Let me say kindly
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but clearly what
Babylon really is.
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It's really the papacy
joined by the Protestants
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who have
abandoned Sola Scriptura
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or the authority of Scripture.
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How does it
become so popular though?
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Well, it's the
temptation of the centuries.
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If you look down
through the centuries,
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you'll find that the devil
has had one successful strategy
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to try to woo the
church away from the Savior,
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and that strategy
is to love the world.
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You can hear the
warning by the apostles on this,
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and it's been Satan's
most successful strategy
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down through the centuries.
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It worked with ancient Israel,
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it worked with the early church,
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and now it's
working in the end of time.
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You know nothing really changes,
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history keeps
repeating itself, doesn't it?
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So what pagan Rome
did to the early church
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through
compromise, the devil using it,
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now pagan Rome does to
the Protestant churches.
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So how has pagan Rome done this?
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Well, let's let
the Bible answer,
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how did pagan Rome do it?
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Let's let the Bible answer.
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Here's James 4:4-5,
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"Adulterers and adulteresses,
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do you not know that
friendship with the world
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is enmity with God?
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Whoever therefore wants
to be a friend of the world
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makes himself an enemy to God?
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Or do you think
that the scripture says
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in vain the
spirit who dwells in us
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yearns, jealousy."
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In other words,
God is a jealous God.
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I explained that earlier.
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There's a good jealousy,
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a husband should be jealous
for his wife appropriately.
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We should be jealous
for the love of our children
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in a good way.
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So God is
jealous for His church,
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He's not going to share her.
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And when she shares
herself, she apostatize,
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then it brings great
trouble to the world.
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Now, the thing that
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has happened down
through the centuries
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is that the church
was attracted to the world
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and wanted worldly power,
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power and wealth.
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But in the United
States of America,
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we've separated the
church and the state.
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So the church has freedom
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not to be
controlled by the state
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and the state has freedom
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not to be
controlled by the church.
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If the church does its duty,
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and converts and works in
the hearts of men and women,
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America will
continue to be a great nation.
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In fact, there was a
Frenchman, many, many years ago
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that said this and he was right.
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He said, "America is
great, because America is good."
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And let me add that
America has been good,
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because America
has had a population
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that trusted this
book and allowed the Bible
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to direct its ways,
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but now with the
evolutionists and the atheists,
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and all of these other things,
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they're overthrowing this
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and even the Church of Rome now
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basically has councils
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and its own
authority and its own opinions,
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has authority
greater than the Bible.
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So the
philosophies of the world now
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superintend or supersede,
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I should say, the Bible.
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Protestantism is
becoming the same way.
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As people are abandoning,
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yes, they give lip
service to Scripture,
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but do they
really go by Scripture?
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Do they let
Scripture test thing?
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Now, of course,
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when you have this
kind of amalgamation
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between the church and state,
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then you get the
persecution of the Dark Ages.
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And that's exactly
what's going to happen again.
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The United States of America
was given to overthrow that,
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but now religious freedom,
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I believe is
under a sincere threat,
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most people don't see it,
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they don't
understand where it's going,
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they don't see how this power
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that's developing
such a great power
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to control the state,
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they don't
understand where that's going,
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but it's going.
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Now let's just
look at Rome's attitude
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towards religious liberty.
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I know some
people are going to say,
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"What about Vatican II?"
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I'm going to address
that in just a moment.
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Josiah Strong in
Our Country, he said,
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"The pacific tone of
Rome in the United States
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does not imply a
change of heart."
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She's tolerant,
where she is helpless,
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says Bishop O'Connor,
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"Religious
liberty is merely endured
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until the opposite
can be carried into effect
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without peril to
the Catholic world."
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But what about Vatican II?
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People have just been mesmerized
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of the Vatican, do they?
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Everybody thinks that
Vatican II changed everything.
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The Roman Catholic Church
actually changed its position
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on religious liberty
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and that now it
believes in religious liberty.
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But let me tell
you, it's a sly as a fox.
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You got to read a
little bit between the lines
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and I'm going to
share something with you
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that it's just really amazing.
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So although Vatican
II's council decree,
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the dignity of
humanity and emphasized
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that people
should not be coerced
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in matters of religion.
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He goes on to say,
"It leaves untouched,
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untouched,
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the traditional
Catholic doctrine
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on the moral duty
of men and societies
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to the true religion
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and toward the one true church,
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i.e that in an ideal society,
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the Catholic
Church would be recognized
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as the official
religion of the state."
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It's just a recent quote,
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some Catholic
scholars now are saying this.
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They began
analyzing this and they said,
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"Well, now wait a
minute, wait a minute.
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We got Vatican II, does
that mean that Vatican II,
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actually the Catholic Church
actually changed its doctrine,
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its teaching,
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and they come to a
very interesting conclusion,
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very interesting.
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These are
Catholic theologians now.
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Vatican II's
teaching on religious freedom
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changed policy,
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not doctrine.
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What?
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Changed policy.
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In other words, the way
you implement something,
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but it didn't
change the doctrine.
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There's another
source that I know of that
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was right on that said Rome,
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talking about the
papacy, never changes,
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never changes.
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Here's another,
another Catholic scholar,
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he says, "We can see
how this dignity of humanity
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does not change
the doctrine after all,
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religious coercion..."
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Now listen
carefully, you've to catch this.
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The scholar goes on
to say, Catholic scholar,
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"Religious coercion
by the state is now,"
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underline the word,
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"now, morally wrong
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and a violation
of people's rights."
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And then he goes on to add,
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"Not because religious coercion
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by any authority is wrong.
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But because the church,"
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Roman Catholic
Church, the popes,
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"no longer authorize it."
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So that is pretty slick.
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They tell everybody,
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"Okay, we believe in
the dignity of humanity."
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They didn't change the doctrine.
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They just said,
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"We don't authorize the
state to do it anymore."
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But you have to
listen, it goes on.
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"The church is now
refusing to license the state
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to act as her coercive,"
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or persecuting
agent you might say,
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"and it is from
that policy change,
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and not from any
change an underlying doctrine
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that the wrongfulness,
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a religious coercion
by the state follows."
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Now they go on, these
scholars go on to say,
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talking about religious
liberty from Vatican II.
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"We believe..."
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this is fascinating,
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"We believe that
this one true religion,"
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talking about the
papacy, of course,
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"continues to exist
in the Catholic Church."
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Now listen carefully.
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So while the religious freedom
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which men demand,"
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underline it,
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"which men demand
has to do with freedom
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from coercion in civil society.
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It leaves intact,
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the traditional
Catholic teaching
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on the moral duty of
individuals and society
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toward the true religion
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and the one Church of Christ."
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They didn't change a thing.
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All they did is say,
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"Well, we're not
going to authorize
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the state to enforce."
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Because the
truth is they couldn't,
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not with the Constitution
of the United States,
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but they are forming alliances.
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And you're seeing a great move.
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I've been shocked to
hear and I understand that
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the separation
of church and state
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sometimes can take
on a different context.
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And I don't have
time to get into that.
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But I'm talking about
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going back into
the traditional stand,
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where the state is
neutral in the Constitution,
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where it does
not empower religion,
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nor does it prevent
the practice of religion.
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And that's a wonderful place
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and it's brought
so much happiness
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and peace to all of us,
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I mean, look, go
back to the Dark Ages,
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go back to the
terrible persecution.
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You can see all of
Europe just drenched in blood
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because of this.
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What does Catholic Church mean?
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What does
Vatican II really mean?
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It means the religious freedom
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which men demand versus
religious freedom as a right.
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In other words,
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when popular
opinion no longer demands
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religious freedom,
it will be taken away.
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Now that's different than
the American Constitution.
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The genius of
the American thinking
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is that liberty of
conscience is guaranteed
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as a minority right.
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In other words, the
majority can't take it away
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because it's
protected by the Constitution.
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The Vatican II still demands
that individuals and societies
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give them allegiance,
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and they owe the Catholic Church
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a moral duty.
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This means that
when the Catholic Church
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and her allies
become popular enough,
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they can and will
take religious freedom
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away from the minority.
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In other words, the only
reason the minority have it
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is because the
majority is willing,
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but when you change the
opinion of the majority,
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the Roman Church is
ready to change the freedoms
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that the minority should have.
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Well, this alliance,
of course, is now forming,
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and we can see it happening.
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Dr. Falwell, late Dr. Falwell
some years ago passed away.
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He told a whole
group not even to consider
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trying to affect public policy
00:11:19.27\00:11:21.74
with only the narrow evangelical
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Protestant coalition.
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He said, "Such an effort
must include the Catholics
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and in counsel with a great
Cardinal Law and O'Connor."
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And then he says,
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"Accepting their help
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is the step towards unity."
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We must be aware, of course,
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that Pope Francis is
really headed down this road
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just as fast as he can go.
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This is another quote
from Pastor I think, Robinson,
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if I'm not mistaken,
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"Aware that a
meeting with Pope Francis
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will be troublesome
among staunch Protestants."
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Mr. Robinson said,
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"He and other visiting
evangelical Christian leaders
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talked about diversity
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and their belief
that the Roman Catholics
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and Protestants
could work together
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without
compromising their beliefs."
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So this is an
alliance, not a merger.
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"So if Protestant America
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abroad began seeing Pope Francis
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as the trusted leader and voice,
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it could revolutionize."
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He goes on to say,
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"Relations between
the two spiritual entities
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that have been estranged
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for nearly a half a millennium."
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So Rome's
principles are simply this,
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Rome's principles is
that worldly power...
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They want worldly power
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and the church
controls the state,
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and that miracles
are proof of truth,
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not scripture.
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And that's how it
seduces the world,
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seduces the world and
it's going to look like
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they're going to
solve so many problems
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with this new alliance,
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Catholics and
Protestants together,
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everybody getting along,
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having powerful influence
on the state to do its will.
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But with that will
come an abandonment
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of religious liberty,
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the freedom to worship God
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according to the
dictates of your conscience,
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with it will come the imposition
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of the mark of the beast
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and the adulterous
betrayal of the Lord Jesus.
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