Why do priests, principals and lay preachers get the first and second commandments round the wrong way - and does it matter?
Last night with 100 people packed into a hall in Taradale to hear social justice campaigner Bryan Kemper from the US and parental notification campaigner Hillary Kieft from Taranaki, Kemper asked what was the most important commandment.
"You shall love the Lord your God", I said smugly.
But I was in the back row. Kemper heard a different answer from someone up the front and agreed with it. "LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR!" he shouted.
It was an inspiring address, about his awful, abused childhood and youthful drug addiction and how he'd eventually been converted to Christ - who in a very personal, direct way had convinced him at last that he was loved, and that Christ needed him to fight for unborn babies and mothers under threat from abortion. And he's devoted his whole life since then, throughout the US and around the world, to doing just that.
But it's obviously quite wrong to say - same as I've heard a priest and a DRS (Director of Religious Studies) say explicitly, from the pulpit - that the greatest commandment is to love our neighbour.
Kemper asked repeatedly, rhetorically, why the churches have been silent on abortion. He asked if any priests or pastors were present. There was one - and he wasn't a priest. Thank God, a Catholic youth group had come along. I just wish there'd been a priest to accompany them, in a roman collar, giving public witness to the faith they profess.
Maybe our priests think they've heard enough about social justice. Catholic priests and people alike are probably sick of 'social justice'. But what we hear about in the Catholic Church isn't social justice, it's social injustice. Because these endless workshops, articles and homilies are based on love of neighbour, not on love of God.
I was asked last night by someone in the audience, just what is social justice? I answered that it's observing the two greatest commandments. It's as simple as that.
The Catholic Church has consistently put the feelings of wounded mothers, consciously or unconsciously mourning their lost babies, ahead of the feelings of the God who created both babies and mothers, and loves those mothers infinitely more than they love their lost ones. As Michael Voris has put it, the truth may not be discussed because someone will be adversely affected.
Jesus Christ said "See that you despise NOT ONE of these little ones". In fifty years New Zealand has killed 500,000 of these little ones. Their innocent blood cries out to heaven for vengeance, but the Church stands idly by while the evil effects of this holocaust permeate the whole of our life and society.
Premature births and all their associated problems. Depression, raised incidence of breast cancer, broken homes, 'blended' families, homosexual behaviours, transgenderism, violence - all can be linked to the tragedy of mothers murdering their own children. Addiction to sex, to screens, to drugs, alcohol, food - anything that can avert minds and hearts from the horrible truth of legalised abortion.
Who in the Catholic Church in New Zealand ever thinks, let alone preaches, about the wrath of God?
John the Baptist had no such inhibitions. "You brood of vipers!" he said to the Pharisees and Sadducees, "who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?"
The wrath of God has come. We see its evidence everywhere. It's time for the Church to rise up and say, STOP ABORTION.
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