f Virtue.
When I was living beneath the folds of the black banner of
Catholicism, I sincerely and devoutly believed that to shield a
Catholic criminal was a righteous and Godly calling, as I believed
that to prevent the civil law from taking hold of the criminal career
of a Catholic official, for his short-comings, was but an act of
Godly justice.
I also believed that anything that was done between the walls of a
Nunnery was sanctified by the approval of those who were higher in
authority in the Catholic Church than myself; therefore, the things
which I now realize are both criminal and immoral, as well as utterly
detestable, I at one time considered righteous, simply because my
education had been confined to the narrow channels of bigotry, and
the effulgency of Biblical knowledge had never penetrated my
Romish-inspired perceptibilities.
I believe that I will make many assertions in this chapter that have
never been made before, but there will not be an assertion made but
what is true; however, there will be many that will arise from the
trenches of Catholicism to denounce the truthfulness of them, but I
know whereof I speak, and I defy any mortal man to successfully
dispute what I may state.
This chapter will relate to monasteries and nunneries, which in olden
times were called "asylums."
These asylums are used by Catholicism to scuffle criminals of their
following into, in defiance of law and justice, as these asylums are
notorious among those who are on the inside workings of this creed,
as to places where Catholic criminals can be concealed without fear
of having the civil law bring them to justice, as these places are a
retreat for Catholic criminals who are pursued by the ministers of
justice, and where, so long as they remain, they cannot be arrested;
but in order to elevate these "asylums" to the plane of religion,
they, are called by different names which are _misnomers_, and are
only raised to the level of religious institutions to cover up the
infamy of their actual missions, as Catholicism has learned that as
long as she can throw around and about herself a religious glamor,
that she is permitted to go ahead and violate the laws of man without
molestation.
The "asylums" of olden times were intended as retreats for those who
were persecuted for their religious belief, but the mission of these
institutions became useless, under the splendid and godly progress of
Protestantism, as Protestantism
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