Life Site News Favors a State Church

[Dale]

LifeSiteNews was founded in Canada in 1997 by John-Henry Westen, who is now Editor in Chief.

I believe that LifeSiteNews is one of the strongest voices in the pro-life movement. Correct me if I am wrong about this.

“The Antichrist’s Great Lie Revealed: Freemasonary, ‘One World Religion’, and Naturalism” is a video hosted by Westen. It is one of a series, and as the title suggests, Westen does entertain conspiracy theories where Freemasonry is the great enemy of the Roman Catholic Church.

Westen talks about Roman Catholic expectations of the Antichrist. He says that theologians, saints and mystics back up his views but doesn’t mention the Bible. The Antichrist will persecute the church with a false religion, which he calls naturalism. Westen defines naturalism as follows.

“… a ruling out or setting aside of the supernatural order and its divine revelation in the public sphere it also appears as a secularization of society and a denial that the state has duties towards God and the True Religion.”

In other words LifeSiteNews and John-Henry Westen favor a state church, specifically the Roman Catholic Church as a state church. To Westen, “the state has duties towards God,” and duties toward “the True Religion.” This extraordinary claim is found in the first five minutes of the video below.

For anyone to claim that their church is the rightful state church for every country simply puts them beyond the pale of anything I am willing to consider. To be taken seriously, Westen needs to realize that everyone doesn’t go to the same church.

Link to Video commented on here.

 

[AlexB23]

LifeSiteNews was founded in Canada in 1997 by John-Henry Westen, who is now Editor in Chief.

I believe that LifeSiteNews is one of the strongest voices in the pro-life movement. Correct me if I am wrong about this.

“The Antichrist’s Great Lie Revealed: Freemasonary, ‘One World Religion’, and Naturalism” is a video hosted by Westen. It is one of a series, and as the title suggests, Westen does entertain conspiracy theories where Freemasonry is the great enemy of the Roman Catholic Church.

Westen talks about Roman Catholic expectations of the Antichrist. He says that theologians, saints and mystics back up his views but doesn’t mention the Bible. The Antichrist will persecute the church with a false religion, which he calls naturalism. Westen defines naturalism as follows.

“… a ruling out or setting aside of the supernatural order and its divine revelation in the public sphere it also appears as a secularization of society and a denial that the state has duties towards God and the True Religion.”

In other words LifeSiteNews and John-Henry Westen favor a state church, specifically the Roman Catholic Church as a state church. To Westen, “the state has duties towards God,” and duties toward “the True Religion.” This extraordinary claim is found in the first five minutes of the video below.

For anyone to claim that their church is the rightful state church for every country simply puts them beyond the pale of anything I am willing to consider. To be taken seriously, Westen needs to realize that everyone doesn’t go to the same church.

Link to Video commented on here.

You know what is really scary, there are churches (progressive ones) that support pro-choice sadly in 2024. Churches are becoming echo chambers to suit people's own doctrines, including pro-choice doctrines.

2 Timothy 4:3 (ESV): "For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions".

The verse basically says that some Christians (not all), especially modern churches, have gone so far from the Bible, that Cafeteria Christianity has become a thing in the past few decades.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/05/progressive-christians-abortion-jes-kast/590293/

 

[JimR-OCDS]

Lifesitenews lacks credibility, always has. It's purely anti-Pope Francis. Here's some evidence;

LifeSiteNews does harm with stories like 'Vatican financial scandal'

Distinctly Catholic: It is difficult to determine whether to even call attention to nonsense like LifeSiteNews' story on a "new Vatican financial scandal." But someone has to expose this fraud for what it is.

www.ncronline.org

Cardinal Burke corrects LifeSiteNews: 'I have never worked with Steve Bannon'

In a statement today, Cardinal Raymond Burke issued a correction to a now-removed LifeSiteNews article, which claimed that Burke was collaborating with former President Donald Trump advisor Stephen Bannon on a film exposing homosexuality in the Vatican.

www.catholicnewsagency.com

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/facebook-ban-lifesite-covid/2021/05/07/638a4768-af48-11eb-acd3-24b44a57093a_story.html

LifeSiteNews labelled fake news by media watchdog - The Interim

A journalism nonprofit that recently named LifeSiteNewsand numerous other mainstream, right-of-center websites as “unreliable” has apologized after days of public backlash, pledging to scrap their old criteria for more rigorous methodology. The Poynter Institute, which trains writers and...

theinterim.com

 

[Dale]

Lifesitenews lacks credibility, always has. It's purely anti-Pope Francis. Here's some evidence;

LifeSiteNews does harm with stories like 'Vatican financial scandal'

Distinctly Catholic: It is difficult to determine whether to even call attention to nonsense like LifeSiteNews' story on a "new Vatican financial scandal." But someone has to expose this fraud for what it is.

www.ncronline.org

Cardinal Burke corrects LifeSiteNews: 'I have never worked with Steve Bannon'

In a statement today, Cardinal Raymond Burke issued a correction to a now-removed LifeSiteNews article, which claimed that Burke was collaborating with former President Donald Trump advisor Stephen Bannon on a film exposing homosexuality in the Vatican.

www.catholicnewsagency.com

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/facebook-ban-lifesite-covid/2021/05/07/638a4768-af48-11eb-acd3-24b44a57093a_story.html

LifeSiteNews labelled fake news by media watchdog - The Interim

A journalism nonprofit that recently named LifeSiteNewsand numerous other mainstream, right-of-center websites as “unreliable” has apologized after days of public backlash, pledging to scrap their old criteria for more rigorous methodology. The Poynter Institute, which trains writers and...

theinterim.com

Thanks, that is helpful. From the name you would think they are concerned almost entirely with promoting the pro-life position. Instead, Weston simply spreads the reactionary Roman Catholic view on everything. If pro-life is the goal, you won't win by alienating your allies.

 

[Dale]

You know what is really scary, there are churches (progressive ones) that support pro-choice sadly in 2024. Churches are becoming echo chambers to suit people's own doctrines, including pro-choice doctrines.

2 Timothy 4:3 (ESV): "For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions".

The verse basically says that some Christians (not all), especially modern churches, have gone so far from the Bible, that Cafeteria Christianity has become a thing in the past few decades.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/05/progressive-christians-abortion-jes-kast/590293/

Being pro-choice isn't as scary as promoting a state church. Westen doesn't just say that Catholics should impose a state church if they are in the majority. He says that every government has a duty to the Roman Catholic church, no matte what the people think.

I'm not supporting the pro-choice position. I was on the email list of my local Democratic Party before I criticized Roe vs. Wade in a couple of letters to the editor. Now the Democrats no longer invite me to their fundraisers. I don't know what they gain by not inviting me to a fundraiser, but there it is.

 

[AlexB23]

Being pro-choice isn't as scary as promoting a state church. Westen doesn't just say that Catholics should impose a state church if they are in the majority. He says that every government has a duty to the Roman Catholic church, no matte what the people think.

I'm not supporting the pro-choice position. I was on the email list of my local Democratic Party before I criticized Roe vs. Wade in a couple of letters to the editor. Now the Democrats no longer invite me to their fundraisers. I don't know what they gain by not inviting me to a fundraiser, but there it is.

Both political parties are kinda like a religion also. As soon as one criticizes one thing the democrats do, or one thing that MAGA does, we get kicked out of said party. My Republican friend here on the forums is an outcast in his own party for going against Trump. That is why I do not add myself to any party lists or align fully with either party.

We can both agree that the Cafeteria Christianity mentioned in 2 Timothy 4:3 and promoting state churches are equally scary. I am not sure which is more scary.