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This thread is dedicated to those shady actors who like to pose as Christians, but are eagerly collaborating with godless forces on the Left. (We are not talking about just clerics who sometimes say something about workers' rights, or similar sort of folks, but really blatant infiltrators or dhimmi lackeys.)
We might start with the French Revolution, since that is where the history of modern Left really begins. abbé Barruel named and shamed some of his fellow abbés:
We might start with the French Revolution, since that is where the history of modern Left really begins. abbé Barruel named and shamed some of his fellow abbés:
Barruel Memoirs Illustrating The History Of Jacobinism : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism (French: Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire du Jacobinisme) is a book by Abbé Augustin Barruel, a French...
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If under the name of Clergy were comprehended all those who in France wore the half-livery of the church, all that class of men who in Paris, and some of the great towns, styled themselves Abbés, history might reproach the clergy with traitors and apostates from the first dawn of the Conspiracy. We find the Abbé de Prades the first apostate, and happily first to repent; the Abbé Morellet, whose disgrace is recorded in the repeated praises of Voltaire and D’Alembert;1 the Abbé Condillac, who was to sophisticate the morals of his royal pupil; and above all, that Abbé Raynal, whose name alone is tantamount to twenty demoniacs of the Sect.
Paris swarmed with those Abbés; we still say, the Abbé Barthelemi, the Abbé Beaudeau, again the Abbé Noel, and the Abbé Sieyès. But the people, on the whole, did not confound them with the clergy. They knew them to be the offspring of avarice, seeking the livings but laying aside the duties of the church; or through economy adopting the dress, while by their profligacy and irreligious writings they dishonored it. The numbers of these amphibious animals, and particularly in the metropolis, may be one of the severest reproaches against the clergy. However great the distinctions made between these and the latter may have been, the repeated scandals of the former powerfully helped the Conspiracy, by laying themselves open to satire, which retorted upon the whole body, and affected the real ministers of the altar. Many of these Abbés, who did not believe in God, had obtained livings through the means of the Sophisters, who by soliciting dignities for their adepts sought to introduce their principles, and dishonour the clergy by their immorality. It was the plague that they spread in the enemy’s camp; and not daring to face them in the field, they sought to poison their springs.
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