The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-28
POPULAR APoLoGETIcs.
adapted from the German of Rev. Pc
ter Mikes, S. j., by Rev. James
Walcher.)

DO The Social-Democrats anu Easter
Objection /. only small ignorant
crowd believes in the resurrection .
says a socialist paper in 19e0
Answer: Over five hundred millions
of Christians are rather big crowd,
i should think, especially when com
pared with the few million infidel So
cialists.
Objection 2 But this ignorancet
Those touched by the ray of science
do no longer believe in the Easter
miracle
Answer: l. 1t is unimaginable.
They are SO foolish as not to believe
in God Even the faith of their lead
er Bebel (+1913) and his prophecies
and his beautiful dream of the state
OF the future has vanished.
1t was not to be!
'Twould be too much glee!
Yea, the once so solid faith in the
patriarchs of socialism, Marx and En-
gels, begins to totter, still 1.-The rays of
science" came from them to the "peo-
pie" But, alas, this sun must also set!
But new suns and sun dogs arise and
send forth new rays of socialistic sci
ence for the "Revisionists.'
2. How quickly this socialistic light
lfghtenS some socialists and how cas-
lily they are satisfied with any kind of
an. explanation, is plainly seen from
some of their anti-Christian literature.
For example, the pamphlet: Chris
tus, der Mensch und Freiheitskaemp-
fer-Christ, the Man and Champion of
Liberty" by Anatole Rembe, where he
explains the Resurrection by an earth
quake and delirium. "The night came
and with it all the Internal terrors of
an earthquake! The earth split in I'M
expected rents from which sulphurous
clouds arose and internal thunders
rumbled with gigantic strength"
The grave was opened and most prob
ably the corpse disappeared in one of
the cracks. But the adherents of the
condemnedN kChrisD were seized by a
delirium of JOY and said: THE Mas
ter is risen!" In this delirious rapture
GAASy 90" Ap1OLAo anu ny IllC anu IL
heathenish superstitions they said:
''He is the Son of God" Thus arose
with lightning speed the cult of the
Savior"
What strikes us most are the sui
phurous clouds" which arise from
every line and the lightning speed
with which Rembe, like a sleight-of-
hand performer, wants to explain the
greatest fact in history, the founding
of Christianity.
The Dutch socialist, Domela Nieu-
zwenheis. once q Protestant minister,
and founder of the party in Holland,
explains the. Resurrection by an eX-
ample. WAS there not a similar be-
lief in Germany about Lasalle Ca lead
ing Jewish socialist, killed in duel,
1864, the result of love affair." ?
Among the working class for long
time was the belief that he was not
dead, but that he would soon appear
again to finish his work. With a little
enthusiasm and fanaticism they could
have effected the same (as in the case
vi I'll lSlJ.
We did not know that there was SO
much simple mindedness among the
German working people; but Nieuwen-
huis' simple-mindednes is still great
er if he imagines that with a little en-.
thusiasm these same people would
have believed that Lasalle had risen
from the dead and that they would
have gone to death for that faith.
With the same simple-mindednes
Nieuwenhuis denies the miracles OF
Jesus; for he says: IF he had worked
miracles, the Jews would have believed
Him." How simple! Somewhat smart
er, though naive enough is the excuse
for Judas that greed for money was
not the motive for his treason; for the
thirty pieces of silver (about $1S) was
not enough. Quite an explanation!
According to Nieuwenhuis the robbel
Barabbas was a respectable socialist
who made active propaganda How
tastes do differ!