Of a common Christianity there has never been and never can be a definition, for it has never existed.
There is no essential
doctrine such that if we can agree upon it we can differ about the rest: as for
instance, to accept immortality but deny the Trinity.
A man will call himself
a Christian though he denies the unity of the Christian Church; he will call
himself a Christian though he denies the presence of Jesus Christ in the
Blessed Sacrament; he will cheerfully call himself a Christian though he denies
the Incarnation.
No; the quarrel is
between The Church and the Anti-Church. The Holy Catholic Church of God and The
Anti-God, The Church of Christ and The Anti-Christ.
There never has been and
never can be or will be a general Christian religion professed by men who all
accept some central important doctrines, while agreeing to differ about
others. There has always been, from the beginning, and will always be, The
Church, and sundry heresies either doomed to decay, or, like Mohammedanism, to
grow into a separate religion.
The reconversion of our
world to the Holy Catholic faith is the only hope for our future!
It was the faith that
gradually and indirectly turned the slave into the peasant serf and then into
the free peasant.
It was the faith which
took the guild and made it the foundation for our modern world. It was the
faith with is morality stopped usury from retuning us to slavery.
The
same usury that is today turning us into slavery.
The
line of cleavage throughout the world lies between what is with, and what is against,
The Faith. Hilarie Belloc says our choices are a return to Catholicism or chaos
and "the crisis ... does not permit of indefinite delay."
He shows in his work's that ever since the disaster of the Protestant Reformation, our civilization has been coming apart. Catholicism built the Western World - from Roman times through the Dark Ages to the High Middle Ages - but the false doctrine and social philosophy of Protestantism, based on Calvin, is causing a steady and continuing breakdown of that world. Belloc shows the Reformation's evil results in the economic sphere, through usury and unbridled competition.
He shows in his work's that ever since the disaster of the Protestant Reformation, our civilization has been coming apart. Catholicism built the Western World - from Roman times through the Dark Ages to the High Middle Ages - but the false doctrine and social philosophy of Protestantism, based on Calvin, is causing a steady and continuing breakdown of that world. Belloc shows the Reformation's evil results in the economic sphere, through usury and unbridled competition.
He states that "Calvin opened the door to the domination of the mind by
money." Belloc concludes that the return of Catholicism is the only remedy
for our crumbling world, because our basic principles of civilization are
Catholic in origin and only by being energized and guided by the Faith will
they - and our civilization - continue to be what they are and continue to help
poor, fallen mankind in this world. Belloc maintains that we are drifting back
towards slavery and only by re-embracing Catholicism will disaster be averted.
The cause of all the
problems --The Reformation--the solution of all the problems is a return to The
Holy Catholic Faith.
Catholics are the first
and only Christians-others (including Muslims) only believe parts of Catholic
Doctrine and that is defined as a heretic-only believing parts of a whole
doctrine.
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