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April 11, 2011
Vol. 016, No. 29

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The day the Antichrist is ripped from his papal throne, genuine religion will information the planet. Or possibly it is the day the previous priest is gutted, and his entrails used to strangle the last king,Office Standard 2010 32 Bit, as Voltaire demanded. Sure, that’s once we will see at last the reign of vivid,Microsoft Office Standard 2007 Key, clear,Buy Office 2010 Key, enlightened reason—the release of mankind from the shadows of medieval superstition. War will conclude. The proletariat will awaken from its opiate aspiration. The oppression of ladies will quit. And science at last is going to be no cost in the shackles of Rome.
For almost 500 years now, Catholicism has been an available answer,Windows 7 Home Premium 32 Bit asset accounting.html, a mystical key, to that deep, childish, 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,Office 2007 Standard Key, 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,Office Ultimate 2007, of course. Perhaps 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.