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To: bornacatholic; wideawake
Wow. Strange. So how did idolatry of European civilization get started in a Third World country like Brazil?

It's also unusual to see a far right wing organization that blatantly supports the rich against the poor. Most far right movements are "populist" and tend to blame the revolution on rich conspirators.

The tailoring of the racialist message to each country is another example of "palaeoconservative" relativism and rejection of universals.

36 posted on 05/02/2006 8:45:22 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Lo' `aleykha hamela'khah ligmor, 'aval lo' 'attah ben chorin lehibbatel mimennah.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

agreed


38 posted on 05/02/2006 8:48:52 AM PDT by bornacatholic
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Two commandments defend the right to private property, for your information. Does that amount to class-struggle, rich against poor, as you suggest? Land reform according to Catholic doctrine is wrong.


39 posted on 05/02/2006 8:49:31 AM PDT by concernedAmerican1 (millstones solve scandals)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
So how did idolatry of European civilization get started in a Third World country like Brazil?

In the early 1800s a large portion of the Portuguese aristocracy fled Portugal in the face of the conquering Napoleonic armies.

The heir to the Portuguese throne officially moved the seat of the Portuguese monarchy to the colonial capital of Rio de Janeiro and proclaimed himself Emperor of Brazil.

He and his associates and relatives recreated an Old World style court and aristocracy in the New World and it had a profound cultural impact on Brazilian society - add to the royalty and aristocracy the fact that 75% of the Brazilian population lived according to the manorial system of tenant farmers and actual serfs and you have the society of medieval Europe replicated in miniature in 1820s Brazil.

It's also unusual to see a far right wing organization that blatantly supports the rich against the poor.

It's more complex than that - a TFPer will have greater respect for a cultured layabout who scrounges off friends and associates as long as he goes to Mass and can document his family connection to the Habsburgs than they will for a wealthy Catholic who built a multimillion dollar fortune in plumbing supply.

47 posted on 05/02/2006 9:23:54 AM PDT by wideawake
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