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Veteran’s Day occurs on November 11. Did you know that with the advent of a coed U. S. military more than 3,000,000 women have this nation in combat and I peace time? See: https://soldierforlife.army.mil/Documents/echoes/latest.pdf

Indeed. We are not Catholics and we have reasons not to be Catholic. Historically, the Catholic church has been enmeshed in government. When Al Smith, and John Kennedy ran for president; there was worry that they would mix the church and state and have views of the Pope become the law of the land. Al Smith thus lost, however Kennedy was aware of this issue and addressed it head on talking about the difference between being a Catholic politician, and an American politician who happens to be a member of the Catholic church. Kennedy had to consciously maintain the separation of church and state. Today, our citizens have forgotten Kennedy's monumental message. Over the past few decades we have lost sight of the separation of church and state. The one party has started to show preference for evangelical Christianity, we have politicians and judges who are trying to enforce the beliefs of Evangelical Christianity. The other party has not gotten as far, but does have a large voice that wants to show preference for the religion of secular humanism, push for the beliefs of secular humanism and stifle the voice of other religions, especially Christianity. There are some things that we should fight on a grass roots level. I believe that abortion is one of these. We are to work with people who would consider abortion and help them see other options and encourage them to choose other options. The government's job is to provide something less dangerous for those we either did not yet get to, or who were unchangeably determined to have an abortion. In Timothy we read about how in the last days people will have a form of godliness but deny the power thereof. Instead of getting off our posteriors and try to reach these people out of love and the Holy Spirit, we want to sit on our fat posterior, denying the power of the Holy Spirit to work and turn to the power of the government to force them to follow what we wish. The book "The Great Controversy" lays out the issues of chaos (the dragon of Revelation 12) on the one hand, and the control (force, the beast of Revelation 13); as opposed to the freedom we have through Christ (the 3 angels of Revelation 14). Over history we saw a glairing example of the control in how the church and state was over the dark ages. People like Kennedy who would consciously serve in office following the American principles of separation of church and state of Roger Williams, Jefferson/Madison. Ideas of individual choice further inclusion of wider groups from Jackson's application to the common white man and that women can improve their role in society; and this leading to "why only the common white man? and why should women stay in this secondary level and not be involved with all aspects of life? that we see in people such as Sojourner Truth, Fredric Douglas, eventually Abraham Lincoln, Susan Anthony, among others. But I fear too many who read the Great Controversy have blinded themselves to the deeper message, and think only "POPE, POPE, POPE" While the Pope was a major player in the 5th head, we tend to turn the entire beast into the pope. Elements attacking liberty of conscience and pushing for control are embraced as long as it is not from the Vatican and not directly Sunday Laws. While the Papacy will play a role in the 7th head, the Bible seems to put it in more of a background position, with the world uniting in economic cooperation being in the foreground. Over history the papacy gave us a picture of what to avoid. But sadly too many of us don't look at that picture but only the specific application and willing to accept what we are warned about as long as it comes from other directions. Please forgive me for being political now, but sadly we have recently seen how people wanted, and still want someone to become our American pope and king. And clean the land from ungodly abominations.