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fpbIn 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.
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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Date: 2009-10-08 06:14 pm (UTC)I always considered the adherence to the faith to be like a sine curve, with us currently starting to come out of a trench. St. Francis of Assisi and St. Catherine and St. Dominic arrived at other bottoms of trenches. The heresies only helped hasten the decline into them. If we just scraped ignorance, materialism, contempt and superstition off the top (since they are universal) what else are we left with to affect such change but some particular heresy or flavor mishmash of heresies?