Talk:Romanism

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Contents 1 Romanism 2 anti-Catholic hate does not belong in Wikipedia 3 Offensive? 4 Eliminating the word's meaning doesn't help

[edit] Romanism

I changed "it was" to "it is" since I would frankly still use that term, and some others do too. It was used as recently as 1924; it's not an archaic expression. Go to www.chick.com, and you'll find it used like that somewhere.

[edit] anti-Catholic hate does not belong in Wikipedia

I edited the entry to eliminate the spurious claims made and not sourced in any way, and to more accurately describe the current usage of the term. Doc5467 04:48, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Offensive?

Why was the word offensive to Catholics? Drutt 06:13, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Eliminating the word's meaning doesn't help

The dictionary meaning of "Romanism" always includes reference to Roman Law, and the implication "compare Germanist" found in Webster's Third New International Dictionary of 1966 cites the usefulness of broadly looking at both, and without bias, to the underlying and influencing concepts. For example, Germany is a mountainous country that some believe nurtured individualism.

What is the "Romanism" the "Anti-Catholics" disliked? By sloughing Romanism queries to an "Anti-Catholics" page, this page does a disservice, as do the editors of Cold War pages who give the impression there was a black-and-white conflict. Some would say what the Cold War and Romanism had in common was that the precursor of each was something formidable, and which was valuable to have in mind, because it represented a thought-through philosophical construct, which might be applied to a variety of contexts. The political methods of Rome extended beyond "Divide and Conquer" to the Fasces, the maintenance of a large harassing under-bureaucracy, and other devices, though it might be competently argued that some of the method of Rome attributed to Caesar-driven policy was more likely authored by human nature. Likewise, it could be argued the "Communism" threat, as Madeline Albright observed in at least one speech, might be a vestigial/seminal Tsarist imperial policy/bureaucracy weakly influenced by Marxism.

Even if there were no connection between Rome and Roman Catholicism -- even by the two opposing one another and adapting to one another's strategies, the word "Romanism" implies Rome and its inscrutable thinking and methods.

That is the meaning of the word as implied in a variety of contexts of literature written in past centuries, and which the nature of a printed dictionary is less apt to include except by way of implication. 66.53.223.236 (talk) 05:09, 27 May 2008 (UTC)