The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-11-14

SClCut1OnS our fathers beQueathed to
us, and these principles and these
institutions find their sworn, un-
changing enemy in the Roman
Catholic Church" God save us
from the Democracy, and from the
religion of an institution that spring.
ing black-broWed, and on fire with
an unholy ambition, out of the
falling away" from the true faith
in the early Christian churcn, gradu-
ally by fraud and deception, careful
planning and deep plotting, crushed
out every opposing power, and finally
established it's own chief representa-
tive upon the throne of supreme au-
thOrity, and then in the name of the
Meek and LoWly Jesus, ,wrested the
Bible from the hands and the homes
of the people, blotted out the light
of learning, loaded the imperial
mind Of man with chains of iron,
and sunk it into the deepest depths
of ignorance and superstition, cast
out the pure doctrines of the Gospel,
together with reason and common
sense, and taught men and women to
bow the knee to senseless images
made by human hands, and to lift
their prayers to creatures of flesh
and blood. God save us always from
the Democracy and from the religion
of an institution that unsheathed the
sword, and lighted the fires of mar
tyrdom, when with the breaking of
the first faint beams of light through
the starless, blackness of that mid
night seven centuries long, souls
long sunken in darkness and ignor-
ance and superstition, began to turn
toward those faint beams, and to
search for God and the truth by the
light of them. 1t is only by decep-
ton and fraud, and by keeping the
minds of men and women sunken in
the deepest depths of spiritual ignor-
ance and superstition the Roman
Catholic Church" can maintain it's
existence, therefore it is in it's very
nature the deadliest enemy religion,
liberty and learning has ever had in
any age, in any country, and if it is
the most Democratic institution on
the face Of the earth, then Democracy
is the most dangerous thing on the
face of the earth. Let the Catholics
of America believe in the infallibili-
ty Of their Papa, let them confess to
their priests, let them pray to the
Virgin Mary, and let them fork over
their money to have their loved ones
delivered from purgatory, unmo-
Tested by the law, let them run their
beads through their fingers, and
kneel before their images, with none
to make them afraid, but let them
be given to understand once and for
all, that their Papa has no temporal
authority in this country, and that
their priests must not NEEDLE as
priests and representatives of the
Papal power, with our political af-
fairs, and with the education of our
children. Let them be made to un-
derstand this, not simply because
they are Catholics, but because in
this country the State and the
Church are completely, and for all
time separated, and that the State
does not NEEDLE with church affairs,
and will suffer no meddling with
State affairs by the Church.
No religious organization, no
church of any name or any creed,
should be allowed to NEEDLE with
State affairs, and any attempt to do
so should be resented by every true
and loyal citizen, and by every true.
and loyal Christian, as blow at
our free government, and a blow at
the purity and the purpose of the
religion" has dictated the laws, and
the Church" has been the ruling
power, the people have been crushed