Satan's Counterfeit Church - Fulton Sheen

Mgr. Fulton J. Sheen

Communism and the Conscience of the West (1948)

"[Satan] will set up a counterchurch which will be the ape of the [Catholic] Church. . . . It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content."

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The Antichrist will not be so called; otherwise he would have no followers. He will not wear red tights, nor vomit sulphur, nor carry a trident nor wave an arrowed tail as Mephistopheles in Faust. This masquerade has helped the Devil convince men that he does not exist. When no man recognizes, the more power he exercises. God has defined Himself as "I am Who am," and the Devil as "I am who am not."

    Nowhere in Sacred Scripture do we find warrant for the popular myth of the Devil as a buffoon who is dressed like the first "red." Rather is he described as an angel fallen from heaven, as "the Prince of this world," whose business it is to tell us that there is no other world. His logic is simple: if there is no heaven there is no hell; if there is no hell, then there is no sin; if there is no sin, then there is no judge, and if there is no judgment then evil is good and good is evil. But above all these descriptions, Our Lord tells us that he will be so much like Himself that he would deceive even the elect--and certainly no devil ever seen in picture books could deceive even the elect. How will he come in this new age to win followers to his religion?

    The pre-Communist Russian belief is that he will come disguised as the Great Humanitarian; he will talk peace, prosperity and plenty not as means to lead us to God, but as ends in themselves. . . .
    . . . The third temptation in which Satan asked Christ to adore him and all the kingdoms of the world would be His, will become the temptation to have a new religion without a Cross, a liturgy without a world to come, a religion to destroy a religion, or a politics which is a religion--one that renders unto Caesar even the things that are God's.

    In the midst of all his seeming love for humanity and his glib talk of freedom and equality, he will have one great secret which he will tell to no one: he will not believe in God. Because his religion will be brotherhood without the fatherhood of God, he will deceive even the elect. He will set up a counterchurch which will be the ape of the Church, because he, the Devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the Antichrist that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ. . . . 

    . . . But the twentieth century will join the counterchurch because it claims to be infallible when its visible head speaks ex cathedra from Moscow on the subject of economics and politics, and as chief shepherd of world communism. 

(Fulton J. Sheen, Communism and the Conscience of the West [Bobbs-Merril Company, Indianapolis, 1948], pp. 24-25)

My comments: Today, Obama, the Democrats, the Progressives the Liberals and the like have created the New Religion of godless, Secular Humanism. What units the Secular Humanists is that they are against God, His Christ Jesus, His Word, His Covenant and His Commandments.

 It renders to "Caesar" even the things that are God's. It is willing to FORCE Christians to do that which is against their Faith and Conscience. It is the sponsor of the Greatest Holocaust the world has known: The Abortion Murder of more than 57 Million children.

It is the promoter of Homosexuality and Same-sex marriage which are anathema to God. Secular Humanism is a man as "god" Religion where everyone does what is right in their own eyes as long as the STATE approves. And we have an Apostate Church, that pretends to belong to Chrsit, that is in agreement with them.

This Religion of Secular Humanism is the Religion that will usher in the son of Satan, the Beast of Revelation, the Antichrist, and his New World Order, His One World Government/Religion and will receive his "mark" and worship him, DAMNING themselves to an Eternal Hell.