The Papal visit

To my way of thinking, I feel that the Pope could not have picked a better time to visit our country. In case you haven't noticed, for years back and to this date, Religion and Particularly Christianity, has been under attack. The Pope's visit, to my mind, was like a shot in the arm. His visit has gone far to rejuvenate the spirituality of our people, people of all races, creeds and colors. Yes, his visit was a gift from God, to a nation in Moral disarray. He came here, I am sure, for many reasons. However, during this Election period, his arrival on our shores could not be more timely and/or needed--needed by people of all faiths and religion. I cannot help but talk to this visit in a Political context, for in that context we are being politically attacked, not one religion but all. The two top candidates of the Democratic Party, are in no small way, taking this country down the road to secularism, if not outright Atheism. Socialism is only one step removed from outright Communism. Communism is nothing but a full blown atheistic doctrine. In order to rule, you must first destroy, in many ways, the nature of the beast. Yes, you must first break the spirit of those you wish to dominate over. In the last forty year and more, this has been the goal of the Democratic Party. Who can deny that all the good that has been in our past: Religion, our Educational systems, the family structure, and even to the extent of destroying the Boys Scouts, our Military Recruiters, and above all our Military and the Military Complex of this nation. I have lived through the great depression years and as well all the wars, since WWII to the Present. I have never, in this time seen our country so divided not only by race but by loyalty to our country, and our president. Yes, we as nation, in all these years have had such a degree of disloyal, dishonesty, bitterness and such. We were never perfect--but as well we were never as a citizenship so devoid of personnel respect for ourselves, our religions, our country as we are today. I could go on, but why, we all know what has been going wrong for the past forty years. Today Obama, and his followers are screaming for Change and I don't blame them. But they are not for social change but for changes in our Government. And what do they offer in its stead, Utopian dreams that have in the past, for nations who have tried it, ended in a Socialistic Nightmare. The Pope's visit was welcomed and needed! Now the question is - was he to late? "Stigmas are the corollaries of values. If work, Independence, responsibility, respectability, are valued, then their converse must be devalued, as seen as disreputable."Gertrude Hemmelfarb The Messenger