Two letters reflecting the great divide in Western Civilisation

USAToday (12 April 2010) has highlighted two letters that express the two dramatically opposed outlooks in Western society at this present time about the Catholic Church and its teaching. Visitors to this website will know that the first letter expresses exactly my opinion about the motivations for the frenzied attack on Pope Benedict and the Catholic Church. It does it extremely well.

The second letter expresses a view about the Church that is based on falsehoods and bigotry - and does it barely literately. It also expresses what the more careful like-minded anti-Catholics will not say publicly or too explicitly: The Catholic Church must be destroyed materially and philosophically. Governments of like-minded comrades must revive and continue the work the Marxist-Leninists of the Soviet Union began a hundred years ago, but has been ignorantly interrupted. The buildings of the Church are to be taken apart brick by brick and the teaching of the Church suppressed by criminal sanctions. The re-education camps and the Gulags are to be re-opened.

Only the blind and foolish would claim that I am exaggerating. The process has already begun - it began a decade or two ago. Class legislation has been generated across the Western world making illegal the mere expression of opinion that contradicts the dogma of leftist fascism. Holding unacceptable opinions on homosexuality, for example, will mean professional and social destruction. Criminal penalties are already being applied. An exponential step has just been taken. A UN jurist is calling for the indictment of Pope Benedict for 'crimes against humanity'. The warnings are there for all to see.

The two letters:

Martyr for the Church

One can almost hear Jesus saying to the peaceful and benevolent pope: "If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first" (John 15:18). Contrary to his critics, the pope, like Jesus, is completely innocent and is doing everything in his power to weed out those priests guilty of sexual abuse and to justly compensate victims for their suffering.

In fact, he is the one who has tackled these things head on. Remember that even Jesus had his Judas. But the world wants to see the death of the church because it knows the church is the mother of all saints.

It knows that the Catholic Church is the last bastion of hope against a materialistic world that craves immorality at every step, including homosexuality, same-sex marriage, easy divorce, abortion, radical feminism, contraception, embryonic stem cell research and cloning. Benedict will be remembered not for the scandals of a few priests but for his intense suffering in protecting the faith from wolves in sheep's clothing. He will be known as one of the greatest of Catholic martyrs.

Paul Kokoski; Hamilton, Canada

Abuse of spiritual power

In the light of the recent revelations of alleged insidious behavior by a large number of Catholic priests, I'd like to point out that these are not the first such accusations directed at this group of self-anointed elitists. These men chose Catholicism and to covet these priestly positions.

Through this exaltation of themselves above the common soul, they then believe themselves exempt from the laws of man. They feel cloaked in justice by taking sanctuary in the Vatican.

Let the common sense of progress strip the Vatican of its power, its wealth, its officers and its will over the people.

Patrik Troiani; Jackson, Wyo.

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