And who else? Arius? Martin Luther? The Jewish priests who looked Jesus in the eye and condemned him? Judas? Hitler? Stalin? Mao? The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who helped organize mohammedan S.S. units? The same one who coached Hitler on certain aspects, and in which countless Christians also suffered.
Is it all a big joke? A round-robin game of anything goes and God just wants us to all see why we need him, but we’re all saved? Hell is just a boogeyman to keep us working in the system?
Where does it end?
If mohammedanism is real, what else is real? Why must I subject myself to such a testing system as working towards loving everyone so purely it ultimately might kill me, when I could just have a cool life owning sex slaves, invoking God’s name on everything unholy under the sun related to treatment of children, and outright depravity when the numbers allow for such behavior to be encouraged?
I mean, really… if what you say is true, Calvary is all but meaningless. It’s… relativistic, syncretic, and not even heterodox, but outright heresy. To espouse such a doctrine in such language as posited is in no way Christian. It reeks of what is emerging in the West as “Chrislam”.
Back in September, Pope Benedict XVI visited the monastery where Martin Luther studied before splitting from the Catholic Church. While there, the Pope took part in an Ecumenical service with the Lutherans and in a private meeting he praised Luther for his** “deep passion and driving force” **in his beliefs.
Bishop Nikolaus Schneider, Germany’s top Protestant bishop, was so elated by the Pope’s words on Benedict that he told journalists that Luther had, in effect, been rehabilitated.“Luther has experienced a de facto rehabilitation today through this appreciation of his work,” Schneider, who also heads the Evangelical Church in Germany, said, according to Reuters.
Furthermore, when writing as Cardinal Ratzinger, Benedict made it clear that he does not consider Protestantism to be a heresy:
“The difficulty in the way of giving an answer is a profound one. Ultimately it is due to the fact that there is no appropriate category in Catholic thought for the phenomenon of Protestantism today (one could say the same of the relationship to the separated churches of the East).** It is obvious that the old category of ‘heresy’ is no longer of any value.** Heresy, for Scripture and the early Church, includes the idea of a personal decision against the unity of the Church, and heresy’s characteristic is pertinacia, the obstinacy of him who persists in his own private way. This, however, cannot be regarded as an appropriate description of the spiritual situation of the Protestant Christian. In the course of a now centuries-old history,
Protestantism has made an important contribution to the realization of Christian faith, fulfilling a positive function in the development of the Christian message and, above all, often giving rise to a sincere and profound faith in the individual non-Catholic Christian, whose separation from the Catholic affirmation has nothing to do with the pertinacia characteristic of heresy. Perhaps we may here invert a saying of St. Augustine’s: that an old schism becomes a heresy. The very passage of time alters the character of a division, so that an old division is something essentially different from a new one. Something that was once rightly condemned as heresy cannot later simply become true, but it can gradually develop its own positive ecclesial nature, with which the individual is presented as his church and in which he lives as a believer, not as a heretic. This organization of one group, however, ultimately has an effect on the whole.
The conclusion is inescapable, then: Protestantism today is something different from heresy in the traditional sense, a phenomenon whose true theological place has not yet been determined.”- Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, The Meaning of Christian Brotherhood, pp. 87-88.
So you see, the Post Vatican II Popes are leading us to a wonderful one world Ecumenical religion where there will be no division between Catholic and Protestant or even Christian and non-Christians. Haven’t you seen both Blessed John Paul II The Great and Benedict XVI praying in Mosques with Muslims and having Ecumenical services such as Assisi with the practitioners of all the great religions of the world such as the Animists and Vodouisants? We should not be so narrow in our thinking, we need to broaden our perspectives of what religion is as our recent Holy Fathers have demonstrated to us.
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