April 15, 2008
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04/14/08 - The Sacramento Bee Suppresses A Reader’s Comment On Immigration And Race On Public Education
A Reader Questions Use Of “Treason” For Religious Leaders’ Pro-Immigration Stance; Peter Brimelow Replies
From: Name Withheld (e-mail
him)
Re: Joe Guzzardi’s Column:
Easter Question: Which Church Is The Top Treason
Lobbyist
Regarding Guzzardi’s column about the
Roman Catholic,
Lutheran and
Methodist attitudes toward illegal immigration, I
agree with his basic facts.
I strongly object, however, to the word “treason”
in his article’s title as it applies to religious
leaders.
Stupid—yes; misguided—yes. But “treason”
implies knowingly and deliberately engaging with evil
intent. Christ never promised us perfect clergy, only
that the
gates of hell would not prevail.
Remember when Napoleon told
Cardinal Consalvi that he would
destroy the Catholic Church? Consalvi
asked in response how Napoleon could succeed when
the clergy itself had already failed.
Look at the record of the Anglican Church for the
past 500+ years. There remains an amazing pocket of
great faith practicing within a body of bureaucratic
Erastians.
Peter Brimelow replies:
I usually
explain that we merely
use “treason” to describe immigration enthusiasm
in the same warm, joshing sense that immigration
enthusiasts use
“racist”, “xenophobe “nativist”,
etc. to describe patriotic immigration reformers.
But since our reader asks, yes, I do think that some
religious leaders have evil intent.
