Anti-Catholicism in the nineteenth century was called “The Anti-Semitism of the Intellectuals.” Just as people back then traded insults about Jews in public, all academics had Catholicism as fair game. Like the Jews, the Church asked for it. If you actually look at what the doctrine was back then you can see why. The Curia STLL hasn’t cleared Galileo!
The mistake was not that the Catholic Church, like Jews, had a nasty edge. The problem was that the “intellectuals” really believed THEY didn’t. Even less did the “intellectuals” believe they had a SILLY edge.
So all college grads were expected to make fun of those “painted statues” in Catholic Churches. Real, intellectual Sculpture was the kind we see in the Capitol Building and the Washington Monument and so forth, gray and serious.
As it turns out, the reason that Catholics had those painted statues was because the Catholic Church actually went back to the time when REAL Classical statues were being made and THAT was how they looked. As we all know by now the Intellectuals were assuming that the statues they dug up, the ones with all the paint and marble worn off, were REAL classical statues, while Catholics were just being silly peasants.
It’s a useful intellectual exercise in how someone who worships Mommy Professor can be laughable, but NEVER get laughed at. NOBODY — except me — laughs when he sees those “Classical” Monuments in DC.
When fashionable targets like the Catholic Church get laughed at for still not forgiving Galileo, they get laughed at. When Mommy Professor makes an obvious fool of himself, everybody’s acts like it didn’t happen.
#1 by shari on 03/08/2007 - 1:10 pm
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If they painted that one of Lincoln, it would scare people to death!
#2 by richard on 03/08/2007 - 1:24 pm
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Bob, I’m really interested in how Ashcroft died! At the risk of acting like the kid in the front row sticking his hand in the air and shouting “Please Sir!”…
Please sir!
#3 by Bob on 03/08/2007 - 1:42 pm
John Ashcroft is alive, last I heard.
#4 by shari on 03/08/2007 - 3:30 pm
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Richard, the name is ASHBROOK
#5 by The Man on 03/08/2007 - 6:55 pm
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“When Mommy Professor makes an obvious fool of himself, everybody acts like it didn’t happen.”
Precisely. Everybody but us. We give Mommy Professor no breaks because we know he never gave us a break. When Mommy Professor screws up we get no greater pleasure than exposing that fact. We enjoy rubbing Mommy Professor’s face in the mud because we know that Mommy Professor is a traitor to our race. Mommy Professor is a traitor to NATURE and we know that and any HONEST person, including Mommy Professor, COULD know that if only he or she would be just that: HONEST. But honest, truth is not part of what Mommy Professor represents. Mommy Professor exists for the purpose of destroying our race. Mommy Professor is, therefore, a murderer.
The Man
#6 by mderpelding on 03/08/2007 - 7:53 pm
What I allways have gotten a good laugh at is various books you see about ancient buildings and various theories put forth by archeologists on the construction methods used. The pyramids are a perfect example of this. They allways act like these people were so primitive that they couldn’t have possibly possesed any technology beyond log rollers and brute force. Why this assumption? Maybe because to an egalitarian whites must have been just like brown savages until some reasonable recent time when, all of a sudden, as if by magic they discovered basic mechanical engineering. Probably due to having better indigenous animals and cereal grasses and of course “whiteness”.
I’d be willing to wager that every basic machine and tool we have today was in use by our distant ancestors for a few millenia at least. Of course you won’t find any of them because tools wear out with use.
#7 by Twin Ruler on 03/08/2007 - 7:55 pm
YOu are right about one thing, Bob. However whines about being persecuted usually is a persecutor of others. Projection is a nasty thing. I have always wondered what Jews mean when they use the term “antiSemitism”. They usually sound like the Liberals who whine about antiCommunism, without explaining what Communism is. In order for there to be such a thing as “antiSemitism”, of course, there has to be such a thing as Semitism. Semitism, whether of the Jewish or the Arabic variety, is usually atleast as dangerous as either Russian Communism or Herman Nazism ever were. But, people never talk about Semitism. Definition of Semitism: the beliief that the Jews or the Arabs are better than everyone else and can go do what ever they want to nonSemites. There are two types: Zionism and Islamism. Both Zionism and Islamism, although they usually fight against each other, are detrimental to the Western World. Zionists usually want Americans to serve as cannon fodder in their fight against Islamism.
#8 by Peter on 03/09/2007 - 7:43 am
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Thanks for saying something decent about Holy Mother Church
Back Bay Grouch
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#9 by Mark on 03/09/2007 - 9:49 am
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What statues are you talking about, Bob? The Catholic Church has been sucking up to the protestants ever since Vatican 2 and many if not most Catholic churches don’t even have statues anymore. I believe they did this in the name of ecumenucalism, which is kind of like multiculturalism — you combine the elements of god and villain and hope upon hope that if you scream, “We are all the same under the skin!” long enough the magic pixy dust from St. Peter’s halo will make something impossible possible.
Oh, and as an aside: Are we back to not posting the Mantra again people? Will you PUH LEASE get off WOL long enough to post the damned thing?
Mark
#10 by Bob on 03/10/2007 - 2:25 pm
B.B.G.: You ought to see what I would say about the Methodist “Church” I was raised in. At least Catholics have enough church left to criticize.