Christianity: An Antidote to Tyranny
by Clifford Staples, Crisis Magazine:
Like all modern tyrants, Karl Marx hated religion, Christianity in particular, because he understood that it was going to be very difficult if not impossible to get men to follow him so long as they continued to follow Jesus Christ, and so the first thing an aspiring tyrant in the middle of Christian Europe needed to do was to uproot and destroy Christianity. With Christ dwelling in the hearts of men there was no room for the atheist humanism that Marx and others were proposing as an alternative. But without God men could be convinced to believe anything, even Marxism.
Karol Józef Wojtyła understood this too. And he also understood that as long as the Christians of Poland, and Eastern Europe, and everywhere else, continued to follow Christ they would endure and outlast any and all tyrannies, Marxist or otherwise. As atheist humanism takes root in American culture and anti-Christian tyrants emerge from among the rich and powerful, we should pray to St. Pope John Paul II for help and guidance. He knew what was happening then in Poland and he knows the same trouble is headed to America.
Having spent years making gay okay in the schools, in Hollywood, and elsewhere, gay activists have now gained enough support from amongst the powerful to simply force their views on everyone. We are all now to accept whatever they want in the way of sex, marriage, family, and gender. We are to accept it not because it is true or good or beautiful or in accord with reality, or nature, or nature’s God, but because they want it, and to deny them what they want is considered a damnable injustice. If anyone dares to point out that what they want, being against nature and nature’s God, is wrong, and does not cease to be wrong simply because they want it and have the power to get it, such people are to be shamed and their views suppressed, and they are to be punished insofar as they continue to hold and act on those views. For these sex and gender tyrants, might makes right, as for tyrants in any age.
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