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July 04, 2010

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward

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From Quantum praedecessores, Pope Eugene III's "Summons to A Crusade" of December 1, 1154.

We exhort therefore all of you in God, we ask and command, and, for the remission of sins enjoin: that those who are of God, and, above all, the greater men and the nobles do manfully gird themselves; and that you strive so to oppose the multitude of the infidels, who rejoice at the time in a victory gained over us, and so to defend the oriental church -freed from their tyranny by so great an outpouring of the blood of your fathers, as we have said, - and to snatch many thousands of your captive brothers from their hands,- that the dignity of the Christian name may be increased in your time, and that your valour which is praised throughout the whole world, may remain intact and unshaken.

If not now, when?

Happy birthday, America.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at July 4, 2010 08:28 AM