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You might be right. \u00a0If you know it was bad but nothing like the worst evil of the century over Hiroshima, then you might be a Catholic blogger. \u00a0Over at CAEI<\/a>, Mark Shea gushes over a good priest who realizes what true evil really is. \u00a0It\u2019s not moral equivalency. \u00a0That would be saying that Truman was no better than Hitler, or that the Atomic bombs were no better than the Holocaust. \u00a0Nope. \u00a0He\u2019s saying we were worse. Of course liberalism, \u00a0being a revolution, wants to paint America in the worst colors, therefore justifying the call to burn it to the ground and rebuild it in a post-Christian, secular liberal vision. <\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not as if in Protestant circles, we didn\u2019t struggle between wrapping the church in a flag and preaching from on high. \u00a0But I\u2019m often taken at the brutal harshness with which Catholics level charges at America. \u00a0Not all. \u00a0In fact, not most. \u00a0But from Cardinal Sheen to Ford to Mark, there seems to be a tendency across the American Catholic world to say there is evil, but evil done by America is always evil cubed. \u00a0Stereotypes must have a basis in some reality I guess. \u00a0Or maybe it\u2019s just modern American.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"