More symptoms of insanity on the American right

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In yesterday's American Thinker, a man with the Italian name of Bonelli wrote the following, extremely offensive statement:

The United States is different from most other countries in many ways. One unique aspect of our country is that our elected officials, officers of the court, and the military, all pledge their allegiance to the Constitution and not to an office, individual or party. This assures continuity of the ideals set forth by the founders.

As an Italian citizen, I have personally sworn to defend the Constitution of my country when I served in the Italian army. The presumption involved in this ignorant display of insular arrogance is an insult to every constitutional government in the world.

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[marielapin.livejournal.com]

I also wanted to add that my friend is married to a Dutch man, who was turned off from Catholicism when a nun flat told him that God did not exist. Maybe the Church is still alive and well in Italy but it seems to be having a lot of problems in Belgium and the Netherlands. And from what I have heard about such things in France also, it is of no surprize to me that the traditionalist schismatics are so populous there.

In my own family I can also say that the quality, lack of catechesis taught by the church and in the schools as well as the lack of theological orthodoxy has caused a good portion of my husband's family to also fall away into a different traditionalist schism and heresy. It is exceedingly painful and a daily reminder of how much the church needs to heal, teach and bring its clergy and its members back into orthodoxy.

[marielapin.livejournal.com]

A combination of liturgical abuses and the teaching of heresy is what has led my husband's family away. So now they have traded in liturgical abuse and heresy for liturgical beauty and heresy. Both their liturgies and their teachings are heretical, but it just has a "whitewash" of orthodoxy that they were not getting from their own churches.

Which is why I don't see much of a difference between the two.