It is absolutely not a coincidence that what is happening in our country (and throughout the West) is so strongly demonstrated by a fight against God.
I admit that I feel completely helpless. This is the effect of current events, which attack me almost every day in a paradoxical way. The paradox is that from the beginning of the “July 4 government” I should have become used to the fact that the attack on everything that is close and valuable to me would be a total attack. And yet I feel surprised by the scale of this destruction, its brutality, and perhaps even more so by the social acceptance of this helplessness.
In this situation, I reach for help in the form of reading Memory and Identity by Saint John Paul II. The words I read are extremely important: “Evil, in a realist sense, can only exist in relation to good and, in particular, in relation to God, the supreme Good. This is the evil of which the Book of Genesis speaks. It is from this perspective that original sin can be understood, and likewise all personal sin. This evil was redeemed by Christ on the Cross. To be more precise, man was redeemed and came to share in the life of God through Christ’s saving work.” This is precisely why a ‘modern prince’ can mock the moral principle of protection of conceived life and establish by the power of political orders the introduction of abortion, dictated, by the way, not on objective grounds (if such exist), but by a state of consciousness, of the psyche. It is in the name of this principle that modern political officials are devastating the state of thinking for future generations. They destroy the domain of values, but also areas of basic knowledge. In fact, the entire reality of education is to be reduced to promoting a theory that has nothing to do with the objective situation. After all, it is a form of cultural and social awareness, and therefore again a state of mind. And it is not important that the effect of this state of mind may be, for example, the permanent mutilation of a child, a young person. Because this is, in short, the promotion of transsexuality. In the name of a state of mind, a state of consciousness, a person is mutilated and sterilised. The Pope pursued this reflection in the context of reflections related to the totalitarianisms of the 20th century, but at the same time he himself was aware that this analysis is not exclusively historical in nature. That is why he also indicated that this reflection applied to present-day actions taken within the framework of the Western, deformed, and ruined democracy: to actions that culminate both at the level of the EU and the authorities of other individual countries, which are determined to annihilate entire groups of people through abortion. The part of the Pope’s reflection that indicates that this process becomes possible, and permissible in a situation in which man lives as if there was no God, as if God did not exist, should be worthy of attention. A totalitarian system is anti-theistic by its very nature. God is its greatest enemy. And it is absolutely not a coincidence that what is happening in our country, in Westminster and Holyrood, is so strongly distinguished by the fight against God. It may sometimes seem to some that these are secondary, marginal activities: as the dispute about the presence of religion in school, the number of hours, the place in the curriculum. . . Well, no! This is a fundamental dispute. Today, God, the Church, Christianity, Catholicism remain in reality the only method of opposing the criminal illusion that man “can decide by himself, without God, what is good and what is bad, he can also determine that a group of people is to be annihilated”. Saint John Paul II taught in the same lecture on totalitarianism that a “limit imposed upon evil by divine good has entered human history “. This measure is redemption. History has taught us this. The question is – aren’t we forgetting these shocking lessons of history today?
Tony Wood
13/10/2024
