Posted: Jul 12, 2019 4:55 pm
by Leucius Charinus
Cito di Pense wrote:
Stein wrote:Ignorance, amateurism and historical amnesia CAN KILL --

http://on.theatln.tc/dNC1yBt

Stein


Harper's Magazine, 1964, "The paranoid style in American politics"

https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the ... -politics/

. . . It is a notorious fact that the Monarchs of Europe and the Pope of Rome are at this very moment plotting our destruction and threatening the extinction of our political, civil, and religious institutions. We have the best reasons for believing that corruption has found its way into our Executive Chamber, and that our Executive head is tainted with the infectious venom of Catholicism. . . . The Pope has recently sent his ambassador of state to this country on a secret commission, the effect of which is an extraordinary boldness of the Catholic church throughout the United States. . . . These minions of the Pope are boldly insulting our Senators; reprimanding our Statesmen; propagating the adulterous union of Church and State; abusing with foul calumny all governments but Catholic, and spewing out the bitterest execrations on all Protestantism. The Catholics in the United States receive from abroad more than $200,000 annually for the propagation of their creed. Add to this the vast revenues collected here. . . .


[Texas newspaper opinion, 1855]



Constantine to the civilian populace in general c.321 CE:

"At death, people shall have the right to leave property to the Church." (CT: 16.2.4)


"We must not see the fact of usurpation;
law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.
We must make it regarded as authoritative, eternal, and conceal its origin,
if we do not wish that it should soon come to an end."

~ Blaise Pascal, "Pensees"