Marketing the anti-Christian European Union
CFP ^ | December 31, 2004 | Judi McLeod
 

With polls indicating that increasing numbers of Europeans do not think that the European Union (EU) is a good thing, one wonders how Europe’s largest bureaucracy can thumb its nose at Christianity.

An already one-million strong Christian coalition boosted its membership in November with the Holland murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh.

Even in the face of a secular fait accompli from the EU’s crystal palace in Brussels, Christians are knocking at the door.

At last count, France was still blocking the possibility for any reference to the Christian God in the EU’s constitution preamble.

Why France is blocking the move is a mystery that will have to be unraveled by the Vatican.

Pope John Paul 11, who sanctioned an official Euro for the Vatican, has repeatedly condemned the "moral drift" of secular Brussels. "One does not cut the roots to one’s birthright," he told pilgrims last summer.

In appearance, the Vatican coin looks very much like other Euro coins. But on the flip side of the coin, the image of Pope John Paul 11 faces left.

"By permitting his image on this new coin, John Paul 11 has given another symbolic and powerful stimulus to the European Union, which with the issuance of the Euro, is taking an important step towards the Universal Republic," said Atila Sinke Guimarnes in Daily Catholic.

It’s religion of a different sort on display at EU headquarters, where one of its 679 seats is being kept open. The empty seat just happens to be number 666.

One would think that vacant seat No. 666 alone would provide instant recognition of the EU to the masses. . . . .
 

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