Writes Michael T. Thiel of Plymouth, Minnesota:+Re: Your commentary on the division in America an the world:+Why is it happening? “God is not mocked, we reap what we sow.”+As Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board during the Iraq War wrote in his memoirs, “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.'”+Yes, the war was not about WMD. Americans were lied about WMD.+Pope John Paul II warned America not to invade Iraq. I wrote to every Senator, every Archdiocese pleading in the name of Jesus Christ not to invade Iraq. Not one American bishop spoke out against the invasion before it had happened. Why? President Bush was against abortion, and the pedophile cover-up within the Catholic Church had become a disgrace. The USCC had no moral voice with which to speak. I ‘knew’ that the consequences of such an invasion based on lies would be very, very disastrous for the Middle East and for America.+We helped reaped civil war in the Middle East by destroying the government of dictator Saddam Hussein. It unleashed a hornet’s nest in the Middle East, and now that hornet’s nest is unleashed on America. “God is not mocked, we reap what we sow.”+We are close to a civil war in America, while the Middle East is in civil chaos. Ayn Rand advocates are in power. Ayn Rand, a Russian-born atheist in her Objectivist philosophy as made the following statements.+“The love of money is the root of all good.” “As to altruism – it has never been alive. It is the poison of death in the blood of Western civilization, and men survived it only to the extent to which they neither believed nor practiced it. “+“The Virtue of Selfishness.” “Egoism is rational and is the highest virtue, and one’s happiness as the final purpose of one’s life” (without God of course). Ayn Rand believed in pure lassez-faire capitalism without regulation and interference from the government.+
As for Alan Greenspan, he was a disciple of Ayn Rand, and was at her funeral where a 6 ft. wreath of a dollar sign was placed. “The love of money is the root of all evil”. It will destroy this country, and it is undermining Christianity to the point that we are no better than the religious hypocrites of Jesus day, who also were lovers of money, “You can not serve both God and Mammon”+Our economy would collapse if we did not pursue pleasure and materialism. The focus should be within the Church, and not outside the Church. As the apostle Paul, wrote; “What business is it of mine to judge those outside the Church? Are you not to judge those inside? God will judge those outside. ‘Expel the wicked person from among you.'”