Posted on 8/24/2006, 1:10:46 AM by NYer
RIMINI, Italy, AUG. 23, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Jacobinism, Nazism and Communism have not succeeded in banishing God, and "Christ is the greatest revolution of history," a sociology professor told a mass gathering in Rimini.
Rosa Alberoni, writer and professor at Milan's IULM University, was summarizing the content of her latest book, "La Cacciata di Cristo" (The Expulsion of Christ), published by Rizzoli. She made her presentation Sunday at the weeklong 27th Meeting of Friendship among Peoples.
Alberoni referred to words of Pope John Paul II, according to whom "history has amply demonstrated that to make war on God to extirpate him from men's hearts, leads a fearful and impoverished humanity to options that have no future."
The sociology professor contended that "the Enlightenment, Nazism and Communism tried to eliminate God, to deny Christ, thus legitimizing dictatorship, doing away with individuals and spreading paganism."
Illustrating the second part of the book, the author analyzed the great revolution in history presented by Christ, and how "the Christian message is essential to address challenges such as the Islamic and Chinese -- which exert pressure today on our borders -- and the scientific atheist spirit on the domestic front."
No "Our Father"
"Christianity is the only religion in which God becomes tangible, becomes man to speak to men, and is Father of brothers to whom he also gives the freedom to rebel against him," Alberoni said.
She continued: "In Islam, instead, Allah is not proposed as Father. For Muslims, the 'Our Father' is a blasphemy. Free will is not contemplated. And all, from animals to men, including the hand of a killer, are a mere instrument of Allah's power.
"We must not await, passive and inert, the destruction of Christian civilization. The moment has come for believers to raise their heads, to speak out, to defend Christian values by practicing them, re-consecrating them in our gestures, because only in this way can modern challenges be faced."
"Why don't we have the courage to speak openly of Christ?" wondered Alberoni, noting the media's relative silence about him. "Instead, we must not be afraid to speak of Christian civilization, not simply of Western civilization, because, the Soviet system having fallen, we are one Christian people in Europe, Russia, America, Australia and part of Africa and Asia."
An eye opener!
I agree, although when the Sons of God appear, the Army of the Lord, there will be no doubt in anyones mind who da boss. Pity the poor fool who resists the coming transformation from this fallen world into His Kingdom.
Church militant bump.
Jacobinism and Nazism are dead and gone. Communism is still alive and functioning in many, many countries. The Communist Party still exists in this country. China is our "most favored trade nation." What does that say about our commitment to Christ when we sleep with Satan?
Other than that, I agree with her and think this is a good article.
Picking nits this morning, I guess.
It's an interesting thing to think about this:
In all of the ravings and rantings of the most notorious imams, terrorists, Usama bin Laden, Al-Zaqawi and their kind, NOT ONE WORD has been used against Christianity, Christ or Christians. Their rhetoric and hate is directed at countries and cultures, not our religion.
Yet, good Christians on this site feel perfectly free to villify, excoriate and bash an entire religion for the actions of a relatively few ravers and ranters in Islam who skew their Koran and religion to whip up POLITICAL hatred of the West and America.
The Palestinians don't hate Judaism. They hate the state, government and military of Israel...and the U.S. for $upporting and arming them. Hamas, Hizbollah and the other terrorists don't even attack Americans or America. You would think that their anger would spread out that far, but it hasn't in the last 59 years.
I've never understood the trashing of an entire race (Arabs) and religion (Islam) for the actions of a few of their a******s.
Those trashers sound EXACTLY like the flip side of the coin of Muslim terrorists. But those Muslim terrorists NEVER trash Christianity, just countries and governments.
My two cents.
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