“Jesuitical Romanism” - Are you channeling certain characters on here?? :-P”
Well...its at least Jesuitical (Now remember, P, I have a dear cousin who’s one of those guys). It is a dangerous piece though because the notions it expands upon are dangerous. On a number of occasions here I and other Orthodox posters have commented that the West has a problem dealing with the reality of Evil. The lunacy and incompetence shown by Western governments, first and foremost by our own George Bush and his TROP comment, in their failure to take seriously and then deal with the demonic death cult of Mohammedanism in our own countries let alone out in the Mohammedan world, is the best example I can think of of this, but our societal reactions to crazed gunmen in shopping malls demonstrate the same thing. And that failure may mean the end of our civilization, at least in the form we know it. What the Latin Church has taught and teaches means there’s always a way to explain away or avoid “evil”. The truth is, the Evil One is far more cunning than we are and there is no way to avoid or nuance or explain away that “Evil”. But the West doesn’t believe that. The West contents itself with word games and philosophical constructs it learned from my pagan ancestors.
You are right, but it has no origin in the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. It has its origin in the Renaissance.