The Axis of Evil and Its Allies

The Axis of Evil & Its Allies

Fifteen years ago, author Peter Kreeft wrote about this subject. For the CINOP (Catholic in name only politician) it must have gone into one ear and out the other. Let us bring Peter’s thoughts up to date. In 1991, the author wrote a provocative essay using C.S.Lewis (and others) to think about the fate of “permanent things” in the world. Darkness at Noon: Eclipse of “Permanent Things.” We are focusing in on the big picture.

America’s Axis of Evil is the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, the Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and the Media Board Rooms. Also include the legislatures, the universities and even the seminaries. Peter Kreeft believes that the strongest weapon against their hate is love and that is God’s love. Agape. Make them our friends and love them to death. It may take forever. Let’s add unceasing prayer for their conversion, and educational and action activities.

The author believes that the barbarians are already within the gates. They write the textbooks, newspapers, TV shows, movies and music. We have a spiritual crisis as noted by Mother Teresa at Harvard. “You did not invite me here from a poor country to speak to a rich country. America is not a rich country. America is a desperately spiritually poor country.”

“You get closer to God by sanctity, not by aging. The world gets closer to God by improving spiritually, not by improving materially. And God is the goal the measure of progress.
The essence of modernity is the death of the spiritual. A modernist is someone who is more concerned about air pollution than soul pollution. A modernist is someone who wants clean air so he can breathe dirty words. A modernist cares about big things, like whales, more than little things, like fetuses, big things like government, more than little things like families and neighborhoods, big things like states, which last hundreds of years, more than little things like souls which last forever. Thus a modernist is one who puts his faith and hope for progress in precisely the one thing that cannot progress: matter…. A traditionalist, on the other hand, is one who ‘looks not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen, for the things that are seen are temporal, but the things that are unseen are eternal.’” (2 Corinthians 4:18) p. 54 *

There are at least three dangerous allies of the Axis of Evil. We have billionaires like George Soros who keep the Axis afloat with their monies. In Soros’ vision, America is a threat to world peace and survival. For him, it is important to “puncture the bubble of American supremacy.”

Secondly, we have the anti-traditional America’s Pravda-type news media. With their kind of reporting we would have lost the Cold War and World War II. False ideas and false reporting have consequences. Suicide is not for America. It may be for the Europeans. We don’t want to be Europeans. We have options like the Boycott and a No Vote for their candidates.

Thirdly, we come to the CINOP. He is intellectually and morally bankrupt. (There is one running locally for Supervisor.) Abortion is only the tip of the iceberg. The other absolute evils are their promotion of assisted suicide, euthanasia, same-sex marriage and embryonic stem cell research. The CINOP needs to be Targeted at election time with a no vote. Think of him or her in the center of Target’s red circle. It is crimson (bloody) in color. Since the Roe vs. Wade decision of Jan. 22nd, 1973 the killing fields of the unborn have been in the millions.

Lastly, abortion is killing off many of our potential leaders. Ben Franklin was born the tenth child in his family. (St. Catherine of Sienna, the 24th child) However, do check out Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. He never owned any slaves. His wisdom and knowledge of history would make mincemeat of the anti-war, retreat, appease and surrender crowd in Washington, D.C.
* Peter Kreeft, C.S. Lewis for the Third Millennium, Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 1994
George H. Kubeck, (Appropriate for today. Published Thurs. Jan 18th, 2007)