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We should have attacked the Stasi with pitchforks
« on: May 12, 2020, 09:36:13 AM »
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  • “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

    ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
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    Offline SeanJohnson

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    Re: We should have attacked the Stasi with pitchforks
    « Reply #1 on: May 12, 2020, 12:55:12 PM »
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  • That quote is making the rounds, and I happened to send it to some friends recently as well.

    Here is an interesting response I received from one of the recipients:

    "Hi Sean,

    If you want to research something interesting, look into what all the Jєωιѕн Rabbi's are saying about the coming of their "Messiah" (i.e., the Antichrist).  They are all - and I mean all - entirely convinced that his arrival is eminent.  There's even one leading Rabbi who claims to be in personal contact with him.

    I realize that the common opinion today is that the Antichrist comes after the period of peace, but the common opinion used to be that he comes before the restoration (now).  St. Thomas, in his commentary on Romans, says that just as God turned to the Gentiles after the Jєωs rejected Christ apostatized, so too will He turn back to the Jєωs when the gentiles reject Christ apostatize. 

    The difference is that when He turns back to the Jєωs - i.e., when He brings about the conversion of the Jєωs - Christ does not abandon the gentiles.  On the contrary, when the Jєωs convert, the gentiles re-convert back to Christ along with them. This brings about a restoration of the temporal order. The Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary brought about a restoration the spiritual order, and the present Sacrifice of His Mystical Body will bring about a restoration of the temporal order.  If this sequence of events is correct, the arrival of the Antichrist could indeed be eminent (possibly 2022, with his 7 year public reign ending in 2029 - just in time for the arrival of the comet).  This sequence of events is beginning to seem more likely to me.  The Mark of the Beast system is in place, the Third Temple is built (almost entirely underground), and the manufactured pandemic has begun. Interesting days.    

    Here's a link to one of the Rabbi's that has been discussing the arrival of their "Messiah."  https://www.youtube.com/user/alonanava  He is in some ways like a Jєωιѕн version of a Traditional Catholic - a Jєωιѕн Bishop Williamson.    He discusses cօռspιʀαcιҽs, etc., and has a lot of interesting things to say. The only negative is that he sprinkles in some Kabbala nonsense."
    Rom 5: 20 - "But where sin increased, grace abounded all the more."


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    Re: We should have attacked the Stasi with pitchforks
    « Reply #2 on: May 12, 2020, 01:38:46 PM »
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  • There's no way we are in the time of the anti-Christ.  It's infallible that the Church Fathers agreed on many things which have to happen before the 'man of sin' appears.  The devil thinks he will usher in the anti-christ, but Our Lady will defeat the devil's plans and there will be peace.  The actual, real anti-christ is defeated by Christ, not Our Lady.  There is a period of peace after the anti-christ, but that is Christ's peace (when all the Jєωs will convert), not Our Lady's.
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    There are parallels to both periods (devil's Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ/communism triumph/persecution vs anti-christ's triumph/persecution) but they are not the same.  There are parallels between Our Lady's peace and Christ's peace at the end of the world, but they are not the same.  Our current times may very well have many of the same trials as during the anti-christ (i.e. persecutions, lack of the mass, chips needed to buy things, a one-world government/ruler), but this will not be the anti-christ, only a precursor.
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    Without a doubt, the events which the Church Fathers are unanimous about (and which are also Scriptural) which MUST happen before the time of the anti-christ are:
    1.  The whole world will be catholic (hasn't happened yet).  i.e. the Social Kingship of Christ, which will happen during Our Lady's peace.
    2.  The gospel will be preached to all nations (ties into #1).
    3.  The great "falling away"...which can't happen until the whole world is catholic.
    4.  The world is divided into 10 kingdoms, which the anti-christ (as a person) eventually conquers.
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    There are other, minor events which will probably happen, that most Church Fathers agree on, i.e. Return of the Roman Empire.  But this sorta ties into #4 above, because you can't have kingdoms without kings, which presupposes that the Roman Empire returns in some degree.

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    Re: We should have attacked the Stasi with pitchforks
    « Reply #3 on: May 12, 2020, 02:10:57 PM »
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  • Well, at the back of Fr. Denis Fahey's "The Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the Jєωιѕн Nation," he included an index regarding the coming of the antichrist, which is divided into the following sections:

    A. Things that are certain
    B. Things that are probable
    C. Things that are undecided
    D. Things that have not a solid foundation

    This list of categories is taken from Fr. Lemann's "L'Antechrist" (p. 20)

    A. Things concerning the antichrist that are certain:

    -Antichrist will be a trial for the good, and a chastisement for the impious
    -Antichrist will be a man, a human person
    -Antichrist will not be Satan in human form
    -Antichrist will have great powers of seduction, from his natural qualities
    -The beginnings of his career will be lowly and obscure
    -Antichrist will increase in power and make conquests
    -The rule of antichrist will be worldwide
    -Antichrist will wage terrible war against God and His Church
    -Antichrist will claim to be God, and demand exclusive adoration
    -Antichrist will attempt to prove his divinity via prodigies
    -The persecution of the antichrist will be temporary and he will be destroyed

    In other words, none of the things you attribute to infallibility or the Church Fathers are included in Fr. Fahey's assessment.

    Here are the rest of the categories:

    B. Things that are probable:

    -The Jєωs will proclaim the antichrist Messiah, and will help to set up his kingdom (which is what my correspondent is perceiving)
    -The persecution of antichrist will last three years and a half

    C. Things that are undecided:

    -The nationality of antichrist (i.e., whether he will be Jєωιѕн or not)
    -The name of antichrist
    -The seat of antichrist's empire
    -The Temple in which antichrist will present himself for adoration
    -The date of the coming of antichrist

    Fr. Fahey then concluded his list, without indicating any theses which "have not a solid foundation," and merely provides the Decree of the Fifth Lateran Council which excommunicates ny who attempt to assign a date to the advent of the antichrist.
    Rom 5: 20 - "But where sin increased, grace abounded all the more."