Were the American, French, and the "Glorious Revolutions" Anti-Catholic? Absolutely. Did the ideology of the American Revolution Create a New Americanist Catholicism? Absolutely. Did these Ideas Produce Vatican II and its New Church? No Doubt.
Of course, the National Catholic Reporter's article soft-peddles the anti-Catholic element of the Revolution and does not speak about the ways in which the Revolution created Americanist Catholicism and how that helped create the Modernist Counterfeit Church that we have had to deal with for the last 60 years. But at least they are thinking!
https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-voices/role-anti-catholicism-framing-american-revolution
Some creepy tech neuvo conservatives just did a YouTube on this. They claimed the revolution was firstly anticatholic
ReplyDeleteAfter the end of the two world wars, called by some authoritative scholars the Second Thirty Years' War (1914-1945), Western Europe found itself entirely under the yoke of the informal US empire, governed according to the dictates of Americanism (a kind of liberalism 'on steroids'). Thus, the US immediately took steps to spread this ideology throughout that portion of Europe that had come under its dominion, just as it had done about 100 years earlier in its South American backyard, destroying the Spanish colonial empire (it was they, in fact—that is, the Americans—who favored the Masonic and liberal revolutions in Latin America, thus achieving the result of ridding themselves of a troublesome reactionary European power). And they did this to 'anthropologically' equalize the dominated European peoples with the dominant American one, in order to better dominate and control the former. Not even the Church was spared this process of… liberal equalization, being Americanized with CVII (religious freedom is, after all, one of the fundamental cornerstones of the American constitutional political system). Nor could it be otherwise: the Church may be universal, but the Vatican is in Western Europe, which for 80 years has gravitated toward the American sphere of influence.
ReplyDeleteThis last point in particular is the proverbial elephant in the room (to use an Americanism), that is, the problem that all Italian Catholic "traditionalists" seem to want to ignore, despite the evidence. But it shouldn't be surprising: who knows how many infiltrators there are in our midst in the pay of our overseas overlords, notoriously so pragmatic and resourceful!
Liberty,Equality Fraternity did not apply to the hundreds of thousands of catholics that were slaughtered especially in the Vendee.
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