Day's Links - 2016-07-26

A Catholic priest is slain saying Mass, by Mohammedans. This happens not in Egypt, or Syria, or any number of Muslim countries but in France, the oldest daughter of the Church, and a country with an overwhelming majority of self-professed Catholics - at least going by baptism numbers.

Rage is the only sensible reaction to an atrocity such as that. It is true that scores more children are killed legally every day in every Western country than that, and equally tragic that we have become de-sentitised to it. Yet there is something especially egregious about a Muslim slaying a priest while he says Mass, and not even in a Muslim country, where Christians have been under oppression for very long, although even there I have certainly not heard of a priest having his throat slit in the middle of the Eucharistic Sacrifice.

Whatever else we can say about this, this much is clear: This is a game changer. The atrocities on Christians which have been taking place in the Middle East have come to Europe - directed attacks on Christians by Muslims, simply because we are Christians.

There is much talk of ISIS this and ISIS that, but I am yet to see any evidence that there is any organised effort behind these killings by Muslims - those of the past 2 weeks at least. What we need to worry about is not a bunch of blood-thirsty men running around in the desert causing death and destruction, but the millions of Muslims among us who, consciously or unconsciously, are driven by the same ideology which drives those killings. These who have committed the atrocities of the past few weeks seem more deranged than militant, but it is interesting that deranged Muslims seem to find their outlet in taking their lives of others. Given that we have so much in terms of drugs and moral depravation, we can count on more of these incidents from these types.

In Japan we have a knife-wielding maniac who goes around killing the disabled. Tomorrow there will probably be more stories of killings by poor depraved souls, not all of them Muslims, of course, but almost without question those who are Muslims will be doing it in the name of Islam. This is the New World Order. It is a culture of death. It is Christ or chaos, and the world has chosen chaos, and falsehoods, and death, in a rebellion against all of creation.

There is much more that can be written about this, and I intend to write it. This is not the time though, as I am too upset, too angry, to write anything that I would be able to look back on and stand by, probably.

We mourn for the slain priest, but I feel consoled in the more or less certainty that the man is now in Heaven. A priest saying a Mass ought to be in a state of grace, and an 84-year old priest saying Mass is not likely to be a Christ-denying modernist, so we can be almost assured that he has met his eternal reward. In some ways he is the lucky one, because the struggles that await us as we attemt to wrestle civilisation from the destruction of leftism and Islamism are not going to be painless.

We pray for the priest, for the nuns and others who were injured, for Catholics to have strength to fight for truth and goodness, and for the good priest's intecession, for surely if he is in Heaven, he will be having the same intentions.