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...most controversial religious book of the year was published last week.* Written by Theodore Maynard, an ex-Congrega-tionalist who is now a well-known Catholic writer and lecturer, it is the first full-length popular history of the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. Much of it is bound to make Protestants see red. Sample Maynard polemic...
...Protestantism - especially American Protestantism -is now so doctrinally decayed as to be incapable of offering any serious opposition. . . . Except for isolated 'fundamentalists' - and these are pretty thoroughly discredited and without intellectual leader ship - Catholicism would cut through Protestantism as through so much butter." Dr. Maynard is an old hand at stirring up churchmen. As a 19-year-old English man he came to the U.S. in 1909 to study for the Congregational ministry, was promptly fired from his first pulpit for preaching a sermon on "Silly fools, stupid fools and damned fools" which his hearers considered much...
Protestant Exterminators. Polemicist Maynard starts his cracks at Protestants with the coming of the first Protestant settlers. After praising the "notable humanity"of various Spanish conquistadores, he declares that "the policy of [Indian] extermination had to wait for the coming of English Protestants," reflects sadly that "all the Indians . . . might have been won for Christ . . . had not the Protestant settlements undone the work of the Spanish and French missionaries...
Jefferson Aquinas. Many historians have argued that U.S. democracy is the direct outgrowth of colonial Protestantism, with its emphasis on individual responsibility, but Dr. Maynard has a different theory: "Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers [considered] Locke's Two Treatises on Government as the Bible of the Revolution. . . . Now Locke's thought was formed by Hooker, and Hooker's thought was formed by St. Thomas Aquinas." Furthermore, most U.S. Catholics supported the Revolution "because the principles of the Revolution were so closely consonant with Catholic political philosophy...
...Maynard knows how to give good advice if not to take it. His counsel to journalists: "Merely to expose Protestant bigotry is an endless process, the cutting off of the Hydra's heads, and accomplishes nothing. It is about time that we learned that the most effectual way of making other people Catholics is by ourselves becoming Christians...