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What
about terrorism? Surely we have a legal right to avenge ourselves.
 hen saying anything about terrorism,
we must keep in mind two fundamental points:
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The agents of terrorism are agents
of evil. |
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Those attacked by terrorists
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Agents of
Evil
Now, the first point is self-evident.
Using any means that they can—bypassing all rules, all justice, all
fairness, all truth—terrorists seek to undermine and destroy all that
opposes them. And that is the essence of evil, because
evil will stop at nothing to achieve its own satisfaction.
The second point, though, is
often overlooked.
Not
Innocent
We need to remember that no secular
government on this earth seeks to do only God’s will. This country,
for example, was founded on the pursuit of
happiness, not on the desire for holiness.
So there are many things in our society which are legal or socially accepted
that are not holy and so don’t deserve to be defended. Abortion ...
divorce ... assisted suicide ... artificial birth control ... embryonic stem-cell
research ... lifestyles defiant of chastity ... immodesty ... pornography
... prostitution ... drugs ... exploitation of workers ... exploitation of
the weak and helpless ... abuse of the environment ... greed ... gluttony
... self-indulgence ... and all contempt of Christian values in general.
These things should be repented, not
defended.
If these things are not repented,
however, we push God out of our lives, and in the process we push away His
protection.
Unless the Lord
builds the house,
in vain do its builders labor;
unless the Lord watches over the city,
in vain does the guard keep watch. |
—Psalm 127:1 |
Pushing God Out
of Our Lives
And so, even though Christ commanded
us to return a blessing for any insult and gave us the Golden Rule
(“Do to others whatever you would have them do to you,” Matthew
7:12), when we push God out of our lives, we push away even the Golden Rule.
Then we put ourselves in a very bad place, because without God’s protection
backing it, the Golden Rule is useless, and those who don’t defend
themselves will be annihilated by evil as soon as they turn their
backs.
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A presidential
candidate in a South American country ravaged by terrorist kidnappings ran
on a platform of peace. She invited the terrorists to negotiate, saying,
“Come on, guys, let’s be nice. Stop the
kidnapping.” So what did the terrorists do? They kidnapped
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Fight Fire with
Fire—and Sin
Therefore, any civil government
that rejects God as the center of its being—and therefore rejects God
as the only source of peace—has only one
alternative when attacked by evil: to take matters into its own hands and
fight back. It has to fight fire with fire. It has to fight evil on its own
terms. Consequently, it is left holding the Satanic inversion of the Golden
Rule: Do to others what they do to you. Deceive them and kill them.
That’s called revenge.
So, you say you want
peace?
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When you fight
fire with fire, though, you run the risk of getting burned
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And have no doubt that Satan
knows this. If he cannot destroy you directly with a frontal attack, he will
try to make you destroy
yourself
through your own sins of hatred and hostility—even
murder—that you employ in retaliation for being attacked.
The Pentacle
Revealed
 The military has always
worshipped five demigods that rule the personal lives of all soldiers.
Vengeance and immodesty have been around for ages,
contraception and abortion became known in more recent times
(especially as women have taken more central, rather than supportive, roles),
and now, thanks to the subversive efforts of President
Obama [1]
the fifth demigod has finally been exposed:
homosexuality.
Thus the Pentagon’s secret
pentacle shows the military for what it is: a grave jeopardy to any soul
in that environment.
What, then, can a faithful Christian
do?
Real Lives of
Christian Peace
 Well, note that when men such as Sts.
Nereus and Achilleus, St. Martin of Tours, St. George, St. Francis of Assisi,
St. Jerome Emiliani, St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. John of God, and St. Camillus
de Lellis fully embraced Catholicism they gave up all their childhood
illusions about military power, laid down their
weapons, and took up real lives of Christian peace.
They understood that the ultimate welfare of any soul must be a personal,
not a political, matter.
If you want to preserve your
own soul, therefore, turn your attention to defending the Magisterium
of the Church: repent your own wickedness,
detach yourself from the wickedness of the world,
turn away from the pernicious ideal of revenge,
live in chastity, and
pray constantly. And be prepared to
suffer for witnessing
your faith, because all true faith leads only to
the cross.
Pray especially for the morally
weak and the spiritually blind who have
been seduced by evil into becoming
terrorists.
Pray that all self-indulgent
social impieties in our culture of “self” are seen for the
sins they are, because these sins are what provoke
terrorists in the first place.
Pray also that politicians who
support these sins are brought to
repentance—because, if they don’t
repent, then we have to expect that they, and their governments with them,
will be handed over for punishment, similar to the immoral man Paul “handed
over to Satan, for the destruction of his flesh” so that, with his pride
crushed, he might then repent his sins and “his spirit may be
saved on the day of the Lord” (1 Corinthians 5:1-8).
Only One
Wisdom
In all of this, there is only
one wisdom: If you want to change the world, begin by changing yourself.
If you want the world to be more fair, treat the world fairly even when you
are treated unfairly. If you want the world to be more kind, treat the world
with kindness and return a blessing for every insult. Show the world
by your good actions—not by military power,
political sentimentality, or
protest—that you are willing to live according
to what you profess to believe. Regardless of how
the world treats you, live the true
Faith—anyway.
Let your country trust in itself,
because, sadly, that’s all it has. But you have more, if you want to
claim it: “Jesus,
I Trust
in
YOU!”
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1. Like the rest of the US government, the US
military has always been predominantly Protestant—and therefore
anti-Catholic—but now its hidden Satanic—and therefore
anti-Christian—elements are being revealed.
In regard to
the Protestant nature of the US, note that during WW2 President Roosevelt
privately said to Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and a Catholic
appointee, Leo Crowley, “You know this is a Protestant country, and
the Catholics and Jews are here under sufferance.” See The Conquerors:
Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany 1941-1945
(Simon & Schuster) by Michael Beschloss. An excerpt can be found at
“FDR’s
Auschwitz Secret,” by Michael Beschloss, Newsweek, October 14,
2002.
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an excerpt from a homily by St. Macarius, bishop