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Entry: Hitchens Unhinged Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/hitchens_unhinged_part_i#6596 Post contents: In the Kulturkampf of the 1870s and 80s, Catholics had a three front war: Against Bismarck (a cross between a Hobbesian nationalist and a Protestant conservative) the Liberals (in the European sense of the word), and the Socialists. So today's Kulturkampf with Catholics fighting on 3 fronts: against (1)Social Democrats and Cultural Marxists like Hitchens, against (2) the Lavender Mafia within the church herself (the sodomites), and against (3)emerging Clerical Fascism among certain laity, all of who proclaim their intense dislike of Leo XIII and Pius XI. The 3rd will give the other two ammo. The 2nd has been exposed and will be cleaned out, despite the lingering horrible damage they have done. The 1st is in our face -- literally. Read up on Windthorst,the Zentrum, and Ketteler. Newman had his own version of the Culture Kampf in England. And these two Kampfen resemble more what we are undergoing today than the struggles in united Italy and the 3rd French Republic. Interesting also how in both Struggles, ours and theirs, the church vs the state, the issue of confessional and private schools, and media access were among the issues. Sent at: 2008 05 16