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*, Rutland, Vermont May 24, 1947 COPY Dear Mrs. Collin; I have read your letter to the editor of the Herald and found it very boring, and that of a narrow-minded intloerant ignorams which are thickly- populated nowadays especially among the followers of the Catholic Hierarchy. “hen a catholic speaks of "love your neighbour as yourself," and "forgive your enemies", he means the Catholic neighbour, and even at that he is not very sincere. The teachings of Christ (unless the man himself is a myth) perhaps are too per- fect for human practice. To me the whole Christian cult, but especially the Catholic cult, is the biggest historical fraud in human history, that have be- fuddled and darkened the minds of humanity for the past two thousand years. So many sins, persecutions, wars and enslavements have been perpetrated, all in the name of Christ and God. Perhaps you have read of the Catholic Inquisition of the 15th and 16th centuries when thousands where tortured, burned and slaughtered; The Protestant Reformation and the religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries came when the princes of Germany made up their minds to keep for themselves the money that was pouring from the pockets of their people into the coffers of the Vatican; and the "Holy" Crusades were an attempt to recapture a trade route from the "inficel" Moslems. All these, under the name of Christianity, were nothing but a shrewdly-disguised propaganda from Rome, to enrich the priveleged clerical Catholic oligarchies by exploiting the ignorance and poverty and prey on the super- stitions of the suffering masses. In the present times we have the Catholic blessings of fascist Spain, Portugal, Argentina and several other countries right in our own hemisphere, The Pope even made secret business with Shintoist Japan during the War, He blessed the Italian "volunteers" in St. Peter's square before leaving for Spain to fight their fellow-Catholic brothers. He glossed over the news every time the Nagi and Fasist planes murdered thousands of innocent men, women and children. He shook hands with Franco after the victory was won, all thanks to his "holy" blessings. My main point is this: I intollerate those individuals, creeds, societies and concepts that tolerate race prejudice, pogroms, religious hatreds and bigotries, class antagonisms, the spreading nationalistic hatred in a people of one country against another and suppression of freedom of speech and assembly. We are a long shot yet from those principles that were preached by the great humanitarians of history of many lands. Christianity, and especially Catholicism, from your point of view, does not have the monopoly of right and wrong; and that Christianity alone is not the sole salvation of humanity. Christ was not the originator of his philsophy. People talk about Communists and fascists and other "ists" as being agents of a foreign country, I say, that I would classify Catholicism in this country or any country as anagent of the Vatican and its dictator, the Pope. Most of the Orthodox Catholic homes have the picture of the Pope hanging on the wall. The Catholic's first duty and obedience, therefore is to the Pope and the Vatican. The Popes through the centuries have been the most ruthless and the shrewdest and the sinisterest politicians whose intrigues were behind every major blood semitism has been their favorite sport. A PIFORMATION CONT AIRED