When I discovered that our local church, as described in yesterday’s column, had some of the money donated to it being used to destroy Christian missionaries, some of whom we, ourselves supported, I explained what I’d found to others in the congregation. First, I told the minister what was going on, and showed him the newspaper and magazine articles that reported the facts.
The minister said: “I understand your concerns, and I agree with them. It is wrong to give money to organizations whose armed forces are told to kill our missionaries. But, there’s nothing that I can do about it.”
The handful of others with whom I reviewed this made comments that were part of a pattern:
“What they’re doing is not right, but there are a lot of good people in the church.”
“This is wrong, but I have a lot of friends here.”
“God will protect His own.”
I had run into the proverbial brick wall. No one wanted to even write a letter complaining about it to the regional or national headquarters of our denomination. No one minded that by supporting that local church, they were simultaneously giving money both to missionaries and those who were paid to murder them.
Not one Protestant would protest, making Catholicism a great relief.
