This text is from THE GREAT HERESIES by Belloc, where he described the character of the modern heresy that, having no one heresiarch, has no one name. He prefers the term ‘The Modern Attack’ but says that technically, the correct term is ‘The Anti-Christ’ since the attack is directed to the end of abolishing the Church, and the whole of Western Civilization which she built.
The reader is invited to see if he recognizes anything from our own generation, to which we are all too often blind, that a man writing in 1938 was able to discern so aptly.
The words that follow are his.
Let us examine the Modern Attack — the anti-Christian advance — and distinguish its special nature.
We find, to begin with, that it is at once materialist and superstitious.
There is here a contradiction in reason, but the modern phase, the anti-Christian advance, has abandoned reason. It is concerned with the destruction of the Catholic Church and the civilization preceding therefrom. It is not troubled by apparent contradictions within its own body so long as the general alliance is one for the ending of all that by which we have hitherto lived.
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