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Gary Michuta
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“Whereas Julian’s program failed and paganism came to nothing, Christian charity grew—expanding from local parishes to monasteries. By the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, monasteries had developed a harmonious system whereby the wealthy donated money for the care of the poor and the poor in return prayed for the souls of their benefactors. After the English Reformation, King Henry VIII’s suppression of the Catholic monasteries (1536, 1541) dealt a death blow to this equilibrium. His suppression affected not only the Catholic religious who worked and prayed in the monasteries, but also the poor who depended on the monks and nuns, creating a vacuum that needed to be filled. Edward and Elizabeth I filled that vacuum by enacting the Poor Laws, which taxed local parishes to provide for the poor. The Poor Laws were modified in the nineteenth century, and were eventually replaced by the modern welfare system during World War II.”
― Hostile Witnesses: How the Historic Enemies of the Church Prove Christianity
― Hostile Witnesses: How the Historic Enemies of the Church Prove Christianity
“Luther’s reaction to the rapid disintegration of Protestant unity is instructive: This won’t have baptism, that denies the efficacy of the Lord’s Supper; a third, puts a world between this and the Last Judgment; others teach that Jesus Christ is not God; some say this, others that; and there are almost as many sects and beliefs as there are heads. . . . When the pope reigned we heard nothing of these troubles.127”
― Revolt Against Reality: Fighting the Foes of Sanity and Truth- from the Serpent to the State
― Revolt Against Reality: Fighting the Foes of Sanity and Truth- from the Serpent to the State
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