Despicable Quotes
Not unlike George W. Bush and his administration 1800 years later, Licinius just could not accept that the Christians who attacked Roman Rule, resented the Roman Rule or didn’t care for the Roman policies, and assumed that the attacks were motivated by a desire for atheism and a desire to insult the Roman Gods. Today we think it odd, that Christians were referred to as “atheists” and God was “some strange and unheard-of Deity”. In the War on Terror, some politicians in addition to Bush took the position that it was American Religion and value systems were under attack. “Atheist” in its original form meant “without God.” To the Roman who worshipped a bevy of Gods, Christians and Jews, who only worshipped a single God, were “without Gods”—atheists.
The papacy and the Lombards were in a dispute over control of various land holdings. The Pope assumed that leprosy was wrought by God to evil people and in his view the Lombards were that so they would definitely have leprosy.
Coughlin was a great admirer of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini and the Fascists. He was one of the American “heroes” in Nazi Germany, receiving assistance from the Nazi government. Between his anti-Semitism and support for Hitler, Fascism and radical socialism, the Vatican ordered him off the air and shut down his political demagoguery.
