tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18853193.post115629857897521078..comments2024-03-23T05:16:23.443-05:00Comments on The Lair of the Catholic Cavemen: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18853193.post-1156438442026468932006-08-24T11:54:00.000-05:002006-08-24T11:54:00.000-05:00FD:...it could be argued that Western Civilization...FD:<BR/><I>...it could be argued that Western Civilization has been in self-destruct mode since the Russian Revolution, World War I, the French Revolution, or the "Reformation."</I><BR/><BR/>I would contend that Western, Christian Civilisation -- that once encompassed all of Europe -- has been in a self-destruct mode since the Eastern Schism, which was the first, direct attack on Christian unity via an attack on the authority of the Pope.<BR/><BR/>This break in unity has not been resolved as of today.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Pax tecumGeoffrey Gilberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04892413353061949813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18853193.post-1156396697176403702006-08-24T00:18:00.000-05:002006-08-24T00:18:00.000-05:00just an add on to that, as I have blogged on befor...just an add on to that, as I have blogged on before it was the pill that made this possible, took the culture of death away from being the sole domain of tyrants ala-Stalin and athiest philosophers and such and put it into the palm of the average person's hand.Fidei Defensorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02236784399852253136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18853193.post-1156396627739677532006-08-24T00:17:00.000-05:002006-08-24T00:17:00.000-05:00Paul, I see what you mean, it could be argued that...Paul, I see what you mean, it could be argued that Western Civilization has been in self-destruct mode since the Russian Revolution, World War I, the French Revolution, or the "Reformation." I mostly said the 60's because that was when the culture-of death/anti-religion style views that were often fashionable among "elites" since atleast the age of enlightenment went mainstream and started infecting the common people.Fidei Defensorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02236784399852253136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18853193.post-1156365032850453002006-08-23T15:30:00.000-05:002006-08-23T15:30:00.000-05:00If you want to have good relations with the Irania...<I>If you want to have good relations with the Iranian people in the future, ... you should bow and surrender to the might of the Iranian people. If you do not accept this, <B>the Iranian people will force you to bow and surrender</B>.</I><BR/><BR/>Hey, I'm in! Anyone else in for letting them have a go at that?A. Carlton Sallethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12148098140179677121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18853193.post-1156350847290833292006-08-23T11:34:00.000-05:002006-08-23T11:34:00.000-05:00Much longer than since the 60s, FD.Much longer than since the 60s, FD.Sir Galen of Bristolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249011691189216258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18853193.post-1156333974136161122006-08-23T06:52:00.000-05:002006-08-23T06:52:00.000-05:00If you want to have good relations with the Irania...<I>If you want to have good relations with the Iranian people in the future, you should acknowledge the right and the might of the Iranian people, and you should bow and surrender to the might of the Iranian people. If you do not accept this, the Iranian people will force you to bow and surrender.</I><BR/><BR/>My first question is "Who owns MEMRI TV?" This looks like an obvious propaganda ploy. I'm not buying it, for the moment.<BR/><BR/><BR/><I>The sad thing is, I can see most Europeans and almost all American Democrats pissing their pants over this clown's threats. The ghost of Neville Chamberlain is alive and well and residing in the halls of the EU and the DNC.</I><BR/><BR/>The thing is, Mr. Ahmadinejad is in no position to make any threats over which one should piss one's pants -- even <I>if</I> he had a nuke and were crazy enough to use it.<BR/><BR/><BR/><I>In the article itself, Abracadaberaejad throws around the word "Zionist" a lot. Don't let him sidetrack you...</I><BR/><BR/>I dont think that thinking readers get side-tracked by Mr. Ahmadinejad's pointing the finger. His methods may be crude, but he is, essentially, right about Zionism.<BR/><BR/>That is our political "blind spot": we refuse to consider the fact that our unquestioned support of Israel may be wrong.<BR/><BR/>Mr. Ahmadinejad is, however, wrong to think that we -- as Catholics -- are on his side.<BR/><BR/><BR/><I>Israel could cease to exist tomorrow, and every Jew on the face of the earth could die.</I><BR/><BR/>Not our problem. (See St. Matthew XXVII:25.)<BR/><BR/><BR/><I>This maniac would still love nothing more than to see Catholicism and the rest of Western Civilization totally eradicated.</I><BR/><BR/>If true, this is definitely our problem.<BR/><BR/>However, we of the West are incapable of meeting the challenge properly because of the fact that our people have generally apostacised, become heretics or schismatics. A quote:<BR/><BR/><I>"...in the major thing of all, Religion, we have fallen back and Islam has in the main preserved its soul. Modern Europe and particularly western Europe has progressively lost its religion, and especially that united religious doctrine permeating the whole community, which unity gives spiritual strength to that community."</I><BR/>--Hilaire Belloc, _The_Crusades_, p. 248<BR/><BR/>Absent religious uniformity on our part, we will remain divided and leaderless in our efforts to preserve what is left of our culture and civilisation. The West will fail without a return to the Faith.<BR/><BR/><BR/><I>Oh, and it wouldn't bother him one bit if all of our children had their throats cut.</I><BR/><BR/>Did he actually say this?<BR/><BR/><BR/><I>Like I've said many a time before, history will prove me out that this is exactly what Islam has been striving for for 1,400 years.</I><BR/><BR/>Luckily (for us), the Mohammedan world suffers from the same political disunity that we do.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Semper fidelisGeoffrey Gilberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04892413353061949813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18853193.post-1156319344962560702006-08-23T02:49:00.000-05:002006-08-23T02:49:00.000-05:00"Oh, and it wouldn't bother him one bit if all of ..."Oh, and it wouldn't bother him one bit if all of our children had their throats cut."<BR/><BR/>By terrorist thugs or by our own abortion doctors. The only way western civilization can be defeated is if we stop keeping our guns on the enemey and start shooting ourselves in the foot, sadly we've been doing that since the 1960's.Fidei Defensorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02236784399852253136noreply@blogger.com