It’s funny that Dawkins says, as a possibility, that we may have come from aliens. There was a movie with that premise. Now, that was not a documentary, propaganda or a mocumentary but, as our priest said, religions usually teach by fictional stories. It scares me that windleafblower was comfortable with the kids seeing Golden Compass. I think it was Steve Wood, who, not being a right-winger as far as I can tell, said the long version of the prayer to St. Michael, written by Pope Leo 13, many times. It may have been before he endeavored to read the book. “One bad book can ruin a convent”, it was said by someone famous in the Church and Mr. Wood was wise to that.
I do think that more yammering atheists than we think know theology, even if they don’t believe. Satan knows theology and he believes in God and knows that the Church’s theology is true. He also is the Lord of Illusions. He can influence a village to see things in a dangerously misunderstood way and cause death and destruction. It takes someone or more who seem to know about what they are talking or they do know, but contort that in a cunning way for an agenda. .
I don’t know from where this positive Christianity Hitler is claimed to believe came, but it was my understanding that he was worshipping Norse gods but, ultimately, the German bloodline itself (which was in England as well. Now, maybe he didn’t have all his soldiers believing in pre-Christian Norse gods and goddesses as most Masons, Rotarians, etc. don’t know their leaders are into what they’re into. It’s all a boy’s club or planting trees to the people at the bottom. Now and again there’s a campaign against or for something, but it’s not what the people think. It may not be atheists, but neo-pagans calling the shots here, with atheism and Biblical historical criticism being the putting to sleep of the enemy. I don’t include Buddhists amongst the trouble-makers, though they may support the caring for nature line that naturalists will feed them as Al Gore got money from one Buddhist bunch when he ran for president (that’s not to say he is a neo-pagan, but that even many of those decent pagans not doing witchcraft or anything like that, yet not enlightened by knowing Christ, will inadvertently support evil)
