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I HEARD AN INTELLECTUAL FREELY EXPRESS HIS HATRED FOR THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. WOULD THAT HE HELD A CORRESPONDING HATRED FOR ITS ATHEIST ENEMIES, FOR EXAMPLE, MAO, LENIN OR KIM IL SUNG. THE DEADLY TRIO ESPOUSED NO BELIEF IN INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM WHETHER OF RELIGION OR PURSUIT OF FINANCIAL HAPPINESS. INDEPENDENT, AFRICAN MOZAMBIQUE EXEMPLIFIES ONE ASPECT OF THIS CONTRAST BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. ITS LEADERSHIP HAS OPENED UP THE COUNTRY'S MARKETS TO THE WORLD AND DROPPED A SYSTEM OF CENTRALIZED ECONOMY WHEREIN THE GOVERNMENT OWNS CERTAIN BUSINESSES, CONTROLS SUPPLY AND DEMAND AND INHIBITS ENTREPRENEURSHIP. MOZAMBIQUE HAS REALIZED THAT WHEN ELITE POLITICIANS IMPOSE THEIR WILLS UPON THE CITIZENS, ENSLAVEMENT IS SURE TO FOLLOW.

I PITY THIS AMERICAN MAN WITH HIS HATRED FOR THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. EDUCATED, ELITIST, ICONOCLASTIC, COUNTER-CULTURAL, LEFTIST - HOWEVER HE SEES HIMSELF - HE SHOULD FIRST REMEMBER TO SEE HIMSELF AS FREE. TOO BAD HIS HATRED HAS BLINDED HIM TO THE HISTORY OF HIS FREEDOM, WROUGHT FIRST FOR HIM BY A REDEEMER, WHO BOUGHT FREEDOM FROM SIN AND FREEDOM OF FREE WILL FOR HIM BY HIS FREELY CHOSEN DEATH ON A CROSS.