Historical errors should be avoided

Does Ramon Casha think he is correct when stating that the Bishop of Gozo launched an attack on the family (June 14)? Have we arrived as far as this? Not from any imaginable distance can Bishop Mario Grech’s teachings on the family be classified as an “attack on the family”. Exactly the contrary! We are having unbelievable statements calling an “attack” what is abundantly and clearly a defence. Obviously a defence agreeing with God’s concept of the family, not with the erroneous teachings of some “wise” people!

I am pretty sure Mr Casha does not run away with the idea that he is astounding us at the very least with what he asserts on “the creation of the universe”. Even before Mr Casha was born, I was very much familiar with such assertions by atheists, naturally not less familiar with very valid answers of the other side destroying all arguments to the contrary. Yes, in such universities as the Gregorian and the Lateran in Rome, where I had world-famous professors on these subjects!

Granted that, as Mr Casha notes, “the big bang was preceded by another universe”! But, then, where had this “other universe” come from? The Romans taught that ex nihilo nihil fit. Very simply and just that!

What astonishes me most is Mr Casha’s “solemn” declaration that religions are feeling that “pretty soon, there will be no need for a god anywhere”! Really? Where did Mr Casha find that religions are “feeling” this? I am most sure religions teach exactly the contrary! And that it is a blasphemy to teach “that there will be no need for a god”!

Mr Casha was historically terribly wrong when he stated that all the gospels were written “by people who were not first-hand witnesses”! No, sir! Very wrong! Matthew and John were “first-hand witnesses” who lived with Jesus and followed him in his mission. I hope, Mr Casha, also if he is not a follower of Jesus, will not venture again to regale us with such unbelievable historical errors!

Does he honestly believe people saying that Jesus could have been “one rebel leader among so many”? I am sure he does not believe this! Cicero once said “Ubinam gentium sumus?”

My father was a teacher. He failed not to warn his children that “a little learning is a dangerous thing”. That “little learning” could be in any sphere! In that particular sphere it will always be most dangerous! What is then terribly bad is that presumptuousness could help it to be disastrous and produce unbelievably bad effects on minds and behaviour. This last paragraph is not made with reference to any particular person among the more than seven billion peopling Mother Earth. I am no judge and absolutely pretend not to be. It would be majestically silly!