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St. Patrick Ecumenism


CBN, known as Christian Broadcasting Network was founded by Protestant Pastor Pat Robertson. Over the years the station has veered towards ecumenicalism (interdenominational) and ecumenism (interfaith). Their latest move is bound to please Catholics, as CBN has made a movie event about St. Patrick’s life. It is interesting how Protestants in America celebrate St. Pattie’s Day, when in Ireland, the home of Patricas’ (Patrix, St. Patrick) mission, Protestants refuse to participate in a Catholic holiday and wear the color Orange for William of Orange who defeated the Catholics instead of the traditional green. 

There are many who think it is petty to take a stand against Catholic or even Eastern Orthodox practices. They think we have more ground in common, but in truth Protestant celebration of Catholic feasts is a gateway to compromise and infection that has already lead to Anglican Prayer Beads (Rosaries), Eastern Orthodox Icons, tolerance of saint statues, going to masses, reading Catholic theologians like Augustine of Hippo and Orthodox Saints like Antony of Egypt, and more.  

There is an adage, “give the devil an inch, and he will take a mile.” This is precisely the purpose of ecumenism. The Catholics and Orthodox want us go read their Desert Fathers (heretics) and ponder their theologia, but do not budge an inch of reading our Bible, our theologians like Luther and Zwingli. The would have us contemplate Transubstantiation, but refuse to entertain the Brucerist or Zwinglian view of the The Lord’s Supper! The aim is soft recruitment, to ensnare us who have a pure and simple devotion to Christ () with their cleaver olive branch of ecumenicalism. This is a one way stream of poison from their churches; there is no hope it getting these Romanites and Byzantines to consider our Protestant views. 

St. Patrick’s Day is one of Rome’s cleaver ways of getting Protestants to get comfortable with Catholic Saint Feasts. Its aim is immersion with the hope of conversion, but it is a perversion. The truth is we Protestants have only the Apostles of the Bible and then later theologians of the Reformation who agree with the Apostles (John Calvin is an example of not agreeing with the apostles); all church history between 100 A.D. to 1517 A.D. is the dark ages; the captivity of the gospel, and hiding of Christ behind cathedrals. Patties day is an outreach, a holiday Catholics have successfully gotten Protestants to join. We must beware of these cunning Papist plans and Byzantine beguilery to subvert are simple devotion to Christ (2 Corinthians 11:3-4) and entangle us in man made religion (Mark 7:8).  Amen. 




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