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Fortnight For Freedom: The Catholic Roots of the Declaration of Independence
http://the-american-catholic.com/2015/07/02/fortnight-for-freedom-the-catholic-roots-of-the-declarat ^
| July 2, 2015
| Donald R. McClarey
Posted on 07/03/2015 7:54:06 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: j.argese
.. The most quoted man at the time of the Declaration of Independence was
Montesquieu John Locke.
(fixed that, heh)
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posted on
07/03/2015 2:44:02 PM PDT
by
imardmd1
(Fiat Lux)
To: vladimir998
LOL, gee, that was so creative.
1776, a date that sticks in the craw of a few Catholic freepers.
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posted on
07/03/2015 2:44:09 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(libertarians have always been for gay marriage and polygamy, gay Scout leaders, gay military.)
To: imardmd1
By "run properly," you apparently mean, "steal everything here, burn a bunch of stuff down, outlaw the religion of the people who made this colony, and kill/run-off the Catholics."
To: ansel12
“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.
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posted on
07/03/2015 3:04:04 PM PDT
by
vladimir998
(Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
To: MamaB
Congrats. The right answer.
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posted on
07/03/2015 3:27:05 PM PDT
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: Alex Murphy
It reminds me of the Cold War era, where the Russians took credit for everything.
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posted on
07/03/2015 3:41:27 PM PDT
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: Alex Murphy
Catholic Revisionist History again.....
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posted on
07/03/2015 3:42:54 PM PDT
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: MamaB
My dear MB, just a mid-course correction:
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
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posted on
07/03/2015 3:46:58 PM PDT
by
imardmd1
(Fiat Lux)
To: NKP_Vet
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.
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posted on
07/03/2015 4:07:07 PM PDT
by
imardmd1
(Fiat Lux)
To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
Inquisition-bred tactics applied, must be
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posted on
07/03/2015 4:09:36 PM PDT
by
imardmd1
(Fiat Lux)
To: imardmd1
LOL, that lame Inquisition trope again.
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.
To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
As in the Spanish Inquisition, fueled as it was by the riches stolen from America from Ferdinand and Isabella onward.
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posted on
07/03/2015 5:48:47 PM PDT
by
imardmd1
(Fiat Lux)
To: imardmd1
The Spanish Inquisition was formed to prevent Islam from subverting Spanish society after the Reconquista.
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!
To: imardmd1
So sorry but NO SOUP FOR YOU ...
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2703428?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Montesquieu: 8.3 cites
Locke: A paltry 2.9
A gentlemanly response = gentlemanly debate. Snotty response = snotty reply.
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.
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posted on
07/04/2015 7:33:53 AM PDT
by
j.argese
(/s tags: If you have a mind unnecessary. If you're a cretin it really doesn't matter, does it?)
To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
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.
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posted on
07/04/2015 8:13:21 AM PDT
by
imardmd1
(Fiat Lux)
To: j.argese
Thanks for your snotty reply. I’ll take it under advisement.
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posted on
07/04/2015 8:17:08 AM PDT
by
imardmd1
(Fiat Lux)
To: imardmd1
"Huguenots and Pilgrims were subjects of persecution."Take a number and get in line.
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