Leo Volont
Registered Senior Member
Marianism: The Last Living Religion
If one thinks of a Living ‘Religion as one with ongoing Divine Revelations, then Marian Catholicism is the last Religion standing.
Islam died practically on the day of its birth. Mohamed -- what was he thinking, when he issued the declaration that he would be the last voice ever from God. Was his pride so enormous that his ambition could not be assuaged unless he had the World and all futurity chanting prayerfully that he was the last and the greatest of all Prophets. But certainly we see the tracks of Human Fallibility in this, and not the Dictates of a Divine Plan. What Providential God could simply abandon Humanity to last words so unpersuasive in themselves that they would need the recommendation of The Sword before anybody would bother to accept them. And what kind of “Greatest” Prophet would be a loser of a War and cravenly settle for peace with God’s enemies, selling his faithful followers into idolatry – to this day the Faithful of Mohamed are still contracted by the terms of an ancient peace treaty to routinely bow idolatrously to a Big Black Rock in Mecca. Mohamed saved what was left of a short ignoble life with a deal that sold the posterity of his People into a perpetual Sin. Mohamed praised martyrs to the Sky, but it was a virtue he himself carefully shunned. Surely there must be prophets greater then THAT. And there NEEDS to be a Prophet greater then that – to lead his People out of the blasphemous behavior he lead them into. But it will never happen with the existing constraints of that Dead Religion which refuses to hear any future and further Voice of God.
Christianity, as distinct from Catholicism – a distinction which the ‘Christians’ insist upon, is also a Suicidal Religion – a Religion that is Dead by its own intent. Paul, who dismissed the Teachings of Christ in order to formulate his own Religion, albeit co-opting the Name of Christ because his own name meant nothing, … he indoctrinated his congregations to believe only himself – that ‘Righteous Apostles were evil tempters, and even Angels of Light were demons’. Obeying the injunctions of Paul, no ‘Christian’ could ever believe anything ever again. I know that even Christ warned of False Prophets – thus we know about Paul – but Christ gave certain criteria for knowing the True from the False. Paul simply stated that the better a person’s spiritual credentials, or the more Divine an Apparition appeared, then the more likely it was that it was actually Evil. Paul was effectively trying to preclude any attention being given to genuine Divine Revelation, in order to protect his own invented Gospel. The Council of Nicea would second his intent by declaring a final limit to what would be considered the Depository of Faith.
Thank God that there were elements in the Church that had the instinct for Life. A loophole was found for new Divine Revelation. The Church would call New Prophecy by the name of Private Revelation. It would be investigated and approved or rejected. Where approved instances of Private Revelation would influence Church Teachings and Doctrines. The ‘Lid’ on the Depository of Faith, placed by the dead and haunting hand of Paul, would not be allowed to hold. The New Revelation would be from the Christ-like Saints who proved their words with Miracles, and from the Miraculous Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. While every other World Religion is dead, any and every Catholic may reasonably expect a new Divine Revelation on any day of the week, and twice on every Feast Day.
If one thinks of a Living ‘Religion as one with ongoing Divine Revelations, then Marian Catholicism is the last Religion standing.
Islam died practically on the day of its birth. Mohamed -- what was he thinking, when he issued the declaration that he would be the last voice ever from God. Was his pride so enormous that his ambition could not be assuaged unless he had the World and all futurity chanting prayerfully that he was the last and the greatest of all Prophets. But certainly we see the tracks of Human Fallibility in this, and not the Dictates of a Divine Plan. What Providential God could simply abandon Humanity to last words so unpersuasive in themselves that they would need the recommendation of The Sword before anybody would bother to accept them. And what kind of “Greatest” Prophet would be a loser of a War and cravenly settle for peace with God’s enemies, selling his faithful followers into idolatry – to this day the Faithful of Mohamed are still contracted by the terms of an ancient peace treaty to routinely bow idolatrously to a Big Black Rock in Mecca. Mohamed saved what was left of a short ignoble life with a deal that sold the posterity of his People into a perpetual Sin. Mohamed praised martyrs to the Sky, but it was a virtue he himself carefully shunned. Surely there must be prophets greater then THAT. And there NEEDS to be a Prophet greater then that – to lead his People out of the blasphemous behavior he lead them into. But it will never happen with the existing constraints of that Dead Religion which refuses to hear any future and further Voice of God.
Christianity, as distinct from Catholicism – a distinction which the ‘Christians’ insist upon, is also a Suicidal Religion – a Religion that is Dead by its own intent. Paul, who dismissed the Teachings of Christ in order to formulate his own Religion, albeit co-opting the Name of Christ because his own name meant nothing, … he indoctrinated his congregations to believe only himself – that ‘Righteous Apostles were evil tempters, and even Angels of Light were demons’. Obeying the injunctions of Paul, no ‘Christian’ could ever believe anything ever again. I know that even Christ warned of False Prophets – thus we know about Paul – but Christ gave certain criteria for knowing the True from the False. Paul simply stated that the better a person’s spiritual credentials, or the more Divine an Apparition appeared, then the more likely it was that it was actually Evil. Paul was effectively trying to preclude any attention being given to genuine Divine Revelation, in order to protect his own invented Gospel. The Council of Nicea would second his intent by declaring a final limit to what would be considered the Depository of Faith.
Thank God that there were elements in the Church that had the instinct for Life. A loophole was found for new Divine Revelation. The Church would call New Prophecy by the name of Private Revelation. It would be investigated and approved or rejected. Where approved instances of Private Revelation would influence Church Teachings and Doctrines. The ‘Lid’ on the Depository of Faith, placed by the dead and haunting hand of Paul, would not be allowed to hold. The New Revelation would be from the Christ-like Saints who proved their words with Miracles, and from the Miraculous Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. While every other World Religion is dead, any and every Catholic may reasonably expect a new Divine Revelation on any day of the week, and twice on every Feast Day.