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Entry: Hitchens Unhinged Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/hitchens_unhinged_part_i#6617 Post contents: <i>it is probably an obscure marginal handful in no way comparable in power to the cultural Marxists or the sodomites. </i> I pray you're correct, Mr. Higdon. For now, would prefer the argument to be centered on Christopher Hitchens. When that's done, I might have something more to day about Clerical Fascism tomorrow. Conservatives know about traditions, including bad ones. Anti-Catholic feeling is nothing new among the English of almost all persuasions, as English Catholics can tell us. Henry the Worst, Titus Oates, the Whigs of 1688, the Penal Laws, the Gordon Riots (which Burke, to is credit condemned), assorted other "no popery" riots, the hostile reception to the Oxford Movement and to Newman, etc. all call to mind that defamation of Catholics and the threat to do them physical harm are no stranger in England. Call Hitchens something of a traditionalist. Sent at: 2008 05 16