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Entry: The Silence of Father Neuhaus Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_silence_of_father_neuhaus#7921 Post contents: Let me second Bob's comment: I, too, agree with James Cantrell's brief, but cogent, summary. It was Jacques Maritain (during his Action Francaise period)in his TROIS REFORMATEURS: LUTHER, DESCARTES,ROUSSEAU, who outlines the three proto-demons of modernity, and then, tracing their subsequent influences on modern society, offers a devastating critique of each. But each of them has triumphed...and we see the results. The French Revolution was, of course, a watershed event, and in its essence it was a revolt against both God and nature. De Bonald was correct: "There are only two parties, one favors 'la Revolution' and wishes to invert all that is given to us from God and our traditions; the other is the 'contre-revolution,' and it seeks to preserve what we have received and restore what we have lost." Concerning that divide, the neo-conservatives, the global democrats,the FT folks, the NR and Weekly Standard, the Bush/Cheney cabal, the various neo- think tanks, the neo- "Catholics," the raving Dispensationalists,etc. are on the side of the (continuing) Revolution, just as their revolutionary forefathers were. As such they must be opposed, in word, in print, in deed, and they must be exposed for the who and what they are. A few may be converted (hopefully), but the rest should be sold into bondage to some Somali warlord....and even that is better than they deserve. [By the way, both The Remnant and The Wanderer are edited by two branches of the Matt family; but they differ quite markedly on Vatican II, the Old Mass, and how things have transpired in the Catholic Church since Vatican II. I am an assiduous reader of The Remnant, which is a fine journal, with an excellent website. Years ago I was published in The Wanderer, but their basically uncritical response to the abuses that followed Vatican II and their defense of the Novus Ordo Missae, and the implementation of some of the worst "applications" supposedly issuing from the Council, soured me a bit on them.] Sent at: 2008 10 12