Comments on: Those Damn T-shirts

By: Gianna

Gianna — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 02:40:42 +0000

Hitler hated the Church. I can’t even believe anti-Catholic websites try and link the two of them together. Thats like saying that Stalin was raised a good Orthodox boy. Hitler may have believed in the Divine Mission of Germany and their place in history but he certainly wasn’t a fan of the Church or christianty which he rejected because a) it was linked to the Jews and b) helped the weak and less fortunate (again something Hitler didn’t really subscribe to)

By: TTM

TTM — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:20:09 +0000

Chris,

but it is very misleading, indeed scandalous, to say that Hitler was Catholic. Would you, for example, call an atheist who was baptized in infancy a “Catholic”? I would argue that he ceased to be Catholic when he rejected Christ and His Church. Otherwise you would be giving the impression that Hitler acted faithfully in accordance with the Church teachings (which is the reason why many atheist and anti-Catholic websites use the “Hitler was a good Catholic” argument against the Church).

God bless,
TTM

By: Chris Sullivan

Chris Sullivan — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:29:42 +0000

Don,

Denver’s great. It’s a mile high so I’m still acclimitising to the altitude. Not to mention the jet lag ! Not sure if I’ll make it to meet up with Mark & Sherry.

God Bless

By: Don the Kiwi

Don the Kiwi — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:58:28 +0000

BTW

How’s Denver Chris?

Wondered how long it would take you to get on line

By: Don the Kiwi

Don the Kiwi — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:29:18 +0000

Yes Chris.

And Judas was one of the twelve apostles.

By: Chris Sullivan

Chris Sullivan — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:07:35 +0000

TTM,

What defines being a Catholic is the sacrament of baptism.

Hitler was a baptised Catholic and Stalin was a baptised Russian Orthodox.

OK, they did a lot of things against the CHurch and against Jesus.

But the fact remains that they were baptised into the Church.

God Bless

By: Don the Kiwi

Don the Kiwi — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:12:49 +0000

Placing the “Communism” that Christ spoke of (communism gives a bad taste – he was really talking about supportive communal living) and the Communism – that atheistic stuff – that disrupted the 20th century, is a false dichotomy.

Marxist Socialist Communism was an ECONOMIC system – the dictatorship of the Proletariate – which was to use force – revolution – to redistribute wealth – in other words, steal it.

Christ’s version was a polar opposite – to give willingly, motivated by a Love for God. To sacrifice Self for others – Marxism promoted self interest – take what you need from the rich by force. That’s why Jesus offered the young rich man -”Dives” – to give away his wealth freely and…AND…wait for it…”COME FOLLOW ME”

Quite a different call that Marx, Engels, Trotsky, Lenin, Mao etc etc gave.