Someone who was discussing the post concerning
how it is harder to be holy in America
than in Europe, a person who has been to Europe
and lives in the States, said, immediately, “That is because of Protestantism.”
She could see that the grayness of the Protestant congregations had caused
confusion, as to evil and good. In Europe , the
black is secularism, Marxism, relativism, and atheism. Black is black and white is white. The lack
of God is obvious and so is the resulting falling off of normal morality, of
natural law. There is no middle ground anymore.
Where there is a heritage of
strong Protestantism, with Protestants believing that contraception is fine,
that divorce and re-marriage with annulment are fine, that the suppression of
the seven sacraments is a “reform”, that the false ideas of sola fide and sola scriptura somehow justifies the throwing out of 2,000 years of
Tradition, the confusion enables people to think they are following God’s ways,
when in fact, they are not.
This is a hard saying which many
Catholics no longer believe because of the pain of fallen-away or lapsed
Catholics in their own families, of unbaptized grandchildren and the living in
sin of so many in families. The acceptance of fornication is almost a given
here in the States.
But, Christ, the Second Person of
the Blessed Trinity, clearly states that life comes only in the reception of
His Body, His Blood. The words of God
could not be clearer. How sad it is that
some do not take the Lord’s words seriously.
Those is Europe
who reject the saying of Christ no longer care for religion. Those in America
