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Humana Communitas And The Anti-Christian Vision of Heaven on Earth

8/13/2020

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"In the same way, if he had decided that God and immortality did not exist, he would at once have become an atheist and a socialist. For socialism is not merely the labor question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken by atheism to-day, the question of the Tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to heaven from earth but to set up heaven on earth."

I believe the passage above, taken from Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, perfectly encapsulates the struggle between Christianity and socialism -the metaphysical war between those who promulgated mounting to heaven from earth and those who strove to establish heaven on earth. The war was drawn out over centuries, but for all intents and purposes, it is now over. Socialism has succeeded in thoroughly subverting and trouncing Christianity – at least the major forms of organized, institutional Christianity. As far as I know, all major Christian denominations and churches have chosen to prioritize setting up heaven on earth over mounting to heaven from earth, which makes one wonder if the major Christian denominations really believe in the existence of God and immortality at all.

To suggest the major Christian churches no longer really believe in the existence of God and immortality is tantamount to blasphemy. Perhaps it is blasphemy to suggest such a thing. After all, a great many people within the various Christian denominations clearly do believe in God and immortality, but these people rarely, if ever, represent the official positions of their respective institutions, all of which are clearly more interested in creating heaven on earth than they are in mounting to heaven from earth. In fact, it has to come to the point where it is extremely difficult to differentiate the communications a Christian church releases from the communications released by a secular/atheist, socialist organization – and by socialist organization I am referring to all governments, businesses, global corporations, international forums, NGOs, universities, etc.

Case in point, the much (and rightly) criticized Humana Communitas in the Age of Pandemic: Untimely Meditations on Life’s Rebirth, which the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life released on July 22, 2020. A great deal of the criticism the document has drawn has concentrated the text’s glaring lack of reference to God, Jesus Christ, and faith (though the author goes out of his way to laud the World Health Organization to the stars). Many also clearly recognized and identified the document’s secular, bureaucratic tone and style of text as being eerily similar to the kind of tone and style that taints documents released by globalist organizations such as the United Nations and the World Economic Forum. What few seemed to note, however, is just how anti-Christian the Humana Commnunitas is. More specifically, how well the content of the document aligns with the current secular agendas to reorder the world in response to the birdemic crisis.

I’m not going to bother to do any sort comparison analysis in this post, but that doesn’t mean you should take my word for what I have expressed above. Instead, take a few moments, browse the Humana Communitas and make your through one or more of the WEF’s articles on the Great Reset. The similarities are depressing. Building the Tower of Babel; establishing heaven here on earth.

Both sources agree the birdemic has provided the ideal circumstances for the establishment of this heaven on earth – for a community of human family, a safe and just world – which will, of course, require ‘global governance’, new ‘mindsets’, ‘lifestyle changes’, and a ‘moral conversion’ - all of which can be achieved without Christ, God, and faith.

In my mind, documents like the Humana Communitas provides a clear response to the atheistic question: Attaining heaven on earth is far more important than attaining heaven from earth. 
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Jacob Gittes
8/14/2020 16:49:59

Random quote from the document:
"The Covid-19 epidemic has much to do with our depredation of the earth and the despoiling of its intrinsic value. It is a symptom of our earth’s malaise and our failure to care; more, a sign of our own spiritual malaise (Laudato Si’, n. 119). Will we be able to remedy the fracture that has separated us from our natural world, too often turning our assertive subjectivities into a menace to creation, a menace to one another?"

The earth has agency and malaise?
And the "fracture" from the natural world is more a product of our turn away from God and spirit, and our embrace of materialism, than our "assertive subjectivities."

It seems to be saying that caring about our own spiritual life and our own subjective relationship with creation is somehow wrong. It seems evil to me to cause people to turn away from their own subjective relationships with the world and creation, calling it a menace.

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Francis Berger
8/14/2020 18:41:42

@ Jacob - That's just one excerpt. The document is chock full of dandies like that.

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Andrew
8/15/2020 13:55:47

Are you Catholic? I am.

I don’t know what I’m obligated to feel towards this Pope and Vatican when the institute and man are both obviously - through many examples - corrupt and spreading evil.

How do you treat a father who is an evil man and abusing you?

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Francis Berger
8/15/2020 19:33:20

@ Andrew - I was baptized a Catholic, went to Catholic school until I was fourteen, live in a predominantly Catholic country, and up until the beginning of the birdemic, attended services in the small Catholic church in my village.

Having said all that, I have never really felt much affiliation for the Catholic hierarchy and have considered myself a solitary, non-affiliated Christian for many years (this despite attending Catholic Mass. As for the Pope and abusive fathers . . . my father is God the Creator, and He is a loving father.

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Michelle
8/15/2020 19:09:50

Wow. Reading that reaffirms why i left the church. That's some really really sick thinking they have in that document. Telling us to think of the "luxury" we have during this birdemic as Westerners, as if our isolation, loneliness, elderly dying alone, SD, is soooo much better as a Westerner than a "global southerner". Apparently I have to have guilt about everything in my existence, right down to the privilege of my isolation.

These kind of beliefs that the church is very outright about almost makes me think this was all in His plan- to destroy His Church because men so corrupted it. It makes me want to flip over a few money changing tables myself.

Welcome back Mr. Berger.

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Francis Berger
8/15/2020 19:38:55

@ Michelle - I appreciate the formality, but feel free to call me Francis or Frank.

Yes, the good old manipulative guilt trip. The secular globalists have enlisted this tactic as well. Racism is our fault. Climate change is our fault. Income inequality, pollution, kids dying in Botswana . . . all our fault. Lucky for us, the powers-that-should-not-be, who had absolutely nothing to do with any of the above, have a great plan to help free us of all this awful guilt.

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William James Tychonievich link
8/15/2020 21:17:55

That Vatican document is amazing! Among the terms that do not occur anywhere in the 4,000-some-word document are: God, Father, Jesus, Christ, holy, Christian, church, gospel, religion, pray, Bible, scripture, heaven, sacred, love, salvation, repent -- almost any characteristically Christian word you can think of! There is one occurrence of "lord," which is not a reference to the Deity; and two instances of the verb "save," both referring to saving physical lives from the birdemic. "Faith" and "sin" occur only in a sentence asserting that "a faith understanding" refers to "structural dimensions of our global community that are oppressive and unjust" as “structures of sin.”

That such a document could come out of the Vatican, without so much as a fig-leaf of lip service to God and religion, is truly astonishing.

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Francis Berger
8/15/2020 22:17:00

@ Wm - I know, right? When I first read it, I assumed it was some sort of hoax, but as I far as I have been able to determine, the document is legit - straight out of VC.

As you well know, I have been spending far too much time reading World Economic Forum articles over the past month or so. Anyway, I read the Humana Communitas right after I had finished reading two or three WEF articles online. The transition was seamless. It was as if I was just reading another WEF article. There was nothing in this Vatican text to indicate otherwise.

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Andrew
8/16/2020 02:51:29

Pope Francis also just criticized Priests who continued to hold public services, despite government restrictions.

I believe he opened up the Vatican to greater demonic influences with the weird "Pachamama" rituals he attended. The South American idol was venerated at Christian services in Rome - a mockery and blasphemy.

I don't know why Benedict resigned, but it was wrong and obviously due to evil influences.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pope-francis-throws-shade-at-priests-not-wanting-to-shutter-during-coronavirus-pandemic/ar-BB15LRU8

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Francis Berger
8/16/2020 14:03:44

@ Andrew - Even though he and I share the same name, I am not a fan of Pope Francis, which I have made clear a few times on this blog:

https://www.francisberger.com/bergers-blog/the-no-hope-pope

Having said that, I think Catholics should look beyond the corruption and remain focus on whatever Good is left in the Church - and yes, there is some here and there. If that can't be done, then focus on the ideal of the Church, which in itself is Good.

Though it offers no consolation, it's important to remember that nearly all, if not all, Christian denomination/sects have been corrupted to some degree. I focused on a Catholic document in this post, but by this I do not mean to imply that the Catholic Church is alone in its corruption/surrender.


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