The scandalisation of the faithful and organised religion (7/2009)

A profound transformation in the relationship between the labour movement and the faithful is a prescient necessity. Socialists seek to meddle in every matter of common interest under the sun and ignore the source of public charity, biblical  scholarship,Catholicism and the Poor Laws. Christian democrats draw from the Christian tradition. One possible origin of the doctrines, writings and observations of the pedagogues of the 19^th century was the Acts of the Apostles. There charity manifested itself in those who “sold all their possessions and gave the money to the poor”.

 Secular matters are temporal and are governed by the Old Testament. In the Old Testament we read of the early call to nationhood of the Jews under King David. Some imagine that social democracy is inimical to Christianity or, more accurately, the Judaeo-Christian tradition. This is untrue. The long, slow, difficult transition from nomadic existence to political existence and stability is fraught with many wars, pitfalls and lurches backwards into slavery and exile in the early Jewish tradition.

In modern times we witness a transition between Kantian free thinking and primitive materialism in 18^th century Germany and France to Rousseau and Voltaire’s atheism in Regicide France. Later came anarchism, socialism, syndicalism, existentialism, Stalinism, Trotskyism and ecology, a socially impairing and tragic course which made France prey to foreign invasion and conquest. France has spread its errors to the furthest corners of the globe and has become a land of thieves and criminals. There the police make no effort to enforce constitutional rights on property, the person and attrition. In Ireland people must shed their long held views on cooperation with civil policing.

Stalinism has fallen and we are now faced with the collapse of capitalism. We must return to a society which perished at some time between the rise of the Norman Church –State dichotomy in 1066 and 1214.The  anti clerical views of the Irish media in the 21^st centaury is not a sign of progress but a sign of moral ill health. Only a tiny fraction of those Catholic clerics accused of scandalous behaviour of the quarter  of them charged have been found guilty by the courts.

The “evidence” for these allegations was the result of suggestions of impropriety by “spiritists  and mediums” (Isaiah) or, as we know them today, psychiatrists and Humanists. There is no higher form of humanism than the Christian humanism of the Bible.

Revolution? Revolution means “a turning around” or “turning backward”. Such a social revolution is a turning away from violence and atheistic barbarism.