Yep. I hadn’t read that before, but I think it right. And it explains the incredibly unbridled expressions of hatred for the Gospel. It ends up being a sadistic and arbitrarily aristotratic view of the Universe and of God. “We are the chosen of God, and our call and privilege is to denounce the ‘lost,’ and to kill them where we are permitted to.”
Belloc is well known for rejecting the parliamentary form of governance and proposing instead distributism which I believe is not quite theocratic and not quite socialism but clearly anti-capitalism. Distributism is a return to a medieval economy. It rests on the principle of subsidiarity which raises anew Pope Benedict's last encyclical.
Personally, I believe the issues should be aired but that it should be a philosophical/political/theological discussion on a new thread, something that would attract a lot of posters who are not interested in the same old debate points. Truly, it would make for a great ecumenical discussion.
If you'd care to repost it that way, dear stfassisi, I'd love to follow along!