[imardmd1]

From the article "Travel Notes": This is why the Chinese experience leaves an indelible mark on every visitor who suddenly finds himself living in a world he has dreamed of, in a society of men committed to joyfully freeing man, driven by faith in man. (My bolding)

What kind of drivel is this? A purportedly "Christian" archetype having faith in . . . man? I guess it must come from the proverbial Romanist's centuries-long romance with the state as its seamlessly united religious organ for subjugation of the masses, and slaughter of any freedom-loving soul who differs with the state-church-citizenship-by-infant-baptism paradigm.

[ebb tide]

What kind of drivel is this? A purportedly "Christian" archetype having faith in . . . man?

Pope Francis says ‘God cannot be God without man’.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Bishop Sorondo's account of China is truly drivel: I would say "humanist drivel," except it's not even humanist: let's call it sub-humanist, useful-idiot drivel, on a level with the NYT Walter Duranty's Utopian Stalinism.

Your account of the "proverbial Romanist's centuries-long romance with the state as its seamlessly united religious organ for subjugation of the masses," lacks quite a bit.

Keep in mind that the Reformation was a movement of kings and princes coinciding with the birth of nationalism (from King Henry VIII's 1534 Act of Supremacy, to theocratic Geneva in 1542, to Luther's Augsberg landgreave allies in 1555, to the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia)-- each Protestant princeling having his very own state church.

Cuius regio, eius religio, you know.