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In the world, you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.

John 16: 33

A thousand Easters ago, the world was in darkness. The Roman power which sustained civilization for a millennium had fallen to corruption, decadence, and invasion as barbarians rode the land. And yet all across the European continent, Christian monks preserved the lights of civilization by studying, restoring, then upgrading ancient knowledge. The Benedictines, for instance, reorganized agriculture to the point of feeding — thus saving — Europe. But none were more impactful than the Irish monks.

They left their windswept island to establish monasteries all over Britain and Europe, preaching, teaching, and ministering to the local populations. From these came universities and scholarship, then arts and science, then mercantilism, then city states, then nations, that upheld the Cross and carried it across the ocean to build a New World. While becoming strong enough to defeat all enemies from without and, for a while, within.

Four times over a thousand years did Christian fighters defeat and repel massive Muslim forces bent on conquest — at Tours (732), Granada (1492), Lepanto (1571), and Vienna (1683). Eventually they encountered a more insidious internal foe — the Age of Enlightenment, which early spawned great thinkers like Locke, Voltaire, and Kant, later bloodthirsty anticlerical fanatics like Robespierre, Danton, and Marat. These targeted the Catholic Church in France, killing somewhere between 2,000 and 3,00 clergy. Until an unlikely champion of Christianity put an end to the carnage.

Napoleon Bonaparte restored Catholicism as France’s state religion, reversing the French Revolution’s anti-Christian stance. Of course, he did this for a practical reason — to unify the country under his rule, But the religious massacres stopped, the clergy resumed their holy work, and the Church thrived well into the 20th century. When another anti-Christian reign of terror took place, the Red Terror, this time west of France in Spain, during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).

The Republican side murdered close to 7,000 clergy there, according to Grok, including 13 bishops, 4,172 priests, 2,364 monks, and 282 nuns. Many of them died rather than renounce their faith, enraging their assassins even more. American Spectator author Itxu Diaz cites the horror in his poetic new article, Looking Back to Where the Sky Silences Us. “My grandfather, a military medic corporal, had to leave, or the madness of war would kill him, as back then, the murderous left would kill you for stepping into a church or wearing a medal or crucifix.” Some were executed in public spectacles.

From the chaos, a new Christian warrior arose, just as brutal as the opposition though a defender of the clergy. General Francisco Franco led the Nationalists to a bloody victory, killing (some estimate) as many as 150,000 men and crushing the homicidal secular forces. As the postwar ruler of Spain, Franco elevated Catholicism as the core of the Spanish identity. Last Palm Sunday weekend in Sevilla saw some beautiful demonstrations of the Faith.

But during the Spanish Civil War, amidst the murderous Republicans, lurked a new enemy of Christianity that would menace it to this day — the Communists. It took a triumvirate of great conservative Christian leaders to deal them a historic blow 40 years ago. Protestants Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (her father was a preacher), and the Catholic Holy Father himself, Pope John Paul II, together brought down the seat of Communism, the Evil Empire, the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, its anti-Christian cancer had already spread.

To China, which horrible American leadership in both parties — beginning with the weakling George H. Bush — allowed to become a military-economic-cultural threat. To academia, where universities and lower schools marinate in leftist propaganda. To media, where until very recently the majority of sources condemned and censored conservatives. To Hollywoke, trapped in an ungodly fantasy bubble where women can beat up men and men can get pregnant. And to one major political party that embraces all of the above.

Nominal Catholic Democratic leaders Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi didn’t stop at worshipping child murder and loathing Christianity as an impediment to their statist power. They victimized believers. Biden’s FBI formally targeted traditional Catholics in official orders, raided their homes with pointed guns, and tried to force Catholic ER doctors to perform abortions. But as happened before in history, a champion emerged to stop them — President Donald Trump.

Easter, the Second Time Around

For the second time. The first time, the Supreme Court justices Trump appointed threw out the abortion-codifying blight that was Roe v. Wade. But a bullet to the head thwarted by Divine Intervention has since made Trump the ultimate defender of Christianity. And this Easter, he intends to prove it, with the help of his newly created White House Faith Office. Sunday night, Trump posted an inspiring Easter message, the kind no liberal leader ever would or could:

 This Holy Week, Christians around the World remember the Crucifixion of God’s Only Begotten Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ and on Easter Sunday, we celebrate His Glorious Resurrection and proclaim, as Christians have done for nearly 2,000 years, “HE IS RISEN!

Such a reverential message from the President will act like a crucifix on the already dissolving socialist vampires around the world, especially the Democrats here in America

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