The Religion of Humanity
April 16, 2024
False Pope Paul 6 during his visit to the UN symbolically sits below the dais.
I DON’T pay much attention to the documents issued by the anti-Catholic Vatican in Rome these days. Lacking the sublime clarity of Church teachings, cleverly mixing truth with error, reassuring the simple with denunciations of abortion while simultaneously undermining the very moral and economic foundations of the family and unabashedly employing Marxist buzzwords and slogans, these statements are depressing, boring and far too long. They do not emanate from the Catholic Church.
I have, however, read the recent, highly-publicized Vatican declaration, Dignitatis Infinita, On Human Dignity — out of a sense of possibly misplaced duty. At 15,000 words with just eight mentions of Jesus (one more mention than the seven of “migrants”), this document, steeped as it is in ambiguity, is arguably dangerous to the free exercise of human dignity. But I won’t go there. Let’s just say, it was a slog. I did it and I would like to make a few comments here, for whatever they’re worth. Perhaps I have a point to make that no one else in the extensive news commentary has made.
Most important regarding this document, as is stated from the beginning, is that it was written to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, issued by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948. The mere fact that a body that claims to be the Catholic Church is promoting a secular, world parliament that explicitly denies the rights of God is so immensely significant, so overwhelmingly meaningful that most people can’t even see it.
From Dignitatis:
As we commemorate the 75th anniversary of that document, the Church sees an opportunity to proclaim anew its conviction that all human beings—created by God and redeemed by Christ—must be recognized and treated with respect and love due to their inalienable dignity. The anniversary also provides an occasion for the Church to clarify some frequent misconceptions concerning human dignity and to address some serious and urgent related issues. [bold added]
This is the single most important thing you need to know about this expensively-publicized declaration.
Paul 6 stood before the UN in 1965 in one of the most significant acts of his (false) pontificate and declared that the parliamentary body — not the Catholic Church — was “the greatest hope of the world.” And so it has been ever since. Dignitatis is part of a stream of revolutionary, Vatican II verbiage all dedicated to the same idea: the Religion of Humanity. “We too, more than anyone else, have the Cult of Man,” said Paul 6 at the closing session of Vatican II. Sadly, what claims today to be the Catholic Church has become the religious wing of secular world government founded on utopian, Marxist ideas and financial control of the weak — a super-government never dreamed of even by the most ambitious of emperors and pharaohs of the past.
According to Dignitatis, human beings have an infinite dignity that can never be lost.
Anyone who has leafed through a Catholic catechism knows that, according to Catholic theology, only God is infinite and his creatures are only potential reflections of his infinite glory. Aquinas speaks of lost human dignity:
By sinning man departs from the order of reason, and consequently falls away from human dignity, insofar as he is naturally free, and exists for himself, and he falls into the slavish state of the beasts. (ST II-II, Q.64, A2)
Dignitatis makes a distinction between moral and ontological dignity, saying it is only the second which is infinite. These distinctions are lost on ordinary people who encounter this kind of rhetoric and cannot help but come to the conclusion that universal, infinite dignity boils down to universal salvation: “I am holy no matter what I do.”
And we see this very idea openly promoted:
“In political activity, we should remember that ‘appearances notwithstanding, every person is immensely holy and deserves our love and dedication,’” the declaration reads, quoting Francis.
Every person is immensely holy. Think about the implications of that. One can barely act or assert oneself in the face of the infinite holiness of the Other. All this talk of dignity reeks of pride, the ultimate cause of man’s downfall.
Religion comes from the word religio, related to the Latin ligare, or to bind. It signifies the bond that exists between God and man. To weaken this supernatural bond and replace it with a naturalistic bond between man and man, devoid of moral absolutes, is essential to the creation of a compliant populace for secular world government. Moral relativism is an incapacitating plague in the face of the absolutes of the financial markets and utopian social engineers.
The rhetoric of “human dignity” is necessary to schemes against true human dignity. I’m not saying the destruction of human dignity is what the writers of this document explicitly intend, but that’s what they in effect promote.
The erasure of national borders, the weakening of the family and the loosening of the bonds between God and man are central to the success of a super government that operates behind the scenes of democratic bodies and has implemented a universal bondage through debt that makes slavery of the past, with its chains and whips, seem comparatively benign. Under the schemes of ancient slavery, the body was controlled, not the soul. It is this government promoted by the United Nations.
On the naturalistic, or worldly, level, human dignity is incompatible with the resulting manufactured poverty, environmental degradation, family breakdown, loss of national sovereignty, chaos and barbarism implemented by these secular rulers. On the supernatural level, the elevation of the rights and dignity of man above the rights and dignity of God does not ennoble the human being, but lowers him.
The Catholic Church always taught that to know and love God is the supreme and first duty of man. This strange Counterfeit teaches that to know and love man is the supreme and first duty of man. From John Paul II’s encyclical Redemptor Hominis, we read, “For the Church will always lead to man.” And, “man is the primary route that the Church must travel in her mission; he is the primary and fundamental way for the Church.”
These are falsehoods.
God is the primary and fundamental way. “I am the Way, and the Truth and the Life,” said Our Lord. “No one cometh to the Father but by me.” The man equipped with a true love of God, and a thirst for knowledge of his infinitely holy ways, has all the dignity he needs. He can even withstand and resist enslavement and all its degrading humiliations.
The Religion of Humanity is the religion of Dignity Lost. It is “World Brotherhood, along with Soviet and Peking lovers of liberty and fraternity,” as writer William Strojie put it in 1980 in his article similarly titled “The Humanity Religion.”
“The Devil is the ape of God and so twists the Christian doctrine of charity toward all men, using it to his own evil purpose.”
Secular rulers, the pharaohs of our day, use these Christian instincts to install inhuman tyranny.
Dignity Lost would have been a better title for this recent declaration. Dignity is woefully lost when human beings become creatures not of an infinite God, but of the State.
— Comments —
Tony S. writes:
Paul 6 stood before the UN in 1965 in one of the most significant acts of his (false) pontificate and declared that the parliamentary body — not the Catholic Church — was the “greatest hope of the world.”
When I read this, I felt my heart just drop.
After I had time to recover, I was left bewildered as to how anyone could be foolish enough to make that statement. It denies the fact of original sin, a fact which one does not need the Catholic Church to explain. Original sin is evident to anyone who has lived through the loss of childhood innocence. Man is so obviously fallen. I would think everyone who has reached a certain level of maturity knows this.
How could a group of men and women, no matter what their legislation or pronouncements, match what Christ offers? Can the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting be improved upon?
With what? Free healthcare and the elimination of fossil fuels?
God help us.
Kathy writes:
This is brilliant. Thank you for pointing out the significance of this commemoration. I had read about Montini’s atrocious performance at the UN in the Strojie letters, but had forgotten it.
