Why is Hollywood so determined to portray Christianity as a foe of political freedom when actually it is the originator and guarantor of it? The answers are obvious, sadly, but the ongoing results are vexing.
Night Train to Lisbon with Jeremy Irons is a beautifully filmed and cast story set primarily during the last days of Portugal’s Salazar regime. Salazar and his anointed successor, until the 1975 revolution, were akin to Franco next door in Spain. The regime offered stability and economic growth, resting on a form of Catholic authoritarianism, while also repressing its adversaries.
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