Christianity Is Based In Reality

 Today, at the American Thinker Anthony J. DeBlasi has an especially good read entitled Why Christianity Is Here To Stay. I urge you to read it. He starts with a quote from Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano:

Daily we sense the attacks multiplying of those who want to destroy the very basis of society: the natural family, respect for human life, love of country, freedom of education and business. We see heads of nations and religious leaders pandering to this suicide of Western culture and its Christian soul, while the fundamental rights of citizens and believers are denied in the name of a health emergency that is revealing itself more and more fully as instrumental to the establishment of an inhuman faceless tyranny. − Archbishop Viganò (2021)

It may seem strange to see a Catholic Archbishop arguing for the rights and liberties of men and women. But I think what he is getting at is that if people are forced into doing things against their will, you can not blame them. Martin Luther made this pretty clear when responding to a soldier who was concerned about his soul. The decisions to go to war, and what actions to take were not in the control of this individual, but in the hands of those above him. The King and his Generals would have to answer for this war, but the soldier, according to Luther, was absolved. 

You can read more of Archbishop Vigano's ideas here. DeBlasi explains the nature of Christianity, which is unlike any other religion. Islam, for instance, requires that you submit to its god, Allah's will...or else. Literally you will either become a Muslim or you will be killed. In contrast, the God of creation doesn't want to impose Himself on those who don't want Him. But for those who do, He may make incredible demands on a person. The good news is that He has led by example, up to and including accepting death on a cross. Can we who follow do anything less?

It’s been clear to me since early adulthood that theology never really “explains” the Faith. It is in fact a possible way to distort the Faith so as to make Christianity follow the times instead of leading them. In any such deviant “mission,” falsified Christianity amends Gospel truth that “interferes” with desired agendas, calling the amendments to holy scripture “progress” and compounding this subversion of truth in temporal courts of justice. A prime example of such Orwellian “justice” is how the Constitution was made to “live” by letting it die.

This is systemic insensitivity and blindness to the reality that “change” and “progress” that harm people have no business in human affairs. Change and progress that in fact benefit people must be in harmony with the unchanging nature of being human, a nature that connects the biologic and cultural aspects of people with former and future humans and, ultimately, with human origins and destinations. These transgenerational ties are not valid subjects of private opinion or corporate tampering. Yet some (many in government), lacking such basic insight and believing the lie that morality is a “private matter,” aid and abet sociopaths and wannabe tyrants.

Living a full life in an uncertain world, for which the religion of Christ is especially well suited, involves much more than having fun on a ticket provided by God or sold by those who think they are God. It is a job calling each man, woman, girl and boy to flower into one’s best self, based on a unique design from the Mind of the Creator.

Philosophies of life that dismiss the Source of Life from their considerations − that replace Almighty God with Almighty State or Almighty Machine or Almighty Me – are aberrations of reason that disqualify them as platforms for action that seriously affects people. Those based on a “science” of people and society tend to reduce human beings to “data” and ignore what has never been improved upon: a vertical family-community-God relation and a horizontal generation-to-generation relation, with power structures that respect and support those relations. Prescriptions of “social science” or of think tanks may dismiss the centrality of those relations to the wellbeing of people but “progress” that disregards them is ultimately a way to tragedy.

Such traditional wisdom has been called “rigid” by “liberals.” They who object to such “rigidity” ought also to object to the “rigidity” of breathing, the “rigidity” of eating, of sleeping, loving . . . of every vital function of life. Alert senses and a working mind allow anyone to see that every vital function of life is (thankfully) unchanging.

Christianity is the ideal religion for human beings. As God, Jesus explains the true meaning of his laws, which if we could adhere to the spirit of each of them, we would all live happy prosperous lives.  But because of the hardness of our hearts, he extends His Grace to us, who deserve none of it. 

But back to His laws: they are based on reality.  He knows reality because He created our world.  His law tells us there are only two sexes, and we are born either male or female.  We can not change that.  Women have babies, men do not.  Oh, and the 10 Commandments tell us that private property is a thing, which puts the World Economic Forum and the Great Reset is on the other side.  And that Commandment against murder applies to the unborn as well as those living, so those who are for abortion are on the other side.  I could go on, but you get the idea.

Here I must say that I defend the religion of Christ against any that lords over people or ties them to Big Brother government, and against any whose “ethos” mandates brutality and terror. I defend it against any, such as the religion of “political correctness” that dims the power of reason and rejects everything that stands in the way of a political agenda.