“The Australian Catholic University will reimburse attenders of a graduation ceremony where Joe de Bruyn sparked a walkout with a speech denouncing abortion and same-sex marriage, as the university also revealed it had urged the former union chief to reconsider his remarks before he delivered them. De Bruyn’s address, delivered on Monday evening, prompted major backlash after he compared abortion to the “human toll of world war two” and alleged same-sex marriage went against “every society on earth”. The vice-chancellor of the ACU, Prof Zlatko Skrbis, wrote to staff on Tuesday afternoon confirming the university was aware of the contents of the address ahead of time and had allowed the speech to go ahead despite “strongly encouraging” De Bruyn to reconsider his remarks.”

Jesus made it crystal clear that there would be those who will turn on him, and turn on God. They would be ashamed to even side with Christ and his teachings, and they would disqualify themselves from any claims to being his real disciples.

He spoke about this often, and all four gospels give us warnings about this. Consider just these four passages:

Matthew 10:32-33 Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven.

Mark 8:38 If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.

Luke 9:26 Whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

John 5:22-24 Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him. I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.

As these explicit and sober warnings indicate, there is such a thing as apostasy, rejecting Christ, and being ashamed of his words. It happens all the time. We of course see non-Christians doing this routinely, but perhaps worse yet, many folks calling themselves “Christians” are also doing it.

Indeed, during the past week I have written a number of articles on some pretty nasty examples of this Christ-rejection. The three cases that have really stood out were these:

-The pagan Kamala Harris refusing to attend a long-standing Catholic charity event, and telling two young Christians to get out of her rally (while Vance welcomed and affirmed similar folks at his rally): https://billmuehlenberg.com/2024/10/20/christophobe-kamala/

-The shocking move to have Christian students at a Christian school not be allowed to wear Christian crosses so as not to offend others! https://billmuehlenberg.com/2024/10/21/mlc-christian-schools-dishing-on-christianity/

-The appalling staff and student walkout at a Catholic university when a Catholic speaker simply reiterated basic Catholic social teaching: https://billmuehlenberg.com/2024/10/22/just-who-is-hating-on-christianity/

These recent cases of Christ-denialism and Christ-rejection are just the tip of the iceberg. As stated, we expect the misotheists and angry atheists to carry on like this, but more and more we are seeing “Christians” doing just the same. Be it “Christian” churches or denominations or institutions or schools or leaders or pastors, big time apostasy is all around us.

But it is that last episode that I wish to further speak to, with some really bizarre updates to the story. I refer to Catholic conservative Joe de Bruyn who gave some standard Catholic teaching at the Australian Catholic University, only to have many (most) in the audience rudely and immaturely walk out on him!

But it is what the big cheeses at the ACU did next which should really shock you.

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