What has Catholicism or Protestantism honestly
done to protect the world from the relentless whirlpool into which it has
fallen? But was it not the religion of the West that sent man running and
panting to gain whatever Christ declared vain?
Monasticism, the heart of religion, either
abolished or changed to utilitarian Orders, which either through their
activity or through their thought had as their mission to serve the earthly
well-being of men and the worldly wisdom which «God has made foolish».
It made politics the province of Christian
activity, swaying kingdoms and spilling blood in order to acquire power and
money.
It used missions as a decoy to subject colored
peoples to the inhuman sovereignty of Europe. …
It gave Christianity a utilitarian, social
purpose, causing men to believe that Christ was a moral teacher who is
concerned above all with the orderly functioning of society, and the Church
is the guardian par excellence of human laws and the overseer of law
enforcement.
It created the model for the pharisaic
Christian, the good citizen, who thinks he has approached perfection because
he has never harmed anyone, or because he has given money to philanthropic
organizations.
