(LifeSiteNews) — The “No Kings” rallies are taking place again. On Saturday, October 18, more than 2,000 events will be held in every state of the union. Their purpose? To protest President Donald Trump and to allegedly reclaim America as a democracy instead of a monarchy.
The liberal groups sponsoring the rallies are all the usual suspects — the ACLU, MoveOn.org, Human Rights Campaign, and more.
This weekend’s events, one of which will feature Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer, were first held back in June on Trump’s 79th birthday.
Not widely known, though not entirely unpredictable, is the fact that George Soros has given money to fund the protests.
Fox News is reporting that Soros’s Open Society Action Fund has given a two-year grant of $3 million to the “Indivisible” organization, which is involved in organizing communications with the protest’s attendees. Indivisible’s executive co-director is Ezra Levin. His wife, Leah Greenberg, is the other co-director. The group’s website declares: “In America, we don’t do kings.”
But here’s the thing: attendees at these rallies are not interested in protesting kings and defending democracy. In truth, they are more interested in tearing down the United States, Christianity especially.
CrimethInc, which is an international anarchist group, encouraged their supporters in a X post this week to engage in “anti-authoritarian” behavior Saturday in the same way they did during the George Floyd riots in 2020. The group also linked to another of its posts from 2020 titled “Snapshots from the Uprising.” The post glorified violent Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Minnesota at the time and highlighted a police station on fire.
All of the sponsors of these protests are adamant left-wing groups that promote abortion, the LGBT agenda, and other liberal causes. They are the avowed enemies of Christian moral teachings. As such, they are the enemy of the common good.
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“No kings” might be a catchy slogan, but at its core it is a rather sinister phrase.
In the Old Testament, God raised up King Solomon, King David, and others to lead his people. In the New Testament, He sent His only Son, Jesus Christ, to establish the Kingdom of God on earth in opposition to Kingdom of Man. It was Pope Pius XI who in the 1920s wrote about the Church’s teaching on the kingship of Christ.
“It was surely right, then, in view of the common teaching of the sacred books, that the Catholic Church, which is the kingdom of Christ on earth, destined to be spread among all men and all nations, should with every token of veneration salute her Author and Founder in her annual liturgy as King and Lord, and as King of Kings,” His Holiness said.
“The foundation of this power and dignity of Our Lord is rightly indicated by Cyril of Alexandria,” he continued. “‘Christ,’ he says, ‘has dominion over all creatures, a dominion not seized by violence nor usurped, but his by essence and by nature.’”
Pius goes on: “His kingship is founded upon the ineffable hypostatic union. From this it follows not only that Christ is to be adored by angels and men, but that to him as man angels and men are subject, and must recognize his empire; by reason of the hypostatic union Christ has power over all creatures.”
The agitators behind these protests forget all of this. They rebel like the devil did against order, against hierarchy, and against the immutable fact that Christ is King not only over each of them but also over society by natural right.
This isn’t to say that citizens can’t express opposition to Donald Trump’s policies. It is, however, a firm reminder to those who are protesting that they cannot escape the reality that Christ is their King and that they have a duty to submit to Him.
“When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony,” Pius XI taught.
The sooner these persons — and all countries around the world, for that matter — recognize this, the better off we all will be.
