https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/6269-should-god-apologize-to-sodom/
Michael Matt asks: who are the baddies and who are the goodies? Well, we know who the baddies are, but the badness didn't start with them, and it probably won't end with them. It started at least two centuries ago, with the Freemasons.
In the publication known as the Protocols of the Sages of Sion, the plan is laid out. Fr. Edward Cahill wrote about this problem (as did Fr. Fahey, another Irish priest). Here are a few quotes from the protocols, as published in Hugh Akins' outline of Fr. Cahill's book on the subject.
From the Protocols:
"Until the time when we attain power we will try to create and multiply lodges of Freemasons in all parts of the world....these lodges will be the principle places from which we will attain our information, as well as being centers of our propaganda. We will centralize these lodges under one management known to us alone, which will consist of our learned men....
"All of the wheels of the mechanism of the State are set in motion by a power which is in our hands, that is to say, gold....On the ruins of the natural and hereditary aristocracy we have set up the aristocracy of our educated class, and over all the aristocracy of money...
"In order to keep them [the people] for discovering for themselves any new line of action in politics, we will distract them by various kinds of amusements, games, pastimes, public-houses (bars, clubs, etc.), and so on. Soon we will start advertising in the press, inviting people to enter for various competitions in all manner of enterprises, such as art, sport, etc. These new interests will definitely distract the public mind from such questions as we have to contest with the people.
"We will encourage the love for boundless luxury, which we have already developed. We will increase the wages, which will not help the workman; for at the same time we will raise the prices of prime necessities, taking as a pretext the bad return of agriculture. we will also artfully undermine the basis of production by sowing the seeds of anarchy among the workmen, and encouraging them in the drinking of spirits [and the use of drugs].....We will conceal the true position of affairs by an apparent desire to help the working-classes in solving great economic problems.
"In the whole of Europe, and on other continents with the help of Europe, we must promote dissentions and mutual hostility...
"We must be in a position to meet every opposition with a declaration of war on the part of the neighboring counties of that state which dares to stand in our way, but if such neighbors in their turn were to decide to unite in opposing us we must respond by creating a universal war....
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"We have taken great care to discredit the clergy of the gentiles in the eyes of the people, and have succeeded in injuring their mission which could have been very much in our way. The influence of the clergy on the people is diminishing daily. Today freedom of religion prevails everywhere, and the time is only a few years off when Christianity will fall to pieces altogether.....