HISTORY IS NOT ILLEGAL
Bringing up the bloody history of the Roman Catholic institution can instantly bring up the hue and cry of "anti-catholicism!"; but history, the re-telling of past events, is not illegal or prejudiced, it just a record. We resort to history all the time and we need it. Even patients in a hospital have a case history. The following is an excerpt from Our Comments on Mark Weitzman's speech (the portion in bold is recently added and is the focus of the article that you are now reading)--
The anti-catholic section of this speech presents the Roman Catholic institution as a peaceful little victim suffering the vicious onslaught of "extremists" through the years--NEVER CENSURING HER AGGRESSIONS (not to mention her heresies) THAT SHE HAS MANIFESTED AND INFLICTED ON MULTITUDES AND NATIONS. ALL OF THAT IS DISMISSED, NO, IT HAS NO PLACE HERE. OF HER INQUISITIONS, WE HEAR NOT A CONDEMNING WORD--BUT THIS IS HISTORY. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC INSTITUTION HAS KILLED MULTITUDES OF CHRISTIANS (AND OTHERS) IN HER INQUISITIONS. THE READER MAY WISH TO SEE, Systematic Murder of Believers: The Untold History of the Inquisition BY FORMER ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST RICHARD BENNETT. ROME'S CRIMES ARE HISTORY AND ANYONE WHO POINTS TO THIS FACT IS LABELED "ANTI-CATHOLIC" TO PUT THEM ON THE ROPES AND STIR UP HATRED AND ENMITY TOWARD THEM THAT SHOULD NOT EXIST. IT IS LIKE A REMINDER OF THAT OLD TIME ROMAN CATHOLIC RECUSANCY TO GET PEOPLE TO RISE UP IN VIOLENCE AND MURDER*. SOCIETY DOES NOT SAY TO MURDERERS, "LET BY-GONES BE BY-GONES." NO, THE POLICE ARE GOING TO DIG UP HISTORY TO FIGURE OUT WHO DID THE CRIME--AND MEANWHILE THE MURDERER HIMSELF IS GOING TO TRY TO EVADE DETECTION BY WHATEVER MEANS HE CAN. HISTORY IS NOT ILLEGAL, WE RESORT TO IT ALL THE TIME. WE EVEN HAVE SOMETHING CALLED "HISTORIANS" AND ARE GRATEFUL FOR TRUE AND CAREFUL HISTORIANS THAT PRESERVE FOR US WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN PREVIOUS TIMES SO THAT WE CAN LEARN WHATEVER LESSONS WE NEED TO LEARN.
*[NOTE: IN HIS WORKES, KING JAMES VI & I, (first king of Great Britain and founding monarch of the United States) HAD PLENTY TO SAY ABOUT ROME, HER AGGRESSIONS, AND THE POPE, AND ROMAN CATHOLIC RECUSANCY (THE POPE WOULD RELEASE HIS SUBJECTS FROM FOLLOWING ANY RULER THAT WAS OUT OF THE POPE'S FAVOUR). ROMAN CATHOLICS TRIED TO KILL KING JAMES IN THE GUNPOWDER PLOT OF 1605. THIS EVENT IS REMEMBERED EVERY NOVEMBER ON GUY FAWKES DAY.]How can there be a "Fifth Biennial Conference On Christianity and the Holocaust"
and somebody gives a speech where the Roman Catholic "Church"
is not only NOT blamed for her part BUT IS ACTUALLY DEFENDED??????????
Wait, there is more. While defending a known murderer, the person villianizes a sheep and a lover of the Jewish people?
Who, what, why, when, where, and how is the question.
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