"I don't see any reason to be tasteful about Auschwitz. It's baloney, it's a legend....I say quite tastelessly, in fact, that more women died on the back seat of Edward Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than ever died in a gas chamber in Auschwitz."
We live in a world where some think that words don't matter. One can practically say what they like, and how they like, with complete freedom, for it is 'only words'. The above quotation is from the revisionist and disgraced "historian" David Irving who was given a 3 year sentence for what exactly? After all he was only speaking a few words denying the holocaust ever happened. Why jail a man over some 'mere words'? If words truly do not matter, then David Irving should not have gone to prison, in that he was only preaching against the Holocaust so he could sell his books. So he chose profits over principles it wouldn't be the first time an author has done that.
Do words matter? It mattered to the authorities of Austria who arrested David Irving, and brought him to trial, where he was found guilty of breaking their laws. David Irving with every book published was continuing his lie and driving the holocaust denial movement forward. He had no regard at all for the truth, nor the harm he was doing to those who suffered and survived from those evil concentration camps. David Irving is now paying the price for his deceit.
When Dan Brown was asked if he considered himself a Christian, his response was such, "Yes. Interestingly, if you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as absolute historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell. Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious–that is, that we are all trying to decipher life’s big mysteries, and we’re each following our own paths of enlightenment." Once again Dan Brown opines, "Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power. The novel touches on questions of how and why this shift occurred…and on what lessons we might learn from it regarding our future." Can Dan Brown call himself a 'Christian' while denying everything that is Christian? In his book he insults and blasphemes Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene by claiming that they had sexual relations which produced a child. The question remains can God copulate with one of his creatures? By this blasphemous assertion Dan Brown has denied the Divinity of Christ thereby making himself a heretic. He misunderstands what faith is. It is not dependant upon what one finds reasonable but on what the Catholic Church Teaches which has been handed down to the Apostles and is the foundation of our beliefs today.
We see here two men who made their living by selling lies. One now sits in prison while the other is a multi-millionaire still thriving on his lies. We denounce anyone who could deny the horrors of the Nazi holocaust, yet many 'catholics' have supported the man who has blasphemed against God. Which camp do YOU fall into? It comes to something when a man can attack our faith by a lie and 'catholics' not only accept it, they applaud it. By supporting this outrageous lie written by Dan Brown they have helped in alienating perhaps an entire generation who will believe Dan Browns idea's of God rather than the Catholic Churches Teachings. Shame on them! As the Words teaches us in Luke, "He said to his disciples, "Things that cause sin will inevitably occur, but woe to the person through whom they occur. It would be better for him if a millstone were put around his neck and he be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin." Will anyone take note of this piece of Scripture? Who knows, as it is not written by Dan Brown!
We have seen many of these 'catholics' become outraged by the anti-Christian exploits of the ACLU, yet when it came to standing by their Faith, they sold out over a movie ticket. We have indeed raised a generation of Esau's. It is a contradiction to become outraged by this organization with its Anti-Christian stance yet in the next breath they supported Dan Brown and his denial of Jesus' Divinity. Many of these same 'catholics' refuse to read the Bible yet they devour the 'gnostic gospels' with relish. The ACLU has over a number of years demanded the removal of mainly Christian symbols from all public places, in case a minority found it 'offensive', and many councils all over America complied rather than confront this form of tyranny.
Catholics also support this religious tyranny by feeling too embarrassed or ashamed to say 'Merry Christmas'. They instead chose the more lukewarm 'Happy Holidays', rather than be seen as.... dare I say the word.....Christian? They also buy into this lukewarmness by feeling too embarrassed to call God by His Holy Name and instead refer to God as 'universal spirit' in order to be perceived as 'tolerant' and 'enlightened'. The Truths of the Catholic Church are not for these lukewarm pew sitters! As St Vincent of Lerins wrote, "If one yields ground on any single point of Catholic doctrine, one will later have to yield later in another, and again in another, and so on until such surrenders come to be something normal and acceptable. And when one gets used to rejecting dogma bit by bit, the final result will be the repudiation of it altogether." Also that great man of the Church Saint Augustine said, "If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself." Do we ignore the words of our great Saints in favour of the latest novella?
Whether we want to believe it or not there is a move to de-sensitize people into accepting the Anti-Christian propaganda being espoused by various organizations, politicians, actors, various media outlets and the internet by belittling the beliefs of the Catholic Church. This can only succeed if Catholics become apathetic to their own faith and fate. Unfortunately many 'catholics' have reached this impasse. They no longer believe the Truths of the Catholic Church, and instead embrace every 'spirituality' so long as it sounds 'nice'. As Elie Wiesel once said, "Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.....I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." This is a man who lived through the ultimate in terror and persecution of the Nazi holocaust. Do we dare bury our heads in the sand as Christianity comes under attack? It was not hate that killed six million Jewish lives, though hate was the main ingredient. In the end it was apathy and indifference that helped the Nazi murder machine.
Many Christians all over the world face persecution daily in places such as Iran, China, North Korea, The Sudan and sadly many other countries. Yet they uphold the Tenets of their beliefs, while the Western world sell their faith for a bag of popcorn, as they propagate any 'religion' so long as it's not too Catholic!
Our own worst enemy is within our midst. It is those who espouse a different Doctrine, it is those who wish to be seen as 'enlightened' therefore they deny the Truths of the Catholic Church for any 'truth'. It is those who long to appear 'inclusive' so they promote any 'spirituality' as valid in order not to be seen as 'intolerant'. It is fellow 'catholics' who have betrayed the faithful as they go to Mass every week when their hearts are far from God for they have rejected the Truths of the Catholic Church and embraced the lies of the world. These same 'catholics' accept same sex unions, they long for the ordination of women, they willfully reject the Churches Teachings in favour of what they find 'reasonable'. They are heretics within the fold.
As Pastor Martin Neimoller once wrote;
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
When your time comes, will your faith stand the test or will you go silently? As silently as you lived your lack of faith? As Scripture warns us in Luke, "But when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?"
Peace of Christ to ALL
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