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Entry: The Origins of the Pod People Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_origins_of_the_pod_people#9671 Post contents: Mr. Wheeler, I would say that patriotism as an ideology pretty much equals nationalism and is used to sell nationalism to the unwary. Regretably even the term patriot has become compromised as (for example) by the slogan "Be a patriot; kill a priest" used by the anti-Communist assassins of El Salvador. And while the term Catholicism is used by some popular Catholic writers, it is not part of the official language of the Church. Indeed Pope Pius XII stated that the term Catholicism was "neither customary nor adequate" for conveying what we mean by our faith. Even the use of Catholic as a noun is a modern (i.e. post-Reformation) innovation. In Papal encyclicals, members of the Church are referred to as "the faithful in Christ". The use of Catholic as a noun has led to abuses, the most significant of which is giving Protestants the openning to claim that Catholics are not really Christian. Sent at: 2008 11 22