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An Open Challenge to Young Traditional Catholics
Tomorrow Christendom ^ | Dom Gerard Calvet, O.S.B.

Posted on 01/11/2005 11:59:47 PM PST by GratianGasparri

We exhort young people, born into this society of audio-visually conditioned robots, to rise up against the reign of untruth. Leave television to its willing slaves; read the masters of your religious and national culture, read your mystics, your thinkers, your poets. Seek after truth, obey it as you would a sovereign, don’t let yourself be closed in by worldly or ecclesiastical conformity. To bind oneself unconditionally to an ideology or a religion, beyond what is just and unjust, is a properly satanic aberration. Totalitarian states that alternate between lies and violence (lies to cover up the violence, and violence to silence those who discover the lies), owe the greater part of their success to having paralyzed the forces of reaction against imposture and lying. This, on the moral plane.

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To: Juana la Loca; GratianGasparri

Thanks for the suggestions!


21 posted on 01/14/2005 8:21:14 AM PST by FourtySeven (47)
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"Additionally, about half the bloggers on lidless-eye are Traditionalists..."

Ha ha ha. Additionally, half the bloggers... what a stupid claim to make.

22 posted on 01/14/2005 7:05:42 PM PST by pascendi (Quicumque vult salvus esse, ante omnia opus est, ut teneat catholicam fidem)
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