Christ or Chaos 12 22 05.doc

            12/22/05

            The debate of whether public schools should have in their curriculum the theory of intelligent design, or, as some say, creationism, in addition to Darwinian evolution, has lost sight of the real purpose of this debate in the first place: is there a need for God; does He exist and do we human creatures want to be subject to the Creator?

            Under the cover of the so-called “separation of church and state,” there exists something that is often overlooked in this battle over rights (and responsibilities!) and what children should or should not be taught in the public school system in the United States; man’s attempt to be his own god.  

In light of this, we should look at the Darwinian folks and their notion that man (and woman) evolved from pond scum.   (What a thought!)   In any event, they – and their supporters – claim that there is no other possible explanation of how we got to be where we are today.   They will point to fossils and “missing links” and attempt to put two and two together and get five.   It just doesn’t add up.  

The creationists or intelligent designers say that the Hand of God is in all things that we see, most importantly, in man (and woman), and that without that Hand, there is chaos.   I have a feeling that they may have hit on something here.

A good number of years ago, there was a brave Catholic Bishop by the name of Cuthbert M. O’Gara, Bishop of Yuanling, China.   Prior to that, the good Bishop served for four years as Prefect Apostolic of Schenchow, being appointed there by Pope Pius XI.

He was arrested, not once, but twice, first by the Japanese in 1941, then by the Communist Chinese in 1951.  

The Communists subjected Bishop O’Gara to “severe psychological torture in solitary confinement, vermin-infested beds, meager rations of watered rice and being under constant, 24-hour guard.”  

Prior to his arrest, the propaganda corps of the “People’s Army of Liberation” herded the local people into indoctrination centers for “re-education” in the ways of Big Brother.  

As Bishop O’Gara relates, the first lesson given to the indoctrinees was not some utopian drivel from Marx, Lenin or Stalin, no, the very first fundamental lesson was man’s descent from the apes – Darwinism!   Purpose?   To fulfill the mandate that all religion must be destroyed.  

Isn’t that what we see happening in these United States and other “civilized,” westernized countries?  

Just think, our children are being indoctrinated in the Darwinian evolutionary (revolutionary, I say!) theory that we came from pond scum or an ape that swung from a tree.

And along with Darwinism, there is the explicit denial of Original Sin, in other words, denying our fallen natures and the need for repentance, to amend our lives, to do good works, to pray, and to be subject to Him in Christ’s one, true Church, the Catholic Church.

There is no need for prison cells or 24-hour guards or incessant propaganda blaring through loud speakers, no, the “separation of church and state” advocates and the courts are doing the devil’s dirty work, just fine, thank you.  

Can anyone spot the bad guys in this scenario?

E. De Lalla