Subject: Svetski Sabor Srba: e-Bulletin No 3/August 5, 1997 [Engl.
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e-Bulletin No 4/ August 5, 1997 [English ed.]
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AN ANNULMENT OF REPUBLIKA SRPSKA KRAJINA
1995 --- 1997
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Father Justin
PAPISM AS THE OLDEST PROTESTANTISM
Momir Lazic
WHY DO THEY KILL THE SERBS?
Slobodan Rakitic
THE SEASON OF THE HUNTING SERBS
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Father Justin
PAPISM AS THE OLDEST PROTESTANTISM
In the European West, Christianity has gradually transformed into humanism. For a long time and arduously, the God-Man diminished, changed, narrowed, and finally reduced to a man: to the infallible man in Rome and the no less infallible man in London and Berlin. Thus did papism come into being, taking everything from Christ, along with Protestantism, which asks the least from Christ, and often nothing. Both in papism and in Protestantism, man has been put in the place of the God-Man, both as the highest value and as the highest criterion. A painful and sad correction of the God-Man has been accomplished. Of His work and His teaching. Steadily and stubbornly has papism tried to substitute the God-Man with man, until in the dogma about the infallibility of the pope-a man, the God-Man was once and for all replaced with ephemeral, "infallible" man.
Because with this dogma, the pope was decisively and clearly declared as something higher than not only man, but the holy Apostles, the holy Fathers, and the holy Ecumenical councils.
With this kind of a departure from the God-Man, from the ecumenical Church as the God-Man organism, papism surpassed Luther, the founder of Protestantism. Thus, the first radical protest in the name of humanism against the God-Man Christ, and his God-Man organism - the Church - should be looked for in papism, not in Lutheranism. Papism is actually the first and the oldest Protestantism.
We should not ourselves: papism indeed is the most radical Protestantism, because it has transferred the foundation of Christianity from the eternal God-Man to ephemeral man. And it has proclaimed this as the paramount dogma, which means: the paramount value, the paramount measure of all beings and things in all the worlds. And the Protestants merely accepted this dogma in its essence, and worked it out in terrifying magnitude and detail. Essentially, Protestantism is nothing other than a generally applied papism. For in Protestantism, the fundamental principle of papism is brought to life by each man individually. After the example of the infallible man in Rome, each Protestant is a cloned infallible man, because he pretends to personal infallibility in matters of faith. It can be said: Protestantism is a vulgarized papism, only stripped of the mysticalness authority and power.
Through the reduction of Christianity, with all its eternal God-Man qualities, to man, Western Christianity has been turned into humanism. This may seem paradoxical, but it is true in its irresistible and inerasable historical reality. Because Western Christianity is, in its essence, the most decisive humanism, because it has proclaimed man as infallible, and has turned the God-Man religion into a humanist religion. And that this is so shown by the fact that the God-Man has been driven to the heavens, while his place on earth has been filled with his replacement, Vicarius Christi - the pope. What a tragic piece of illogic: to put in a replacement for everywhere-present God and the Lord Christ! But this piece of illogic has been incarnated in Western Christianity: the Church has been transformed into a state, the pope has become a ruler, bishops have been proclaimed princes, priests have become leaders of clerical parties, the faithful have been proclaimed papal subjects. The Gospel has been replaced with Vat
ican's compilation of canon law, Evangelical ethic and methodics of love have been replaced with casuistry, Jesuitry and the "holy" Inquisition. Which means: with the systematic removal and destruction of everything that does not bow to the pope, even with forced conversions to the papal faith, and the burning of sinners for the glory of the meek and the mild Lord Jesus!
There is no doubt, all these facts converge into one irresistibly logical conclusion: in the West there is no Church, no God-Man, which is why there is no true God-Man society in which men are mortal brothers and immortal fellows. Humanistic Christianity is actually the most decisive protest and uprising against God-Man Christ and all the Evangelical, God-Man values and norms. And even here is evident European man's favoured tendency, to reduce everything to man as the fundamental value and the fundamental measure. And behind that stands one idol: Menschliches Allzumenschliches. With the reduction of Christianity to humanism, Christianity has been no doubt, simplified, but also at the same time - destroyed. Now that the "gleischaltung" of Christianity with humanism has been accomplished, some in Europe are seeking a return to God-Man Christ. The cries of individuals in the Protestant world: Zuruck zum Jesus! Back to Jesus! are empty cries in the dark night of humanistic Christianity, which has abandoned the
values and the measures of God-Man and is now suffocating in desperation and impotence. While from the depths of centuries past reverberate the bitter words of the melancholic prophet of God, Jeremiah: "Accursed is the man who puts his confidence in man!..."
In a broader historical perspective, the Western dogma about man's infallibility is nothing other than an attempt to revive and immortalize dying humanism. It is the last transformation and final glorification of humanism. After the rationalistic Enlightenment of the 18th century and the shortsighted positivism of the 19th century, nothing else was left to European humanism than to fall apart in its own impotence and contradictions. But in that tragic moment, religious humanism came to its aid with its dogma about the infallibility of man saved European humanism from imminent death. And, although dogmatized, Western Christian humanism could not help absorbing all the fatal contradictions of European humanism, which are united in one single desire: to exile God-Man from the earth. Because the most important thing for humanism is for man to be the highest value and the highest measure. Man, not God-Man.
According to our own Orthodox feeling: Christianity is Christianity through God-Man, through its God-Man ideology and God-Man methodics. That is the fundamental truth for the sake of which no compromises can be made. Only as God-Man is Christ the highest value and the highest measure. One should be truthful and consistent to the end: if Christ is not God-Man, then he is the most impudent fraud, because he proclaimed himself as God and the Lord. But the Evangelical historical reality irrefutably shows and proves that Jesus Christ is in everything and all things perfect God-Man. Therefore, one cannot be a Christian without a belief in Christ as God-Man and in the Church as His God-Man body, the church, in which He left His entire Miraculous Person. The saving and life-giving power of Christ's Church lays in the eternally-living and all-present personality of God-Man. Any substitution of God-Man with any man, and any winnowing of Christianity, in order to pick out only that which pleases a man's individual pref
erence and reason, turns Christianity into shallow and impotent humanism.
The outstanding importance of Christianity for making lies in its life-giving and unchangeable God-Manhood, by which it models humanity as a whole, bringing it from the darkness of non-being to the light of Pan-being. Only by its God-Man power is Christianity the salt of the earth, the salt that saves man from rotting in sin and evil. If it dissolves into various humanisms, Christianity becomes bland, becomes salt that has turned flat, useless, fit to be tossed out and trod on.
Any tendency or attempt at a "gleischaltung" of Christianity with the spirit of the times, with ephemeral movements and regimes of certain historical periods, takes away from Christianity that specific worth which makes it the singular God-Man religion in the world. In the Orthodox philosophy of society, the rule above all rules is this: do not accommodate God-Man Christ to the spirit of the times, but rather accommodate the spirit of the times to the spirit of Christ's eternity, Christ's God-Manhood. Only in this way can be the Church preserve the life-giving and irreplaceable personality of God-Man Christ and remain a God-Man society, in which people fraternize and live with the help of Divine love and justice, prayer and fasting, meekness and humbleness, goodness and wisdom, charity and faith, love of God and love of one's brother, and all the other Evangelical virtues.
According to the God-Man philosophy of life and the world: man, society, nation, state are to accommodate themselves to the Church as the eternal ideal, but the Church must never accommodate itself to them, much less - submit to them.
A nation has true worth only insomuch as it lives the Evangelical virtues and incarnates in its history the God-Man values. What applies to the nation, applies to the state as well. The goal of the nation as a whole is the same as the goal of the individual: to incarnate in oneself Evangelical justice, love, sanctity; to become a "holy people," a "God's people" which in its history proclaims the Divine values and virtues (1 Peter 2:9-10; 1:15-16).
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They will ask us: where are the concrete fruits of this God-Man society? How was it that precisely on the field of Orthodoxy's radiation came about the appearance of "the most radical secularism in human history?" (Joseph Piper) Does there not also exist an Eastern "Humanism" (for ex. Caesaro-papism, etc.)? The success of atheistic social humanism on the soil of Orthodoxy, is that not proof of the "inability of Orthodoxy" to solve the most elementary social problems? - It is a fact that this would lies in evil and sin. The reduction of everything to man is in fact the atmosphere in which sinful human nature and man general, no matter where he lives, live and breathe, and something toward which they strive. It is, therefore, no wonder that the tides of this sinfulness, just like the tides of European pseudo-Christian poisons, from time to time wash over the Orthodox peoples as well. One thing is, however, irrefutably true: the Orthodox church has never ecclesiologically dogmatized any sort of humanism, whethe
r we are talking about Caesaro-papism or any other "ism." With the strength of its genuine and uncorrupted God-Manhood and Evangelical truthfulness, and through its constant call for repentance regarding everything that is not from God-Man, it has preserved, by the power of the Holy Spirit, the wisdom and the chastity of its heart and its soul.
And by this it has remained and continues to be the "salt" of the earth, man and society. On the other hand, the tragedy of Western Christianity lies precisely in the fact that it, either by correcting the image of God-Man, or by denying it, has attempted to once again introduce demonized humanism, so characteristic of sinful human nature, to - where? Into the heart of the God-Man organism itself - the Church, whose essence lies precisely in the freeing of man from it. And through it into all regions of life, person and society, proclaiming it as the supreme dogma, as the universal dogma. With this, the demonized intellectual pridefulness of man, hidden under the cloak of the Church, becomes the dogma of a faith without which there is no salvation! It is horrible to think it, much less say it: with this, the sole "workshop of salvation" and graduation to God-Manhood in this world, is gradually turned into a demonized "workshop" of violence over consciousness and dehumanization! A workshop of the disfiguremen
t of God and man through the disfigurement of God-Man!
The Orthodox Church has proclaimed no poison, no sin, no humanism, no earthly social system as dogma - neither through Councils, nor through the "Body" of the Ecumenical Church. While the west, alas, does nothing but that.
The latest proof: II Vatican Council. The Orthodox Faith: in it, repentance is a necessary holy virtue; and it always calls for repentance. In the West: the pseudo-Christian faith in man does not call for repentance; on the contrary, it "clerically" obligates a maintaining of its fatal-to-man homo-idolization, its pseudo-Christian humanisms, infallibilities, heresies, and it pridefully considers that in no case are these things for which one should repent.
Contemporary atheistic social humanism, ideologically and methodologically, is in everything a fruit and an invention of pseudo-Christian Europe, wed with our own sinfulness. They ask us: how did it arrive on the soil of Orthodoxy? It is God trying the endurance of the righteous, visiting the children for the sins of their fathers, and announcing the strength of His Church by taking it through fire and water. Because, according to the words of the wise-in-God Macarius of Egypt, that is the only path of true Christianity: "Wherever the Holy Spirit is, there follows, like a shadow, persecution and battle... It is necessary that the truth be persecuted." What are, on the other hand, the fruits of God-Man society? - Saints, martyrs, confessors. That is its goal, that is its meaning and design, that is proof of its indestructable strength. Not books and libraries, systems and cities, that are here today and gone tomorrow. The various pseudo-Christian humanisms fill the world with books, while Orthodoxy fills it w
ith - the hallowed. Thousands and hundreds of thousands, even millions of martyrs and newly martyred, fallen for the Orthodox faith - there is the fruit of God-Man society. Thus does the famous Francois Mauriac, a Roman Catholic, on the dark horizon of the contemporary world, with each day more and more pushed into the darkness of born-in-Europe, soul-losing homo-idolatry, see only one bright spot, that gives hope for the future of this world: the bathed in the blood of the martyred and newly-martyred faith.
The Orthodox faith. In the West? They neither know the Church, nor the path, nor the way out of the hopelessness; all is sunk in soul-losing idolatry, in love of pleasure, love of self, and love of lust. Hence in Europe - the renaissance of polytheism. The "False Christs," false gods that have flooded Europe and are exported from it to all the marketplaces of the world, have for their main assignment: the killing of the soul in man - that unique treasure of man in all the worlds, and in that way make impossible the very possibility of a genuine society.
In writing this, we are not writing the history of Europe, its virtues and faults, nor the history of the European pseudo-churches.
We are merely laying out the entelechy of its ontology, descending into the pith of European intellectual pridefulness, into its demonic underground, where its black sources are, whose water threatens to poison the world. This is not a judgment of Europe but a heartfelt prayerful call to the solitary path of salvation, through repentance.
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Momir Lazic
WHY DO THEY KILL THE SERBS?
There are two basic things in life that make the man: love and sense. These things are certainly something without which it is impossible to imagine not only a man, but also the whole society, a universe, a state, politics.
In present determination of the man, these two components: love and sense are less and less present, they slowly disappear, while some other components such as violence, madness, capital or in other words profit, became the basic components which determine our living, while the man as a being ceases to function, he becomes a machine in which a sole disk is installed: the profit. Profit at all costs, force and violence at all costs, if that is in interest of the stronger, the richer, because in such decadent competition, one job more has to be finished.
Not only to kill the men within a man, but to deprive him of his roots, of his existential spiritual being. He has to forget his national spirit and identity, to become a machine and work for someone else, in other words, be happy to live because God gave him life, and he has to accept it. Such shameful destroying of man is accompanied by brutal violence of the Catholic Church which, keeping pace with the violence that the West i.e. America, Germany and other countries favour against the Serbs using selected methods of "pure race", exercise totalitarian violence towards other nations and religions, trying to make the Catholic religion dominant by encouraging the most horrible crimes against the man, this time against the Serbs.
Back in the second world war, as well as today the Catholic Church played the most shameful role of shameless destroying of Serbian nation, cynically giving some peaceful advice, which could be defined as total madness, because they never raised their voice against shameful killing of Serbs. Why, then, should not we, in the circumstances that rule in civilised world shout out, not only WHY DO THEY KILL SERBS, but WHY DO THEY KILL THEMSELVES.
Those who systematically kill us, the Serbs, depriving us of the right to our own land, our own house, a child, the right to have our own grave, church, the right to stay human, the right to protect Europe and the world by our civilisation, because we were and we are the part of universal civilisation in the functin of planetary sense of human survival, the very sense that those who kill us wish for.
Why do they kill us. Why do they mercilessly air raid our villages, our children, our hospitals, old people, expecting mothers, why do they kill the crying of just born babies, why do they kill the death which once already was a death. They kill the death by death. In order to destroy it too, they do not leave it as the proof that it existed. Is there anything more insane than such a truth.
Why do the peacemakers, who design the world of "democracy" and who have a solution for everything, want to impose ôdemocraticö relations to a nation by killing, killing them because they are disobedient and because they seek the right to their own freedom, life and democracy.
The machinery for killing Serbs has been carefully prepared over a long period of time in secret shelters of CIA all around the world. That is no secret at all. In advance have Serbs been declared guilty of everything, but it must be said that Serbs paid for ill estimating their murderers. Serbs had not been clairvoyant enough, unanimous and daring enough to react and answer to all the humiliation that had been imposed to them. They were late, led by bad policy of their own leaders, the old fault of Serbs - the discord - was confirmed, and they paid for it.
The tragedy of Serbs is in stopping to believe in crimes that had been done against them through the history. They did not want, or could not accept that such crimes or even worse ones were being prepared for them. And that is the attitude of the nations that have never been or could never be criminals. They paid by suffering even worse crimes in this war because their stopped believing in crime. The crime, and those who had killed before and who killed in this war - have not changed.
These recent crimes were worse. No word that people use can adequately stand for that mortal tragedy.
Too many deaths happened to the bodies of the Serbian people, that there are several gradations, comparisons of various types of deaths. Imagine what crime it is that you can choose the nearest death among the deaths. Still you disappear in each of them, and become a part of your own bloody country. All this is being watched by ôdemocratic Europeö and the world.
Even when Moslems and Croats kill their compatriots.
Or when the Serbs are being killed. The motives for extermination of the Serbs are many. What does it mean to negotiate the peace, while killing a nation, what does it mean to negotiate the peace while destroying the graves of a nation, what does it mean to negotiate the peace while bringing the Serbs to International Court of Justice of the Hague, what does it mean and what does it mean... If the powerful decided to erase us from our own, Serbian land, and they obviously did, then they must remember one thing.
Serbs can never be beaten by killing, because in that Serbian death the soul of the murdered shall come to its sense.
Natural balance has always existed. We believe that out of each one of our destroyed monastery sprinkled by the blood of our people - a new Serbian bone shall spring out, we believe in endless justice and the truth of our graves. That can never die.
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