The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-05-23

EbEEE I~AS ILL IudL LHS HOT
al rible inquisition Of the Rom
ish Church is a thing of the
past and that it's cruel officials and
famiiiars have no longer a place on
the church's roll OF fanatical serv-
ants. Such an impression is erro-
peous. The Ronlish inquisition.
with it's swarm of heartless, soul
less domestics, is still part and par
eel of the paraphernaIia of popery.
and the crimes perpetrated by them
IN modern times on certain class
OF unbelleVers, are just as cruel and
murderOus as those consumated by
TorquemadO and his familiars, the
only difference being that formerly
the victims were done to death
openly with the consent OF the Cath
Ole government Of the country, while
today the unfortunate wretches are
subjected to torture and even to
death without the outside world
having any knowledge of what has
occurred.
Time and again the ministers of
Protestant congregations break
away from the old creeds and ex-
press opinions in public that do not
AAOCI w LII CilC opp - oil Ol CLSlI COLI
gregations. The minister who thus
breaks away from the beliefs and
in the limelight of the public press
for day or two until called upon by
his congregation or his bishop to
resign, when he sinks into oblivion
and into the moons picuous life of
the rcdinary layman.
There are many aspirants for the
Catholic priesthood, and even many
priests themselves, who find it i'm
possible to acknowledge belief in the
popish doctrines and who show in
tentions Of abandoning the Romish
church and creed. What becomes
of them all? How is it that the
public never hears anything about
them. Lend me your ears for a
moment and l will reveal the mys-
terry to you.
When the young theological stu
dent first begins to have doubts of
the divine origin of some of the
absurdities Of popery he thinks he
is being tempted OF the devil; if he
be of the ingenious kind, he hastens
to his father confessor to tell him
Of those heinous sins of doubt and
obtain absolution Of them. The con-
fessor is generally willy Jesuit who
takes particular note of the case for
the information of his superiors
presume that everybody knows that
it is obligatory on every Catholic to
confess all doubts that he may enter
tain Of the divine origin Of popery
to his father confessor, such doubts
being described as heinous sins, far
more hein0us than the murder of
ones father or mother. You can
obtain absolution Of parracide or
matricide and for a reasonable sum
get a bunch Of fat priests to pray
your dirty, blood-stained soul out OF
purgatory, but if you have any
doubt of ''the Catholic faith,'' as
they call it, you cannot obtain abso-
luton at all. You don't go tempo
rarily to the lookup or limbus or to
the county Jail Of purgatory, but,
according to popish teaching, you
go to the penitentiary Of hell's
flames forever and ever, where all
Rockefeller's millions could not buy
one drop of water to help to take
the taste of Professionalism out of
your heretical mouth, not to mind
ever getting you out of that sala-
mandous abode i for the billionth
part Of second during eternity.
Nice god, this god of the papist,
is he not? Murder your father or
VOur IN Othpr and come across with a