[J Aguilar]

The Law of Historical Memory was set to reopen the wounds of the Civil War 1936-39. Judge and media star Garzón joined the offensive issuing orders to search for communal graves from that period and seeking to indict General Franco. However, he retracted as historian Pío Moa pointed out that the most prominent post still held by a Franco appointee was the one of the king, and that the whole movement could be considered neither noise to avoid to talk about the crises nor a simple support to the Law of Historical Memory, but an operation whose objective was to undermine the crown.

[J Aguilar]

Ping!

[J Aguilar]

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[vladimir998]

“...tampon states...”

My nomination for strangest phrase on FreeRepublic today.

[Ulysse]

PONG

[marron]

In catholic countries the masons have often been a center for resistance to catholic establishment and catholic faith.

Its different in protestant countries where “anti-clericalism” isn’t an issue, the masons aren’t considered to be particularly anti-anything. Most of the American founding fathers were masons, but they were also deeply religious men. Proper separation of church and state were important concepts but not in the way they are currently undestood; Jefferson was the original church-state separatist and something of a religious skeptic and he authorized regular worship services in the capitol building.

The fact that Zapatero is a Spanish anti-clericalist would mean that its no surprise that he’s a Spanish mason. But his overall assault on Christianity is directly in line with communists everywhere. He’s not just an anti-clericalist, he’s not just a proponent of a proper separation of church and state; he hates Christianity.