“Well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody .”
Bob Dylan, Gotta Serve Somebody , 1979
Four months into his presidency no Christian denomination has better played the sycophant to the Enlightened One, Barack “Barry” Hussein Obama, than the Roman Catholic Church.
The first example of this benighted and unseemly bootlicking occurred on April 14 at the old Gaston Hall at Georgetown University when the White House asked that the “Christian symbols” prominently displayed at the front of the stage be covered when the Most Merciful One speaks. And, so in much the same manner that Cecile B. DeMille or Pharaoh proclaimed, “So it is written, so it shall be,” the pusillanimous hierarchy at that old and once proudly independent Catholic institution swiftly covered the offending symbols (the Cross and the Latin letters, IHS), so not to vex the tender Muslim and/or epigonic Marxist sensibilities of the Great Supplicant of the House of Saud.
The second instance is scheduled to occur on May 17, 2009 when the University of Notre Dame will salute the nation’s leading abortion advocate, with an honorarydoctor of laws degree at the 164th university commencement ceremony.
That two of the most prominent Catholic institutions would lay prostrate before the nation’s most powerful supporter of abortion and infanticide indicates just how far the Roman Catholic Church has declined, and answers the question why so many have left the church and moved on to the Orthodox, Fundamentalists, and related denominations. While the immediate future is not promising, all is not lost. The Catholics have Pope Benedict and they have Georgetown University philosophy professor, James V. Schall, S.J.
It was the pope who as a philosopher and theologian, and in his wisdom, identified the problem of modernity thirty years ago when he wrote , “As I survey all the perplexing shifts in the spiritual landscape of today, only two basic models seem to me to be up for discussion. The first I should like to call the Gnostic model, the other the Christian model. I see the common core of Gnosticism, in all its different forms and versions, as the repudiation of creation .”
And, it is the beloved Georgetown philosophy professor, Fr. Schall who further differentiates the Obama agenda by explicatin g that in order for our Fearless Leader to become The Great Man he must establish a new vision “in which the only thing allowed to be visible is the state .”
It will be fascinating to observe, as the Obama regime begins to institute its statist agenda, how the various elements of the Church will respond. Who will follow the Notre Dames and the Georgetowns to the alter of Moloch and who will stand with the pope and Fr. Schall in their defense of the Cross?
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