Spanish Republic: Attempts to Deny the Anti-Church Genocide

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Spanish Republic: Attempts to Deny the Anti-Church Genocide

gloria.tv | January 3, 2025

The hatred of the Spanish Popular Front (Communists) against the Church in 1936 went so far as to regularly desecrate the tombs in churches and cathedrals, even posing with the corpses, writes Juan Manuel de Prada in Abc.es (30 December).

After ten years of "hard work", four "political scientists" have produced a forty-page (sic) study in which they claim that the massacres of priests, nuns and religious during the Spanish Civil War were not motivated by hatred but had a "strategic character".

The left has 'explained' the massacres as the work of people who were 'out of control' or who 'disobeyed' the orders of the [Communist] authorities.

De Prada exposes this as a "completely implausible thesis" and writes that "delirious studies are being promoted [by the heirs of the genocidaires] in an attempt to justify these crimes.

In order to avoid the characterisation of the Left as an organisation gangrenous with a blistering hatred, these apologists claim that the violence against the Church was "neither blind nor indiscriminate, but rather obeyed political calculations" and sought to "prevent the formation of a resistance" against the Spanish Republic.

In other words, in order to deny that the massacres were dictated by hatred, they defend the existence of a calculated plan to destroy a "dangerous" group.

In their attempt to deny a hate crime, they acknowledge the existence of a "calculated genocide" directed against "figures with the capacity to mobilise, which points to the strategic nature of the violence".

De Prada recalls that in those unhappy years 13 bishops, 4,184 priests, 2,365 religious and 283 women were murdered. In the Spanish Civil War, however, Church hierarchs and novices, barely out of their teens and with no 'mobilisation capacity', were killed indiscriminately.

Juan Manuel de Prada had the opportunity to study the 'anti-clerical violence' of the Civil War while writing the biography of the Catalan writer Ana María Martínez Sagi (+2000).

Martínez Sagi came from a good family but ended up embracing the murderous anarchist ideology and demonic rage against the Catholic faith, which she exposes in many bile-filled articles.

De Prada offers some quotations published in Nuevo Aragón on 12 May 1937:

"It would be necessary, out of dignity and ethics, to wage a campaign against those who have unjustly adopted the attitude of mourning beggars, of tortured outcasts, of victims and martyrs, persecuted by misfortune and calamity.

"The Catholic religion, with its justifications for sacrifice, resignation and renunciation, with its anathemas against joy, material enjoyment, against the pursuit of glory and triumph, with its lurid legends and the martyrology of its thousands of saints, has succeeded in darkening the spirit and the life of the majority of mortals".

"Let us fiercely persecute all those who, systematically and with malicious intent, seek to destroy our faith in the destiny of humanity, our faith in ourselves and in the results of our efforts and our work".

"Let all our anger, all our hatred fall on them".

Unsurprisingly, all this is hushed up in the disinformation encyclopaedia Wikipedia.

Such a criminal appetite would lead organisations 'in the service of the Republic' to incite their followers to commit all kinds of crimes in order to eradicate the Church.

In the regime's press of the time, calls for murder, destruction and religious devastation were constant.

De Prada cites as an example an editorial published in Solidaridad Obrera on 18 October 1936:

"It is necessary to destroy. All the old dogmas must be reduced to ashes. And on the ashes of so much barbarism, raise the monument of freedom. Without hesitation, with blood and fire".

"Not only must not a single beetle be left standing, but we must uproot every germ it has hatched. We must destroy! Their world and ours are incompatible, they do not fit into one, they drown. So let them die, for they represent barbarism, uncivilisation and, what is worse, a constant danger to our existence".

De Prada concludes that the persecution of Catholics was not about "rendering leaderless" an enemy organisation.

He quotes Chesterton, who spoke of a "halo of hatred" which opposes the Church of God from the outside.

"And now they [= the Left] are trying to disguise that halo of hatred academically, to justify it vomitously as a necessary 'strategy'," he writes.