{"id":71939,"date":"2015-07-31T09:11:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T17:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71939"},"modified":"2015-07-31T09:18:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T17:18:36","slug":"religion-first-state-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71939","title":{"rendered":"Religion &#038; Family First, State Second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/ModernTimes_305\/42024947-19032115-Johnson-Paul-Modern-Times-the-World-From-the-Twenties-to-the-Nineties-Revised-Edition-Harper-Collins-1991_djvu.txt\">Paul Johnson writes in Modern Times<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>De Gasperi, for his part, never recognized in Mussolini anything except a destructive radical: &#8216;Bolshevism in black&#8217;, as he put it. His own Partito Popolare Trentino was welcomed by Don Luigi Sturzo into the Catholic Popular Party,<br \/>\nwhich might have ruled inter-war Italy but for Mussolini&#8217;s putsch.<br \/>\nDe Gasperi disliked Italian parliamentary politics (&#8216;an equestrian<br \/>\ncircus&#8217;), with their theatricals and oratorial tricks, which he always<br \/>\nspurned. But he hated the big totalitarian state still more. As he said<br \/>\nat the last Partito Popolare National Congress, 28 June 1925: &#8216;The<br \/>\ntheoretical and practical principles of fascism are the antithesis of the Christian concept of the State, which lays down that the natural<br \/>\nrights of personality, family and society exist before the State.&#8217;<br \/>\nFascism was just &#8216;the old Police State reappearing in disguise, holding<br \/>\nover Christian institutions the sword of Damocles&#8217;. Hauled before a<br \/>\nfascist tribunal in November 1926, he insisted: &#8216;It is the very concept<br \/>\nof the fascist state I cannot accept. For there are natural rights which the state cannot trample upon.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So if you are an authentic Christian, Jew or Muslim, you are a member of your religion and family first, and then a citizen of the state? So perhaps Christians and Muslims as well as Jews have loyalties above the state? So perhaps Jews are not so different? So perhaps Jews don&#8217;t need to be so squeamish when accused of dual loyalties? <\/p>\n<p>Should not all righteous people be slaves to moral codes above that of state law? Codes that spring from God?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Johnson writes in Modern Times: De Gasperi, for his part, never recognized in Mussolini anything except a destructive radical: &#8216;Bolshevism in black&#8217;, as he put it. His own Partito Popolare Trentino was welcomed by Don Luigi Sturzo into the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71939\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-judaism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71939"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71945,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71939\/revisions\/71945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}