So-called Christians play a significant role
in the world’s effort for peace. With the slogan «Christians unite», they
set out for the bazaar where truth will be sold out.
Once, Christians had faith and were ready to
die for their Faith. Today their zeal for truth has cooled. They have
begun to consider it as something secondary. They find the differences
between churches, for which in former times Martyrs eagerly sacrificed
themselves, the Fathers were exiled, and the faithful mutilated, as
unimportant and unworthy of mention.
Most of them are sickly and incorrigible
sentimentalists who think that the religion of Christ is an ethical system
concerning human relations. Others pursue political purposes and dark
interests. All of them together are building the city of Antichrist. They
seek union, being indifferent to truth; they seek an external
rapprochement, ignoring internal dissensions; they seek the letter,
being indifferent to the spirit.
How is it possible for them to hope that
what failed in the first centuries of the schism shall be accomplished now
that the differences in dogma and mentality have, with the passage of
centuries, widened from breaches to gulfs? …
