PAPAL SERPENTS
POPES WHO CHARMED THE WORLD BUT CARRIED THE KISS OF DEATH
Even in this age that should know better, the popes are looked up to far too
much in society and in the media. If people want to be manipulated by the popes,
then it is up to them to change.
BLESSED PIUS IX
Pope Pius IX who proclaimed the dogmas that Mary was conceived without sin and
that the pope was infallible and called Vatican 1 in 1870 has been declared
Blessed (beatified) in September 2000 by Pope John Paul II. This is the final
step to sainthood.
This man had papal prisons into which people were thrown for minor treasons. He
revived public hangings in the Papal States which he ruled with a rod of iron.
He sanctioned anti-Semitic laws.
He kidnapped a Jewish boy Edgardo Mortara from his parents. This boy was
baptised secretly by his midwife and the Church authorities heard about it and
took him away because they believed since he belonged to the Church by baptism
his Jewish parents had no right to raise him. He would now be raised in the
Catholic Church. The pope adopted him and the lad used to play under his robes!
This pope who should have been in jail for kidnapping and possibly child
molestation is now one day to become St Pius IX. Pius IX was so hated that he
was almost thrown into the Tiber after he died. Pope John Paul II beatified him
and thereby committed a great crime against humanity. The beatification was even
opposed by The Tablet which shows that John Paul is one of the wackiest and most
obstinate popes ever. Under John Paul II, the Church has continued in the
duplicity that is evident in its approach to the miracles it uses to justify a
beatification or canonisation. This duplicity causes it to reveal very little
about the miracles it authenticates. The Church even uses its own team to
investigate them! This means you have only the Vatican’s word for it that a
miracle has taken place. The Vatican is just going to listen to whoever tells it
what it wants to hear. Doctors don’t lose their jobs for making mistakes in
areas like that which is a further reason for concern that the miracles may be
nonsense. And yet these miracles are the excuse the Church takes for making
people saints. When a person’s intercession seems to have caused a miracle cure
the person could be made a saint if the Vatican likes her or his doctrine and
above all is satisfied that he or she was a slave of the papacy.
ST PIUS X
The tyrannical reign of Pope St Pius X ran from 1903 to 1914.
He issued a compendium of Catholic Doctrine called The Catholic Faith which
ordered Catholics not to read any Bibles given to them by Protestants but to
hate the books and burn them or give them to the priest. It claimed they were
corrupted and had errors. He even went as far as to forbid Catholic Bibles when
they are printed without the explanations that make the Bible defend Catholic
doctrine (page 4, The Church of Rome and the Word of God).
Deuteronomy 18 says that if a prophet makes no errors when claiming to be
speaking for God that prophet should be believed but if he makes just one
mistake he should not be believed at all. This implies that every person has to
read the Bible and make sure there are no errors in it in order to believe in it
with God’s blessing. Even God – being out of character I must say - does not
like even the truth to be believed for the wrong reasons. Pius banned Bibles so
he is obviously saying that he does.
To me, Deuteronomy 18 presupposes a short Bible. It says we cannot listen to an
accurate prophet after he makes one false prediction or contradicts a message
from God previously given. If so then how much less can we listen to people who
claim they can interpret the word of God for us. We need to have a short Bible
to do the studying and examination ourselves. A shorter Bible is easier to
distribute, learn and study and check out. The one we have is long and the Torah
of which Deuteronomy is a part gives no intimation that any more scripture will
come, apart from what the Great Prophet promised in chapter 18 himself will
reveal.
POPE PIUS XII
Adolf Hitler praised Christianity in Mein Kampf. In Volume 1, Chapter 11 he
mentioned the incident in the gospels were Jesus was reported to have attacked
the Jews with a whip in the Temple of Jerusalem. He found it inspirational for
what he wanted to do to the Jews himself. He spoke of Christianity as an
apodictic faith (Volume 2, chapter 5). This means a faith that is absolutely
certain to be true. Hitler’s regime was inspired by the vicious commands in the
Bible to kill heretics and people who refused to listen to God’s prophets. The
Catholic Church is ultimately responsible for all this for it promotes the Bible
as the word of God knowing fine well the dangers of taking it seriously. Today ,
the Church is afraid to be vicious and pretends to be a lamb. It just gives
people the sugary side of the faith. But what is to stop somebody paying more
attention to the stinging side of the faith, the side that thirsts for blood?
The Church was so impressed by Hitler and the Nazis that to this day it supports
the kind of teachings that led Hitler to do what he did and which led the
Catholics of Germany to collude with him in the destruction of the Jews (page
165, In Defence of Atheism).
The Catholic Church agreed with the rearmament of Germany and said nothing while
Hitler embarked on the persecution of the Jews and enforced the boycotting of
their businesses (page 182). The Nuremberg laws advocating racism in 1935 got no
criticism from the Church either. The Church let the Nazis have its Church and
genealogical records knowing the Nazis wanted them to determine who was of
Jewish race (page 183, In Defence of Atheism). The Church also helped Nazi
criminals escape justice by having them smuggled out of Europe (page 183, In
Defence of Atheism).
Pius XII as pope was ultimately responsible for the evils committed by the
Church against the Jews during the time the Church had its love relationship
with the Nazi regime.
The Pope was infamous for saying nothing to condemn the Nazis NOT EVEN when
their regime had been destroyed. He knew of the Holocaust and said nothing. The
Catholic hypocrites say the pope had to say nothing for the Vatican could have
ended up being invaded by the Nazis. But he could have left Rome. They say their
Jesus would say the right thing to do was to speak out no matter what and leave
the consequences to God. The Pope had plenty to say about the Communist regimes
(page 184, In Defence of Atheism). Again the hypocrites speak. They say he had
to be silent on what Hitler was doing for it would only make things worse and
would lead to persecution of the Church by the Nazis. Is that believable when
the Communist regimes were expressly working to vanquish the Church and
persecute its members and the Pope spared no words in condemning them?
Pius XII expelled the Communists of the world from the Church in 1949 and said
the Jews were pulling Communist strings up to some level. He gave that alleged
collusion between Communists and Jews as a reason for the excommunication he
pronounced (page 184, (page 183, In Defence of Atheism). No Nazi was ever
excommunicated. While Canon Law excommunicated any Catholic who voiced dissent
from “infallible” Catholic doctrines such as Mary being conceived without sin,
no such excommunication existed for the Nazis who preached racism and the duty
to get rid of the Jews by any means possible. Hitler’s Mein Kampf never ended up
on the Index of Forbidden Books.
In Defence of Atheism reminds us that Hitler was no atheist because he had a
religious text from the Bible put on the belt buckles of the soldiers of the
Reich and enforced prayer in schools.
St Augustine, no doubt the Pope had prayed to him at some time, campaigned to
defend torture and slavery and capital punishment as a Catholic theologian.
BLESSED JOHN XXIII
Pope John Paul II has beatified John XXIII who reigned from 1958 to 1963. In
1962, John XXIII issued a decree that excommunicated any Catholic who did not
keep an agreement with the Church to keep absolutely silent on priests who were
using the confessional for sexual favours. He wanted child-abuse covered up. The
document Crimen Sollicitationis which contained these evil rules never forbade
the abuse or give directions about stopping it. Anyway how could it for it was
up to the civil law to do that and it didn’t want it involved? If they didn’t
want to cover up, then why such a harsh penalty such as excommunication?
Excommunication means one is at a hugely increased risk of going to suffer in
hell forever if one dies for without the sacraments the soul is in trouble. The
children were blackmailed by the threat of excommunication to keep quiet. To
blackmail a child making a complaint about a priest misusing the confessional to
seduce them is the lowest act possible. The secrecy and threats made sure that
children would have to be silent and just live with the abuse.
The decree was found in 2003 by Texan lawyer Daniel Shea who handed the document
bearing the papal seal over to the authorities in the USA for a federal
investigation. The document was sent to all the bishops in the world and was
top-secret. It shows just how vile the bishops were and are. No decent human
being would have kept that secret. John XXIII fooled so many people with his
conniving charm that the media sadly did not attack him with the ferocity they
should have. His body has been found amazingly well preserved in the Vatican and
has been displayed. The Vatican downplayed the suspicion that it was a miracle
and gave a natural explanation.
John Paul II otherwise known as John Paul the Great will no doubt be made a
saint especially if Pope Benedict XVI has his way. But John Paul ignoring the
fact that the Bible God and Jesus were very liberal regarding capital punishment
in times when many trials were fit-ups. has proved himself a heretic by claiming
that it is rarely if ever right. He is a heretic for it's all over his Bible and
the traditions of the popes who wanted heretics put to death. John Paul II
scandalised many orthodox Catholics by initiating many outrageous ecumenical
gestures, one seeing a statue of Buddha placed on an altar in Assisi basilica
(page 20, Christian Order) despite the strict Bible teaching that God gave
against idolatry and good relations with pagan religions.
Bizarrely Pope Callistus 217-22 AD and the rival pope Hippolytus 217-235 AD are
regarded as saints! St Hippolytus however was no doubt an anti-pope leading a
false and schismatic Catholic Church. The big majority of popes for the first
five hundred years were saints. This is odd for the list doesn’t have as many
saints afterwards! See the list in Pope Fiction, a book the details of which are
at the bottom of the page.
POPE NAZINGER
German Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI in April 2005.
He was a member of Hitler Youth in Nazi Germany.
He says he had no choice.
He always claimed to be very holy. He teaches that you can be heroically holy
only if you want to be. So he had a choice. He should have chosen death or
imprisonment rather than join Hitler Youth. If he was that confident in God, he
would have had refused to join. He canonised people who embraced big trouble
because they trusted in God.
The rabid anti-Semitism of the Roman Catholic Church at the time certainly makes
one doubt that he joined Hitler Youth kicking and screaming.
And he could have got across the border and out of Germany.
For the record, it is not true that he had no choice.
Hitler Youth did not absolutely force. He would have had
disadvantages but he was not going to jail for going to be killed.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/hitler-youth-2
tells us that Hitler Youth kept followers busy and they often had no
time to go to Church and it was a paramilitary organisation.
Ratzinger was willing to risk harming Jews and getting brainwashed
rather than do the right thing. He clearly would have been
involved in learning to use weapons and helping others to do so.
Conclusion
It is no good work for the Catholic Church to proclaim holy men such as these to
be good men. It is a disgrace and the crimes of the popes should be abhorred far
and wide.
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