By David Carlin, The Catholic Thing, Jan. 5, 2024
David Carlin is a retired professor of sociology and philosophy at the Community College of Rhode Island, and the author of The Decline and Fall of the Catholic Church in America, Three Sexual Revolutions: Catholic, Protestant, Atheist, and most recently Atheistic Humanism, the Democratic Party, and the Catholic Church.
When a great revolution takes place, there will be the makings of a counter-revolution. For there will always be many people who dislike the revolution, even hate it with a passion.
When the great French Revolution took place, it was hated by many people, e.g., most of the nobility and all ardent Catholics (most French Catholics then, like most American Catholics today, were not awfully ardent). When the Bolshevik Revolution took place, many people living in the immense Russian Empire hated it. When the Nazi Revolution took place in Germany, many Germans hated it. …