The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-03-20

of those proud citadels which the
Yankees are SO rapidly building up"
On the subject of religious liberty an
authority among them says: "Reli-
gious liberty, in the sense of a Hber-
ty possessed by every man to choose
his own religion, is one of the most
wicked delasions ever foisted upon
this age bgr, the father of all deceit"
Arch bishop Ryan said: THE church
tolerates heFetics where she is
obliged to do so, but she hates them
with deadly hatred, and uses all
her power to annihilate them" They
teach that Protestants or heretics
have no rights which Catholics are
bound to respect
The New York Tablet says: '"They
have, as Protestants, no authority in
religion, and court FOR nothing in the
church Of God. They have from God
no right for propagandism; and re-
Hgious liberty is in NO sense violated
when the national authority closes
their mouths and their places of
holding forth" They claim that the
pope in his official character is the
vicar OF Jesus Christ on earth, and
that in that character he is an in
fallible teacher, and that the Roman
Catholic church is an infallible teach
ing society This has been announced
in your columns. "lf the Pope" says
Cardinal Bellarmine, should err by
enjoining vices and forbidding vir-
tues, the church would be obliged to
believe vices to be good, and virtues
bad, unless it would SIN against con-
science" AS an infallible teaching
~ hox al
taally prohibited the reading OF the
Bible by the laymen and common
people. True history, impartial re-
search and investigation will prove
that this so-called "infallibla teach
ing society,"" this Roman Hierarchy,
this mother Of harlots and abomina-
lions Of the earth, is nothing more
nor less than a fearful apostasy from
original or primitive Christianity,
and motley combination Of Pagan
ism. To illustrate, in the New
Werner Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol.
", page 392, in delineating the
Biddhistic religion, it says: Lama
ism, with its shaven priests, it's bells
and rosaries, its images and holy
water, it's popes and bishops, it's alb
bots and monks OF many grades, its
PROFESSIONS and feast days, it's con-
fessional and pargatoFy, and its
worship Of the double Virgin. SO
strongly resembles Romanism that
the first Catholic missionaries said
it must be an>imitatfon by the Devil
of the religion of Christ; and that
the resemblance is not in externals
only is shown by the present state of
Tibet-the oppression of all thought,
the nleness and corruption Of the
monks, the despotism of the govern
ment, and the poverty and beggary
Of the people," These Catholics just
simply ran up with their old mother
Unexpectedly and refused to recog-
niZe and own her.
While the Roman Catholic Church
processes to receive and believe the
Bible, she at the same time tells you
that her oral traditions, pope's bulls,
Decretals, Acts Of Councils, etc, ETC.,
consisting in all of about 1876 vol
umes, are Of equal authority with the
Bible and that the Bible must be
Intercepted according to that sense
which she has put upon it and in har-
mony with this mass of human in
vention and tradition; and who
among tn emselves understands, COM
prehends, and digests all-this mass Of
trumpery2 And be it remembered
distinctly, that all this mass of ira
dition is nothing in the world but
human invention and varnished-gal-
V2nigAA PapandgOo-h eat henigTn