Frankly, my dear...
I don’t care how flawed he thinks Jefferson or any other Founder is or was. When he claims that our Founders were flawed, our constitution is flawed, capitalism is flawed, our nation is flawed, etc, etc, etc, he’s taking the same tack as Obama and the godless liberals rewriting history. Sorry, that’s not welcome on FR.
” When he claims that our Founders were flawed, our constitution is flawed, capitalism is flawed, our nation is flawed, etc, etc, etc, he’s taking the same tack as Obama and the godless liberals rewriting history.”
Does it therefore follow that in order to be “welcome” on FR one needs to embrace the theory that the Founders were perfect, that the Constitution (original, with all the amendments, with only some of the amendments) is perfect, that capitalism, or some undefined variant of it, is similarly perfect (the fact that a “capitalistic” medical system forces even veterans onto the dole for care, etc, etc notwithstanding) that “the nation”, be that the meddlesome warrior nation of the post Vietnam era or the national security state we are subject to today, is perfect, etc. etc.?
Right?
Does accepting those precepts mean that one is not rewriting history like the “godless liberals” and is therefore welcome here? I have to tell you that from what I have seen of the writings of my ancestors since arrival at Cape Ann in 1623, none of them would have qualified and they were remarkably clear headed about human nature and the nature of the human social experiment they were engaged in. They were, Mr. Robinson, very, very successful in great measure because they didn’t try to fool themselves.
On a purely personal note, it appears your problem was not with stfassisi, but rather with the writings of Bishop Fulton Sheen. Bishop Sheen was a truly great American, worthy of the respect of every poster here on FR. Certainly he is respected by virtually all the Latin and Orthodox Christians on this site. Attacking him, in all honesty, appears to be an attack on the Catholic Church here in America. If Latin Catholics or Orthodox Christians respect Bishop Sheen and his writings, should they leave this site?