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From Autumn 2008 Issue
Catholic Slaughtered Catholic While Pius Remained Pious
How many of us ever sit down and think of what the
animals must have gone through during wars created by man? Indeed, the
very sounds of a firework going off, or the sound of thunder, are things
that terrify animals. Yet the vast majority of humans couldn’t care a
toss. Fireworks are still on sale for the 5th of November; and on
the 9th of November – Armistice Sunday – the poor animals that were
petrified, maimed or murdered during man made wars will not even be
mentioned. Such is the selfishness and depravity of human nature.
Wars are not the answer. ‘An eye for an eye and a
tooth for a tooth’ is Not the message of Jesus. If it were, then we’d
end up with blind and toothless folk all around us! Yet in times of war,
the masses have largely become incoherent puppets in the grip of vain
and shallow politicians. Yes, and religiously speaking, if Pope Pius the
12th had made it clear that Catholic must never ever kill Catholic ‘on
pain of mortal sin or excommunication’, then the last World War could
hardly have commenced. Other Denominations would, no doubt have followed
along a similar track! But ‘what happened instead?’ Padres from both
sides backed the vain and shallow politicians, becoming little less that
stooges and, as a consequence, moved baptized Christians in one country
to murder baptized Christians in another. Is it any wonder, that to the
tune Onward Christian Soldiers, the UK forces of both world wars began
to sing:
When this lousy war is over: Oh how happy we will be
No more church parades on Sunday; no more booking in
for me? …..
The fact is that the churches have not only failed
miserably to remember the horror that wars cause for animals, but what
they actually cause for fellow humans of the same Christian tradition. I
ask: could anything be as far removed from each other as traditional
‘churchianity’ expressed through the past two world wars and that of the
message Jesus came to teach and die for? Did He not say:’ Love your
enemies and pray for those who would spitefully use you’ ‘Overcome evil
by doing good!’ ‘If your enemy is hungry, then feed him’. ‘Leave all
vengeance in my hands, for I will most justly repay, says The Lord’.
I sense the following verse of Alfred Lord Tennyson
aptly sums it up:
But churchmen fain would kill their church,
As the churches killed their Christ!
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