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« on: August 15, 2016, 01:44:59 PM »
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  • This is from the book' Who Shall Ascend? by Fr. James Wathen. Part 1 of 7 from Ch 10.

                                                                     -CHAPTER 10 -
                                                                 The Myth of Equality
                                               
                                                                              A.

    We must realize that our party's most powerful weapon is racial tension. By propounding into the consciousness of the dark races that for centuries they have been oppressed by the whites, we can mold them to the program of the Communist Party. In America we will aim for the subtle victory. While inflaming the Negro minority against the whites, we will endeavor to instill In the "Whites" a guilt complex for their exploitation of the Negroes. We will aid the Negroes to rise to prominence of every walk of life, In the professions and in the world of sports and entertainment. With this prestige, the Negro will be able to intermarry with the Whites and begin a process which will deliver America to our cause.[1]

    1. In the Scriptures, almighty God established it as a principle by which His creatures must deal with Him, that His thoughts surpass human thoughts (that is, human understanding) and His ways surpass human ways, as Heaven is exalted above the earth. (Isaias 55: 8 ). It is not for men to understand what God does; it is sufficient that they worship what He does; before all other considerations, He must be acknowledged as the Lord, transcendent and inscrutable and wise.

    2. In the Scriptures, God repeats many times, in order that men may learn the lesson well, that He will do what He wants to do; and it will do no good for them to question Him. He will explain Himself when He chooses and to whom He chooses: "See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill, and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand." (Deut. 32:39).

    3. Even if His creatures cannot understand why God does what He does, they can be assured that whatever He does is good; it can be nothing else. Whatever God does and whatever He makes, by the very fact that He is its cause, it is good.

    4. The following are attributes of God' s creativity: It is abundant and it is various; the Divine Artist loves to make things; and it is His pleasure to make more than enough. We should observe that the good God has made many, many things which apparently have no usefulness, so that we must conclude that the He made them for the sheer delight of making. No one can otherwise explain the wild, superabundance of the flora and the fauna of the earth, nor the great number of heavenly bodies, most of which are nothing but huge rocks whirling through space, catching the light of distant stars, which men consider themselves clever to find and count and catalog.

    5. Besides number, there is a most captivating variety, and, in some animate things, a capacity for endless further variation within the species. Furthermore, amidst this variety, it is to be observed that there is an observable gradation, from things of a very simple composition to things more wonderfully complex, from small to large, from inanimate to intelligent, from physical to spiritual. Evolutionists see in this gradation evidence that the "higher forms" of life developed from the "lower forms." What they ought to see is not that one thing evolved from another, but that all things came from the same Maker, who, like human artists, inclines to repeat and re-apply and develop the same ideas in one thing and another.

    6. Among the animals of God's earthly kingdom, there is a wonderful interdependence, a system of use and abuse. We are referring to the fact that animals and men need each other to survive; and, in the case of the carnivores, some can continue living only by the death of others.

    7. All this is said to remind the reader that thinking of men in terms of superior and inferior is misguided, even though it is indubitable that in their variety, human beings are unevenly endowed both physically, spiritually, and supernaturally. In all this, the key word is not inequality, but complementariness. There is no argument that certain groups of people as well as certain individuals have special talents and abilities, while they lack others. No one can dispute that the Italians are especially gifted in art and music, that the French excel in philosophy and theology, that the English have developed an excellent language, and the Irish can use it for the best stories; that the  Germans are outstanding as mechanics and soldiers, the Americans are great inventors, that Mexicans are wonderful artisans, the Chinese furniture-makers and artists, and the Japanese ingenious in developing the discoveries of others.

    No one can argue that in certain physical traits, Negroes are physically endowed for manual work, and, some of them, for what may be called the 'frenetic sports," that is, those which call for strong and quick motion. No purpose is served in claiming that the Negro peoples, or the Indians of the Western Hemisphere, or the Australian Aborigines, or the Artic Eskimos are as intellectually gifted or as artistically creative as those of European stock. To argue such a thing is pointless and absurd. It is obvious that the principle of gradation is to be found, in a very general way, among human beings, and that God has distributed his gifts variously among the peoples and races. Some of these gifts are physical, others mental. Nor is there the least doubt that from the very beginning, God had a special place in His affection for the people of France, of Italy, and of Ireland (to say nothing of Poland and Lithuania, Portugal and Spain), while it cannot be suggested that He has been ungenerous toward any people.

    Furthermore, as He explains in Holy Writ, no matter how they have offended Him, and keep on offending Him, He has a special predilection for the Jєωs, whom, one day, He will convert to the love of His Son. (Cf. Romans 11). (Whether He bears this love toward Asiatic Khazars, the αѕнкenαzιc Jєωs, time will tell. That they have zealously accepted upon their heads the тαℓмυdic tradition and its invectives against Christ does not seem to be a matter of question.)

    8. It is to be observed further that people glory their own gifts, as well they should (within reason). The Italians would rather have their tenors and their composers and their opera than America's basketball players and boxers and high jumpers. Would the sprinters and the soccer stars and the weight-lifters prefer to be novelists, or inventors, or builders? Would Michael Jordan prefer to be a poet? Would James Gaiway prefer to be a computer programmer? Marianne Anderson once commented: "I love the sound of my own voice." And who could blame her? (And apparently the English would prefer to be English to having all the gifts of all the other peoples!) It would seem that only Blacks prefer not to be black.

    9. What is important in all these ruminations is that every man is made by almighty God for a particular purpose, and suitably endowed therefor. It is not necessary that we know God's purpose for individual men in His august designs; it is sufficient that we know that God, for all His prolixity, is in no way haphazard, nor careless, nor inconsiderate, no matter what the deists say.

    10. Whereas Liberalism emphasizes those ways in which men are alike, Christianity is concerned with teaching men their uniqueness, their singularity in the eyes of God. Their specialness is in what God wants from them, which is their vocation. Once a man receives Catholic Baptism, he is completely different, and superior to all men who have not received this Sacrament. Once a man is baptized, he is cleansed of Original Sin, he is made a child of God, a member of the Church, and a temple of the Holy Ghost, this even when he is still an infant and hardly knows his own identity, this regardless of his intelligence quotient, his health, his size, his gender, his race or nationality. Once a man receives Baptism, he becomes a citizen of Heaven, living temporarily in exile, the co-heir to all the dominions of Christ the King. And his soul is transformed into something so divinely beautiful, that it can be compared to the magnificent angels, indeed, to the ineffable God Himself. Compared to this gift, which is available to practically every human being, any and all merely human accoutrements are little more than nothing.

    Of course, Liberals will twit: We do not deny the effects of Baptism; when we speak of human equality, we are speaking of civil and human rights, of the fact that men have equal rights under the law. And we answer that such considerations are of such trifling moment, that they are beneath our notice. Not, indeed, that we take no thought of them, but that they are subordinate, and must be recognized as subordinate, to the mystery and cause of salvation. What we are saying is that what really matters is not who is greater or less among men on earth, but who is truly great in the order of creation and of grace. Just as no one can be at the same time a socialist and a Christian, so no one can be at the same time a Liberal and a Christian, and he who thinks it a matter of religion to concern himself with one's own or someone else's socio-economic welfare is not thinking like a Christian. 'Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." (Mt. 5:3).

    [1] Israel Cohen, a leading Communist in England, in his book, A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century, 1912. Quoted in APRA NEWS, volume 1991, number 3, p. 5. American Pistol and Rifle Association, Box USA, Benton, TN 37307
    "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." - Acts 5:29

    The Highest Principle in the Church: "We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man" - Fr. Hesse