During the Cold War every Catholic country outside the Iron Curtain, except dictatorships and Ireland, had a substantial Communist membership in its legislature. In every historically Catholic country outside of Spain and Ireland, the post-WWII elected Communist Party membership ran as high as 30%.
This fact was taken as a given by everybody in Political Science and the media for over three decades.
I never heard it discussed publicly.
Us Bible Belters took the explanation for granted, as did the equally rabidly anti-Catholic “Intellectuals.” Anti-Catholicism has been accurately described as “the anti-Semitism of the Intellectuals.”
But a Bible Belter can grow up.
The reason historically Catholic countries had huge, blindly obedient populations who went straight from being slaves of the Church to being slaves of the Party was simply because of a concept that only BUGSERS know:
Wordism
Every colony of a Catholic country had an official policy of assimilation, assimilacion, assimilacao. Until Vatican II the official Church policy was to denounce any religious tolerance — except for Jews — in any country on earth.
All that mattered and matters to the Church is whether one is a Catholic or not. Race, nation, all other loyalties officially were denounced by Rome. Jesus said that to follow him you had to “hate your family.”
You were Catholic or you were not. The only treason recognized by the Curia was treason against The Word.
Hence assimilation was official policy in every Catholic country.
Intellectuals assumed that this heavy Communist vote was because of the huge poor population in Catholic countries. They took it for granted that all Catholic countries were poor, exploited, and backward.
On the contrary. France and Northern Italy were historically Catholic and as wealthy as any other developed European country.
Anti-Catholicism simply didn’t explain it. But in this case the bigotry coincided with the prejudices of the academics and the media, so it was not discussed.
The real reason historically Catholic countries had exclusively high Communist votes was Wordism.
Traditional Catholics saw Communism as a different kind of DOCTRINE. When they switched sides, it was natural for them to concentrate on replacing their loyalty to a doctrine with loyalty to another DOCTRINE.
The Party replaced the Pope.
Catholics were and ARE taught that their country or their race means nothing compared to the Only True Institution. That is the loyalty every Catholic is raised with.
In Protestant countries religion is just one aspect of life. There has certainly been plenty of persecution in Protestant countries, but in England, Catholics were condemned more as traitors to King and Country than for purely religious reasons.
You cannot understand history or even today’s politics without Mantra Concepts.
#1 by Simmons on 03/11/2014 - 9:04 am
Both utopian cults who promised utopia sometime in a person’s life cycle, they based their AUTHORITY upon this premise and both lost because this AUTHORITY is so easily brought low.
And we are undermining the utopian cult of anti-racism of its AUTHORITY and it too will fall.
As an aside James Edwards did a whole show exclaiming the point that he is not a “racist.” Would someone ask him how white genocide, our genocide is going to lead to his promised utopia.
#2 by Jason on 03/11/2014 - 9:30 am
I whined for more articles and got them! This will only encouraging more whining. 🙂
Conservatives today talk endlessly of assimilation. There is a talk show host with a big audience in Houston who married a woman from India, and then adopted 2 kids from out of country, one from Ethiopia. He presents himself as a REAL down home conservative. All that matters is assimilating them, right?
#3 by jo3w on 03/12/2014 - 8:11 pm
That conservative thinks his wife and those children will prevent him from being burned at the stake.
Or maybe he is just trying to gain freedom of speech, though I doubt he would use it.
#4 by Mimmy Jarr on 03/11/2014 - 1:03 pm
Cause and effect can more easily be shown when this question is reversed: How does the belief the Christopia (everlasting life through faith in wordism) lead to White genocide?
The answer is very simple: Inasmuch as the only real prospect of outliving one’s individual life is via one’s biological descendants, its displacement by christinsanity is genocide.
#5 by WmWhite on 03/11/2014 - 4:46 pm
Whao … I like it.
But I don’t think I’ll be using it at church this Sunday.
#6 by BGLass on 03/12/2014 - 12:06 pm
u.s. turned communist with the immigration of european wordist, catholics being a main driver, but they often cannot understand their part in what happens, since they are taught they are “traditional and a bulwark against communism.” To ignore “us and our posterity” is Genocide.
The reinterpretation of the constitution (as about ‘equality” etc, as about “doctrines”) like on fox news is only possible by people of wordist mindset.
Wordist seems the line followed by places like OD or TOO. If it’s not the jews, it’s “the enlightenment,” (or other, often protestant-identified THOUGHT movements).
But among, “a people,” these are just THOUGHT movements within a group, because the group is due to their genetics and extended ethnic identification (shared history, language, etc.).
One thing that gets said, is ‘at least the jews are tribal.’ Since they state it upfront. Catholics may be tribal, and acting tribally, but to the extent they are “universalists” (also) they can wind up looking hypocritical, two-faced, treasonous (one way or another–either to their ‘ethnic people’ or to the “doctrine’ they profess, since you can’t have it both ways—-either you are a nationalist, meaning genetics, or you’re not)
#7 by jo3w on 03/12/2014 - 8:07 pm
Wordism offers the opportunity to extend your power beyond racist boundaries.
The idea that only BUGSters are aware of this makes me feel very privileged although I would prefer if it was common knowledge.
#8 by Daniel Genseric on 03/13/2014 - 7:08 pm
You are lucky it’s your birthday soon AND this is your blog, or I’d let you have it.