Tuesday, March 31, 2015

The Pope used to Hate America

Did you know that Roman Catholics named a heresy after the USA? It's called Americanism.
The Americanist heresy is characterized as an insistence upon individual initiative which the Vatican judged to be incompatible with what was considered to be a fundamental principle of Catholicism: obedience to authority. Moreover, the continental conservatives were anti-republicans who distrusted and disliked the democratic ideas that were dominant in America.
Let's identify a few teachings of Rome that are contrary to the ideas articulated by the Founding Fathers. From the Syllabus of Errors (1864), a list of condemned beliefs:
18. Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church.
24. The Church has not the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power, direct or indirect.
44. The civil authority may interfere in matters relating to religion, morality and spiritual government: hence, it can pass judgment on the instructions issued for the guidance of consciences, conformably with their mission, by the pastors of the Church. Further, it has the right to make enactments regarding the administration of the divine sacraments, and the dispositions necessary for receiving them.
48. Catholics may approve of the system of educating youth unconnected with Catholic faith and the power of the Church, and which regards the knowledge of merely natural things, and only, or at least primarily, the ends of earthly social life.
54. Kings and princes are not only exempt from the jurisdiction of the Church, but are superior to the Church in deciding questions of jurisdiction.
55. The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.
67. By the law of nature, the marriage tie is not indissoluble, and in many cases divorce properly so called may be decreed by the civil authority.
77. In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship.
78. Hence it has been wisely decided by law, in some Catholic countries, that persons coming to reside therein shall enjoy the public exercise of their own peculiar worship.
80. The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.
 The American government, and similar types of governments, were founded in opposition to these ideas.

To be specific, the Roman Catholic church has condemned religious liberty (77), legal worship by non-Catholics (78), non-Catholic state education (48), and many other things. There are many more issues, but these serve as good examples.

Modern America is in conflict with Islam. Old America was in a similar conflict with Rome.

Islam doesn't support religious liberty, non-Muslim state eduction, et cetera. Reconciling Islam with any mainstream, modern American political ideology is impossible. You must either gut Islam, removing many of it's teachings, or you must gut liberal democracy.

Roman Catholicism faced a similar choice in the past 100 years. It chose to adopt the American view of church-state relations, and contradict it's previous teachings.

From Dignitatis Humanae (1965):
This Vatican Council declares that the human person has a right to religious freedom. This freedom means that all men are to be immune from coercion on the part of individuals or of social groups and of any human power, in such wise that no one is to be forced to act in a manner contrary to his own beliefs
 ...
It follows that a wrong is done when government imposes upon its people, by force or fear or other means, the profession or repudiation of any religion, or when it hinders men from joining or leaving a religious community.
 It should be noted that this "immunity from coercion" doesn't apply to racists, sexists, or various other types of groups that disagree with the Progressive religion.

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