Thursday, May 5, 2005

Archbishop Chaput on Crusades

In anticipation of the release of Kingdom of Heaven this Friday...



From Catholic News Agency:



"In light of Friday's release of Ridley Scott's new film about the Crusades, Kingdom of Heaven, Denver's Archbishop Charles Chaput is challenging Christians to reclaim their lost memories.



In his weekly column, the Archbishop chided the loss of Christian identity and history from the American and European culture, and noted the new film, which, as the New York Times puts it, portrays Muslims as "bent on coexistence until Christian extremists ruin everything."



He said that, "By influencing our choices here and now, memory encourages a certain shape to the future--and discourages others. That's why every new ideology and generation of social engineers seeks to rewrite the past. Whoever controls the memory of a culture also has power over its future."



He added that Christians have a duty to prevent the loss of

the real facts of history and thereby prevent God being

scrubbed out of America's future"

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