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Entry: Tom Tomorrow Nails the Neos Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/tom_tomorrow_nails_the_neos#21524 Post contents: @Forrest, Catholics, un-American? Au contraire, according to de Tocqueville in Democracy in America: “American Catholics are both the most obedient believers and the most independent citizens.” (Section heading: Religion considered as a political institution which powerfully supports the maintenance of a democratic republic among Americans, not the Harvey Mansfield translation) American Catholicism in its Anglophone and Gaelofone origins is the most anti-statist and anti-fascist of any American intellectual and political tradition. I have great hopes for the emergence of an explicit anarchic libertarian development in the American Catholic tradition. And I had had the hope that Ron Paul might have been the first American president to convert in the White House since his thought embodied Catholic teaching so seamlessly across the board. Pace Mr. Z, no Hapsburgs for me thank you. That said, I agree with the idea that American Catholics become less authentically American as well as less authentically Catholic as they have become assimilated into the mainstream welfare/warfare ideology and practice of the American empire. But even this situation is an opportunity for lay Catholics to chart their own course as “Conservative Christian Anarchists” and reorganize far from the Catholic bishops and their bromidic welfaring warfaring opportunism. The bishops suck. A case in point is Edward “Gee, wouldn’t it be great if Bill Bennet became president” Cardinal Egan of New York, whose admiration and support of Giuliani and whose loathing of Ron Paul has been an open secret. For bureaucrats like Egan, their relation to the state and their invitation to dinner parties are their paramount considerations. Thank God they are so boring and uninspiring, although I suspect that this is due to their cynicism. Sent at: 2008 08 30