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LETTERS
April 2004
OFFENSIVE
Please cancel any and all records that keep your publication coming to my home. As a practicing Catholic who is educated about Vatican II, I find it offensive.
Juanita Meller, Ph.D
Torrance
DRAGONS AREN'T NICE
C'mon, Forrester's article about the Chinese dragon and lion prancing around the altar can hardly be considered any kind of in depth study, or any kind of work expressing much in the way of Catholic knowledge. [See "Lions, a Cardinal, and Two Dancing Dragons," March 2004 Mission.]
Get serious. The most glaring comparison to be made, which he doesn't make, is the passage from the Apocalypse well known by all Catholics. I thought of the great dragon chasing the Woman with Child. If today's Catholics can't make heads or tails of this, then they deserve the deception they are getting from the modernists.
Forrester constantly refers to the Western and Chinese cultures in the sense that they stem from way different sources. This harks of the absurd idea that God created mankind from several different couples like Adam and Eve, and not just one couple. Gotta remember that the Bible, including the New Testament, was not written by Westerners but by people who were familiar with notions from all over the world; trade routes such as the silk road carried many cultural ideas around the world. The dragon symbol is not one thing in the West and another in the East, but the same regardless of what the various populations might have to say about it. It exists to demonstrate that evil and an evil one exist. If it doesn't symbolize evil in China, then what does? Nothing. Forrester's description of how the Chinese regard the dragon includes much of what the devil is all about; how did he miss this correlation?
Those who want to Christianize the dragon or the devil or whatever are free to go ahead and try it. If you want to play with deception, with the father of murderers, then you're free to do so. Ecumenism works wonders; just ask all those millions of divorced, abortion-traumatized, homosexual, pedophile heretics that have proliferated in this time of ecumenical peace on earth. Consider the Scripture from the Apocalypse telling us about someone who will bring about a false peace on the planet, and vast numbers of people buying into it.
The way Forrester deals with the Chinese Catholic martyrs caught, as he depicts it, in the papal switch between cultural suppression and liberation in the Far East, where the Jesuits could do no wrong, is a sham to the intellect. The Chinese martyrs of that day were martyred for their faith in Christ and not because of the changing tide of papal whim. Forrester presents the whole thing as if the entire problem of violence in the world is the fault of the popes. What a jesuitical lark.
John L. Sillasen
received via e-mail
CATHOLIC CHUMPS
Let's face the facts; these so-called cardinals, bishops, priests, and the lay "faithful" are anything but Catholic. What's next, Chinese food and rice wine for the consecration? When will these pathetic "Catholics" see the light of their idolatry? The apostasy has trickled down to the folks in the pews. It is the blind leading the blind. The new order has taken over and is making chumps of those who were once real Catholics. And yet the current pope is still in power, still allowing a corrupt group of bishops and heretic cardinals to spew forth their miserable error that will lead even more Catholics (and even Protestants) down the primrose path to hell. To those that much has been given, much will be expected in return. Woe to those who scandalize the little ones -- of the Church!
E. De Lalla,
Troy, New Hampshire