"The Catholic Church rejects nothing that is true and holy in these religions. She regards with sincere reverence those ways of conduct and of life, those precepts and teachings which, though differing in many aspects from the ones she holds and sets forth, nonetheless often reflect a ray of that Truth which enlightens all men."
Is there not some truth in these two sentences? I only want to get this aspect straight because for instance St. Thomas got the "good" of the pagan philosophers and I seem to have read that those things that were truly good in false religions were retained, so it's not all black and white.
It's just that I have seen many trads say that there is 0% truth or goodness in false religions and I want to be sure if this is indeed the case, that false religions are 100% worthless and 100% of what they have has to be rejected.
There is some truth, however beware of the subterfuge. The Catholic Church rejects nothing that is true and holy in these religions of the devil because the Scriptures are true and Holy.
So the question is, Do Jєωιѕн ѕуηαgσgυєs which contain the Old Testament (the true and Holy words of God) make the ѕуηαgσgυєs Holy? Or the people assembling there Holy? Obviously no.
The same can be said of the Novus Ordo/Protestants that possess the Gospels, Are their edifices Holy? Are those who meet there Holy? No.
The subterfuge is found via respect for the conduct, precepts and teachings that differ in many aspects from the Catholic Church...... this is just devilspeak which subconsciously conditions people to believe sanctification exists outside of the Catholic Church, which is false.
This can be attributed to those who strongly pushed modernist BoD in the early 20th century, which lead to people being in a state of grace who reject Christ, which lead to the "invisible christian", which lead to "you can't judge", which lead to the split second conversion, as the rope is about to snap the neck of the one committing ѕυιcιdє, to atheists are saved. All in the name of reverence and goodness.