Humanum Genus - Pope Against Freemasons - Albert Pike Response

[joeblow]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/911698/Humanu ... e-Response

If the Encyclical Letter of Leo XIII., entitled, from its opening words, "HUMANUM GENUS," had been nothing more than a denunciation of Freemasonry, I should not have thought it worth replying to.  But under the guise of a condemnation of Freemasonry, and a recital of the enormities and immoralities of the Order, in some respects so absurdly false as to be ludicrous, notwithstanding its malignity, it proved upon perusal to be a declaration of war, and the signal for a crusade, against the rights of men individually and of communities of men as organisms;  against the separation of Church and State, and the confinement of the Church within the limits of its legitimate functions;  against education free from sectarian religious influences;  against the civil policy of non-Catholic countries in regard to marriage and divorce;  against the great doctrine upon which, as upon a rock not to be shaken, the foundations of our Republic rest, that "men are superior to institutions, and not institutions to men;" against the right of the people to depose oppressive, cruel and worthless rulers;  against the exercise of the rights of free thought and free speech, and against, not only republican, but all constitutional government.

[joeblow]

Forgot to add, take at look a Albert "Lucifer is God (astaghfillallaah!)" Pike's dribble, at one hand he says the accusations are false, but on the other hand defends them. Pure Talmudic debating techniques!