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Entry: The Addams Family Chapel Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_addams_family_chapel#11096 Post contents: Adriana: The issue of Original Sin is indeed also a political one. And all political questions are ultimately religious ones. Pelagius’ heretical view is that we don’t need Grace, that man’s a pretty good fellow, and all he needs is moral guidance – all retreaded by the “Endarkenment:, by19th Century Protestant Liberalism, and 20th C Social Gospel, and heterodox Catholic Liberation Theology. Alas, “moral guidance” can come in the form brainwashing and propaganda in schools, loyalty oaths, torchlight parades, censorship, “the big lie”, strip-searching, a midnight knock of the door from the Secret Police, sleep-deprivation, blinding with light, the rack, lynching, waterboarding, Taser-gunning, the Garrote, pulling out toenails, Bastinado, knee-capping, electric shock to the genitals, tanks in the streets of Budapest, the Gulag, the gas chamber, ethnic pogroms and genocide, cutting an opponent to death piece by piece, flying airplanes into buildings, turning Atlanta into an ash dump, “marching” through Georgia, firebombing Dresden, firestorming Rotterdam and Hamburg, nuking Nagasaki, “shock and awe” in Baghdad, gas on the Western Front, dropping folks out of helicopters high over the South Atlantic, and the stake, lighter fluid, and matches. Lenin and all his assorted camp followers, including his admirers Benito and ‘Dolf, are at core Pelagian. Ditto Wilsonianism and Dishonest Abe. Alas, some Christians – from Paul IV of odious memory and his ghetto to Cromwell at Drogheda to Clerical Fascists – have been Semipelagians. Sparticus: Again thanks for another link. Shea is on track except for his discussion of St. Augustine. Sent at: 2008 10 11