Today in my Class my teacher, as well as one Protestant student had some fun with me a intellectual insult which i feel the need to clearly explain the fallacy of it.
The Class is watching her present "The Catholic Reformation"
The sum of her presentation was three quotes from Protestant Authors on the "Horrors" of the Jesuits who were as one of her quotes put it.
"If ever there was a body of men who merited damnation on earth and in Hell, it is this society of Loyola's." -- John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, May 5, 1816 -- (By the way, there is a good change George Washington was converted on his deathbed by a Jesuit).
First, i would like to point out, she did not actually talk about the Catholics of the time, Second she provided Protestant revisionist histories of the Inquisition and other areas, without ANY Catholic quotes, or "evil" actions mentioned what so ever. Clearly, the word of a Protestant on what they claim Catholics are doing at a time when they need to justify their existence is not to be taken as a absolutely authoritative statement, as they clearly have their own dog in this fight.
The outrage of presenting Protestant ideas on Catholics as Historical fact, without even one word from a Catholic, one shred of evidence for this "evil". This has caused me to set my mind to having this teacher removed form her position of influence, (this is far from the first time she has tried this stuff).
The Class is watching her present "The Catholic Reformation"
The sum of her presentation was three quotes from Protestant Authors on the "Horrors" of the Jesuits who were as one of her quotes put it.
"If ever there was a body of men who merited damnation on earth and in Hell, it is this society of Loyola's." -- John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, May 5, 1816 -- (By the way, there is a good change George Washington was converted on his deathbed by a Jesuit).
First, i would like to point out, she did not actually talk about the Catholics of the time, Second she provided Protestant revisionist histories of the Inquisition and other areas, without ANY Catholic quotes, or "evil" actions mentioned what so ever. Clearly, the word of a Protestant on what they claim Catholics are doing at a time when they need to justify their existence is not to be taken as a absolutely authoritative statement, as they clearly have their own dog in this fight.
The outrage of presenting Protestant ideas on Catholics as Historical fact, without even one word from a Catholic, one shred of evidence for this "evil". This has caused me to set my mind to having this teacher removed form her position of influence, (this is far from the first time she has tried this stuff).
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