The Modern Attack or as I think men will soon have to call it the "Anti-Christ".

Well, give it what name you like, call it as I do here, "The Modern Attack" or as I think men will soon have to call it "Anti-Christ". Hilarie Belloc

It is not the revolt of the oppressed; it is not the rising of the proletariat against capital injustice and cruelty; it is something from without, some evil spirit taking advantage of men's distress and at their anger at unjust conditions.

Now that thing is at out gates.

Ultimately, of course, it is the fruit of the original break-up of Christendom at the Reformation. It began with the denial of central authority, it has ended by telling man he is sufficient to himself. and it has set up everywhere great idols to be worshipped as Gods.

It is not only on the communist side it appears also in the organizations opposed to them; in the races and nations where mere force has been set up in place of God. These also set up idols to which hideous human sacrifice is paid. By these also justice and the right order are denied.

The modern attack is a rising flood.

Before the Church created Christendom, in the realm of morals one thing stands out, the unquestioned prevalence of cruelty in the unbaptized world. Again, Cruelty is the main feature of the modern attack and the revival of slavery the main feature in the social realm. The issue between Catholicism and the complete new pagan thing of The modern attack, that is (the destruction of all tradition, the breaking with our inheritance), is now clearly marked.

There is not, as there was even quite a short time ago, a confused and heterogeneous margin or penumbra which could talk with confidence of itself under the vague title of Christian and speak confidently of some imaginary religion called "Christianity " No! There are today already almost quite distinct and sharing the filed between them, soon to be as markedly exposed as black and white, The Catholic Church on the one side and on the other the opponents of what has hitherto been our civilization.

The ranks have lined up for a battle; and though such clear division does not mean that one or the other antagonist will conquer, it does mean that a plain issue is defined at last; and in plain issues a good cause, like a bad one, has a better chance than in confusion.

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