After Waterloo: Reminiscences Of European Travel 1815-1819, By Major W. E Frye













































































































 -  I answered him that
this very argument made more against Catholicism than any other, and that
this intolerant spirit would - Page 389
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I Answered Him That This Very Argument Made More Against Catholicism Than Any Other, And That This Intolerant Spirit Would Ever Prevent Me (Even Had Such An Idea Entered Into My Head) Of Embracing Such A Religion.

I then told him that, once for all, I did not wish to enter into any theological disputes; that

I had fully made up my mind on these subjects; and that I would rather take the opinion of a Voltaire or a Franklin on these matters than all the opinions of all the theologians and churchmen that ever sat in council from the Council of Nicsea to the present day. This silenced him effectually. Such is the absurd line of conduct pursued by the Catholic priests of the present day in France. Instead of reforming the discipline and dogmas of their church and adapting it to the enlightened ideas of the present age, they are sedulously employd in preaching intolerant doctrines, and reviving absurd legends, and pretended miracles, which have been long ago consigned to contempt and oblivion by all rational Catholics; and by this they hope to re-establish the ecclesiastical power in its former glory and preponderance. Vain hope! By the American and French Revolutions a great light is gone up to the Gentiles. Catholicism is on its last legs, and they might as soon attempt to replace our old friend and school acquaintance Jupiter on the throne of heaven, as to re-establish the Papal power in its pristine splendour; to borrow the language of the Pilgrim's Progress, the Giant Pope will be soon as dead as the Giant Pagan.

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