Posted on 09/22/2022 5:40:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber
America’s progressives, led by Bernie Sanders, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, and Joe Biden, have established an agenda and have sanctioned a strategy that harkens back to a much earlier day: the Inquisition that started in the 12th century.
The Inquisition was part of the Catholic church’s effort to identify and punish heresy. Heresy was any opinion contrary to the canons of the Church. Heretics were harshly punished, and their lives were often “cancelled” (terminated). The earliest prosecutions seem to have been against Catholic splinter groups and later spread to Jews, Muslims, and Protestants, although Catholics who dared to deviate from the Church’s dictates were also subject to persecution.
America’s progressives have their own “religion” and impose punishment on heretics as well. The progressives excommunicate, “cancel,” heretics, banning them from jobs and access to the media. The primary targets for the progressive inquisition are citizens who desire limiting government control over their lives; support the Constitution (to include freedom of religion); support law and order, want schools to focus on reading, writing, and arithmetic; or, gasp! voted for Donald Trump. Dissenters from the progressive religion are not labeled heretics since the similarity to the Inquisition would become too obvious. Instead, they are labelled “deplorables,” “destroyers of democracy,” and “semi-fascists.”
Progressives eschew economics: cost-benefit analysis, supply and demand, and opportunity costs are irrelevant to their values and “logic.” Once they determine a policy they like, it matters not how much it costs or how wasteful it is. The Green New Deal and the tuition debt-forgiveness programs are cases in point. Asking if the money might be put to better use will mark the questioner as “selfish.” Progressives raise illogic to a new level.
Progressives are also destroyers of history that they do not like.
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Oh Yeah, man the “Church” was just a buncha wonderful people trying to nudge a few malcontents back in line, right?
Like St. Bartholomews Day. Just a regrettable little incident where unfortunately 20,000 or so French deviationists (we’re called “Huguenots”) were sent off early for their confrontation with the Almighty, right?
And we could go on and on about that, but we did find refuge 4000 miles away in a mostly unpopulated land where we cleared the woods for farms in places like Virginia and the Carolinas, far from the Papal troops. Unfortunately our social success attracted the very same narrow minded table pounding conformists from the Old World, who are now yet again attempting to impose their madness on us.
“state is primary
individual serves the state
the ruling elite get filthy rich
the masses starve
all done in the name of compassion”
Gee, where have we heard this before?
Kinda sounds like....Feudal Europe!
That’s all “Communism” is. The resurgence of The Feud, dressed up as the Dictatorship of the Proletariat...but as usual, dominated by the self selecting few known as the Party Leadership.
Jesus Church...the Catholic Church has fed, clothed, healed, and saved more people than any other entity in the history of the world. There is a reason one out of five people inhabiting this planet are Catholic. You’re 9bviously a Protestant, you are one of over 40,000 different variations of the Bible. Pretty much started a little over 500 years ago by a lunatic who thought that after 1,500 years he had the authority to correct God’s “mistakes”. Good for you and your pompous delusions of granduer.
Whacha doin in Illinois, Oh Son of Rome?
Couldn’t stand to live back in the Papal Paradise of Eastern Europe, or dying Italia?
Had to live in the country us Protestants built, hundreds of years before you got here?
Looking forward to future Inquisitions, burning us heretics at the stake?
That why you’re bringing in your Ork buddies from South of the border, to help out with the massacres?
Sure is a great way to convert people: swear fealty or we burn you.
Isnt it time for all y’all to head home?
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