“Let go and let God!”. . .as the Church burns.
By: The Damn Messenger
I understand that this topic is controversial and may hurt the sensibilities of many, but quite frankly I couldn’t give a damn less. It is a topic that everyone from our traitor class clergy to western politicians are disgustingly quiet about yet one that to me should be considered Christendom’s greatest priority at the current moment.
You don’t have to be a genius to figure out that Christianity’s numbers are dwindling in the Middle East and Africa. It is called genocide by many, even though the US State Department has denied such claim despite over 1 million Christians being murdered or displaced in Iraq since 2003. This issue is such a pressing issue that it was one of the deciding factors that drove both Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Archbishop Kirill together for joint dialogue.
Yet despite it being a big enough issue as to justify a meeting between two of the biggest patriarchs in Christendom, you usually hear crickets when you go to mass (or in the case of our protestant readers, sunday service). Or likewise, when we do hear something it’s usually the same old New World Order style “let’s open our hearts to everyone like Jesus would” rhetoric complete with a heaping portion of Leviticus 19 and Exodus 23.
Additionally, we are bombarded with messages about how to feel good when we are stressed, why we should never feel guilty even when we are wrong and of course, a heaping helping of love and peace. All of that is good, I mean who doesn’t love a little bit of that feel good,”too blessed to be stressed” love and peace at times? It’s good to decompress every now and again and just “let go and let God!”
BUT. . .
“Feeling good” should not be our preoccupation. Christendom in the Middle East and Europe is facing the biggest threat to its survival that it has ever faced by way of radical islam and rapidly shifting religious demographics caused by the influx muslim immigration. Demographically, Christians will be a minority in a relatively short period of time in many key European nations – countries that enriched our very faith and fought vigorously to prevent such a thing. If you are a Christian and you think for a second that this is not a cause for concern, then just look at the history of Lebanon. . .or simply take a warning from Malmo, Sweden.
I can’t blame just our clergy though. Secularization of every aspect of public life and more importantly western complacency is just as much to blame. After all, our clergymen are merely a reflection of that trend, having decided to take the path of least resistance in order to keep their position. The increasingly short offering paten needs a bit of fattening and feel good sells. The words hell, evangelization and orthodoxy are foreign to today’s church, unless used by a clergyman to describe something “he isn’t about” (after all, truth is seldom marketable).
Of course an exception to this attitude can be found by way of the Eastern Orthodox Church and it’s very loyal and amorous adherents, however in the Western Church, it’s all but faded with the exception of small circles such as the Latin Mass traditionalists, most notably the SSPX (the Society of Saint Pius X). Mix in a few traditional protestants and the total sum still doesn’t match the megachurch machine of motivational evangelism.
Among the flock, the aforementioned groups are considered “retreads”, “zealots” and “divisive nuts.” Unity and diversity are en vogue, even if the latter, when practiced excessively can prove to be fatal. After all, what nation in their right mind, both secular or religious, would gladly give up a majority religious status just to use their cities and countries as utopian theory experiments if it were not fatal? Likewise, the former, unity, is used only when describing which non-Christian allies they have to rub elbows with in-order to keep an increasingly diluted Church afloat.
Complacency and utopian mania are suicide and if our clergy refuse to speak up, then we will all be kicking the chair. If we all choose utopia now, then we’re all going to have dystopia later. The Church did not survive this long by “letting go and letting God”, it survived this long by being courageous enough to not conform to the same world that crucified our Lord. Someone should tell our clergy the same.
And if you are thinking about using an ad-hominem against me in regards to this piece, then let me save you the time:
I cuss on occasion, I smoke, I drink, I sometimes talk about lurid and immoral things, I indulge in crass comedy and have my own weaknesses. I’m human and like every human I have many flaws (which is all the reason I seek Christ in the first place). More than likely, I’m the worst representative of anything Christian. But before you attack my character and say “how dare you
burst my utopian bubblesay that”, let this sink in: How sad is it that a joe schmoe common lay person with bad habits and a foul mouth, has the balls to write what I just wrote, but our own clergy are often both denying and/or even facilitating the problem?
Take a second and let that sink in. . .
– The Damn Messenger