Is the secular state the anti-Christ state?
Parents the world over have objected to teachings found in the local public schools. Whether it be atheistic evolution, amoral sexuality or radical politics – most all objections fall upon deaf ears.
Few such cases are ever won.
NOT SO when a doctrine of secularization is brought to court!
Hitler ordered the crucifixes removed as well — see cite at end of this article.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled Tuesday (11/3) that Italy’s display of crucifixes in public schools was in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights’ protection of the rights to education and freedom of religion.
The applicant, Ms. Soile Lautsi, petitioned the Court after Italy had rejected her requests to take down crucifixes that were prominently displayed in her children’s classrooms in accordance with Royal Decrees dating from the 1920’s. Responding to Italy’s argument that crucifixes had become a symbol of secular Italian history and culture, the Court relied on its former holding in Buscarini et al. v. Saint-Marin that the social and historical meaning of a text used in oath-taking did not deprive the text of its religious character. The Court noted that the crucifixes could easily be interpreted as religious signs and that children could feel that their school environment was Catholic; this point was further aggravated by the fact that Catholicism was the majority religion in Italy. As students could not avoid the classrooms without undue hardship, the Court found that the presence of the crucifixes thus interfered with the right of parents to educate their children in accordance with their convictions, and the right of children to believe or not to believe.
The Court awarded the applicant 5,000 euros for moral damage, considering that a mere declaratory judgment would not be sufficient as Italy had not expressed its readiness to review the relevant Royal Decrees.
A previous European Court ruled that those who refused to obey such “Royal Decrees” must be sentenced to death for “aiding and abetting the enemy in the betrayal of the fatherland and for plotting high treason.” Blessed Maria Restituta, inspire us in these dark hours.
- (The Rise and Fall of
the Third Reich: A History
of Nazi Germany
by William L. Shirer
(Simon and Schuster) 1990 :100)
Shirer records the Nazi attitude to Christianity. This thinking led to the beheading of Blessed Maria Restituta and the imprisonment of countless Catholic Germans, Austrians and others:
What the Hitler government envisioned for Germany was clearly set out in a thirty-point program for the “National Reich Church” drawn up during the war by Rosenberg, an outspoken pagan, who among his other offices held that of “the Fuehrer’sDelegate for the Entire Intellectual and Philosophical Education and Instruction forthe National Socialist Party.”
A few of its thirty articles convey the essentials:
1. The National Reich Church of Germany categorically claims the exclusive right and the exclusive power to control all churches within the borders of the Reich: it declares these to be national churches of the German Reich.
5. The National Church is determined to exterminate irrevocably the strange and foreign Christian faithsimported into Germany in the ill-omened year 800.
7. The National Church has no scribes, pastors, chaplains or priests, but National Reich orators are to speak in them.
13. The National Church demands immediate cessation of the publishing and dissemination of the Bible in Germany.
14. The National Church declares that to it, and therefore to the German nation, it has been decided that the Fuehrer’s Mein Kampi is the greatest of all documents. It . . . not only contains the greatest but it embodies the purest and truest ethics for the present and future life of our nation.
18. The National Church will clear away from its altars all crucifixes, Bibles and pictures of saints.
19. On the altars there must be nothing but Mein Kampf (to the German nation and therefore to God the most sacred book) and to the left of the altar a sword.
30. On the day of its foundation, the Christian Cross must be removed from all churches, cathedrals and chapels . . . and it must be superseded by the only unconquerable symbol, the swastika.
(Ib. :238-40
ROSENBERG LIVES AGAIN IN EUROPE – (sans the adoration of Mein Kampf. That vacuum will likely soon be filled.)
WILL YOU OBEY SUCH A ROYAL DECREE, MODERN CHRISTIAN?
November 22nd, 2009 at 6:13 am
Oh yes they will. Their 501-C3 will be pulled otherwise, and they will condider it as rendering unto Ceasar what is Ceasars and so deceive theirselves. After all look at the churches stand on abortion and homosexuality some even embrace these sins while only a very few make any strong protest and therefore these sins become a non-sin in their eyes.