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April eleven, 2011
Vol. 016, No. 29

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The day the Antichrist is ripped from his papal throne, accurate religion will information the entire world. Or maybe it is the day the previous priest is gutted, and his entrails used to strangle the previous king,Windows 7 64 Bit, as Voltaire demanded. Certainly,Office Home And Student 2010, that’s once we will see finally the reign of brilliant, clear,Windows 7 64 Bit, enlightened reason—the release of mankind in the shadows of medieval superstition. War will finish. The proletariat will awaken from its opiate dream. The oppression of females will quit. And science finally is going to be free of charge from your shackles of Rome.
For almost 500 years now,Office 2007 Ultimate, Catholicism has been an available answer, a mystical key, to that deep, childish,Windows 7 Home Basic, and existentially compelling question: Why aren’t we there yet? Why is progress still unfinished? Why is promise still unfulfilled? Why aren’t we perfect? Why aren’t we changed?
Despite our rejection of the past, the future still hasn’t arrived. Despite our advances, corruption continues. It needs an explanation. It requires a response. And in every modernizing movement—from Protestant Reformers to French Revolutionaries, Communists to Freudians, Temperance Leaguers and suffragettes to biotechnologists and science-fiction futurists—someone in despair eventually stumbles on the answer: We have been thwarted by the Catholic Church.
Or by the Jews, of course. Maybe it is no accident that anti-Semitism should also be making a reappearance these days. The poet Peter Viereck’s famous line—“Catholic-baiting is the anti-Semitism of the liberals”—gets quoted in too many contexts to express the connection anymore, and, God knows, the history of Catholicism has plenty of anti-Semitic sins to expiate. Still, Jews and Catholics do have this much in common: In moments of uncertainty and doubt, the people of the West go harking back again to their old gods and traditional answers—blaming the Jews and the Catholic Church.