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| Saint Peter's Cathedral, Regensburg |
Do not read Catholic material! That has been the standing Protestant policy for five-hundred years. Why? Well, if you do and persist at it with an open heart, and you have at least ordinary intelligence, you will see and be convinced of the irresistible truth of the Catholic Faith against which the gates of Hell shall never prevail!
I first noticed the influence of this policy in my USA high school liberal arts courses: e.g. English Literature, American History. The literature courses completely omitted works by such huge 20th century English authors as Belloc, Chesterton and Tolkein, C.S. Lewis (a Protestant with a thoroughly Catholic mind). As a matter of fact, the greatest 20th Century English intellectuals include a disproportionate number of Catholics among their ranks.
N.B. Unfortunately this German Protestant well known doctrine mantra of rejecting all Catholic thought and literature "Catholica non leguntur" is seldom discussed outside of Germany, but it is a bias which brought world revolutions to us and an essential ingredient for the rise of the Third Reich.
That close-minded anti-Church Protestant fideism was the seedbed for the French Revolution and the later totalitarian regimes which logically followed from the closing of the mind to truth in the name of freedom, cooperation and world peace: "liberty, equality and fraternity and death to the Church!"
Cf. The Regensburg Address.