Gemitus In Tenebris (Groaning In Darkness)
Bishop Absalon of Lund destroys the Idol of Svantevit
A "commentator" has challenged the Apostate Panreligionism of the Apostate rag "Renovação," of the Apostate "Archdiocese of Goa," and, in doing so, has stated, and has publicly taught:
"The lay faithful for their part have traditionally engaged in 'the social and cultural dimension' (of Pagan festivals), incurring no censure, by cordially greeting neighbours and, or, friends. As a friend of mine says, it is a pity that 'good sense observed by the lay faithful since times immemorial is shockingly being violated now by some priests and nuns with all their theological preparation.' 'Nostra Aetete' encourages the study of other religions, stating that 'dialogue and collaboration with the followers of other religions' has to be 'carried out with prudence and love and in witness to the Christian faith and life.'"
God in the Bible taught the First Commandment: "I alone am the Lord your God. You shall know no other gods besides Me."
IF YOU GREET AND CONGRATULATE A PAGAN "CELEBRATING" HIS PAGAN gods, are you not indulging in a "knowledge" of these false gods, precisely as God Himself forbids it?
In Psalm 95, verse 5, of the Catholic Bible, God teaches us: "The gods of the Pagans are Devils."
In 1 Corinthians 10, verse 20, He teaches us, "Pagans sacrifice to Devils, not to God."
In 1 Corinthians, chapters 10 & 6, God teaches:
1 Corinthians x, 25-33: "Whatsoever is sold in the markets, eat; asking no question for conscience' sake. For, the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof. If any unbeliever invite you, and you are willing to go; eat of any thing that is set before you, asking no question for conscience' sake. But if any man say: This has been sacrificed to idols, do not eat of it for his sake that told it to you, and for conscience' sake. Conscience, I say, not thy own, but the other person's. For why is my liberty judged by another man's conscience? If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I evilly spoken of, for that for which I give thanks? Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatsoever else you do, do all to the glory of God. Be without offence to the Jews, and to the Gentiles, and to the Church of God: As I also in all things please all men, not seeking that which is profitable to myself, but to many, that may be saved."
And, in 1 Corinthians vi, 12-20: "All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful to me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. Meat for the belly, and the belly for the meats; but God shall destroy both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. Now God has both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up also by His power. Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. Or know you not, that he who is joined to a harlot, is made one body? For they shall be, says He, two in one flesh. But he who is joined to the Lord, is one spirit. Fly from fornication. Every sin that a man does, is without the body; but he that committs fornication, sins against his own body. Or know you not, that your members are the temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God; and you are not your own? For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in your body."
WHAT APPLIES TO FOOD, applies equally to liturgies and to social and cultural practices.
A believing Christian does not fear the "gods" of the Pagans, he scorns them, even if only inwardly, knowing that an idol is nothing, it is merely a bauble. A Christian may freely take and eat food given by Protestants, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Jains, and adherents of other Pagan religions; however, because a weak Christian may be misled into believing that foods "sacrificed" to false "gods," thereby have "value," whether positive or negative, the Church, to protect the weak believer, forbids Christians from eating "idol foods."
However, it is not only for the sake of "weak Christians," but positively also for the sake of the unbeliever, that we have a very strict duty to God not to allow, encourage, or in any manner abet their delusion that their false gods are anything, that we are very strictly enjoined by the Church, from taking part of these "sacrificed foods," on pain of excommunication "latae sententiae."
Now, to share in food, is in itself, a purely neutral act, but to greet a Pagan, an unbeliever, such as are all heretics, Nestorians, Jacobites, Cacodox, Protestants, Hindus, Zorastrians, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs, etc. on the occasion of their "festivities," is a far graver crime, a positive crime, against God and humanity than merely sharing in food.
It is a crime that approximates to, and partakes of, the crime of Apostasy.
Every Christian is strictly bound to bear witness to God to every neighbor. In Ezechiel, chapters 3 & 33, God tells Ezechiel, and thus every Christian, that he is obliged to act as a Watchman for the salvation of every other human being.
The original language of the Bible is very strong, direct, brutal.
In the Bible, God commands, not only that one have nothing to do DIRECTLY with any of the false gods, the false religions, but also to not have anything to do with them even INDIRECTLY, NOT EVEN TO TAKE THEIR NAMES ON ONE'S LIPS!
"You shall not adore the gods of the nations about you, nor serve them. You shall not do their works, but shalt destroy them, and break their statues. And you shall serve the Lord your God, that I may bless your bread and your waters, and may take away sickness from the midst of thee. You shall not enter into league with them, nor with their gods. Let them not dwell in your land, lest perhaps they make you to sin against Me, if you serve their gods: which undoubtedly will be a scandal to you." (Exodus 23, https://drbo.org/chapter/02023.htm).
"These are the precepts and judgments, that you must do in the land, which the Lord the God of your fathers will give you, to possess it all the days that you shalt walk upon the earth: Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you shall possess, worshipped their gods upon high mountains, and hills, and under every shady tree; Overthrow their altars, and break down their statues, burn their groves with fire, and break their idols in pieces; destroy their names out of those places. You shall not worship the Lord your God as they do. When the Lord your God shall have destroyed before your face the nations that at present inhabit the land, which then you shall go in to possess, and when you shall possess these lands, and dwell in them, beware lest you imitate them, after they are destroyed at your coming in, and lest you seek after their ceremonies, saying: As these nations have worshipped their gods, so will I also worship. You shall not imitate them in your behavior to the Lord your God. For they have done to their gods all the abominations which the Lord abhors, offering their sons and daughters, and burning them with fire. But what I command you, only do that to the Lord: neither add any thing, nor diminish anything." (Deuteronomy 12, https://drbo.org/chapter/05012.htm) No scope for "cordially greeting" Pagans as they "celebrate" their Abominations, eh?!
In Ezechiel, chapter 4, 12-13, God commands the Prophet Ezechiel to bake his bread daily, in the sight of the people, cooking it on a fire made from human SHIT, and covered over with human SHIT, as a sign to the people that that is how He, God, will punish them for their Adulteries and Fornications with false gods! (https://drbo.org/chapter/31004.htm)
God in the Hebrew calls the idols of false gods "Gillulim," or "Pellets of Dung."
Taking "Gillulim" in context, we can rephrase: "The lay faithful for their part have traditionally engaged, without censure, in 'the social and cultural dimension' of cordially greeting Pagan neighbours and, or, friends in their (Pagans') celebration of SHIT. It is a pity that the 'good sense' observed by the laity in cordially greeting Pagan neighbours and, or, friends in their (Pagans') celebration of SHIT since times immemorial is shockingly being violated now by some priests and nuns, who, for all their theological education, indulge in an enthusiastic participation in Pagans' celebration of SHIT! 'Nostra Aetete' encourages, allegedly on the authority of God Himself, that Christians indulge in the study of other religions, which God in the Bible describes as all being SHIT, and to dialogue and collaborate with the worshippers of SHIT, carried out with prudence and love and in witness to the Christian faith and life!"
In the parable of Oola and Ooliba, God describes participation in any manner, in any Paganism, as Spiritual Fornication, Adulteries. (https://drbo.org/chapter/31023.htm)
In Deuteronomy 13, God commands that anyone who teaches what 'Nostra Aetate' teaches, be killed with extreme prejudice! (Deuteronomy xiii)
Sati, Caste atrocities, too are intrinsic, "hallowed," parts of Hinduism. If you can "greet," and "congratulate," a Hindu on the occasion of "Deepawali," or "Diwali," you can as much greet and congratulate a Hindu while he perpetrates Sati or Caste atrocities, etc.
Some 20 years ago, there was a news article of how a miscreant raped a 13 years old mentally unbalanced girl in a train full of commuters, who did not act to stop him, to save the girl.
As abominable a crime this was, it is but a small similitude of what each and every Paganism is, as God in the Bible repeatedly, and ad nauseam, stresses, stressing too, that the worship of false gods is Spiritual Fornication, Adulteries.
Some 6 years ago, in the July 2016 "Outrage at Una," 7 members of a Dalit family were kidnapped, and publicly assaulted, by "Upper Caste Hindus":
Some Hindus pretend that Casteism was created and imposed by the Muslim Invaders, or by the Europeans. Others, like Mohandas Caramchand Gandhi, have defended Casteism as noble, liberating, but as being 'distorted' over the ages.
However, 'Casteism' is integral to Hinduism: One cannot undergo the 'Upanayana Sanskar,' that makes one a 'Dvija,' a true Hindu, unless one can prove one's 'gotra,' and one's continuous descent from a Dvija Hindu. Casteism is also taught by the Hindu canonical scripture text, the 'Manusmriti,' and by the lives of Sambuca, Eklavya, Karna, etc.
Hinduism has a long, and from the Hindu viewpoint, "hallowed," legitimation of human sacrifice eg Purushamedha yagna, Kamakhya, Aghoris, etc., of Sodomism eg Hijras, etc., and of other practices and teachings which are Abominations from the Christian viewpoint.
Therefore, to "cordially greet" one's Pagan neighbors and, or, friends in their (Pagans') celebration of Pagan "festivities," such as the "Ganapati festival," "Diwali," and of other Pagan SHIT, is the same, and I insist, absolutely the same, as to "cordially greet" one's Pagan neighbors while they rape, or perpetrate Sati, or perpetrate Caste atrocities, cannibalism, etc.
HAS THERE BEEN NO CENSURE?
The Catholic Church has consistently till 1958, when the Great Modernist Apostasy began, censured heresies and errors. During the time from Pombal onwards, when the Catholic Church was banned and outlawed and closed in Goa, and was forced to take refuge in the forests of the Missão do Sul, particularly in Ankola, I remember that one of the priests or bishops, finding that an old Christian Concannim prayer sounded unorthodox, tending towards Hinduism, corrected it, forbade the old, doubtful words.
Even more recently, the Bishop of Madras stood up to Nehru and the Indian National Congress Party in refusing to allow that the Apostate and Traitor, Tristão da Bragança e Cunha, dying in September 1958, be buried in hallowed grounds, in a Catholic cemetery, so that he was burned in a public ground, as is burned trash and rubbish!
Goans pretend to adulate, cherish, imitate St Francis Xavier. Do they? Can a "Goan Christian," familiar with St Francis Xavier, his teachings and actions, including strictly forbidding converts from having anything to do with idols of Hindu "gods," and including him leading packs of children to throw down, insult and destroy such idols, and including him ordering the burning down of the hut of a village chief who installed Hindu idols in it, seriously claim that a "Christian" can greet Pagans celebrating their ABOMINATIONS and do so "WITHOUT CENSURE"?
Lúcío João Mascarenhas
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