Your Email:

Subject:

Message:
Entry: The Ron Paul Revolution Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_ron_paul_revolution#8715 Post contents: Ah yes, Senor Ramus. And all those wonderful, Protestant countries have done SUCH a good job of maintaining subsidiarity and Christian culture. Like, say, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, England, Holland, Bimarckian Germany, and Canada, for instance? Lincoln's Leviathan? The only example of decent decentralism one can find in Europe today is Switzerland--where the Protestants crushed the Catholic cantons' attempts at maintaining greater decentralism, in 1840. Still, it preserves more of that spirit than anyplace else--perhaps because the two faiths have kept each other in balance. The real culprit here is the necessity which the Reformation pressed upon churches of BOTH confessions to cozy up to the state for support, instead of remaining a counterbalance to state power. Of course, in England, the state wasn't Protestant ENOUGH for many, which forced them to dig up forgotten, medieval Catholic principles (long dead on the Continent, in countries of both confessions) of Common Law and resistance to central authority. But as a good Paul Blanshard anti-Catholic obsessive, you can't accept that--and you must find a way to blame the statism of Alabama Baptists rallying around George Wallace's big (white) government populism on the Jesuits. Have fun, but those of us with a knowledge of history and a sense of humor are just sitting here chuckling at you. Sent at: 2008 09 08