Another Unherd
piece, this time on the parallels between the Thirty Years' War and the storm brewing in the EU. The author posits Hungary and Poland as the new Anabaptists:
If the Thirty Years’ War can he blamed on one man, it is the Habsburg emperor Ferdinand II, whose disdain for compromise with the Lutherans – let alone the more challenging heretics – turned conflict into all-out-war.
His solution to the tensions of the Empire was to impose the will of the strongest power – and its ideology – on the other states.
I wonder if Angela Merkel can think of anything like that in the EU today?
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Of course, Germany lacks the strength to impose such a solution. That is not necessarily a point of disanalogy.
The Counter Reformation was run from the Vatican. Even Emperors could do only so much before they had to kneel in the Holy Roman Empire and kiss the ring. Historically, that body sourced its authority from military conquests and the P of Rome.
In 1590, his parents, who were devout Catholics, sent him to study at the Jesuits' college in Ingolstadt, because they wanted to isolate him from the Lutheran nobles.
There is a funny thing about Jesuit education. Looking up its historical covert society behavior, people tend to think of it as an educational department. Historically and even in modern day, it was closer to a covert guerilla army run by the Black or White hats in Rome.
I do further declare that the doctrine of the churches of England and Scotland, of the Calvinists, Huguenots and others of the name Protestants or Liberals to be damnable and they themselves damned who will not forsake the same.
I do further declare, that I will help, assist, and advise all or any of his Holiness' agents in any place wherever I shall be, in Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, England, Ireland or America, or in any other Kingdom or territory I shall come to, and do my uttermost to extirpate the heretical Protestants or Liberals' doctrines and to destroy all their pretended powers, regal or otherwise.
I do further promise and declare, that notwithstanding I am dispensed with, to assume my religion heretical, for the propaganda of the Mother Church's interest, to keep secret and private all her agents' counsels from time to time, as they may entrust me and not to divulge, directly or indirectly, by word, writing or circumstance whatever; but to execute all that shall be proposed, given in charge or discovered unto me, by you, my ghostly father, or any of this sacred covenant.
I do further promise and declare, that I will have no opinion or will of my own, or any mental reservation whatever, even as a corpse or cadaver (perinde ac cadaver), but will unhesitatingly obey each and every command that I may receive from my superiors in the Militia of the Pope and of Jesus Christ.
That I may go to any part of the world withersoever I may be sent, to the frozen regions of the North, the burning sands of the desert of Africa, or the jungles of India, to the centers of civilization of Europe, or to the wild haunts of the barbarous savages of America, without murmuring or repining, and will be submissive in all things whatsoever communicated to me.
I furthermore promise and declare that I will, when opportunity present, make and wage relentless war, secretly or openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Liberals, as I am directed to do, to extirpate and exterminate them from the face of the whole earth; and that I will spare neither age, sex or condition; and that I will hang, waste, boil, flay, strangle and bury alive these infamous heretics, rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women and crush their infants' heads against the walls, in order to annihilate forever their execrable race. That when the same cannot be done openly, I will secretly use the poisoned cup, the strangulating cord, the steel of the poniard or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honor, rank, dignity, or authority of the person or persons, whatever may be their condition in life, either public or private, as I at any time may be directed so to do by any agent of the Pope or Superior of the Brotherhood of the Holy Faith, of the Society of Jesus.
This isn't Ymar talking anti Islamic or anti Christian stuff as people may think.
http://www.reformation.org/jesuit-oath.html
The humans came up with this, don't look at me.
Merkel is likely but not most likely, to be doing the crisis power pattern.
They invite in fanatical Islam to motivate their own Christian members that are losing faith, to counter with increase in Faith or be destroyed. A sort of Novus ordo seclorum except of a religious theocratic one world type.
Her party is called Christian and it still holds value amongst the controllers. Christianity is no longer the state religion but if it can combine with Leftism ideologically, there is a chance for State Religion to come back in spades.
Won't that be UnHoly. Much of what is called holy is unholy and much that is called the church of jesus, is the synagogue of Satan. But that's okay, it can be no other way.
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