I have previously written against Brendan MacCarthaigh: http://repairmychurch.blogspot.com/2022/11/brendan-maccarthaigh.html
Before I cite the Apostasy of Brendan MacCarthaigh, I will first lay my ground position.
I am not strictly speaking, a "cradle Catholic." Both my parents were baptized as Catholics. However, my mother, born and educated in Bombay ruled by the WASPs, was infected very strongly with Anticatholicism, with Liberal Protestantism. My father was born and educated in Goa, under the Portuguese. Even there, Portugal had accepted to being an appendage to Protestant England, so that the Schools in pre-1961 Goa followed the "Bombay Presidency Board of Education." Nevertheless, he was not as much impacted by heresy, although he certainly did not buck the Great Modernist Apostasy. Under the influence of my mother, we grew up in an atmosphere of hostility towards Catholicism. This is to be seen in my elder brother who is pro-Hindu, pro-Indian, and in my younger brother who is a rabid Hindu, a formal Apostate to Hinduism in everything but name (I haven't been in touch with him for over 20 years and do not know if he has formally apostatized). On Twitter (https://twitter.com/flyavi), he was a voice violently against Jesus Christ and Christianity, until he was banned, about two years after Twitter banned me in Feb. 2019 for attacking Modianism (https://twitter.com/crusader_state), and as part of a belated crackdown on the Modianists. In high school, I flirted with joining the ABVP, a part of the Sangh Parivar, yet I retained enough of a Christian upbringing to be repelled, revulsed, and to retreat. When I finished my education, such as it was, and began to work, I encountered widespread hostility towards myself as a Christian, being told what I knew to be canards and lies, against Christianity, that provoked me first to disabuse these lies, and then I began to seriously study Christianity, being exposed first to Protestantism. Again, encountering what I knew to be lies against Catholicism, made me study Catholicism, and finally, under the influence of Frs. Rumble & Carty's Radio Replies, I embraced Catholicism. One of the first things that I found, is that people that I now know to be "former Catholics," as having been "Cradle Catholics," had traditions, customs, devotions, etc that I wasn't personally familiar with, which shocked and startled me, which I had to research and investigate to find that they were legitimate, based on sound reasonings, etc. Therefore, I was never a "Cradle Catholic."
For the second thing, in being forced to investigate Christianity, to defend it, I conducted a free-ranging investigation of the religions I was surrounded by: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Zorastrianism, Mahometanism, Sikhism, Judaism, besides Christianity, and arrived at certain conclusions: While Hinduism originated in a confluence, under external impacts, of mutually exclusive religions, Buddhism, Jainism, and Zorastrianism began as reactions against Hinduism, it's Misanthropy, Xenophobia, Racism, Bigotry; Judaism is a falsification of the Mosaic Covenant centred upon a rejection of Jesus Christ as the Promised Messias; Mahometanism originated as a Jewish inspired Gnostic heresy designed to destroy Christianity; Sikhism originated from a bunch of movements that sought to syncretize Hinduism and Mahometanism. With Christianity, I found something entirely unique: All other religions originated in purely human passions, their gods, such as they were, were creatures of these religions. However, with Christianity, whether pre-Mosaic, Mosaic, or Messianic, it was an external Intelligence that kept pushing the pre-Messianic Jewish people, resisting their urges and passions, refusing to yield, but forcing and forming them, and Christianity, the Messianic Dispensation, is a continuation of that.
In my article against Ananda Coomaraswamy and his son Rama Coomaraswamy (http://www.geocities.ws/prakashjm45/ad.ramac.neopaganism.html), I had stressed on this fact:
«In a challenge that never fails, I ask: Is there any similar religious history in the whole world, where the tribe or people wished to go one way, but their God another?
«There is none aside from that of Israel.
«Why waste time in comparing insignificant similarities, such as the alleged "Golden Rule", when the far more fundamental core of Christianity — the insistent exclusivity of its God — has no similarity in all the world whatsoever?
«The world, both "Old" and "New" is full of very many historic and native religions, and most of them are very similar in structure, with only minor differences. Yet, the religion of Israel is sharply different and there is no other religion of its kind in the whole world — a religion where the will of its God and of the people are so totally opposed to each other!
«When one looks at the history of the Jews, one is struck with the fact that the Jews, as an integral whole, did not choose the True God, and choose to be faithful to Him. The faithful were always a minority. The majority merely wished to be free to live like and to make the same choices as the rest of mankind — which is to fashion unto themselves "gods" in their own images!
«It is God Himself who chose and imposed Himself on the Jews as the vehicle for the perpetuation of the Truth amongst all mankind.»
I have collated statements from two of Brendan MacCarthaigh's writings:
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"I warn you that I make no effort to be orthodox in my thinking and subscribe to no particular philosophy or theology except what I have accepted inside myself right now.
"I see enormous value in other religions and I am comfortable among people of whatever orientation, religious or social or sexual or colour; comfortable in this way that I can talk about it freely and seriously if it should arise in conversation.
"I do not consider any religion to be itself totally wrong or right but to suit those who live it as honestly as they can as inherited from parents and locale and tradition and conviction and so on.
"I cannot reconcile fights over religion with the heart of any respectable religion at its best.
"Jesus is the bedrock of my inspiration mostly for his courage and for his fidelity to his extraordinary grasp of the primacy of love not law as the 'raison d'etre' of all life."
"It seems to me that the root of all that misery is our God.
"You don't need to be much of a historian to recognise that We created God.
"So long as we have a God, I do not see how we can possibly escape this horrific situation.
"And that has led me to submit that all the love that the cosmos experiences in every natural being is itself the repository of all that each one aspires to as the fulfilment of her/his life. We've given it the name love. We have diminished it by using the name God but that really is what God means in our context: Love.
"But I think that when we diminished its reference from Love to God we then captured the shrunken version of it and reduced it to the monster sketched earlier on these pages. There is no such person much less a trinity or an infinite this or that.
"And that is what we have done to our world. We need to get rid of God as currently advertised and bring back the fullness of love. Otherwise fear will go on winning."
I will now try and paraphrase all of the above:
"I am not sure that Creationism is true. God is a creature of men. The root concept of God, is Love, but over human history, groups have captured power by transforming the notion of Love into the notion of a 'God' who punished, etc. There is no such thing as the Trinity, the 'Triune God, of Christianity. The concept of a 'God' is a monster that binds us into misery. We must break free from the concept of 'God,' by returning to the true original, yet obscured concept of Unconditional Love as the original idea upon which the superstructure of Godhood has been created. Jesus was great because he revolutionized understanding of religion, instituting the primacy of love, over law."
It is obvious that Dr Brendan MacCarthaigh, CFC, is no Christian, but that he is an Apostate Modernist neo-Pagan.
Lúcío João Mascarenhas
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