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"We have received from God self-control, forbearance, restraint, fortitude, patience, and the like, which are great and holy powers, helping us to resist the enemy’s attacks. If we cultivate these powers and have them at our disposal, we do not regard anything that befalls us as painful, grievous or unbearable, realizing that it is human and can be overcome by the virtues within us. The unintelligent do not take this into account; they do not understand that all things happen for our benefit, rightly and as they should, so that our virtues may shine and we ourselves be crowned by God."
St. Anthony the Abbot (sometimes called St. Anthony of Egypt or St. Anthony the Great),
Today on his feast let us ask for him to intercede for us so that we may leave everything behind like he did and follow God
>Happy Feast of St Anthony

The Government was in a difficulty about providing funds through the Bank of Finland, since the Socialists were represented on its governing body... Gustaf Mannerheim therefore turned to the private banks in Finland, and met with a generous response.

“We will gladly give what we can,” a leading banker said to him. “If you are victorious, we risk nothing; and if you are defeated, there will, anyway, be nothing left of our millions.” (Borenius, 1940)

"When I say that they're destroying our world, I don’t simply mean that they're making life less pleasant for us, that they're bringing ugliness and nastiness into our lives, that they’re corrupting our morals and polluting our culture. They're doing all of that, but they’re also doing much more. They're destroying the physical basis for our existence. Every tribe, every race, needs space, needs territory for living and growing and breeding. Only in our own territory can we perpetuate our physical existence by breeding only with our own people. Only in our own territory can we keep alive our traditions, our sense of identity, our own culture. When we lose our territory, we will cease to exist as a tribe or a race within a few generations."

David Lane (1995). Freedom: Use It or Lose It

"A touchstone of our actions, as we follow these old moral principles, is 'Cheng' (Sincerity). 'Cheng' means a sincere and determined purpose, absolute loyalty to our cause, so that we do not falter or turn back, but give all our energy to the task before us. It means that we must not cease to make ourselves strong and capable; what we do not know we must faithfully learn; what we have learned we must faithfully do. Our ancient sages said, ‘Gold and hard rock will break open for the man of sincere devotion'... The man with stern self-discipline will be real and thorough in all he does; he will bury himself in his tasks and show definite results. He will not be afraid of difficulties; he will stand upon his own feet; he will be open and above board in his actions... without a trace of selfish greed. He will put society above self, and work for the welfare of all... Nothing is impossible to the man of fixed purpose..."

Chiang-kai Shek, (1937). National Reconstruction

The Chinese 'Younger Brother of Christ'
Hong Xiuquan came from a literate Hakka peasant family. He failed the imperial examinations four times. After his second attempt at the examinations in 1836, two Protestant preachers, one Chinese and one American (Edwin Stevens), gave him a set of nine pamphlets containing essays and biblical selections, titled Good Words for Exhorting the Age, written by Liang Fa and published in 1832.
His attention was drawn to Liang Fa’s pamphlets through his cousin, Li Jingfang (Ching-fang), who had borrowed them for his own reading and was fascinated by their content. Hong seemed to find illumination for his earlier visions from the pamphlets. He identified God the Father as the venerable old man in his dreams, Jesus as the middle-aged elder brother, and the idols as the demons he saw in his visions. He believed he had received a divine mandate to lead the people.

Hong then proceeded to Guangxi, where he found that Feng, in just two years, had formed a syncretistic religious sect, the Bai Shangdi Hui (The Society of the Worshippers of Shangdi), with more than 3,000 followers. In addition to monotheism and baptism, the followers observed religious rites such as the burning of paper containing confessed sins, formal evening and morning prayers and grace, and the consumption of animals sacrificed as part of a marriage, burial, and New Year celebration. Hong was welcomed with reverence as “Master Hong.” The increase in Shangdi worshippers led to inevitable hostilities with the Confucian gentry and Manchu authorities.
This lead to the Taipeng Rebellion which killed Around 20mill Chinese

In January 1851 Hong and his followers set up a new dynasty in Guangxi. Their kingdom was called the “Heavenly Kingdom of Eternal Peace and Prosperity” (Taiping Tianguo), and Hong was declared the “Heavenly King” (Tian Wang). In March 1853 Hong and his followers captured Nanjing and made it their capital, naming it Tianjing (Heavenly Capital). They held the city for more than a decade. Although Hong devoted much time to praying for his kingdom and his palace was run with strict discipline and an insistence on moral education, Hong himself reputedly had 88 wives. Each wife was considered a daughter-in-law of God and the younger sister of the queen. An attempt by Yang Xiuqing (Hsiu-ching), Hong’s “East King” (Dong Wang), to usurp the throne in 1856 resulted in the deaths of four leaders, which weakened the Taiping Tianguo. Hong died on 1 Jun 1864 during the siege of the city by the Manchu authorities. His 16-year-old son, Hong Tian-kuei-fu, succeeded him on 6 Jun 1864.

Anti-Catholicism was one of the pillars of prejudice upon which the KKK were founded.
The KKK’s hatred of “Papists” grew out of the long tradition of Anti-Catholicism in American society, with its direct predecessor being the “Know Nothing” movement of the 19th century. Tied to the xenophobic fear of the large amount of immigrants immigrating to the United States from traditionally Catholic countries, such as Italy, Germany, and Ireland, the “Know Nothings” believed a “Romanist” conspiracy was afoot to subvert civil and religious liberty in America and sought to politically organize native-born Protestants in the defense of traditional religious and political values.
Pamphlets were spread accusing the Church of kidnappings, infanticide, bizarre Satanic rituals, some even becoming best sellers, such as “The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk“.

The Ku Klux Klan, believed that Catholicism was incompatible with democracy and that parochial schools encouraged separatism and kept Catholics from becoming loyal Americans. The Catholics responded to such prejudices by repeatedly asserting their rights as American citizens and by arguing that they, not the nativists (anti-Catholics), were true patriots since they believed in the right to freedom of religion.
With the rapid growth of the second Ku Klux Klan (KKK) 1921–25, anti-Catholic rhetoric intensified. The Catholic Church of the Little Flower was first built in 1925 in Royal Oak, Michigan, a largely Protestant area. Two weeks after it opened, the Ku Klux Klan burned a cross in front of the church.

Founded by disbanded Confederate soldiers on Christmas Eve, 1865, the secret fraternal society quickly transformed into a paramilitary group bent on fighting Reconstruction and the advancement of African-American, Jews and Catholics.
The KKK’s decidedly anti-Catholic bent appealed broadly to Protestant America. Philip Jenkins, Baylor University professor of history, writes, “The Klan was above all a Protestant movement, whose events were accompanied by beloved hymns like ‘Onward Christian Soldiers,’ but its trademark anthem was ‘The Old Rugged Cross.'”
Protestant leadership, in fact, were prominent figures within the Klan. “Protestant clergy were prominent in the leadership of this ‘crusade,'” he observes, “‘consecrated beneath the fiery cross of militant Protestant Christianity.’ Every lodge had its kleagle or chaplain who was always a Protestant minister.”

The KKK’s anti-Catholic bigotry sprang from a broader antipathy toward the Church.

On August 11, 1921, Father James Coyle was fatally shot on his rectory porch in Birmingham, Alabama. The shooter was Rev. E. R. Stephenson, a Southern Methodist Episcopal minister. The murder occurred just hours after Coyle had performed a wedding between Stephenson’s daughter, Ruth, and Pedro Gussman, a Puerto Rican immigrant. Several months before the wedding, Ruth had enraged her father by converting to Roman Catholicism. Stephenson was defended by Hugo Black, a future Justice of the Supreme Court. The judge, William E. Fort, a Klansman, and the jury, all hand-picked bigots, most of whom were Klansmen, acquitted Stephenson, on the grounds of “temporary insanity”.

The US-China Trade War 1980-2018

Das Buch Der
Deutschen Sinnzeichen 1941
(The Book of German Symbols, 1941)

Author: Blachetta,Walther