That damned catholic

I spend a lot of time defending Catholicism. I feel that the secular forces that wish to destroy Christianity realize that the Catholic Church is the big-kid-on-the-block, and that if they can manage to break it's sizable influence, that the smaller less significant denominations would quickly succumb as well. So while I am critical of the Catholics, I recognize that the Vatican’s influence is one of the few remaining forces pushing back against secularism’s anti-Christian tsunami. Yet I was talking to a Pentecostal pastor, a high profile one that was a district head (a bishop of sorts) overlooking many churches, and he saw nothing wrong with Catholicism. His ignorance was astounding. It makes me wonder what seminaries are teaching now? This is disconcerting to me, because catholic doctrine is in stark contrast to biblical truth: they teach different things. What this pastor was saying, wasn’t that he didn’t understand Catholicism, it was that he didn’t seem to understand the New Covenant or God. I think I can trace where Protestantism's new found open-armed policy of accepting conflicting theological viewpoints came from.

When I was younger, I remember the Church sounding a warning of the New Age bogeyman (religious relativism). As I aged, I watched this “New Age movement” infiltrate society. Many Christians thought it simply burnt out and disappeared, but it didn’t. As a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough, this fringe boggart adapted and expanded and assumed new monikers: moral relativism and cultural relativism. These further progressed into post modernism.

What happens when large segments of society adopt this spiritual poison? Well, the members of your Church are made up of that society, and their children are steeped in this satanic philosophy. It infects these kids, which as they age backwards infects the Church from within.

And what is it called when the New Age movement infects the Church? Ecumenism.

The fruit of this progressive anti-God movement was the stupification of the Church. Ecumenism is not possible if Christians are educated and Biblically literate. But the embracement of moral relativism has lead to a quenching of the Spirit’s guiding voice, as the Church stumbles over itself to appease Satan and spite God; embracing lifestyles that God has told us He hates. Yes, hates. The Churches new Golden Rule is “to be nice”. And nice apparently includes accepting and loving that which is detestable to God.

So I will redefine ecumenism as theological relativism (or denominational relativism). And this takes us back to our confused Pentecostal pastor and his mistaken views on the Catholic Church.

I did mention there are things I admire about the Catholic Church. One such thing is their stead fast adherence to Catholic doctrine. Ecumenism doesn’t affect them. It is affecting the Protestant churches. The Catholics have taken more care and due diligence in maintaining their aberrant religiosity than the Protestants have at maintaining Biblical truth. But this article is not to sieve Catholicism to find specks of gold, it is to look at all the filthy dirt that those specks are buried in. Today we will look at the elephant in the middle of the living room, the pachyderm the Pentecostal couldn’t see.

Face Flipper - Old age makes your body turn upside down!! Featuring Chevy Chase

Another celebrity example of how, with age, our head goes from top heavy to bottom heavy.

Face Flipper - Old age makes your body turn upside down!! Featuring Val Kilmer

Behold the power of gravity. As a man's muscular chest of youth falls into his large belly of middle age, so the head's top heavy appearance likewise succumbs to newton's law (and the enigmatic doughnut force) and shifts it's high center to a new low. (I've personally felt an attraction to doughnuts myself).

Val Kilmer: before and after.