Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 1:33 pm Post subject: Trivial Pursuit (Category - Religion)Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:36 pm Post subject: | Quote: |
| Plans are in the works by local historians to dedicate a memorial later this month to the mostly Catholic residents who stood up to turn fire hoses on the 400 armed Klansmen who marched through their town.
The interlopers burned crosses on a hill overlooking Lilly in hopes of advancing Protestant supremacy. Details of the memorial dedication ceremony will be announced within weeks, said Lilly resident Jim Salony, who has spearheaded the project. “The Klan was a growing force in this area. And – unlike the Klan in the South, where they were against blacks – here they were against immigrants,” said Salony, a retired college professor and local historian. A secondary reason for the Klansmen to try to intimidate the locals may be because Lilly was a stronghold for the United Mine Workers. The April 5 confrontation was viewed as a turning point in Klan organizing, which had penetrated Johnstown and Altoona and was headed north. “Lilly’s resistance to the Klan’s demonstration proved to be the beginning of the end of the Klan’s advance into northeastern United States,” Salony said. “After that, we started to see a decline.” In that Lilly encounter, three men died of gunshot wounds and at least 20 men were injured. |
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| “This was planned months ahead of time,” Conrad said Friday. “It really was because of religion. Lilly was 90 percent Catholic.”
The hate doctrine of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1800s, with opposition to blacks and Jews, moved into more northern states starting about 1915. And in the north, the hatred turned toward the mostly Irish and Italian immigrants and their religion, Conrad said. -from that article |
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| The more I have, the longer I live. |
I was off CC for a while uploading music to YouTube, but explained that in another post to Bingo & JoAnn! You'd probably find that also. It's under "Jokes Are Noble Too" by: JoAnnCQ.
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| Is the following OK JACQ, since it is your's & CC's thread now. |
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:29 pm Post subject: | Wikipedia wrote: |
| Over time, schisms have disrupted the unity of Christianity. The major divisions occurred in 318 with Arianism, in 1054 the East-West Schism of the Roman Catholic Church with the Eastern Orthodox Church and in 1517 with the Protestant Reformation. |
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| But there is that "lately". The only "lately" that I can come up with is the Christian Right, tho they are not exactly a church.
Since the fall of godless communism, the CR has trained their sights on sexual minorities and abortion in their drive to instill fear in the less educated and thereby raise the filthy lucre they require to unite church and state, inflict their "moral values" on you, me and your Aunt Tilley's dog,, and ultimately, to replace democracy with theocracy (like Iran). |
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