Showing posts with label Notre Dame. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Notre Dame. Show all posts

Monday, April 22, 2019

Incredible! Right Wing Watch, Which Tracks Conservative Stances to Attack Conservative Leaders, Defends Notre Dame Cathedral Against Julio Severo


Incredible! Right Wing Watch, Which Tracks Conservative Stances to Attack Conservative Leaders, Defends Notre Dame Cathedral Against Julio Severo

By Julio Severo
It is no surprise to see left-wing groups attacking Christian churches. But what about when a prominent U.S. left-wing organization defends a Catholic cathedral against a conservative evangelical?
Right Wing Watch, of the left-wing group People for the American Way, was not pleased that an article authored by me questioned why a Christian church should have or even tolerate demonic statues in its building.
Right Wing Watch said on April 18, 2019:
“Julio Severo weighs in on the fire at Notre Dame: ‘From a spiritual perspective, a place of idolatry was destroyed. And the destructive fire not only destroyed the idols of Mary and other men and women. It destroyed also Gargoyles — statues of demons.’”
Why is Right Wing Watch worried about my view on idolatry and statues?
My article that bothered Right Wing Watch was published on BarbWire and is titled: “The Gargoyles of Notre Dame and the Islamic Celebration of Their Destruction.”
Other conservatives that bothered Right Wing Watch were Janet Porter, Intercessors for America, the Christian Defense Coalition and Alex McFarland.
By the way, I can put two additional concerns that Right Wing Watch can, in its left-wing capacity, add to its track record of my conservative stances to use to defend Notre Dame and attack me.
People are donating untold millions of dollars for the rebuilding of Notre Dame when there are more urgent human needs. In fact, just one week after Notre Dame was destroyed by fire, donations exceeded 1 billion dollars. Why waste one billion dollars on a building when God told us to love people, not buildings?
Even President Donald Trump praised Notre Dame, but he was strangely silent when the Protestant Reformation had its international celebration of 500 years in 2017. As the largest Protestant nation in the world, the United States would deserve to have its president, Trump, to celebrate it, but he preferred instead to celebrate Halloween. Is Halloween’s witchcraft more important than the evangelicalism that guided America since its birth? Are Notre Dame and its Gargoyles more important than the most important American religious heritage, Protestantism?
Yet, for Right Wing Watch, as far as real conservatism is concerned, Julio Severo is a bigger conservative threat than Notre Dame is.
Right Wing Watch is a project of the far-left-wing People for the American Way and it has, according to its website, a special mission to attack conservatives opposed to the gay agenda, abortion and Muslim ideology.
According to WND, People for the American Way (PFAW) is “an atheist socialist organization which, through publications like its ‘Right Wing Watch,’ dedicates itself to the destruction of conservatives in general.”
Many prominent U.S. conservative names are in Right Wing Watch’s blacklist. My place in their blacklist is here.
What do U.S. conservatives say about Right Wing Watch?
Pat Robertson, of 700 Club, said, “A nasty group.”
Peter LaBarbera, of Americans for Truth of Homosexuality, said, “They should call it People for the Homosexual Way.”
Matt Barber, the founder of BarbWire, said, “A radical secularist agenda… a socialist agenda… pushing the culture of death.”
Recommended Reading on the U.S. Left against Julio Severo:
Another Recommended Reading:

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

The Gargoyles of Notre Dame and the Islamic Celebration of Their Destruction


The Gargoyles of Notre Dame and the Islamic Celebration of Their Destruction

By Julio Severo
The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, France, has suffered a massive destruction by fire on April 15, 2019.
Muslim immigrants in France celebrated its destruction. Because Islam has a tradition of destroying Christian temples, was the destruction of Notre Dame a Muslim attack? According to the CBN News, “The Paris prosecutors’ office ruled out arson and possible terror-related motives, and said it was treating it as an accident.”
The European problem is that whenever there is an Islamic terror attack, European authorities are swift to rule out terror-related motives.
From a cultural perspective, Notre Dame was a massive loss to the French civilization.
From a religious perspective, it was a massive loss to the Catholic Church.
In fact, the massive religious loss has other meanings too. Because the French have abandoned the Catholic Church in very large numbers, often there are no members to support old church buildings, which are eventually demolished or transformed in mosques. The French government and the Vatican do not want to spend their money to preserve such empty old buildings.
From a Christian perspective, Notre Dame represented no loss to real Christianity, because it is a cathedral consecrated to Notre Dame, a French name whose English meaning is “Our Lady.” The Apostles of Jesus would have seen as abomination a church dedicated to Mary, the mother of Jesus. They would have characterized it idolatry.
From a spiritual perspective, a place of idolatry was destroyed. And the destructive fire not only destroyed the idols of Mary and other men and women. It destroyed also Gargoyles — statues of demons. Notre Dames was filled of such demonic images.
Gargoyle of Notre Dame
From a cultural perspective, such statues could be interesting. But spiritually, why were there so many demonic images in a “Christian” church?
The use of demonic statues in Catholic building was questioned even by Catholic saints. St. Bernard of Clairvaux was famous for speaking out against gargoyles carved on the walls of his monastery's cloister:
“What are these fantastic monsters doing in the cloisters before the eyes of the brothers as they read? What is the meaning of these unclean monkeys, these strange savage lions, and monsters? To what purpose are here placed these creatures, half beast, half man, or these spotted tigers? I see several bodies with one head and several heads with one body. Here is a quadruped with a serpent's head, there a fish with a quadruped’s head, then again an animal half horse, half goat… Surely if we do not blush for such absurdities, we should at least regret what we have spent on them.”
Not only Notre Dame celebrated the mother of Jesus, but History shows that after thousands and thousands of Huguenots — Protestant men, women and children — were massacred in the infamous St. Bartholomew’s Day (23–24 August 1572), the French king who ordered their massacre celebrated it in Notre Dame.
Gargoyles of Notre Dame
So Notre Dame was marked by idolatry and celebration of massacres of Christians. What else could result from a church building with so many demonic images?
Gargoyles of Notre Dame
In my view, the demonic images and other idolatry symbols, including its name, should be destroyed from the famous old Catholic cathedral, because when idolatry is not destroyed, it destroys, as shown by St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre.
But the motivation of the Islamic celebration over the destruction of Notre Dame was not a concern for the spiritual purification of French Christianity, because most of France wants nothing to do with Catholicism. Their ambition is to destroy the French civilization.
Gargoyle of Notre Dame
The only salvation for the French civilization is to accept Jesus, who can deliver the French from the demons of Islam, religion, secularism and atheism.
Recommended Reading: