WARNING: This is an inflamatory piece of Catholic Rhetoric that was written in anger to all the Protestant Rhetoric I’ve had to read at university. Do not expect objectivity. Probably only Philip Wilson will enjoy this post.
It seems in life that one of two things is happening to me:
1) in an andrew-centric cosmos all effort is being thrown against him and thus last year he was almost overwhelmed by Atheist Profs, and this year by Mennonite Profs
or
2) Andrew is paranoid
I’m choosing 1.
This year at Brock it would seem that the heresy train has arrived before the atheist train and thus all of my Profs are what I like to call ‘ignorant Protestants’ – PLEASE NOTE – this category excludes Traditional Reformed, Lutheran, and Anglican Protestants who actually understand history and Catholicism for the most part. At least these people hold the ‘catholic’ faith (http://www.creeds.net/ancient/nicene.htm), unlike the Anabaptists.
But it would seem that Munster has been so overrun with garbage that they had to send some to Brock. I have 3 highly ‘Evangelical’ Mennonites, spreading the good news of ‘Papist Evils’, and the beauty of the late Dr. Martin Luther, clinically depressed schismatic, responsible for the greatest divisions in Church history, thus making him a Protestant saint.
Today I sat through a world religions lecture where Menno-Prof 1 – who was Liberal Theology Prof last year – waxed theological about how Catholics don’t believe in salvation by grace alone (a strange claim as they invented the phrase “grace alone conquers sin” St. Augustine), and that they believe that salvation is through ALL 7 sacraments and the Pope. How on earth any individual could recieve all seven sacraments, I have no idea – it would certainly be tricky to be ordained a Priest with a vow of celibacy and be married to someone… I also apparently missed the part in the Catechism’s treatment of salvation where wthe Pope directly saves people, but check for yourselves: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s1c3a2.htm
We also had to sit through 3 U2 Songs to show us the ‘beauty of protestant music’.
The only fact that he got right was when he said ‘If you ever go to a Non-Denominational Church, it is just a Protestant Church disguised as something completely Christian and that alone’. Amen…
So what’s wrong with Mennonites? you might ask: (I was hoping you would)
the following are a list of heresies prevalent in the Mennonite Tradition
-Credobaptism/Zwinglian view of baptism (see nicene creed – forgiveness of sins, not symbolic)
-Sola Fide (James 2:24)
-Sola Scriptura (1 Tim 3:15)
-Mariadelendaology (Mary hatred, delenda – is to destroy in latin)- my own latin invention for
the opposite of the heresy of Mariolatry (Mary worship). Menno Simmons actually taught
(arguably, as there is only one source) that Jesus was born through Mary’s side (How Buddha
was born), and not in the natural way, and that Jesus wasn’t actually any part of Mary, this is a
strange heretical mix of Buddhism with a special medieval protestant twist of hatred to women
(see John Knox) in that they are inherently dirty and unclean, and that no saviour could pass
through their _____. (Gen 3:15, 1 Jn 3:8)
-Priesthood of all believers/Congregationalism/idiots leading the church – I think one of the greatest heresies, that there should be no Church authorities. This is the reason why you have 50 year old car salesmen as elders of a church deciding on matters of theology when in some cases they don’t even have a high school diploma, let alone any formal training in theology. If the Israelites were Mennonites they would’ve killed Moses, picked a new leader, killed him, ad infinitum, and Christ would never have come – barring he didn’t pick the Irish or Egyptians or some other group to be his people.
-Antisophism : another word I just made up Sophia being greek for wisdom, mennonites being against it. When I was taking philosophy, my grandmother advised me not to ‘seek after the vain knowledge that SOME would call wisdom’ – I realized that once I did learn philosophy, I understood that all the Mennonite premises were logically faulty and thus realized why they hate intellectuals, because they have none themselves (barring John Howard Yoder).
Now that I just burned all of my bridges with Mennonite friends and family, I will take a time to catch my breath, watch the show, and heat my hands on their fire.
Sorry to everyone who read this and was offended/Sorry to everyone, i’m not belittling you, just your logical premises for belief.
ROMA VICTORIA!!!!!!!!
St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Catholic Church, pray for us