The 91-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen, a staunch opponent of Communism, attended the trial of Catholic convert and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong today, according to @frances_hui. Cardinal Zen know that his red robe symbolizes martyrdom, the willingness to die for faith.
If found guilty under the Chinese Communist Party’s national security law, Jimmy, who has already served around 1000 days in prison, could face a life sentence. The charges against him include collusion with foreign forces. His Apple Daily newspaper was forcefully closed by the China-backed government two years ago.
Cardinal Zen played an important role in his conversion to Catholicism.
Pray for Jimmy and retweet this to make people aware of his persecution by the CCP.
“Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” - John Adams
If not anchored in God, and filled with godly leaders, our government and way of life falls apart. Our Founders knew this.
We have forgotten.
The West is self-destructing and the implications are even worse than they initially sound. The world before the West evolved was barbaric—lineages constantly, violently displacing each other. But bloody as that mode was, humanity could plod along like that indefinitely. That is no longer the case.
Suicide of the West will not just return humanity to full time, all consuming barbarism, it will almost certainly end our species in short order. The technology at our disposal is simply too powerful for a world without a basic agreement to prefer peaceful competition over endless war and genocide.
Recognition of this stark but obvious fact, coupled with the dawning recognition that the West is too far gone to save, should radically narrow our focus. Everything depends on our reviving, recreating, resurrecting, rediscovering or reinventing the West—before we forget what it was.
Anything that doesn’t stave off disaster in the present, or contribute to that admittedly daunting objective, is a waste of effort for the foreseeable future.