The function of government being to promote the common good. Christian governments were designed to order man’s temporal life on earth in view of his eternal destiny in heaven. Democracy, on the other hand, would totally absolve itself of this responsibility by rigorously separating Church and state and devoting itself exclusively to his material well-being. Truth is not government’s concern. As Locke noted, “The business of the laws is not to provide for the truth of opinions, but for the safety and security of the commonwealth and of every particular man’s goods and person.”

According to the apocalyptic vision, the stings of the scorpion-like locusts were located “in their tails,” indicating that Democracy’s real power for evil would manifest itself not so much on first contact as in its long term, delayed results.  And so it proved.  As an ideology based solely on human reason, it has only natural means at its disposal wherewith to accomplish its objectives,  but nothing more is necessary to create a whole new climate from which God and the things of God are ruthlessly excluded. Confined by law to the private sector, religion was not openly denied, but rendered politically irrelevant in the everyday public life of every individual.

Subjecting itself on principle to no outside moral arbiter, Democracy actually created its own Magisterium by empowering a supreme court composed of judges appointed by itself to determine the rectitude and proper application of its laws. Right and wrong being reduced merely to what it deemed “constitutional” or “unconstitutional,” gross vices such as usury, divorce, contraception, abortion and sodomy have one by one  been cleared of moral censure by simple legal approval. The only “sin” possible in such a framework is infraction of the Constitution as interpreted by this judiciary body. As the  Constitution’s own Article VI baldly states, “This Constitution . . . shall be the supreme law of the land.” Not even the Ten Commandments may supersede it. As a matter of fact to display them on any courthouse premises is viewed as an infringement of the Constitution.

Bl. Pius IX  solemnly condemned in his Syllabus of Errors the proposition that “The Church ought to be separated from the State and the State from the Church.”  Their separation has removed all possibility of effectively correcting the deadly errors on which Democracy rests, one of the deadliest of them being the myth that given a level playing field, truth will automatically win out over error.

As structuring principles of man’s social life, a nation’s civil laws are powerful factors in forming his thinking and behavior. They can in fact change the whole organization of his environment.  Laws rooted in the Gospels have the power to raise the level of public morality and promote all the Christian virtues, whereas laws enacted without reference to revealed truth are bound to do the exact opposite. Morality’s downward plunge with the advent of Democracy is recorded fact, and as Democracy continues to gain ground over the world, the level of morality falls to ever lower levels. Clergy and other moral leaders can remonstrate and threaten all they please on the sidelines, but they have no legal power whatever to rectify matters in a society where Church and state enjoy no working relationship with each other.

It was not without reason that Bl. Pius IX  solemnly condemned in his Syllabus of Errors the proposition that “The Church ought to be separated from the State and the State from the Church.”  Their separation has removed all possibility of effectively correcting the deadly errors on which Democracy rests, one of the deadliest of them being the myth that given a level playing field, truth will automatically win out over error. Pius IX’s successor Leo XIII, viewing the freedom which the Church enjoyed to preach the Faith in the United States, was unfortunately led to believe this.

Although he never faltered in traditional doctrine, he erred in practical judgment by directing the French bishops to face facts and rally to democracy as a political system, expecting that under its rule Catholic candidates could be elected who in due time would restore Catholic society by enacting laws based on Catholic principles. The results of this policy soon became abundantly clear. The Catholic parties gradually disintegrated under the force of their compromises they had to make with the enemy in order to gain office, and eventually disappeared from the political scene altogether.

One of the most deplorable results of declaring all men equal is the extinction of the family as God created it to be.

As for the Faith in the U.S., almost from the beginning it fell into Americanism, led into a fatal collusion with the revolutionary objectives of Democracy by prelates following the lead of its first Bishop John Carroll, friend of Benjamin Franklin.  A later Primate, Cardinal Gibbons, would eventually lay down in a Pastoral Letter to the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore that “there is no antagonism between the laws, institutions and spirit of our country,” and “that our country’s heroes were instruments of the God of Nations in establishing this home of freedom,” denying  that “there is aught in the free spirit of our American institutions incompatible with perfect docility to the Church of Christ.” In other  words, the Faith that thrived for a while so gloriously in the U.S. was  not the integral Catholic Faith of the Apostles, but one diluted by the false principles of democracy.

The hard reality is that truth must be protected in order to survive in its integrity in this world. If it is not, it is trampled to death by the same forces which crucified Christ.  A Catholic Church demands a Catholic state to safeguard it and apply its doctrines to temporal society. Their cooperation is what produced the glories of Christendom, which would still be ours today if Christ’s enemies had not succeeded in dismantling the Catholic state. Once that was accomplished, they had easy access to the Church’s spiritual treasures, indeed to the deposit of Faith itself which was the mainspring of Christendom. Cardinal Suenens spoke truly when he declared that the Second Vatican Council was “1789 in the Church.”  He might just as easily have said “1776.”

One of the most deplorable results of declaring all men equal is the extinction of the family as God created it to be. Not only was it replaced by the individual as the basic political unit of society, denying the divinely ordained political role of fathers of families, but it destroyed the family’s internal unity by leveling its hierarchical structure, making of marriage a partnership where the sexes are also equal, and one no longer exercises authority over the other. Furthermore, under democratic law marriage is not recognized as a Sacrament  between a man and a woman, but merely a civil contract  between individuals who wish to cohabit. It can be legally dissolved like any other such commitment.  So why be surprised that  same-sex unions are now seeking recognition as legal marriages  and claiming the same social benefits?

Didn’t our Lady declare at Quito that “Masonry... will enact iniquitous laws with the objective of doing away with this Sacrament, making it easy for everyone to live in sin, encouraging the procreation of illegitimate children born without being incorporated into the Church?” Needless to say, as she also pointed out at Quito, in order to achieve generalized corruption, the new political system “will focus particularly on the children. . . .  Woe to the children of these times! It will be difficult to receive the Sacrament of Baptism and also that of Confirmation. Making use of persons in authority, the devil will assiduously try to destroy the Sacrament of Confession. . . The same will happen with Holy Communion. ”

Usurping the place of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost by arrogating to itself on its own authority the executive, legislative and judicial powers proper to divinity,  Democracy has made a mockery of the Fourth Commandment on which all real government rests, and Scripture teaches us that the specific punishment for infringing this Commandment is nothing less than slavery.   

As we know, by force of the egalitarian principles they professed, democratic governments were drawn to establish public school systems geared to providing equal educational opportunities to all children indiscriminately, and this in schools from which religious teaching is rigorously excluded,  where any semblance of moral training must be limited to a hard fisted imposition of so-called “social” values.  The noxious results need not be enumerated. They can be summed up in simply noting that today a police presence is necessary to keep order among the young in these alleged halls of learning.

Another long term effect of declaring all men equal which deserves mention, and which is generally overlooked, is the blanket enfranchisement of other religions, pagans and atheists, who until the rise of democracy and the abolition of Christian oaths of office, were quite properly denied an active role in the government of Christian nations. How indeed could people who denied Christ be expected to frame, let alone conscientiously enforce laws which were essentially rooted in the spirit of the Gospels? By according them equality with Christian citizens, Democracy not only let loose profoundly anti-Christian forces into the very veins of society, but actually empowered them to legislate for Christians, in many cases wielding legal authority over them.  Is it any wonder that entire Catholic nations have suffered progressive de-Christianization, with the substitution of judaized, pagan ethics for the supernatural Catholic values on which these nations had been founded?

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Usurping the place of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost by arrogating to itself on its own authority the executive, legislative and judicial powers proper to divinity,  Democracy has made a mockery of the Fourth Commandment on which all real government rests, and Scripture teaches us that the specific punishment for infringing this Commandment is nothing less than slavery.   For showing disrespect to his father Noah by laughing at his drunken nakedness, Cham and all his posterity incurred the paternal curse which declared him “A servant of servants . . . to his brethren” (Gen. 9:25).  As slavery is the proper consequence of belittling the authority of God the Father even in His earthly representatives, it is a foregone conclusion that Democracy will lead the whole world into enforced servitude of a kind  never seen before.

The United States,  the much vaunted  “Land of the free” which has appointed itself to preach freedom to the whole world and has risen to world leadership by the demonic power of democracy’s crowned locusts, is visibly becoming the “Home of the slave.” All the while extolling the blessings of self-government, its citizens are forging for themselves legal and economic shackles which eventually will trammel not only their every move but their very thoughts, where even now they are learning to live their lives under constant electronic surveillance. How many Americans manage to earn a living today without indenturing their bodies, if not their souls,  to the “company store?”

Historically democracies have inevitably ended in dictatorship, and the great one world Democracy now taking shape can be no exception. Craving by natural instinct a monarch in whom leadership can be concentrated and exercised over  whatever lies below it, it should very soon acclaim by democratic vote the rule of the supreme Slavemaster, the “son of perdition” prophesied in Scripture who is Antichrist the King.

Despite all the flashy successes of the democratic process, natural law nonetheless is bound to reassert itself, because natural law is true reality and there is no gainsaying it. Operating invisibly through all channels of the electorate, it is not elected legislatures, but dynasties of wealthy families who already head the powerful oligarchies which actually dictate national and international policies, guiding the course of governments behind the scenes. Historically democracies have inevitably ended in dictatorship, for like any other living body the body politic cannot be governed by its feet and remain functioning for long. It must have a head to direct its operations, and the great one world Democracy now taking shape can be no exception.

Craving by natural instinct a monarch in whom leadership can be concentrated and exercised over  whatever lies below it, it should very soon acclaim by democratic vote the rule of the supreme Slavemaster, the “son of perdition” prophesied in Scripture who is Antichrist the King. At La Salette our Lady characterized him as “the devil incarnate” and even then declared his arrival imminent, telling the young shepherdess Mélanie: “Here is the king of the kings of darkness. Here is the beast with its subjects, calling itself the savior of the world!”  The  next age, looming just ahead and soon to be  announced by the blast of the Sixth Trumpet,  can therefore be expected to witness a formal declaration of independence from the Creator on the part of all mankind under the rule of the Antichrist, the triple-titled king of the hellish locusts, the  “Angel of the bottomless pit.”

He will sum up democracy in his person much as one of his prototypes, Napoleon Bonaparte,  summed up the French Revolution by declaring “La Revolution, c’est moi!”  Being “lifted up above all that is called God or that is worshipped. . . showing  himself as if he were God ” (2 Thess. 2:4), he will personify that same arrogant spirit of Democracy which during our Lord’s Passion voted to reprieve the robber Barabbas rather the innocent Christ the Redeemer.

The evangelists tell us that when Pontius Pilate, sitting on the judgment seat in the governor’s hall,  asked the constituency assembled before him, “What shall I do then with Jesus that is called Christ?” they all replied  unanimously,  “Let him be crucified!”  When Pilate, finding “no cause of death in him,”  tried to remonstrate with them,  “they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified: and their voices prevailed . . .  Away with him, away with him. Crucify him!” (Matt. 27:22; Luke 23:23;  John 19:15). Now, that was democracy in action, openly pursuing the objective for which it was forged to begin with: to get rid of God!

(Taken from The Remnant Archive, 1996. Read Entire Article Here)

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