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"Catholic Christianity" is the "intransigent obstacle" in this fight. The document describes the Catholic church as an enemy of the prevailing secular current, setting the tone with dogged, influential forces. This is not only in universities, but also in much of the media.
How should the church be destroyed? By making her responsible for all the worst atrocities in history. Blame is their absolute truth claim, which is guaranteed by God the Creator. A truth that can be known by reason and by the nature. This Catholic rejection of relativism and monotheism are to blame for bigotry and intolerance.
Because of their Claim to Truth, the Church is to Blame for all the Crimes of Humanity
A total relativism, says the document, seeking for a unity of thinking, which each and everyone would have to submit. A thinking that leads to the dictatorship of relativism that attacks anyone who thinks that there is the truth. The truth is instead referred to "explicitly as a radical threat to the autonomy of the subject" and an opening to freedom. This was especially so because everyone is entitled to objective and universal truth that applies to everyone and is accessible to the human mind, is immediately challenged with an exclusive claim by a subject or group. This would, according to critics, lead to the justification of hegemony over man, that it does not give. Truth is thus brought in inseparable connection to power, so they each claim and it is seen as a template for conflict and violence between people.
For the dictatorship of relativism, the Church was the main responsible for this violence because it teaches monotheism.But if there is only one God, then there is only one truth. If there is, however, different gods, then there are also different truths. Only the polytheism guarantee relativism. The new ideology thus represents a radical reversal compared to the previous history of religion represents, and the secular, the previously considered monotheism as progress towards polytheism. This "reversal of the modern frame is unexpected: now monotheism is considered archaic and despotic, polytheism as creative and tolerant."
Commission rejects Equating Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Certainly Christians have succumbed to the temptation of violence over the course of history, but significantly less than others, and especially far less than the anti-Christian ideologies. However, to make the Christians but also responsible for the massacres that were committed by other religions, harkens back to either category, which has been discussed by the history of religion for some time: the category of the "three great monotheistic religions." Although this expresses some truth, but treats Judaism, Islam and Christianity as a whole, although they represent three totally different realities. However, the dictatorship of relativism sums it under the heading of "monotheism". Even Islamist suicide bombers can then be dialectically pushed to Christianity.
It belongs to the special merits of the new document to reject the generalized classification of Judaism, Christianity and Islam as the big three "monotheistic religions".It's particularly meritorious, because an undifferentiated equation is also common in parts of the Catholic world.
The purpose behind why the new radical secularism picks this reworked old theory is not inter-religious dialogue, which it was originally intended, but to attack religion, whose main purpose again, is the attack against Christianity and to be exact, the attack against the Catholic Church. "We can not but hide the fact that in an intellectually relevant part of our western society, the aggressiveness with which this 'theorem' is put forward, is mainly focused on a radical indictment of Christianity," says the document. "The systematic identification of Catholic Christianity as an entrenched obstacle in the fight against monotheism," the widespread religious violence in the world leave, despite not a little remarkable.
Refutes Allegations of Relativists Point by Point
The document has refuted point by point the accusations of the relativists. This includes the interpretation of some warlike and bloody events of the Old Testament, for which the proof is provided that they fit into a specific historical context, are to be read as metaphors for the struggle against the devil and moral evil, and especially that they were then overcome by the message of the Gospel. In a not very easy to read part of the document, which follows the Magisterium of Benedict XVI., it is pointed out that in Christianity, a distinction between religion and politics was permitted for the first time in history, so that the autonomy of politics is established and overcame the temptation of theocracy.
The document also rejects the claim that polytheism is tolerant. In the cultural climate of polytheist religions, the most horrible massacres against the followers of other religions were committed. The equation of polytheism with tolerance sounds downright foolish. Even "the polytheistic religion of the Roman Empire, despite the extraordinary modernity of its understanding of citizenship and its multi-ethnic and multi-religious figure, persecuted Christianity with specific hardness, which had made itself guilty of only refusing the adulation of the emperor as a divine figure." The Christian response was the nonviolent witness and the willingness to accept martyrdom, as the document recalls.
Modern violent ideologies are the polytheism of today
A fortiori the modern ideologies were bearers "of a growing and worrying lifestyle and behaviors," which are characterized by "spontaneous, immediate and destructive" force. A violence that is self-conscious of their less and less and even "ethically justified" by law and approved. The ideologies, especially the destructive 20th Century, represent, in fact, the new polytheism, in which "the man who is disposed to the good Creator God hostile in his possession" as He "to become a" perverse God "is who misuses his power over his fellow man. From the polytheism of the Nazi double of the "perverse God," is the result of original sin does not bode well for the peaceful coexistence of people can come, as the document notes.The Goal is the Elimination of God and the Denial of Freedom in the Name of Freedom
The aggression against the Catholic Church and Christians is based on the "prejudice that is typical of the rationalist model, according to which there is also an existential and social level, only one form to affirm the truth: the denial of freedom or the elimination of the opponent. "It derives a target of eliminating God from and sometimes ingratiating, sometimes violent enforcement of atheism, including the consequent denial of freedom.
The removal of God on the basis of a "naturalistic" reason, often combined with a "biological" solution of human freedom. According to this perspective, our brains have only thought of God. A process that is associated with a particular "stage of evolution".
Eliminate Religion as a "Pathology" to Make Room for the "Perverse God"
The religion is therefore a pathology, that must be purged. The future that is formed by the ideologies of humanity, is a future of violence and death. "Today we live in," concludes the document, "a time of persecution" of the Church. This persecution must be borne, in anticipation of the "hoped-for conversion for all." For the patience to endure this tribulation, we are indebted to many brothers and sisters who are already suffering because of their Christian faith. They give the decisive answer to the question of the meaning of Christian mission for all. They are already opening the way with their courage to a different future in the relationship between religion and violence among people. The document refers to the need, to call upon the Virgin Mary to intercede in a special way, as she is the indispensable guardian of the new time and its spiritual fruits.
The German translation of the document is currently only available to the introduction. The overall translation is soon to be submitted.
Text: NBQ / Giuseppe Nardi
image: archdiocese of Cologne
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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image: archdiocese of Cologne
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
Link to Katholisches....
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This actually seems sound - so will probably not get much promulgation among Catholics, never mind further afield.
ReplyDeleteMost Rev. Charles Morerod, O.P. of SSPX-Rome relations fame and Gilles Emery, O.P., an expert in the Trinity, authored it. interesting
ReplyDeletethanks for mentioning this. it's no small detail.
Delete"The work took place in a subcommission presided by Rev. Philippe Vallin and consisting of the following members: Revv. Peter Damian Akpunonu, Gilles Emery, O.P., Most Rev. Savio Hon Tai-Fai, S.D.B., Most Rev. Charles Morerod, O.P., Revv. Thomas Norris, Javier Prades López, Most Rev. Paul Rouhana, Revv. Pierangelo Sequeri, Guillermo Zuleta Salas."
DeleteThanks for this post.
ReplyDeleteClearly the 'brains' of academia, on the whole through out the world, have gone all soft and hume-like. Where's St Thomas Aquinas when you need him?
'A total relativism, says the document, seeking for a unity of thinking, which each and everyone would have to submit.' What if someone, relative to satan's 'unity' of thinking, decided not to submit? I guess all we need to do is glance over at the Soviet Union, Red China etc. back in the day to know what happens next (on that point the last December Issue of the Remnant Newspaper has a good retelling of what it was like for faithful Catholics in China from the 50's to the 80's)..
Hold to the Creed, it's obviously everything secularism and the inter-One's True Faith must submit to-manyfakefaiths dialogue hates.
"The systematic identification of Catholic Christianity as an entrenched obstacle in the fight against monotheism," Protestants, take heed; you're welcome any time to convert to the full Truth (psst, but just don't tell the pope I said that, and a number of the bishops and quite a lot of priests, and, the majority of the self-identified Catholic laity - and since they don't go to mass, they won't mind me saying so.)
"This Catholic rejection of relativism and monotheism are to blame for bigotry and intolerance."
ReplyDeleteI think that this sentence should read "polytheism" not "monotheism."
Atheism was responsible for all the murders and genocide under communism in the 20th century. That can't be far off 100,000,000 one way or the other. Now the Huns as pagans and the Mongols as shamanists did a bit of slaughtering too. Some of our accusers just do not have brains to think with - they make some very tenuous claims without doing any homework or because they read it in some tabloid daily.
ReplyDeleteThe mistake they are going to make is the one made by Benedict in section 42 of Verbum Domini ( seeing the herems or massacres ordered by God as not ordered by God based on modern hermeneutics)....read Benedict therein online and compare it with Thomas Aquinas:
ReplyDeleteSumma Theologica
First Part of the Second Part
Question 105
article 3
reply to objection 4
Reply to Objection 4. A distinction was observed with regard to hostile cities. For some of them were far distant, and were not among those which had been promised to them. When they had taken these cities, they killed all the men who had fought against God's people; whereas the women and children were spared. But in the neighboring cities which had been promised to them, all were ordered to be slain, on account of their former crimes, to punish which God sent the Israelites as executor of Divine justice: for it is written (Deuteronomy 9:5) "because they have done wickedly, they are destroyed at thy coming in." The fruit-trees were commanded to be left untouched, for the use of the people themselves, to whom the city with its territory was destined to be subjected.