{"id":4267,"date":"2018-09-03T14:21:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T14:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/03\/the-montini-maritain-alinksy-connection\/"},"modified":"2018-09-03T14:21:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T14:21:55","slug":"the-montini-maritain-alinksy-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/03\/the-montini-maritain-alinksy-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Montini-Maritain-Alinksy Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/remnantnewspaper.com\/web\/index.php\/articles\/item\/4029-rules-for-radicals-when-paul-vi-met-saul-alinsky\">Strange bedfellows<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">In an interview with Playboy Magazine very shortly before his death from a heart attack in 1972 at the age of 63, which interview is part of&#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/fbifiles\/100-BA-30057.pdf\">a declassified FBI file<\/a>, the man Maritain asked to pray for him declared that he would unhesitatingly choose hell over heaven:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><strong>PLAYBOY<\/strong>: Having accepted your own mortality, do \u00b7you believe in any kind of afterlife?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><strong>ALINSKY<\/strong>: Sometimes it seems to me that the question people should ask is not \u201cis there life after death?\u201d but \u201cIs there life after birth?\u201d I don&#39;t know whether there\u2019s anything after this or not. I haven\u2019t seen the evidence one way or the other and I don&#39;t think anybody else has either. But I do know that man\u2019s obsession with the question comes out of his stubborn refusal to face up to his own mortality.&#0160;<em>Let\u2019s say that if there is an afterlife, and I have anything to say about it, I will unreservedly choose to go to hell.&#0160;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><strong>PLAYBOY<\/strong>: Why?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><strong>ALINSKY<\/strong>:&#0160;<em>Hell would be heaven for me<\/em>. All my life I\u2019ve been with the have-nots. Over here, if you\u2019re a have-not, you\u2019re short of dough. If you\u2019re a have-not in hell, you\u2019re short of virtue. Once I get into hell, I\u2019ll start organizing the have-nots over there.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><strong>PLAYBOY<\/strong>: Why them?&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><strong>ALINSKY<\/strong>:&#0160;<em>They\u2019re my kind of people.&#0160;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">I enjoyed the delicious incoherence of Alinsky&#39;s first response.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strange bedfellows In an interview with Playboy Magazine very shortly before his death from a heart attack in 1972 at the age of 63, which interview is part of&#0160;a declassified FBI file, the man Maritain asked to pray for him declared that he would unhesitatingly choose hell over heaven: PLAYBOY: Having accepted your own mortality, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/03\/the-montini-maritain-alinksy-connection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Montini-Maritain-Alinksy Connection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-corner","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}