Continued from Authoritarianism versus Totalitarianism

The Vatican Social Order in El Salvador

At the same time that the Roman Catholic System was pretending to be a lamb in the United States, where she was still in the minority, she was acting like a rapacious tiger in El Salvador. At the very time that the Jesuits were unleashing their criticisms of the United States, their church had attained control of El Salvador.

So El Salvador then can serve as an example of a country where a papal Vaticanomy had been achieved. In El Salvador there was no unnatural, capitalistic Protestantism to block the growth of a real papal state where the Pope ruled the majority of the people.

In Central America, for about four centuries, the Roman System ruled like a medieval pre-Reformation feudal lord. Even before El Salvador became a separate country Rome was present as a dominant force. So in El Salvador there was a Roman Catholic System in place; there was a population which was Roman Catholic, there had been ample time to produce a Vaticanomy. So what was El Salvador like as a place to live in, after more than a century of control by the Roman Catholic System?

When one studies the recent history of El Salvador, during the time the Jesuits were castigating the United States for its pagan Protestantism, he is immediately struck by the desperate plight of almost every one in the entire country except the ruling Roman Catholic oligarchy. The majority of the population knew ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT AN EGALITARIAN SOCIETY superior spiritually and materially to Reformation Protestantism.

In the mid 1800’s much of the arable land in El Salvador which had been used by peasants to grow food for their own consumption was expropriated by government decree and consolidated into large farms to grow coffee.¹ To show the extent of this land expropriation fourteen families now controlled most of El Salvador’s land. One can be reasonably assured that NONE of these landowners were Orangemen from Ulster.

The almost complete control of all the arable land in the hands of fourteen families was bound to trigger political unrest and upheaval in spite of the Jesuits’ assurance of a nice Christian Social Order. As the tiny country moved into the twentieth-century conditions, strange as it may seem, WORSENED in this country where a pre-Reformation medieval egalitarian system was in place.

Harald Jung describes the deteriorating conditions of the workers and the peasants in the early part of the twentieth-century.

Between 1880 and 1912, the common lands of the villages in the hilly volcanic regions were for the most part sold to urban middle and upper-class families at giveaway prices, a small portion alone being distributed among the villagers. Since the coffee tree needs five years growth before its first harvest, its cultivation is only possible for persons with a certain amount of capital, and hardly at all for small farmers, for whom the land has to provide their basic foodstuffs…

At first, these big coffee planters maintained the traditional relations of production that existed on the haciendas. The workers received a plot of land on which to cultivate food crops in return for their work for the landowner. (a true microcosm of the medieval feudal system) Since in the coffee growing regions, however, the land left to the workers could be more profitably used for coffee cultivation the colono (worker) system was already replaced by wage labor in the 1920’s. The workers no longer received any land for their own use, but only a primitive hut on the estate.²

Jung proceeds to recount the spiraling downward of the conditions of the workers. As modern technology came to El Salvador it reduced even further the need for the workers. Soon many of them only had seasonal employment on the coffee estates between November and March.

Since the Roman System effectively precluded any kind of family planning, it was not uncommon for a working-class family to have ten or more children. (Even to this day, the average family in El Salvador has seven children.) These children grew up in this supposedly wonderful Pre-Reformation egalitarian Vatican Social Order, without the remotest hope for any kind of employment.

This hopelessness has translated at the present time into the flight of hundreds of thousands from El Salvador to the United States. According to some population statistics there are now more El Salvadorans living legally, and illegally, in Southern California than there are in San Salvador. I cannot explain for my readers why these hundreds of thousands flee from a Jesuit Social Order which is supposed to reflect rustic simplicities and a beautiful way of life, to go to a land which is filled with unnatural hateful and pagan capitalistic monstrosities which have arisen from the Protestant Reformation! Could it be because there is no real freedom at all in a lovely Jesuit Vaticanomy?

To make matters even worse the Cotton Industry also began to be affected by industrialization. Unemployment, in this industry too, and seasonal-only employment at harvest time in this industry too, reduced the opportunities for work even more. As the country moved toward the middle of the twentieth century the numbers of unemployed workers continued to rise.

This resulted in a complete loss of any real bargaining power on the part of the laborers. The land owners could play off one hired laborer against ten unemployed laborers making any sort of negotiations for better conditions or higher wages impossible. If any worker even hinted at agitation for better conditions, or higher wages, he could be fired immediately and there would be ten others waiting to take his place. Because of the society in which they lived they were without any real bargaining power at all.

It is apparent to anyone who studies history that the Roman System is incapable of producing an equitable society where the “church” controls the people. For even where Roman Catholic countries have achieved a fairly good standard of living, it is because most of the Roman Catholics DO NOT follow the teachings of their church, and do follow the capitalistic system which the present pope so loudly decries.

Wherever any poor peasants follow the Roman System’s position on family planning they reach a dead end sooner or later. Stephen Webre writes of the family crisis in El Salvador:

A major obstacle to the achievement of family strength and stability in El Salvador has been the large number (about 50 per cent) of households formed from “free unions” instead of legal marriages. This has particular implications for the position of women in society. In the lower classes where the entire family must function as a productive unit to stay ahead of STARVATION, the needs of the family have forced Salvadoran women to serve as breadwinner as well as mother. Working-class men, repeatedly bested in the uphill struggle to maintain a hovel full of children, often leave home in search of work, or simply out of frustration. Many never return abandoning the families entirely.³ (emphasis added)

Here is a typical writer, on the problems in Roman Catholic countries, speaking of the need to stay ahead of starvation, the abandoning of families by fathers out of frustration, but NEVER MENTIONING the one thing that could help the situation dramatically: FAMILY PLANNING. Apparently it is better to produce children who starve to death, or are cannon fodder for revolutionary movements, than it is to reduce the size of families so that they can be supported in a tottering economy.

There are various ways to deal with surplus populations and Rome has tried them all in El Salvador.

1. When a population gets too big that country can go to war with its neighbor and take over some more land. El Salvador fought with Honduras and tried to over run some of the country that bordered El Salvador.

2. Guerrilla warfare: where excess population can be killed off fighting the government.

3. Massacre. Excess population can be massacred by the dictatorship. Even in economies which are better than El Salvador’s, such as Brazil’s, the street children there are machine-gunned from time to time to clear the streets when dignitaries are coming to town. There are an estimated 40 million street children in Latin America today.

4. The excess population can flee to a Protestant country and get that good economy to support them. Hundreds of thousands of El Salvadorans, and indeed just about every Latin American country has joined in the dumping of excess population into the United States. They all flee from a “Christian Social Order” to come to a pagan Protestant one, if the Jesuits’ estimation of social orders is a correct one.

Islam and Rome are two of the greatest contributors to excess population in the world today. Christian Family Radio may call Islam and Rome, defenders of the family, but then most of the overstuffed, comfortable people who talk such nonsense, have never lived in Haiti or Bangladesh. In such conditions the lot of millions is to live and die in filth, disease, and malnutrition from the cradle to the grave without any hope of anything better.

At the time the riots and massacres were taking place in El Salvador, Tom Tiede commented in his column, which was carried in many papers coast to coast, about the conditions then existing in Haiti.

Eight out of ten people are destitute, nine of ten homes are dilapidated… every other adult in Port-au-Prince is unemployed… Social workers say City Simone may be the worst place of human habitation in the Western Hemisphere… The slum is made up of thousands of windowless huts that are separated primarily by the imagination. “Father” Bohnen says many people also reside in the streets… Everyone and everything lives together, in mutually fostered filth. Part of the filth is engendered by the lack of water. There are no indoor faucets in the slum. Worse, “father” Bohnen points out that the area does not rise much above sea level, and formal toilets are unknown. “People go to the bathroom wherever they can,” the priest says, “and it just piles up.” That’s where the stench comes from, and the bewildering swarms of flies.⁴

I challenge all those against family planning to go and live in the City Simone for even ONE YEAR and then come back and report on how life was! Rome has been entrenched in Haiti for years. Here again one can see what Rome and its medieval state produces. Bangladesh would not be much of an improvement on Haiti. Having traveled and worked in several Third World countries I have seen first hand the sense of hopelessness and despair which are everywhere. A man with ten children and no employment, little or no food, has a hard time doing anything constructive.

In Malawi, the average family ranges from seven to ten. Malawi has no natural resources and no real industrial base at all. So most of the people are unemployed. Many look for work but cannot find any. When a bad harvest comes the entire rural population needs outside help to feed itself. Some border on the verge of starvation, many hover around a state of malnutrition.

We have raised money several times to help feed those who are starving or suffering from malnutrition. Yet few people outside of Malawi seem to care. Overstuffed people who are against family planning are usually turned in on themselves and have no real interest in helping others.

We have personally sought to encourage family planning among those we have worked with, but with very little success. Islam and Rome are both powerful elements in Malawi, and they tend to drown out a voice such as ours.

If conditions continue to worsen then the future looks bleak, not only for Malawi, but for many other countries in the African continent. The writer of the Hot Zone shows the ravages of the Ebola Virus. Epidemics, wars, and famine face Africa in the future unless there is a dramatic reduction in the size of families.

Civil war rages in several African countries as of this writing. In other African countries civil wars have Just ended but the peace is very very fragile. While in Mozambique we were warned that although the civil war had officially ended, there were still armed bands roving the rural areas where we were preaching, and that the authorities had to know exactly where we would be in case they would have to evacuate us on short notice.

The country of Rwanda was bursting at the seams with far too many people to support when the Roman Catholic Hutus began massacring the Tutsis. An estimated 500,000 Tutsis were massacred before the carnage could be stopped. Roman Catholic priests, and at least one high-ranking prelate, have now been implicated in the massacre. One priest fled to France. *

* As of this writing several westerners have been hacked to pieces by Hutu militants on the border of Uganda. A statement issued by the Roman Catholic Hutus stated that they were going to continue to murder Protestant Americans and Englishmen for they were regarded as their enemy.

There was no intervention by NATO or the United States where Rome was doing the massacring. But in Bosnia and Kosovo, where the Vatican wants revenge on Yugoslavia, both NATO and the United States are now up to their ears in intervention making former president Jimmy Carter cry out against such bias and hypocrisy.

In many cases in Africa the only choice that people have is slow death by malnutrition, or quick death by massacre. Not much of a choice, but all that is left to millions in the world today, where the freedom and social order of the Reformation are outlawed or unknown.

Even worse than all the horrible social conditions in Vaticanomies is the spiritual darkness of such countries. People wondered at the hacking and the killing that went on in Rwanda which was called a “Christian” country by the news media, but which in reality was a Roman Catholic country. The greater majority of the population of the Hutus was Roman Catholic.

Rome’s religion of empty “masses” and formal liturgies, and access to God by proxy, never brings hope to any people. It leaves them in the darkness of sin and in complete spiritual bondage.

So in places like Haiti, Rwanda, and El Salvador, it is a case of double horror: unmitigated poverty in this world, and no hope in the next apart from a mythical purgatory. A Jesuit Vaticanomy may be desired by the so-called “Christian” Right in the United States, but it is only a double-barreled horroronomy to those subjugated by it wherever it has been achieved!

References

1. El Salvador, Six Editors, Grove Press, NY, NY, 1982, p. 59.
2. Ibid., p. 67.
3. Ibid., p. 99. 4. Tiede, Tom, Altoona Mirror, March 1,1985, p. A4.

(To be continued.)