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To: vladimir998
Memorial weekend an all, I just now got back to reading some of the comments. At first I thought "the girl" was Colleen Flaherty who wrote the article defending Russum, but in reading it again I found nothing about Catholcism there.

So I guess you were speaking of Grace Lewis's papers Evidence of Discrimination wherin she mention some historical fact about the Roman Catholic church you would rather not hear. However, facts disinterestedly stated do not equal an attack. Daniel Neal's observation still holds true:

It is not to be expected that the most disinterested writer of these affairs should escape the censures of different parties; I thought I had already sufficently expressed my intentions in publishing the History of the Puritans, but because it has been insinuated in a late pamphlet that it looked like a plot against the ecclesiastical constitution, I think it proper to assure the world once for all, that what I have written is with no ill spirit or design against the peace of the Church or nation; that I have no private or party views; no patron, no associates; nor other prospects of reward than the pleasure of setting the English Reformation in a true light, and of beating down some of the fences and enclosures of conscience. Nor can there be any inconvenience in remembering the mistakes of our ancestors, when all the parties concerned are gone off the stage, and their families reconciled by intermarriages; but it may be of some use and benefit to mankind, by enabling them to avoid those rocks on which their forefathers have split. When I am convinced of any mistakes or unfair representations, I shall not be ashamed to retract them before the world, but FACTS are stubborn things, and will not bend to the humours and inclinations of artful and angry men: if these have been disguised or misreported, let them be set right in a decent manner, without the mean surmises of plots and confederacies; and whoever does it shall have mine as well as the thanks of the public.—Preface, The History of the Puritans, Vol. II (1755).>

It would have helped if you had stated which anti-Catholic articles you were speaking about.

17 posted on 05/26/2015 6:15:37 AM PDT by OK Sun (Freedom is not just another word.)
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To: OK Sun

“It would have helped if you had stated which anti-Catholic articles you were speaking about.”

When someone needs help with the completely obvious no amount of help will suffice.


18 posted on 05/26/2015 3:37:21 PM PDT by vladimir998
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