LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

I think you should consider these things. The Jews do not honor the
Virgin, they do not honor the Mother of God in any form. Neither do the
Protestants. Mother Mary gets a look in at Christmas, that is, on the
anniversary of our Lord’s birth, on about the same footing as the
Sheperds and Magi, just as the Catholic Church notices the Semitic
period once a year in the prayer for the perfidious Jews on the
anniversary of the crucifixion.
And Zielinski’s term for Protestantism is “REJEWdiazed religion.” But I
am not so much intent on the theology as on the immediate ecclesiastical
polity of the enemies of faith. He points out, I think uncontradictably,
that the people who got converted to Christianity in the early centuries
were, as Zielinski points out, the pagans, and the people who most
pertinaciously opposed the new religion of Christianity were the Jews.
Various attempts at syncretism preceded the Conversion of Constantine,
and the formulation of the Catholic or general church and emperors of
other empires had felt the need of a single religion for all their people.
The Tarquins were converted to Apollo, there was a fusion of Delphi
with the Persians, Ptolemy First wanted a single cult for his subjects, and
Seleukos held out against Ptolemy and Lysimacus. In short, there is
nothing essentially new in an emperor’s wanting a synthetic and
inclusive religion for political ends.
And remains of these syncretisms persist in great beauty in Christian
ritual, and in the Catholic disposition. Isis, Demter Mary, the fans in the
Easter Mass at Siena. The Greek church held out against Rome in calling
itself orthodox and not the General Church. The Greeks by that time
were not a people ruling an empire. Given the Roman empire there was
a political need of a general or universal religion for the whole empire,
which claimed more or less to be the circle of lands, the whole world.
As to the seriousness of the Anglican church, Brooks Adams sums that
up fairly completely when he remarks with perfect accuracy, the relation
of Christ’s blood and body to the bread of the sacrament was changed