Air Force Welcomes Wicca
Air Force: The Bible, which is God's Word, must go...Satanism and Wicca are welcome
Note: Not an endorsement for new catechism
The Washington Times reports:
"The U.S. Air Force has removed a Bible from an officer’s desk while it
carries out an investigation into the propriety of the religious
display.
The Scriptures were removed from the desk of Maj. Steve Lewis of the
310th Space Wing in response to a letter sent Wednesday by the Military
Religious Freedom Foundation, which said the holy book’s presence violates Air Force policy and the Constitution’s establishment clause...."
In an article published in Polish in Panorama and written by Dr. J.
Coleman, an Intelligence officer, Dr. Coleman is quoted as having said
that, "The One-World Government is going to consist of hereditary
oligarchs who will divide the power between themselves. There is going
to be only one legal religion and only one state church. Only Satanism
and Luciferism will be the legal religious subjects in state schools. No
other schools (private, Catholic, etc.) will be allowed. All present
Christian education systems are going to be destroyed (and the fact is —
they are destroyed in the most part) from inside, and become extinct.
Satanism is already considered to be a 'true and legal religion'. In fact, in some U.S. military bases, they already celebrate black masses and worship Satan."
It's not religion in general which the Air Force is becoming hostile toward. It is Christianity.
Jean Bodin, in his work "De la Demonomanie des Sorciers," writes,
"Sorcier est celuy qui par moyens Diaboliques sciemment s'efforce de
paruenir a quel que chose" - A sorcerer is one who by commerce with the
Devil has a full intention of attaining his own ends." The Air Force
Academy, while growing ever more hostile toward Christianity and the
Word of God, has decided to open a chapel for such servants of the
Devil. See here.
What does the Catechism of the Catholic Church have to say about such
activity? Paragraph 2117 explains that, "All practices of magic or
sorcery, by which one attempts to tame occult powers, so as to place
them at one's service and have a supernatural power over others - even
if this were for the sake of restoring their health - are gravely
contrary to the virtue of religion. These practices are even more to be
condemned when accompanied by the intention of harming someone, or when
they have recourse to the intervention of demons. Wearing charms is also
reprehensible. Spiritism often implies divination or magical practices;
the Church for her part warns the faithful against it. Recourse to
so-called traditional cures does not justify either the invocation of
evil powers or the exploitation of another's credulity."
In 1974, the American Council of Witches issued the "Principles of
Wiccan Belief." No. 10 states: "Our only animosity towards Christianity,
or toward any other religion or philosophy of life, is to the extent
that its institutions have claimed to be 'the only way,' and have sought
to deny freedom to others and to suppress other ways of religious
practice and belief."
So Wicca acknowledges an "animosity" toward Christianity which teaches that salvation is in Jesus alone (Acts 4:12).
Pope Benedict XVI has warned that, "There is..a consciously
antirationalist response to the experience that 'everything is
relative,' a complex reality that is lumped together under the title of
New Age. The way out of the dilemma of relativism is now sought, not in a
new encounter of the 'I' with the 'Thou' or the 'We,' but in overcoming
subjective consciousness, in a re-entry into the dance of the cosmos
through ecstasy. As in the case of Gnosis in the ancient world, this way
believes itself to be fully in tune with all the teachings and the
claims of science, making use of scientific knowledge of every kind
(biology, psychology, sociology, physics). At the same time, however, it
offers against this background a a completely antirationalist pattern
of religion, a modern 'mysticism': the absolute is, not something to be
believed in, but something to be experienced. God is not a person
distinct from the world; rather, he is the spiritual energy that is at
work throughout the universe. Religion means bringing my self into tune
with the cosmic whole, the transcending of all divisions...Objectifying
reason, New Age thinking tells us, closes our way to the mystery of
reality; existing as the self shuts us out from the fullness of cosmic
reality; it destroys the harmony of the whole and is the real reason for
our being unredeemed. Redemption lies in breaking down the limits of
the self, in plunging into the fullness of life and all that is living,
in going back home to the universe....The gods are returning. They have
become more credible than God. Aboriginal rites must be renewed in which
the self is initiated into the mysteries of the universe and freed from
its own self. There are many reasons for the renewal of pre-Christian
religions and cults that is being widely undertaken today. If there is
no truth shared by everyone, a truth that is valid simply because it is
true, then Christianity is merely a foreign import, a form of
spiritual imperialism, which needs to be shaken off just as much as
political imperialism. If what takes place in the sacraments is not
the encounter with the one living God of all men, then they are empty
rituals that mean nothing and give us nothing and, at best, allow us to
sense the numinous element that is actively present in all religions. It
then seems to make better sense to seek after what was originally our
own than to permit alien and antiquated things to be imposed on us. But
above all, if the 'rational intoxication' of the Christian mystery
cannot make us intoxicated with God, then we just have to conjure up the
real, concrete intoxication of effective ecstasies, the passionate
power of which catches us up and turns us, at least for a moment, into
gods..." (Truth and Tolerance, pp. 126-128).
When I served with the United States Air Force, I was commended by a
Brigadier General for having a Bible on my desk. How far America, and
her military, have fallen.
America has become a haunt of demons.
