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Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 11:28:42 -0500
From:         Eric James Ewanco <ewanco@MLO.DEC.COM>
Subject:      Re: The Gospel

Excerpts from christia: 23-Nov-92 Re: The Gospel A16905@ITESO.BITNET (621)

> Why, Eric ?

> Why did you warned me to see if jesuites speak about spiritual things and
> not about worldly things ?

Because the true Christian will speak about the Gospel -- that is,
Jesus's saving mission to us, God's love for us, sin and repentance,
obedience to God's commands, living according ot the Spirit, and so
forth.

Any person who does not speak about spiritual things is not speaking the
Gospel, and is not speaking the teaching of the church.  The church's
job is to proclaim the kingdom of God, to bring people to reconciliation
and conversion.  If one speaks nothing about salvation, conversion to
God, repentance, and so forth, one is not speaking the Gospel.

The Jesuits who have abandoned the teaching of the Church have created a
secular Gospel -- they have neatly divorced the spiritual foundations of
the Gospel message from its social aspects.  They teach only helping the
poor materially, but they do not do anything to help them spiritually.
They have no interest in the things of heaven, only of the things of the
world.

> Why do you believe that jesuites are anti-capitalists ?

Because the Jesuit heretics (i.e. the Jesuits that are heretics, not all
are) I speak of are Marxists, which is by definition anti-capitalist.

> Don't you know about the social doctrine of the Church ? Why then you
> speak about revolutions [and] stuff ?

Yes, I know about the social doctrine of the Church, which is precisely
why one, all social teaching must be based on and taught with the
message of salvation and repentance, and two, social action CANNOT be
violent and unjust.  You don't see Mother Teresa picking up her Uzi to
kill the Indian authorities.  Rather, you see her calmly ministering to
the sick and dying -- physically, and spiritually.

Solidarity is another example of the right exercise of social doctrine.
Solidarity achieved a bloodless revolution.  Rather than using might and
power, they used the spirit of the Lord.  "`Not by might, and not by
power, but by my Spirit,' says the Lord."

> How can you say to someone 'Go, may the Lord bless you' if you see that
> the social political and economical system is killing  him and his
> family ? How can you stay pasive before that ?

How did Jesus do it?  How oppressive was the Roman government at the
time of the Jews? Wasn't it far more oppressive than South American
governments?  Did Jesus pick up a sword to kill Herod?  No, Jesus said
"turn the other cheek" and preached a kingdom _NOT_OF_THIS_WORLD._
Jesus had no intention of establishing an earthly kingdom.   Rather, he
used peace and personal transformation to change the world.

> I am not saying that a war or revolution is the right way, but at least
> it is something.

We are called to minister to the poor -- i.e. provide for them, care for
them, love them, etc.  We are not called to seek revenge against our
oppressors.  This much is clear from Scripture.

A careful examination of Catholic teaching will show that we are called
to endure suffering, not reject it or fight it.  Suffering produces good
fruit.  The greatest of saints suffered the most,  often by afflictions
sent by God.  Our way out of suffering is through prayer and repentance,
not through violence.

Let's also remember that what the Marxists want to establish in South
America is contrary to Catholic teaching.  As I mentioned, the Marxist
Jesuit do not have Godly motivations behind them. They have no interest
in preaching the Gospel of repentance, reconciliation and conversion to
God.  They want to establish a secular Communist order hostile to
religion.  As much as the Church has condemned the excessess of
capitalism, it has condemned Marxism even more.

The goals of freeing the poor from oppression are noble and desirable --
but one, the method by which it is being done -- i.e. by violence and
without trust in God -- is wholly contrary to Catholic teaching, and
two, those who are fighting in the name of liberation theology do not
fight for the Gospel truths, but only for those limited ideas that will
advance their own personal political gains.  They're not interested in
bringing people to salvation. They are interested in a powerful secular
order.

Eric
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