Watch your language!

[Occhidiangela]

Thanks.

Thank you for your reply. If I may I'd like to address myself to a few of your points to provide clarification. First, I did not presume a recognized political authority for the papacy, nor did I assert that a Catholic would necessarily hold this. I asserted that Catholics support the legitimacy of the papacy to declare with utmost authority in matters of faith and morals. I asked if you would disagree that this assertion is an inseparable tenet of Catholicism, and if this is an inseparable tenet, then whether one who disputes the correctness of this tenet under any other name is really disputing Catholicism - your words, in explanation of the phrase "papist hacienda system," nearly mirrored this tenet with the exception of adding "and more."

Second, I have not to my knowledge constructed, or reconstructed, any religious model, be it opposed to or in favor of secular political authority, or otherwise. The only reference I made in this regard was to the Declaration of Independence so as to illustrate an example I drew to qualify my failure to grasp, without additional explanation or example, the meaning of the phrase, "broken fusion of autocratic and religious social models that impact modern day political and societal behaviors and norms."

Third, my knowledge of South and Central America, and South or Central American "cultural models" is slight to nonexistent, be they feudal, broken, or otherwise; I have never been to South American, I have never studied South America, I don't know a burrito from a chalupa when it's served to me in a Mexican restaurant. I do therefore presume that your knowledge in this area may greatly exceed mine, hence I hoped to ask questions of you so that my ignorance in this regard would not continue unabated.

Fourth, I have not disputed your assertion that all cultures are not equal.

Please, do not consider that I am arguing for, or against, anything up to this point; I am simply trying to understand the assertion made that, "increasing the percentage of people whose common cultural assumptions are based on a broken Papist Hacienda system is not good for America." I began first by asking for definition of those parts of the phrase which by unfamiliarity, or by virtue of being a unique coinage, I didn't understand ("broken papist hacienda system") and then hoped to  incorporate that understanding into "people whose common cultural assumptions are based on a broken Papist Hacienda system," so that I could understand why this was "not good for America." I haven't reached this point yet, but I suspect that if I continue my questions to this end that I will exhaust the indulgence and patience of those who have persevered this far with me, and that would not be fair coin to pay for the knowledge I hoped to gain.
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