Posted on 07/03/2015 7:54:06 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
My bride and I each year travel to Indianapolis for the Gen Con gaming convention which this year will be held on the last week in July. Indianapolis is a lovely city and we have enjoyed our visits there. Back in 1926 an Indianapolis parish priest, John C. Rager, demonstrated that the core of the Declaration of Independence has its roots in Catholic thought.
It will suffice for our purpose to consult, in detail, but two Catholic churchmen who stand out as leading lights for all time. The one is representative of medieval learning and thought, the other stood on the threshold of the medieval and modern world. They are St. Thomas Aquinas of the thirteenth century and the Blessed Cardinal Robert Bellarmine of the sixteenth century (1542-1621). The following comparisons, clause for clause, of the American Declaration of Independence and of excerpts from the political principles of these noted ecclesiastics, evidence striking similarity and identity of political principle.
Equality of man
Declaration of Independence: All men are created equal; they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.
Bellarmine: All men are equal, not in wisdom or grace, but in the essence and nature of mankind (De Laicis, c.7) There is no reason why among equals one should rule rather than another (ibid.). Let rulers remember that they preside over men who are of the same nature as they themselves. (De Officus Princ. c. 22). Political right is immediately from God and necessarily inherent in the nature of man (De Laicis, c. 6, note 1).
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(fixed that, heh)
LOL, gee, that was so creative.
1776, a date that sticks in the craw of a few Catholic freepers.
“LOL, gee, that was so creative.”
The truth is what it is.
“1776, a date that sticks in the craw of a few Catholic freepers.”
You seem to live in a twilight world.
Congrats. The right answer.
It reminds me of the Cold War era, where the Russians took credit for everything.
Catholic Revisionist History again.....
Mayflower sailed: 1620-21
Passengers: about half were Pilgrims, the makeup of the rest being non-religious commoners who would come under the rule of the Pilgrims
Puritans/Quakers/Congregationalists came later. Baptists: came into being later, first London Confession not written until 1689
Methodists: Their chief architect was John Wesley, born 1703
Declaration of Independence: One Catholic signer, the rest non-Catholic or Deist, no Jews
When I wrote Post #2, “Catholic” was not in the list, or I wouldn’t have written what I did. Someone added “Caholic” later—you are only allowed to add four topics to begin with. So don’t get huffy if someone calls you on this issue.
Inquisition-bred tactics applied, must be
As they weren't subversive Islamists, I highly doubt the Protestants who sacked Maryland had had much experience with the Inquisition. Occam's razor suggests that they were just greedy bastards stealing what they could steal.
As in the Spanish Inquisition, fueled as it was by the riches stolen from America from Ferdinand and Isabella onward.
You are coming off as some kind of commie. The Protestant have-nots are perfectly entitled to wreak havoc on Maryland because the Catholics "didn't build that," and damn those imperialist Spaniards for "stealing" from the Indians!
Shall we go forward as gentlemen?
You can do a continued search at your leisure. Donald S. Lutz, “The Relative Influence of European Writers on Late Eighteenth-Century American Political Thought,” The American Political Science Review.
Good day to you.
The Inquisition covered many other things then, for at leasta couple of centuries. Auto da fe is not OK. Huguenots and Pilgrims were subjects of persecution.
Thanks for your snotty reply. I’ll take it under advisement.
Take a number and get in line.
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