The War Room

THE COMMUNIST VS. THE CATHOLIC

Men claiming to be Christians or under the auspices of the Catholic Church have done many things over the past that Christ would not have approved of. Many of them have been acknowledged and rightly apologized for (the Inquisition, the Crusades), while many (also the Inquisition, the Crusades) have been overstated grossly by detractors (academics, Marxists, feminists, etc.) in order to portray the faith in a more unfavourable light.

But when Hugo Chavez, a tinpot of a dictator who cleaves to an ideology that has killed more people in 110 years than Christianity has in 2000 tells the Pope he is 'offended' by his remarks and demands an apology, I have to drop my replica papal scepter.

It takes a special kind of lunatic dictator who can shut down an opposition television station one week and demand an apology from the Pope the next.

I am glad Pope Benedict clarified his remarks, but I am also thankful he did not flat out apologize.

Will our culture ever get enough perspective on the horrors of atheistic Marxism and communism that we can call it the evil that it is? There is a shop in Toronto on the west side of Yonge St. near College, that has in its window a slavish dedication to communism and Stalinist Russia.

Why is this tolerated when if the same were done of Hitler and National Socialist Germany it would be shut down inside thirty seconds (and rightly so)?

Why is the University of Toronto allowed to host a weekend festival on the joys of Marxism/Communism and still be taken seriously, by the National Post no less?

Here is a fairly comprehensive website of human atrocities throughout the centuries.

Mao and Stalin, even under modest estimates, still beat the Catholic Church and Christianity, yet on your local, friendly neighbourhood university campus, they are still seen as friends of the proletariat.

Ludicrous.

But the Liberal Party still has the most room for growth in Canada dontchaknow?

posted by Nicol DuMoulin @ 9:08 AM