A Bit More Data on Biden

To supplement Christopher Blosser's fine article, the pro-abortion activist group NARAL currently gives Biden a 60% favorable rating (see source link). By comparison, the pro-abortion group gives Sen. McCain a 0% pro-choice score (see source link). Sen. Obama gets a 100% rating (see source link).This election is a no-brainer for pro-life Catholics and other pro-life Christians. For the life of me, I can't see why any pro-life voter would hesitate, even for a millisecond, in voting for McCain when the only other choice is Obama. Can any such hesitation be due to paralysis by overanalysis or to some strain of unconscious intellectual vanity? It's time to take sides and get in the campaign trenches.

Another observation: what we have in Biden is the typical Democratic machine politician like the current Daley in Chicago. For them, power comes before faith. To me, it's emblematic of a distorted form of Catholicism that relegates Catholicism to some sort of mere folk/ethnic/sociological identification. In fact, Catholicism is a personal relationship with Jesus in union with the Church founded by Jesus. St. Paul spent a large portion of his life (and of the New Testament that we are supposed to be reading regularly) fighting the notion that Christianity would be an ethnic based religion based on mere tribal markers. The heresy that he fought keeps lingering as the ongoing temptation to make of Catholicism a merely sociological/ethnic identity rather than a personal relationship with Jesus in the heart of His Church. Once you go the sociological route, countercultural obedience to Jesus falls by the wayside. Social ambition takes over. In contrast to Biden and Daley, Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, for example, is a strong pro-life Catholic politician who converted from a Hindu background. That's proof that true Catholicism has no ethnic markers and that sometimes the ethnic markers are a self-deceiving snare.