The Pope Did It?

[Gene C]

(12-17-2015 03:27 PM)Paul Serup Wrote:  So it has been well over a month since I answered Mr. Norton and I wonder if I will get a response to my latest post. Perhaps I will but no one has declared that any further answers are to be forthcoming.
So I have no response at this point to my latest.

I have read parts of 50 Years in the Church of Rome. Much of what I read was very dry and boring. The parts that I was hoping would be interesting regarding the assassination weren't, Mr Chiniquy arguments are so one sided and ridiculous that they are not worth the time and effort refuting or commenting on.

This quote attributed to Lincoln from the chapter on the assassination, page 715 -
" I do not pretend to be a prophet. But though not a prophet,
I see a very dark cloud on our horizon. And that dark cloud is
coming from Rome. It is filled with tears of blood. It will
rise and increase, till its flanks will be torn by a flash of light-
ning, followed by a fearful peal of thunder. Then a cyclone
such as the world has never seen, will pass over this country,
spreading ruin and desolation from north to south. After it is
over, there will be long days of peace and prosperity: for Popery,
with its Jesuits and merciless Inquisition, will have been forever
swept away from our country. Neither I nor you, but our chil-
dren, will see those things."

I find it hard to believe that Lincoln said this, as well as many other things about this chapter.
That's my intellectually honest opinion, and that may be why no one else has responded. Roger's reply made sense and there is nothing more I could possibly add, nor do I wish to be drawn into a into a long discussion on this.