 a year to start. Result, a margin of some 9 points, especially in the suburbs. Yes, pandering to the self-absorbed pays.
Toss in a little scapegoating and blame-gaming through envy and class-warfare, just to make the base feel even more self-righteous, and you have a country divided almost fifty-fifty, but more importantly, a winning electoral strategy despite being the worst president since Jimmy Carter, perhaps the worst in modern history.
Such is the vapidity of the American people today. Iran going nuclear? Libya what? Muslim Brotherhood, is that a new rap group? Israel who? Hey, Obama killed Osama! I saw it on Nat Geo! He's the guy I trust on foreign policy.
Amazing.
Four years of disastrous failure at home? No big deal. 47 million on food stamps, 23,000,000 unemployed, robbing Medicare to pay for Obamacare, death panels, trillions of dollars wasted, gas doubled in four years, energy and food prices rising like crazy, entitlement spending out of control, no budget in four years -- not to worry. Just tax the rich and fuggedaboudit. Problem solved. Damn Republicans. Don't they know it's all Bush's fault? Plus they only care about whites, right?
Romney shares some blame, too, for losing, barely, an easily winnable election. He coasted when he had a five point lead. He played not to lose. He allowed himself to be defined early by attack ads. He let Obama off the hook for Libya, his blind support of the Arab Spring and his obeisant, appeasing foreign policy in that helped set our embassies afire across the Muslim world. Instead, Romney's third debate on foreign policy was like a group, me-too, hug.
But Romney's biggest mistake was to try and turn this into a technocrat, tunnel-vision campaign on the economy alone and not to focus on where Obama was truly vulnerable, on character, trust and integrity, because of the latter's many, many lies and distortions, especially after Benghazi. Two weeks of "Why should you trust a President who won't tell you the truth about Benghazi?" could have gone a long way towards putting the President on the defensive and maintaining Romney's momentum. Instead, like Senator McCain four years earlier, he let Obama off the hook without a swing. Why should Americans care about character if Romney doesn't?
So now we have the spectacle of blacks, browns, young people and many women screaming in ecstasy at the man who has bankrupted them and generations to come by making empty promises paid for by trillions of dollars we don't have. They won't know their betrayal until it's too late, until the Piper has to be paid, when inflation is out of sight, our credit rating is downgraded, when the entire coal industry is shut down and fracking banned, when China stops buying our worthless debt, when the dollar standard is discarded and we can't delay disaster by printing more worthless money or buying our own treasury bonds with money borrowed from China, when we finally, inevitably, fall off the cliff into a truly great depression and/or World War III breaks out, only after anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying Iran has nuclear weapons and Israel is possibly incinerated. What a great second term we have coming.
These epochal issues were what was really at stake in this Presidential election, but Mr. Romney, good man that he is, wouldn't go there. On the contrary, he praised Obama's good intentions, refused to dramatize the real danger, apparently out of fear of being labeled a warmonger, and lost the true battles of character and ideas to the shameless, craftier, demagogue.
If only Romney had chosen Marco Rubio, the obvious, ethnic choice for his Vice-President. Crass, yes. Racial politics, yes. But Rubio was equally or more qualified than Paul Ryan, and sometimes you have to fight fire with fire, to win Florida, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and more, and save your country from itself.
If the Republicans get that, maybe they can win in 2016, if we survive the next four years. It's going to be touch and go. We have an unrepentant, unaccountable, scapegoating, leftist demagogue in the White House with all the "flexibility" in the world and worse, the mastery of how to pull the wool over the eyes of his base whenever and however he wants. Honey, you ain't seen nothing yet, plus four Supreme Court nominees to rewrite our "deeply flawed" Constitution of "negative rights only" that Professor Obama despises.
You get the government you deserve. Pray for America. We have let the dogs loose.
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