Alofa Atu
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All research is my own unless otherwise noted (such as ADL - a brother Edwin M Cotto I know from AFmin who went through AFCOE, while I was there.), and anything referred to such as ADL, is because I agree with the material already presented, having already done my own study on the material.More SDA plagiarism. You Hobie and other SDA's are notorious for plagiarism.. You SDA's seem not to care how much cut & copy of your SDA garbage you do. Do you OWN work, Alofa Atu. If you can't form your own thoughts, stop posting.
Samuel Morse (Morse Code):
Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of THE UNITED STATES: The numbers under the signature of BRUTUS, originally published in the New York Observer. Revised and Corrected, with notes, by the Author, Samuel F. B. Morse, A.M. - President of the National Academy of Design, and Profesor of the Arts of Design in the University of the city of New York [7th Edition; Online Google Books; Chapter IV; Under Austrian Control page 60-62,94-95]
"... And who are these agents? They are, for the most part, Jesuits, an ecclesiastical order proverbial through the world for cunning, duplicity, and total want of moral principle; an order so skilled in all the arts of deception, that even in Catholic countries, in Italy itself, it became intolerable, and required its suppression. They are Jesuits in the pay and employ of a despotic government, who are at work on the ignorance and passions of our com- [pg 60-61] -munity; they are foreigners, who have been schooled in foreign seminaries in the doctrine of passive obedience; they are foreigners under vows of perpetual celibacy, and having therefore, no deep and permanent interest in this country; they are foreigners, bound by the strong ties of pecuniary interest and ambition to the service of a foreign despot.* Is there no danger to to our free institutions from a host commanded by such men, whose numbers are constantly increasing by the machinations and funds of Austria?
Consider, too, the power which these Jesuits and other Catholic priests posses through the confessional, of knowing the private characters and affairs of all the leading men in the community; the power arising from their right to prescribe the kinds and degrees of penance, and the power arising from the right to refuse absolution to those who do not comply with their commands. ... And should not the men who possess such powers be jealously watched by all lovers of liberty?
Is it possible that these Jesuits can have a sincere attachment to the principles of free institutions? Do not these principles oppose a constant barrier to their exercise of that arbitrary power, which they claim as a divine right, and which they exercise, too, in all countries [pg 61-62] where they are dominant? Can in not be perceived, that although they may find it politic for the present to conceal their anti-republican tenets, yet this concealment will be merely temporary, and is only adopted now, the better to lull suspicion? Is it not in accordance with all experience of Popish policy, that Jesuits should encroach little by little, and persevere till they have attained the plentitude of power? At present they have but one aim in this country, which absorbs all others, and that is, to make themselves popular. If they succeed in this, we shall learn, when too late to remedy the evil, that Popery abandons none of its divine rights. The leaders of this sect are disciplined and organized, and have their adherents entirely subservient to their will. Here, then, is a regular party, a religious sect, ready to throw the weight of its power as circumstances may require -- ready to favor any man or set of men who will engage to favor it." - Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States
"...Surely American Protestants, freemen, have discernment enough to discover beneath them the cloven foot of this subtle foreign heresy, and will not wait for a more extensive, disastrous, and overwhelming political interference, ere they assume the attitude of watchfulness and defence. They will see that Popery is now, what it has ever been, a system of the darkest political intrigue and [pg 94-95] despotism, cloaking itself to avoid attack, under the sacred name of religion. They will be deeply impressed with the truth, that Popery is a political as well as a religious system; that in this respect it differs totally from all other sects, from all other forms of religion in the country. Popery imbodies in itself the CLOSEST UNION OF CHURCH AND STATE. Observe it at it the fountain-head. In the Roman States the civil and ecclesiastical offices are blended together in the same individual. The Pope is the King. ..." - Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States
Consider, too, the power which these Jesuits and other Catholic priests posses through the confessional, of knowing the private characters and affairs of all the leading men in the community; the power arising from their right to prescribe the kinds and degrees of penance, and the power arising from the right to refuse absolution to those who do not comply with their commands. ... And should not the men who possess such powers be jealously watched by all lovers of liberty?
Is it possible that these Jesuits can have a sincere attachment to the principles of free institutions? Do not these principles oppose a constant barrier to their exercise of that arbitrary power, which they claim as a divine right, and which they exercise, too, in all countries [pg 61-62] where they are dominant? Can in not be perceived, that although they may find it politic for the present to conceal their anti-republican tenets, yet this concealment will be merely temporary, and is only adopted now, the better to lull suspicion? Is it not in accordance with all experience of Popish policy, that Jesuits should encroach little by little, and persevere till they have attained the plentitude of power? At present they have but one aim in this country, which absorbs all others, and that is, to make themselves popular. If they succeed in this, we shall learn, when too late to remedy the evil, that Popery abandons none of its divine rights. The leaders of this sect are disciplined and organized, and have their adherents entirely subservient to their will. Here, then, is a regular party, a religious sect, ready to throw the weight of its power as circumstances may require -- ready to favor any man or set of men who will engage to favor it." - Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States
"...Surely American Protestants, freemen, have discernment enough to discover beneath them the cloven foot of this subtle foreign heresy, and will not wait for a more extensive, disastrous, and overwhelming political interference, ere they assume the attitude of watchfulness and defence. They will see that Popery is now, what it has ever been, a system of the darkest political intrigue and [pg 94-95] despotism, cloaking itself to avoid attack, under the sacred name of religion. They will be deeply impressed with the truth, that Popery is a political as well as a religious system; that in this respect it differs totally from all other sects, from all other forms of religion in the country. Popery imbodies in itself the CLOSEST UNION OF CHURCH AND STATE. Observe it at it the fountain-head. In the Roman States the civil and ecclesiastical offices are blended together in the same individual. The Pope is the King. ..." - Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States