This past summer my pastor went as usual to his priest reflection days, or whatever it's called. What did they study? The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey.
The religious beliefs of Covey are Mormon. They are not Christian. A study of Covey's writings reveal the Mormon ideas and beliefs behind many of the principles found in 7 Habits. Churches and religious organizations should seriously reconsider whether it is appropriate to use a personal growth program that is written by someone who believes these false doctrines. They also need to decide if they want to promote Covey as an expert on personal growth and development that Christians should follow.
Throughout another of his books "The Divine Center" (this review from a non-Catholic source), Covey openly denounces Christianity as "incorrect" and praises the Mormons. He also admits to taking Book of Mormon scriptures and making them "generic" to reach the masses.
Couldn't Bishop Driscoll find anything of a Catholic nature to use? Just sayin'....................
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;Ignorant Redneck proposes we fast and pray for three days before the election. Good idea! I suggest we start now and all join together in earnest for those three days.
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Ancient Rome - Eat Your Heart Out
BOSTON (Reuters) - The Connecticut Supreme Court overturned a ban on same-sex marriage on Friday in a victory for gay-rights advocates that will allow couples to marry in the New England state.
The court found that the state's law limiting marriage to heterosexual couples discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation.
Connecticut is now the third state in the country to allow gay marriage, following neighboring Massachusetts, the first state to allow it, and California.
and in "lighter" news:
Washington State (my closest neighbor) wants to kill old and sick people. Oooooops, sorry - allow them to die with dignity
By my estimation, if we kill them in the womb, dispatch them early when they become a burden, and have same-sex marriage, we should become an extinct lifeform on earth in no time.
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10 comments:
What a strange world we live in!
I've read Corvey's book. Useful for business and other such purposes, but not really spiritual reading.
We should all be praying for our country, for God's will to be done in the next election, and for the grace to accept whoever God chooses to place over us. By Him "kings reign and princes rule."
We should also be praying more generally for our country right now.
Cheers!
On a recent poll here in Australia the majority believed that terminally ill patients should be allowed to end their lives (kill themselves). It is a strange world.
A strange world indeed, where the right to life -- the fundamental right upon which all other rights are predicated -- is thrown aside in favor of other "rights" -- the "right to choose," or the "right to death with dignity" -- which are alien to the entire concept of rights as traditionally understood since Magna Carta.
And it will become an even stranger world if Obama is elected.
It really does feel as if our world has more in common with ancient Rome, pre-Constantine, than with the world my own grandparents knew. I find this an almost-depressing realization, and the changes in our nation, unchallenged by "good christian people," make me angry.
mark - since I am old enough to remember when it wasn't like this it appears more than strange. It is positively other-worldly.
therese - strange indeed.
Laura - we need to stop being so "nicey-nice" and start speaking up!!!
Indeed, it is time for us to speak up. And to pray. The kind of forces striking at our nation during this election season are at their root spiritual. They flow from the Evil One, and they seek to cement in place the culture of death -- to make sure that what was common and embraced in the cults of Moloch are common and embraced here in modern America.
Perspective is key. This isn't just about this election. This is about a struggle that goes back to Eden.
Mark Yep - My husband calls it the fight between good and evil (not very original but delivered in a very heart felt and serious manner)
Mark again - Said very well....
Thanks for the kind words about my rhetoric!
Cheers.
Well - my first inclination was to put that comment in a post - I might still do it.
Tomorrows post is brewing now --- can you hear it perking???
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