Ecumenism is
the worst of heresies, as St Justin Popovich (+1979) teaches, because it is the
pan-heresy, the one that includes all others within itself. Dr Joseph Farrell covers a couple of important
developments on this subject:
. . . Here's the first story, shared by N.S.:
Pope's Visit to Iraqi Ziggurat
to Bring Together Several Faiths - and Hopefully Lure More Visitors
When
I first saw the headline of this article, with a picture of the ziggurat at Ur
in Iraq, I was not amused. I must confess, the idea of any bishop, much less
the bishop of Rome, standing at, or atop, an ancient ziggurat leading one of
those awful "something for everyone" ecumenical
"prayerfests" is disconcerting to say the least. It's one of those
cases of "scrambling the symbols" that is so much a hallmark of the
age, as every institution seems to be in some sort of mad rush to abandon its
traditions. One wonders if the "prayerfest" will include prayers to
or invocations of Merodach (Marduk)? One wonders what self-respecting rabbi or
imam will make the climb up the ziggurat? I suspect that if any do, they "won't be from the
area," but from the West where "Supreme Being-ism" and
"God-in-General-ism" has become such a cacophony of metaphysical
mishmash devoid of any connection to any tradition.
And... it's not the first time that a post-Vatican II pope has participated in
these "interfaith prayerfests"; John-Paul II did, Benedict XVI did.
The only one who didn't (as far as I'm aware) was John-Paul I, who was too busy
during his short pontificate trying to "clean out the swamp" that he
didn't have the time... and we know what happened to him.
Ahhh...
but one needn't be so exercised. According to the article - which let it be
noted is from The US News and World Report -
the real explanation
is a typically shallow American one; the Pope is simply there to promote tourism:
Pope
Francis is due to hold an inter-religious prayer service at the ancient
Mesopotamian site of Ur when he visits Iraq next week - an event local
archeologists hope will draw renewed attention to the place revered as the
birthplace of Abraham.
Popular
with Western visitors in the 1970s and 1980s, Ur is scarcely visited today
after decades of war and political instability shattered Iraq's international
tourism industry. The coronavirus crisis now also keeps local tourists away.
...
The
father of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Abraham is described in the biblical
book of Genesis as living in the city before God called upon him to create a
new nation in a land he later learned was Canaan.
All
of which brings me to the second article, shared by K.M.:
Vatican Papal Academy Sells Out
the Virgin Mary for Muhammad
Here
the explanation for the "scrambling of symbols" represented by the
Pope's pending visit is about much more than promoting tourism; it's about
scrambling the fundamental tenets of the "Abrahamic religions":
The
same folks to bring you "Abrahamism"—the idea that Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam are intricately connected—have narrowed their sights on
promoting Mary, the mother of Christ, as "a Jewish, Christian and Muslim
woman," in the words of Catholic priest Fr. Gian Matteo of
the Pontifical International Marian Academy. In a ten-week webinar
series titled "Mary, a model for faith and life for Christianity and
Islam," the academy will seek to present Mary as a bridge between the two
religions.
This
is easier said than done — at least for those still interested in
facts. For starters, the claim that Mary was a "Jewish,
Christian and Muslim woman" is only two-thirds true: yes, she was a Jew by
race and background, and yes, she was a Christian in that she literally birthed
Christ(ianity), but she was most certainly not a Muslim — a term and religion that came into
being 600 years after Mary
died.
Worse,
far from being the Eternal Virgin, as she is for 1.5 billion Christians of the
Catholic and Orthodox variety, Islam presents Mary, the Mother of Christ, as
"married" to and "copulating" with Muhammad in paradise — a
depiction that would seem to sever rather than build "bridges."
For
Christians "of the Catholic and Orthodox variety," Mary is "the
Eternal Virgin" precisely as a consequence of their faith that she bore
God the Son in his human nature, and thus, was the literal "Ark of
God" whom not even her betrothed, St. Joseph, would touch in any carnal
way, having before him all those Old Testament examples of what happened to
people who touched the Old Testament ark. Islam, as the article goes on to
point out, does not. That said, one wonders what any of them have in common
with the religion of Ur, other than Abraham.
It's that, I suspect, that is the root
of the problem that's coming home to roost. There is a movement afoot - a quiet
one almost entirely off the radar - to create an amalgamation of those
religions, a movement documented by Jeff Sharlet in two books titled C Street and The Family, where an effort to
create "Chrislam" - a strange amalgam of American fundamentalist
Christianity and Islam - is surveyed. What the second article suggests is that
this movement is not just a strange one-off conjured in the Lying Circus in
Swampington D.C., but that similar thinking and agendas are underway in Rome.
And for those in the know, that effort is but an extension of the technique
outlined in the 1960s and 197os ecumenical movement document called The Consultation on Church Union, where
the technique was simply to expropriate the
ecclesiastical traditions of each other: make the Anglicans look more Roman
Catholic, the Roman Catholics look more Zwinglian and Lutheran, make the
Lutherans use Eastern Orthodox litanies, and so on, the goal being to
make everyone look the same
so that the subliminal suggestion is that they are the same, reducing doctrinal - which is to
say, conceptual - disputes to mere words. It's the ecclesiastical version
of what we see in the current politically correct "woke" culture when
it talks about "cultural appropriation", which is "bad" in
culture, but "ok" when it comes to religions. It's a way of putting
everyone "on the square," and pretending that all that matters is
"Supreme Being-ism" and that those differences and symbols and traditions
are neither important nor real. It's the false brotherhood of process itself,
not shared cosmologies and philosophies.
Or
to put that last point country simple, expect more of it, because the process
has no end because it's the process itself that empowers them. They are
trying to unmake all histories and traditions, and with it, all history.
--https://gizadeathstar.com/2021/03/ecumenism-or-the-ecumaniacalism-of-insincere-agreement/
Furthermore:
Via
Via
LewRockwell.com
St Justin
has much to say about ecumenism that is profitable to read:
https://orthochristian.com/99512.html
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25566798-notes-on-ecumenism
--
Holy Ælfred
the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to
the Union!
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