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Christian Emancipation and the Secular Revolt Against Accountability

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. — Ephesians 6:12 (KJV)

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Christ’s Upheaval in the Levant, throughout the Empire, the New World, and the Far East

The Gospel of Christ’s Good News brought havoc wherever it reached. The promise of Eternal Salvation for anyone repenting their sins and the shift of divine authority onto the responsibility of single individuals, resonate with the very nature of every human being. The struggle for individual emancipation is as old as humanity itself, and probably as old as Life and Consciousness, but it wasn’t until the rise of Hellenism that individual human beings were perceived by their rulers as sharing a singular divine nature, and it wasn’t until Christianity that the key to Salvation as a shift of divine authority from the prerogative of an elite caste to the inalienable right of every human individual, spread virally amongst all the populations that Christ’s Gospel reached. Human beings everywhere in the world unequivocally embraced the Word because it offered liberation from their tyrannical Neolithic past. Human history is the story of the evolution of a specific species towards individual emancipation, and while these stirrings for individual affirmation are as ancient as humanity itself, the divine nature of individual human beings would not become a foundational building block of social contracts until the advent of Hellenism, later adopted by Christianity with the addition of the element of caritas, love. The struggle of human individuals to wrestle divine authority away from the domain of punitive gods is at least as old as the Epic of Gilgamesh, thus when Christ announced that the Kingdom of Heaven is within each and every one of us, and all we need to do to attain It is to seek forgiveness and love one another, humanity inevitably and unfailingly adopted the teachings of the Redeemer. Everywhere the Gospel reached the Word spread virally because It spoke to the hearts of men. Of course such a great promise of universal salvation never failed to solicit hostility from the powers that be. Christ’s Gospel was as warmly welcomed by the people of Galilea as it was repudiated by their leaders. Christ put an end to the offering of holocausts and other blood practices. (Centuries later, nomadic tribes of the Arabian Peninsula would conquer Jerusalem and would revive both the Neolithic blood practices as well as the notion of Abrahamic subjugation from which Christ had freed humanity). He healed the repentant on Sabbath, and just as God wrote the Commandments with His finger on the Tablets He handed to Moses, so Jesus wrote with His finger on the sand to stop the stoning of the adulteress. Christ, the Son of Man embodied upon himself God’s authority and declared that all human beings could do the same if they chose to follow His example. The Sanhedrin, the Council of Elders who until that day detained control over divine matters, did not tolerate Christ’s usurpation of divine authority in favour of all humanity, and both King Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great, as well as the Imperial Prefect Pontius Pilates complied with the condemnation of tribal authority. Christ had wrestled divine authority from an elitist God and offered it to a humble humanity of single individuals. Henceforth, just as it did when Christ walked this Earth, His act of defiance of millenary secular authority would receive throughout the ages, the same love from the humble masses as it would receive hate from the authorities. As the Apostles spread the Good News throughout the Roman Empire, after Christ’s Crucifixion and Resurrection, the reaction to this insurgency of human individualism usurping divine authority from secular rulers, was always the same. In greater Syria, in Anatolia, in North and East Africa and in Europe alike, the mass of humanity invoked the freedom, preached by Christ, of claiming their individual divine authority, always at the cost of bloody persecution, and bravely persisted practicing their Faith in hiding for centuries.

When the first Europeans reached the New World, the adoption of Christianity was no less viral it proved to be in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Hernan Cortes, often depicted by those who wish to enslave us once again as a mere conqueror, was in fact an astute and formidable diplomat. It is impossible that just 300 men, even with (slightly) superior technology, and their ships burned to the ground by their commander to expel any hope of retreat, could have ever defeated the most feared and ruthless pre-Columbian empire if it weren’t for the alliances Cortes forged with the oppressed populations of Mesoamerica, within and without the powerful Aztec empire. Once again it was Christ’s promise of individual divine authority and Eternal Salvation that provided the glue for Cortes’ alliance against the Aztecs. Shortly after the Fall of Tenochtitlan in fact, evocative events such the pilgrimage of the 12 Apostles of Mexico, the barefoot Franciscan friars who walked from Veracruz to Tenochtitlan capturing the imagination of local populations, spread the Word of Our Lord like wildfire. By the time Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to St Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, the Aztec peasant converted to Christianity, the fate of New Spain and later Mexico, as one of the world’s most resilient bastions of Catholic Faith was forever sealed.

The nations of the Far East weren’t less moved by the promises of Christ, Our Lord; nor were their leaders less determined to forbid granting their people Christian emancipation. Unlike the Aztec Empire, no Christian country set up any form of colony in Japan, and yet since the first missionaries arrived with the Jesuit friar Francis Xavier, conversion to the Gospel spread once again like wildfire, stirring the fear and subsequent persecution of Japan’s rulers. The same phenomenon soon occurred in Imperial China and later in Korea. The breadth and scale of Christian martyrdom throughout the world and across the ages, are the most profound testament to the power of the Gospel. Still today millions of Christians bravely face persecution for their Faith all over the World, while we in the West, inhabitants of lands whose ancestors once defended the Word of Christ with their blood against wave upon wave of barbaric invasions, have now fallen prey to secular sloth and myopia, and can no longer appreciate the privileges betrothed upon us.

The spread of Christianity in South East Asia was more unique but no less exemplary of the dichotomy between the aspirations of the people and the ambitions of their rulers. When Luis de Velasco, Viceroy of New Spain sent Miguel Lopez de Legazpi to establish diplomatic and commercial relationships with the Spice Islands and thus compete with Portuguese hegemony in the trade with Europe, the future first governor of Luzon found a vast archipelago in the midst of profound change. The Majapahit Empire, probably History’s most expansive thalassocracy, a maritime empire that spread across nearly all of what is today Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, had waned under the commercial pressures of trade with newly arrived Arabian merchant states. Yet again, while the choice of Islam was a commercial choice driven by rulers, Christianity once more found its seed in the hearts of their subjects. The case of Manila where Lopez de Legazpi established ties with Rajah Matanda and would later Christen the Island of Luzon as the Captaincy of the Philippines, is of particular interest. Son of Rajah Salalila, one of the last Hindu-Buddhist rulers of the Philippines, Rajah Matanda became an admiral of the Sultanate of Brunei, one of the major gateways to the merchant states of the Arabian Peninsula and the caravans to the vast Ottoman Empire, and married into the Sultanate’s aristocracy. Throughout his entire life he remained drawn to the teachings of Christ, a voice that appealed to the hearts of his people, and was often at odds with those rulers motivated by religious zeal such as his own nephew and heir apparent, Rajah Sulayman. Thus, it wasn’t until he was free of the burden of political duties and close to his death that Rajah Matanda requested Baptism for the salvation of his soul. He too, just like thousands of his subjects, succeeded in wrestling spiritual emancipation away from the domain of secular leaders and under his individual sovereignty.

God and Caesar, church and state, spiritual authority and temporal authority, have been a prevailing dualism in Western culture. Only in Hindu civilization were religion and politics also so distinctly separated. In Islam, God is Caesar; in China and Japan, Caesar is God; in Orthodoxy, God is Caesar’s junior partner.”
― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Separation of Church and State the Sole Key to Western Exceptionalism

Western Exceptionalism a term coined by detractors of Western civilisations, used nowadays to portray Christian civilisations in a negative light, depicted as egocentric and racist, betrays and reveals notwithstanding the rebukes, a historical truism that inevitably irks the nihilistic mobs of political correctness. Christian civilisations, notwithstanding the nitwit propaganda of corporate sponsored woke demagogues, have indeed provided humanity with a unique engine of social and technological evolution over the last 2 and a half Millenia. Those who aspire to restore Neolithic slavery globally are eager to fund ignorant pop culture influencers with the idea that such an obvious historical truth is in fact racist, but the reason for this exceptionalism lies neither in genes nor in chance. As a matter of fact the exact opposite is true. Indeed the success of Western models is merely the result of good ideas and sound practices, the most important amongst them being the division of Church and State. It is this separation that allowed the Church to establish Herself as mediator between the popular aspirations of peoples of Christian nations and the ambitions of their rulers. Long before the establishment of modern courts of law and trade unions the Church provided a voice for the people to grieve against tyranny, and provided rulers the opportunity to shape communities cohesive enough to fend off potential invaders. Just like the social contract called democracy, invented by Pericles, allowed Athens to fend off the Persian Empire, the most powerful empire of its time, the Church succeeded in replicating a similar social contract wherever it reached, enriching it with even greater compassion and allowing Her host society to evolve at a rate impossible elsewhere.

Throughout Her history, examples of selfless leaders saving humanity from the madness of tyrants are bountiful. When Attila, the Scourge of God reached the walls of Rome in a wake of blood and horror, Emperor Valerian cowered from defending the city. It was Pope St Leo the Great, the Bishop of Rome, who without an army, nor weapons other than his Faith and the Cross, left the city walls to ‘talk sense’ to the world’s most formidable destroyer humanity had yet encountered. Like many more after him, Attila must have been astounded by the might of a God that allowed an elderly unarmed man to confront the most brutal conqueror in history — a man who proudly flaunted himself the title, Scourge of God —without a shadow of fear or doubt. Attila immediately lifted the siege, abandoned his plan to sack Rome and departed for distant lands where he established his kingdom far away from such a powerful God. The freedom of Christian emancipation allows human beings to achieve feats deemed impossible by those trapped in Neolithic notions of subjugation an slavery. Centuries later, the Lombard invasion finally brought an end to the Western Roman Empire once and for all. The Gothic rulers that preceded the onslaught of the Lombards had lived for centuries amongst the Romans. They had maintained Roman Law, Roman institutions, and governance. Gothic was spoken in private, but Latin remained the official language of the kingdom and was the language of the Senate. All that, was wiped away with the Lombard invasions. Just like the Bedouins would restore Neolithic tribal social models in 7^th Century Jerusalem, the Lombards restored Neolithic tribal social models in the West, introducing caste systems, and reducing the rule of law to nothing more than the whim of rulers. It was St Gregory the Great that succeeded in putting an end to so much depravity and through decades of savvy policing and negotiations obtained the conversion of the Lombards, and their acceptance of Christian reason and Christian charity.

Possibly the most astounding testimony of the immense wisdom and courage the Holy Spirit can bestow, through Faith, upon a Man of God defiant of tyranny comes from the example of St Lawrence. The Holy Spirit in fact guided the venerable Bishop of Rome not only in his selfless actions but also in the knowledge that the Church he defended was eternal. Time and again secular rulers have coveted the power and wealth of the Church. Emperor Valerian was one such example. Valerian seeking the wealth of the Church, demanded of St Lawrence that he surrender the ‘treasures’ of the Church. Lawrence rid the Church of any object of value distributing all of Her wealth to the poorest of the poor living in Rome. When the time came to surrender to Valerian the Church’s ‘treasures’, Lawrence brought to his audience with Valerian, Rome’s most wretched humanity, the sick, the dying, the lepers, the homeless, the poorest of the poor, and presented them to the greedy emperor, “these are the treasures of the Church.” Valerian had him burned at the stake for his defiance. St Lawrence was capable of walking into death and unimaginable pain, as well as the destruction of the Church because of his indomitable Faith. He knew that the flesh has no power over the spirit once the spirit is awakened by the Holy Ghost, and he knew that the Church could never perish, even if raised to the ground, because as long as there will be oppressors and oppressed humanity will forever the strength and guidance of Our Redeemer.

He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

Popular Paraphrase of St Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica

Caesar’s Triumph Over God and the End of Western Exceptionalism

Today humanity is facing a new wave of barbaric invasion, this time from within, and whether humanity shall triumph and continue on its evolutionary journey towards individual emancipation or lapse onto a novel Neolithic slumber depends once again on the Church. Huntington’s witty yet brilliant quote about Orthodoxy being Caesar’s junior partner can just as well be applied to the myriad of Protestant denominations that proliferated throughout the Christian world since the early years of the 16^th Century. In fact, the lack of a unifying core in these churches makes it impossible for them, notwithstanding all the goodwill of their pastors and parishioners, to pose any serious threat to the tyrants that rule over them. Just as Orthodoxy was incapable of withstanding the wrath of Communist ideology, Protestantism is proving incapable of curbing the lust for perpetual war that drives the WW2 dynasties that rule over the West. Certainly the days of political leaders such as Marcus Aurelius, possibly the most powerful of all Roman emperors, who nevertheless refused to abandon the wooden plank he used for a bed in favour of the comfortable mattresses used by aristocrats, because the wooden plank was the way his subjects slept throughout the empire, are long gone. We may never see again political leaders of the depth of Marcus Aurelius until the end of the Second Coming, nor can we hope to have saints of the calibre of St Lawrence who fearlessly walked into the arms of an agonizing death with a skip in his step and a smirk on his face. It is hard to imagine the face of defeat on Emperor Valerian, being humbled by the smug Saint. Yet, even in the 20^th Century, the Church can claim extraordinary feats of courage and valour in combatting evil. Pope Pius XII, a saintly and unpretentious man who deserves canonization just for the number of lives he saved, supervised what became by far the largest underground rescue network for persecuted Jews wherever Nazi and Fascist racial laws were enacted across all of Europe. Thanks to the unity and capillarity of the Catholic Church, the scale of this underground network was most certainly the largest rescue mission in all of human history. In another historical moment, facing another evil, Pope St John Paul II took it upon himself to give the nihilist ideology of Stalinist Communism, our modern version of Attila, its death blow in Europe. At the height of the Solidarnosc protest movement in his native Poland, movement that eventually was the first to successfully bring down Communist tyranny in the West, St John Paul II, who openly supported Solidarnosc and its leader Lech Walesa, threatened the tyrannical government to personally march at the head of the movement if the government dared retaliate against the peaceful protests. Neither Orthodoxy nor Protestantism could ever dream to conduct such a monumental fights against evil as the Church has achieved, even in the 20^th Century. In fact, while the Orthodox Church did often refuse collaboration and even resist both Fascist, Nazi as well as Communist invaders, none of the various Orthodox denomination could ever achieve what the Catholic Church achieved, simply because they lacked the physical means, both in terms of unified governance and capillary infrastructure. The same can be said today of the vast array of Protestant denominations who are incapable of deterring the corporate madness that has de facto dispossessed our sovereignty in the West, occupying our governments and institutions in the name of a tiny global oligarchy that survives on perpetuating crisis and wars. It should not surprise why the Catholic Church is so dreadfully feared and hated by tyrants in every age. Unlike Orthodoxy, that has alas accepted to concede to secular authority since the Byzantine Era, in the West God’s impotence over Caesar, marked by the various churches since the Reformation, has a secular nature from its onset.

In 1509, in his In Praise of Folly, Desiderius Erasmus, had every good reason to mock clerical authorities, calling them “asses in scarlet hoods,” the Church as an institution is composed of men, and often times She has been led astray by corrupt men. So did Martin Luther have every right to complain about the Church, and Her practice of the sale of Indulges, when the young idealistic monk nailed his 95 Thesis on the door of Wittenberg’s Castle Church. But unlike Erasmus of Rotterdam, Martin Luther lacked both the historical acumen and the political savvy of the wise Dutch theologian who had inspired him. Soon enough his movement became an excuse for rebellious princes to revolt against the authority of the legitimately elected Holy roman Emperor, Charles V, and at the same time, take possession of the lands and ‘treasures’ of the Church. In England the Reformation was even more blatantly political. In fact it was not even a movement of rebellious princes taking advantage of a naïve monk, the entire movement was dictated from the King, Henry VIII down to his court, simply to get rid of a religious institution that would not condone his murderous promiscuity.

Caesar’s subjugation of God, which defined the Reformation, finally reached the heart of the Church and seeped within the walls of the Vatican in the wake of the destruction of the Second World War. Just like the Bolsheviks and the Maoists had taken cover behind the destruction of WWI and WWII to unleash their season of terror and genocide, the enemies of the Church, used the ruins of the Second World War to launch the Second Vatican Council, a reform styled on the Protestant Reformation and aimed at subduing the Church under secular authority. The result was not only to try and create a Church without teeth nor claws, incapable of withstanding the wrath of foreign invaders from without as St Leo the Great did with Attila, nor the corruption of usurpers from within as St Lawrence did with Emperor Valerian, far worse the Second Vatican Council succeeded in neutering the Millenary history of Christian spirituality and mysticism, leaving entire generations of Christians without proper guidance. Thus whereas brave Popes such as St John Paul II and Benedict XVI have attempted to rekindle the mystical flame of Christian spirituality contained in Her Latin tradition, the populations of the West for decades now have sought and continue to seek spiritual guidance elsewhere, largely in Eastern mysticism, but oftentimes in places declaredly hostile to the Western idea of divine individual authority. This wave of Nihilism that characterises late  20^th Century and 21^st Century Western nations has reached the absurdity of governments openly supporting the idea of absolute destruction declared in Satan’s cult, as deserving of moral equivalence with the Gospel of Christ. Our Churches have been assaulted by the vanity of self-indulging preachers and the glamour of musical performances, reduced to secular theatres and playhouses, devoid of both devotion and compassion. The Church now hosts shows to be televised and promoted as harmless entertainment, or at best as a means for prostrate subjects to cope with the crimes of their rulers. St Augustine shied from any eulogy of his sermons because it cast doubt on his motivations. Whenever he was praised he feared he was not motivated by his devotion to the City of God but lured by the temptations of the City of Man. St Padre Pio could not tolerate applauses and clapping during Mass, reminding the Faithfull that Mass is the commemoration of Christ’s Passion on the Calvary, and that on the Calvary only the enemies of Christ were clapping their hands.

It should be clear to us all why the global oligarchy composed of World War II dynasties, and their mercenaries in our governments and institutions want a Church on Her knees with Her sacred gathering halls transformed into circuses and public markets. The Church is the only institution that for 2 Millenia of continuous lineage has proved capable of curbing the folly of tyrants. Now the World War II dynasties are rolling out the most ambitious plan to enslave humanity in all of human history, only the Church can stand in their way. Without the Church there shall be no limit to the horrors these tyrants will be free to inflict on all of us. It is thus up to us, the Bride of Christ, to revive the Church’s historical role in standing up to tyranny and defending humanity.

God bless us all