Re: The Huguenots, the Jews, and Me
Notice how this Calvinist author's self-righteousness is identical that that of Jews, when they point to the cause of any period of economical or intellectual decline to the lack of their presence. A much fallacious argument also used by Nordicism which, incidentally, spawns from Protestant elements.
However, he persists in the same error as the Jews when he mentions the expulsion of the Jews as the cause for the economical decline in Spain. When in fact it doesn't explain how they are expelled in 1492, and it is from then onwards that Spain achieves her highest peaks in history.
It is also interesting to notice the admitted relation of the Huguenots with the French Revolution, as well as the identification that the French Catholics make of Huguenots with it, and their rejection.
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accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
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–Plato–
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–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–
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