strongWhom the Gods Would Destroystrongnn nIt seems thatstrong Obama in a classic act of hubris has created the means of his own destructionstrong  Through his great historical contribution his health care bill he has struck what was surelystrong intended to be a lethal blow against the oldest organization on earth  an organization with something on the order of a billion members with a cadre of hundreds of thousands of highly trained and dedicated personnel and a history of overcoming political threats that make Obama look like a kindergartnernnIm referring of course to the Catholic Churchstrong  Now I dont mean that the Archangel Gabriel will appear out of the East to scourge the administration with a blazing sword though I would pay to see that  What Im saying is that strongObama has at last taken the step that we all knew he had in him the ultimate act of arrogance and contempt that will bring the forces of history down upon himstrongnnThe left has always underestimated the Catholic Church  strongHow many divisions has the pope Stalin once asked Molotov mocking the Churchs powerlessness in the modern era  He was not around to see John Paul II rend the Bolshevik kingdom in twain at the climax of the Cold War utilizing the only forces he required moral certainty and absolute faith in the divine missionstrong  Most American leftists are a little different viewing the Church as an anachronism obsessed with medieval ideas having no place in the third millennium and populated with strange figures in outmoded clothing if not with an endless parade of childmolesters  nnstrongWhat they overlook is two thousand years of historystrong  An organization does not survive for that length of time  and no other organization has  without internalizing things not completely understood by even the deepest thinkers among us  strongnnThe Church survived the fall of Rome the barbarians the first Muslim upsurge several schisms the Renaissance princes the thcentury totalitarians and its own plunges into decadence and it will also survive modernismstrong  Which is in fact what it confronts in Obama a man of vast though superficial sophistication and little insight who has punched all the tickets available to him in his epoch and culture and truly believes there is nothing else strong And now this man afraid of revealing his own college transcripts thinks he can take on the Church of Peter founded a millennium before the appearance of any nation now existing on this earthstrongnnnRead more httpwwwamericanthinkercomwhomthegodswoulddestroyhtmlixzzmKnbYd