Sunday, April 18, 2004
Catholicism's Trojan Horse
Rich, opulent, powerful and respected, the Catholic Church of today is on the road to becoming the Troy of yesterday. With a kingdom spanning the four corners of the Earth, the Church is an institution of insurmountable force. Its presence, not unlike Troy, is felt in political, social, cultural, and academic circles. Its word has long been respected and its doctrine is found in the hearts of over one billion people. Its gates are impenetrable.
For two-thousand years, the Defenders of the Faith have shed blood, sweat and tears to preserve and protect the gates of the Church from the worldly forces that surround it. From the Crusades of the Middle Ages to the Vatican councils of modern times, the Church has lead the battle against pornography, homosexuality, adultery, abortion, and the entirety of the secularist mindset against which its teachings are juxtaposed. And for two-thousand years, the Church has been steadfast and firm in its battles, largely because it has educated its soldiers in the Gospel of Christ.
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After two millennia of solid education, the Trojan Horse has rolled up to the gates of virtually every major Catholic university in America and Europe alike, and in that horse are professors and academics who have rejected Catholic doctrine and abandoned the biblical mandate to spread the Gospel of Christ. The message of the coffeehouse clerics? Tolerance should replace tradition, the Gospel should make way for gay student unions, and faith in the Church's teaching on controversial issues should be relocated to the fiction section of the student library. The handful of Catholic universities that have already accepted the Trojan Horse, and its contents, have effectively removed Catholic teaching from its sovereign mantel of absolute truth and placed it in a marketplace of ideas in which such truths are placed beside Vagina Monologues and Sex, Lies and Videotapes. The white flag has been raised behind the walls of those schools.
For two-thousand years, the Defenders of the Faith have shed blood, sweat and tears to preserve and protect the gates of the Church from the worldly forces that surround it. From the Crusades of the Middle Ages to the Vatican councils of modern times, the Church has lead the battle against pornography, homosexuality, adultery, abortion, and the entirety of the secularist mindset against which its teachings are juxtaposed. And for two-thousand years, the Church has been steadfast and firm in its battles, largely because it has educated its soldiers in the Gospel of Christ.
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After two millennia of solid education, the Trojan Horse has rolled up to the gates of virtually every major Catholic university in America and Europe alike, and in that horse are professors and academics who have rejected Catholic doctrine and abandoned the biblical mandate to spread the Gospel of Christ. The message of the coffeehouse clerics? Tolerance should replace tradition, the Gospel should make way for gay student unions, and faith in the Church's teaching on controversial issues should be relocated to the fiction section of the student library. The handful of Catholic universities that have already accepted the Trojan Horse, and its contents, have effectively removed Catholic teaching from its sovereign mantel of absolute truth and placed it in a marketplace of ideas in which such truths are placed beside Vagina Monologues and Sex, Lies and Videotapes. The white flag has been raised behind the walls of those schools.
