Bishops Say Spain Trying to 'Dismantle the Christian Worldview'

The Boston Pilot ^ | 7/29/21 | Jonathon Luxmoore

[marshmallow]

Spain's Catholic bishops warned of growing division and tension in their country over government attempts to "deconstruct and dismantle the Christian worldview."

"We are in a difficult moment, not only because of COVID-19, but because we are convulsed by a deep institutional crisis, with some groups seeking to open a new constitutional phase and replace a political framework that has given Spain great stability," the bishops' conference said.

"Legislative initiatives by the coalition government on education, euthanasia, abortion, democratic memory and the judiciary reflect a global deconstruction project, whose development puts freedom at risk and impedes essential unity."

The warning was contained in a 95-page statement, published July 28, setting out pastoral guidelines for the Spanish church from now until 2025.

The bishops said an attempt was underway to "erase distinctions between truth and falsehood, reality and fiction, good and evil."

"With its prophetic mission, the church is obliged to denounce these attacks on freedom and justice, to act as a channel of encounter and reconciliation," the bishops said. They added that "Spaniards are no longer living in a culture inspired by the Christian faith. For many, Christian truths have become incomprehensible, as moral standards flowing from the Gospel also become unacceptable."

The statement was released two days after Spain's co-governing Socialist Party confirmed plans to review a series of 1979 accords with the Vatican and adopt a "statute of secularism," enforcing "strict separation between politics and religion, law and morality, crime and sin."

The bishops said society was full of distrust and confrontation, as digitization, artificial intelligence and surveillance technologies fueled "spiritual impoverishment." They warned of a type of capitalism that does not just regulate production and consumption, "but also imposes values and lifestyles."

[mosesdapoet]

never mind Spain how about US ?

[cdcdawg]

They warned of a type of capitalism that does not just regulate production and consumption, “but also imposes values and lifestyles.”

A/k/a the entertainment industry and journalism and Big Tech.

[PTBAA]

So is the Vatican.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The Judeo-Christian ethic is what enabled Western civilization: Do not lie, do not steal, do not murder...

Civilization is impossible with it.

You’ll see.

[livius]

The Spanish leftist government passed a law called “Memoria Histórica” (Historical Memory Law) several years ago, which has resulted in the renaming of streets, removal of statues, rewriting of history, and, most recently, the removal of remains from the Valle de Los Caídos (including Franco’s body), the closing of the Basikica, and the attempt to expel the Benedictines from the Valle. Catholics are routinely referred to as fascists and the crimes of the left during the Civil War are either ignored or excused.

Now they have a new law, “Memoria Democrática” (Democratic Memory) which seeks to consolidate the rewriting of history and develop an “official” version of Spain’s history, which naturally will be Spain’s history as interpreted by the pack of Communists currently running the country. This will be the only version that may be published or filmed, included in educational curricula all the way through university, etc. In other words, they are doing the most extensive imposition of Newspeak and its historical equivalent in the modern world, probably even more so than exists in China. And naturally, hatred of Christianity is all through it. The plan, as one of the spokesmen literally said, is to erase the memory of Christianity from the Spanish mind.