{"id":4138,"date":"2020-07-28T17:42:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T17:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/?p=4138"},"modified":"2020-08-12T18:59:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T18:59:06","slug":"quakers-as-proto-progressives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/2020\/07\/28\/quakers-as-proto-progressives\/","title":{"rendered":"Quakers as proto-progressives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taken from here<\/a> and from here<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the rules for Patriactionaries here is this: no refighting the Reformation. We are remarkably ecumenical when it comes to certain base principles, seeing\u00a0Orthodox Jews<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Muslims\u00a0<\/a>as having quite a few correct ideas about patriarchy as necessary to the ordered function of society.<\/p>\n

So it is a forbidden fruit treat to read a takedown of another religion. Unreformed Catholic E. Michael Jones does just such a thing in attempting to explain the roots of anti-Catholic policies by the housing authority in Philadelphia in his book\u00a0The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing<\/a><\/em>. (We last heard from Jones when discussing what we called\u00a0the genocide of American Catholics<\/a>\u00a0in large urban cities in the USA in the 1950s and 1960s.) To set the scene: city planner and Quaker Ed Bacon has proposed a 10-lane road that would isolate Center City from Italian Catholic South Philly. Residents there challenge Bacon: it would be unsafe.<\/p>\n

Ingersoll persisted: \u201cHow could an old lady ever cross that street\u00a0before the light would change. It\u2019s not possible.\u201d Bacon insisted that it was, and when\u00a0pressed for his explanation of how it was possible, responded, \u201cBecause I have said it is.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is the sort of know-it-all, trust-me-I\u2019m-from-the-government-and-I-know-better attitude we have come to expect from the Cathedral. Where does it arise? Jones continues: (pp 177-178)<\/p>\n

Ed Bacon was having another Quaker moment. Maitin characterized Bacon as an
\narrogant mendacious man \u2026\u00a0What Maitin failed to see is that arrogance and mendacity are\u00a0not so much personal as ethnic characteristics which derived ultimately from the Quaker\u00a0religion, whose belief in the \u201cinner light\u201d confers personal infallibility on its members.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you wanted to picture me reading this, one of whose heroes is great Catholic debater\u00a0Edmund Campion<\/a>, imagine me as Flounder in Animal House saying \u201cOh, Boy,