Tuesday, April 06, 2010

The Jesuits and the Counter-Reformation - Part 1

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The great Protestant Reformation changed the world. But forces arose almost immediately to nullify its monumental effect to bring the world back into line with Papal teachings. This presentation covers the history of the Jesuits and how they countered the reformation movement. The Jesuits countered the gains of the Reformation movement, setting up seats of opposition in every court, seeking to undermine and corrupt the men and women who stood for Christ. Through secret societies they put into place the false teachings that blurred the lines of reason and effectively buried the Protestant movement. Nothing remains of the Reformation movement of Martin Luther and his colleagues. The Jesuits have effectively rewritten history. How do Jesuits fit into current world events? Are the Jesuits still relevant?


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St. Augustine Movement


Muriatic Acid Poured to get Coloreds Out of the Pool. June 1964.


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St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest city founded by Europeans in the United States and a major tourist destination. In 1963 and 1964 it also played a key role in the Civil Rights Movement and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.[1][2]

Despite the 1954 Supreme Court act in Brown v. Board of Education, which ruled that the "separate but equal" legal status of public schools made those schools inherently unequal, St. Augustine still had only six black children admitted into white schools. The homes of two of the families of these children were burned by local segregationists while other families were forced to move out of the county because the parents were fired from their jobs.

In 1963 a sit-in protest at the local Woolworth's lunch counter ended in the arrest and imprisonment of 16 young black protesters and seven juveniles. Four of the children, two of whom were 16 year old girls, were sent to “reform” school and retained for six months. The St. Augustine Four, as they came to be known, JoeAnn Anderson, Audrey Nell Edwards, Willie Carl Singleton and Samuel White, had their case publicized as an egregious injustice by Jackie Robinson, the national NAACP, the Pittsburgh Courier newspaper and others.[3] Finally, a special action of the governor and cabinet of Florida freed them in January 1964[4]

In September 1963, the Ku Klux Klan staged a rally of several hundred Klansmen on the outskirts of town. They seized NAACP leader and local dentist Robert Hayling and three other NAACP activists (Clyde Jenkins, James Jackson and James Hauser) whom they beat with fists, chains, and clubs.[5] The four men were rescued by Highway Patrol officers. St. Johns County Sheriff L. O. Davis arrested four white men for the beating and also arrested the four unarmed blacks for "assaulting" the large crowd of armed Klansmen. Charges against the Klansmen were dismissed, but Hayling was convicted of "criminal assault" against the KKK mob.[3][6]

In the spring of 1964, Dr. Hayling put out a call to northern college students to come to St. Augustine for spring break, not to go to the beach, but to take part in civil rights activities. Accompanying them were four prominent Boston women: three wives of Episcopal bishops, and the fourth the wife of the vice president of the John Hancock Insurance Company. It was front page news on April 1, 1964 when one of them, Mrs. Mary Parkman Peabody, the 72 year old mother of the governor of Massachusetts, was arrested in an integrated group at the Ponce de Leon Motor Lodge, north of town.[7]

That event brought the movement in St. Augustine to international attention. Over the next few months, the city got more publicity than it ever had in its many centuries of existence. The massive non-violent direct action campaign was led by Hayling, and Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) staff including: Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Andrew Young, Hosea Williams, C. T. Vivian, Fred Shuttlesworth, Willie Bolden, J. T. Johnson, Dorothy Cotton and others. Civil rights activists made St. Augustine the stage for a moral drama enacted before a world audience.[8]

From May until July 1964 protesters endured abuse, beatings, and verbal assaults without any retaliation. By absorbing the violence and hate instead of striking back the protesters gained national sympathy and were a key factor in passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The movement engaged in nightly marches down King Street. The protesters were met by white segregationists who violently assaulted them. Hundreds of the marchers were arrested and incarcerated. The jail was filled, so subsequent detainees were kept in an uncovered stockade in the hot sun.[5][9]

When attempts were made to integrate the beaches of Anastasia Island, demonstrators were beaten and driven into the water by segregationists. Some of the protesters could not swim and had to be saved from possible drowning by other demonstrators. [10]

St. Augustine was the only place in Florida where Dr. Martin Luther King was arrested, on June 11, 1964 on the steps of the Monson motel restaurant. He wrote a "Letter from the St. Augustine Jail" to his old friend, Rabbi Israel Dresner, in New Jersey, urging him to recruit rabbis to come to St. Augustine and take part in the movement. The result was the largest mass arrest of rabbis in American history on June 18, 1964 at the Monson motel.[3]

The demonstrations came to a climax when a group of black and white protesters jumped into the swimming pool at the Monson Motor Lodge. In response to the protest the manager of the motel, James Brock, who was the president of the Florida Hotel & Motel Association, was photographed pouring acid into the pool to get the protesters out.[3] Photographs of this, and of a policeman jumping into the pool to arrest them, were broadcast around the world and became some of the most famous images of the entire civil rights movement. The motel and pool were demolished in March 2003, despite five years of protests, thus eliminating one of the nation's important landmarks of the Civil Rights Movement.[11] A Hilton Hotel was built on the site.


References
1.^ Civil Rights Movement Veterans. "St. Augustine FL, Movement — 1963". http://www.crmvet.org/tim/tim63b.htm#1963staug.
2.^ Civil Rights Movement Veterans. "St. Augustine FL, Movement — 1964". http://www.crmvet.org/tim/timhis64.htm#1964staug.
3.^ a b c d Branch, Taylor (1998). Pillar of Fire. Simon & Schuster.
4.^ United States Commission on Civil Rights, 1965. Law Enforcement: A Report on Equal Protection in the South. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, p. 47.
5.^ a b St. Augustine Movement - M.L. King Research & Education Institute, Stanford University
6.^ Duncan, Gwendolyn (2004), "Dr. Robert B. Hayling", Civil Rights Movement Veterans, http://www.crmvet.org/info/staug1.htm
7.^ Lincolnville Historic District - National Park Service
8.^ St. Augustine FL Movement — 1964 ~ Civil Rights Movement Veterans
9.^ Garrow, David (1986). Bearing the Cross. Morrow.
10.^ Bryce, Shirley (2004), "St. Augustine Movement 1963-1964", Civil Rights Movement Veterans, http://www.crmvet.org/info/staug.htm
11.^ St. Augustine Record: March 18, 2003-Demolition begins on Monson Inn by Ken Lewis

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Egg Panels

The nanny-state social-engineering project that is the White House Easter Egg Roll.
By Christopher Beam
Posted Monday, April 5, 2010, at 4:51 PM ET




Barack Obama at the White House Easter Egg Roll





The first thing you notice are the lines. A line to get your ID bracelet. A line to pass through the metal detector. A line to enter the South Lawn. A line for the bathroom. Even a line to escape.
The White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday was a revealing look at the Obama administration's love of social engineering—and a chilling glimpse of what fate may befall the American people if they fail to rise up against it. The theme of the celebration was, predictably, fitness—an agenda couched in the friendly-seeming slogan, "Ready, Set, Go!" Kids were encouraged to participate in a variety of sports, including football, basketball, and hula-hoops. The purported reason was to get them in good physical shape. The real reason: to wear down their resistance, through physical exhaustion, to indoctrination.

That indoctrination began before visitors even reached the entrance. While standing in line, attendees were forced to listen to a musical group called DJ Willy Wow! and Little Beat the No. 1 Chinchilla. Their message seemed harmless at first: "There's a party going on/ on the White House lawn." But soon they were endorsing political apathy, as the duo encouraged children to "Put your hands in the air/ and wave them like you just don't care."

Once inside, families were presented with a variety of social control experiments. Foremost was the egg roll itself. Children lined up and, on "go," proceeded to push their respective hard-boiled eggs across a small lawn. Not only does the practice of rolling eggs have no utility in the real world—a metaphor for the administration's useless "job creation"—children were also encouraged to cheat. One parent literally held her daughter's arms like a marionette and scooped the egg forward across the finish line.

Kids were also subjected to the gospel of local, organic food. Whole Foods passed out bags of fresh fruit, presumably to teach kids that they can expect free handouts in life. Across the way, kids learned to "Eggspress" themselves by creating plastic medallions with their names on them—a glorification of the empty consumerism of hip-hop culture. Local restaurants set up "demo stations" to show families how to make healthy snacks. However, they were not allowed to serve the food. "We can't give free samples or the Secret Service will tackle us," said a man at the serving station for Moto, a high-end Chicago restaurant. "They're not too fun."

Fun was apparently detained at the White House gate. At the Easter egg hunt, kids searched through hay for hard-boiled eggs, rather than eggs filled with candy, i.e., the kind of eggs a child would actually want to hunt for. At the egg-dyeing station, kids used child-safe egg tongs rather than the usual octagonal wire. It might poke an eye out! I hoped at the very least to crack open my egg and have a taste. Not so fast. "Enjoy the beauty of your decorated eggs but please do not eat them," said a sign. "They are not edible."

The musical performances were part of the messaging, as well. The television entertainment group Yo Gabba Gabba taught children to follow orders by instructing them to "hop, hop, hop" because it's "fun, fun, fun." The audience dutifully obeyed. They followed up with "Party in My Tummy," an ode to cannibalism. The cast of Glee! later performed a celebration of sexual desperation ("Somebody To Love"), a gay love ballad sung by two men ("Somewhere Over the Rainbow"), and the utopian anthem "Don't Stop Believin' ."

Once the children had been sufficiently fatigued, plied with food, and artistically brainwashed, everyone gathered by the White House balcony to greet the first family. "Can we go into Barack Obama's house?" one child asked his father. "No," his father replied, "we have to stay out here." The correct response, of course, is that it's not Obama's house, it's the American people's house.
First to emerge was the Easter Bunny—a piece of choreography designed to fill the children's heads with positive associations, which then transferred directly to the next pseudo-deity to emerge: Barack Obama. "Happy Easter, everybody," he said, failing to mention Jesus. Michelle Obama followed up with a pagan prayer: "Let's say thank you to Mother Nature!" She then proceeded to praise the benefits of fitness, organic food, and generic Canadian import Justin Bieber. The last elicited screams.

Even the dissemination of the White House's famous souvenir wooden eggs was an exercise in government control. In order to keep the 30,000 guests moving through smoothly, these souvenirs were awarded only to those who left with their group at the designated time—an obvious behavioral "nudge" dreamed up by Cass Sunstein. And of course, there was rationing: "Limit one egg per child," the program stated. "No exceptions."


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Monday, April 05, 2010

The Christian Right and Congress


THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT AND CONGRESS
Matthew C. Moen
The University of Alabama Press
Tuscaloosa and London


Copyright © 1989
The University of Alabama Press
Box 870380
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
First Paperback Edition 1992


Preface

The manner in which the Christian Right influenced the agenda of the
U.S. Congress during the Reagan years is the central focus of this book.
The answers that are provided about this subject have been derived from
some objective indices, such as the number of bills introduced and hear-
ings held on their issues, and more importantly, from personal interviews
with about three dozen individuals who were involved in various ways
in the Christian Right's struggles on Capitol Hill.

Ever since it arose in the late 1970s, the Christian Right has attracted
the interest of scholars. Those from different academic disciplines began
early to examine such facets of the movement as its historical roots, its
electoral influence, and its theological underpinnings. When I embarked
upon this project, researchers had almost entirely ignored the impact of
the Christian Right on Capitol Hill. It was an understandable omission,
given the problems they faced in ascertaining interest-group influence on
legislative struggles in the nation's capital; it was also an unfortunate
omission because the Christian Right was resolute in taking its grievances
to Congress for a good deal of the Reagan presidency. As conservative
activist Paul Weyrich explained it so succinctly in 1980, when queried
by a reporter about the need to focus attention on Capitol Hill: "If you
want to change America, you have to change the Congress."

The subject of this book was approached with few preconceptions.
After completing about a dozen interviews, it seemed to me that any
influence of the Christian Right on Congress that existed was minimal.
After completing more interviews and weighing some of the empirical
indices, however, I came to a rather different conclusion. Of course, the
view that the movement was influential, particularly in the first Reagan
term, will not surprise one early interviewee, who mischievously pointed
out that the mere fact that I was poking around Capitol Hill asking
questions about the impact of the movement was testimony to its effec-
tiveness.

This book has been written for several different audiences. It is
hoped that scholars will appreciate my attempt to tackle the subject;
students of social movements, interest groups, and Congress will benefit
from the tale that is told; historians will find useful the "snapshot" of
Christian Right activity during the first decade of its existence; and in-
terviewees will be interested in the detailed treatments of struggles in
which they were personally involved. Because the book is grounded in
interviews and is therefore non-technical, it should serve a wide read-
ership.

The debts incurred during the course of this project are numerous.
The American Political Science Association's Congressional Fellowship
Program and the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center,
at the University of Oklahoma, provided me the opportunity to conduct
personal interviews in Washington. The interviewees graciously donated
time from their busy schedules to converse with an academic who had
little to offer them in return. Ronald M. Peters, Jr., Director and Curator
of the Carl Albert Center, and Gary W. Copeland, its Associate Director,
provided sagacious counsel during that period and subsequently on drafts
of a number of the chapters.

The office of Congressman Phil Sharp, where I spent my fellowship
year on the Hill, provided a hospitable environment for my interview
forays. My warmest thanks go to Phil Sharp, Mike Kraft, Tom Wanley,
Donna Imus, Lita Levine Kleger, Don Kaufman, John DeLap, and Frank
Meinhold for their interest and constant encouragement. It was clear
what an honorable group they were when in absentia I won the office
lottery for the one available ticket to President Reagan's 1984 State of
the Union speech.

A number of scholars offered valuable suggestions at various points,
including Larry B. Hill, Donald J. Maletz, and Rob Griswold. Frederic
D. Ogden, formerly of Eastern Kentucky University, and Anson Shupe,
Chairman of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Indiana
University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, graciously provided detailed
suggestions from which I profited immensely. I thank them for their
efforts. Of course, none of the people mentioned should be held respon-
sible for the book's interpretations or shortcomings.

My departmental colleagues at the University of Maine have pro-
vided a pleasant milieu in which to work. Chairman Ed Collins supported
the project in every possible way, managing to find both time and re-
sources whenever I needed them. Bahman Bakhtiari and Kenneth Palmer
provided written suggestions about the manuscript. During the latter
stages of the project, Carol MacMannus supplied valuable research and
typing assistance. Finally, the Faculty Research Fund Committee and
Greg Brown, Vice-President for Research and Public Service, graciously
offered monies in support of the project.

The University of Alabama Press has been extraordinarily helpful
throughout the publication process, for which I am very grateful. Mal-
colm MacDonald, Director of the Press, kindly took interest in the proj-
ect, steered it through the review process, and kept me abreast of its
status. Judith Knight assisted in a variety of ways thereafter, and Robert
Ferris did a superb job of editing. It has been both an educational and
enjoyable experience working with them.

Finally, thanks of a different sort must be accorded Donna Lynn
Shalley, whose willingness to tackle some of the pedestrian aspects of life
during the time I was busy with this study was a godsend. Her acceptance
of a marriage proposal along Maine's rocky coast on a foggy summer
evening, while I was in the midst of writing this book, was a glorious
day in the life of this political scientist.


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Elian remembered

Elian's rescue in Miami, and eventual return to Cuba in April 2000.



Elian today at 16 years old, a young member of the partido comunista.

Bill Clinton and Janet Reno helped this young man return to his homeland. Elian would have never reached the heights that he has if he had been allowed to remain in the U.S.A.

It takes a village!

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6 dead in W. Va. coal mine blast

21 unaccounted for; emergency crews on the scene

BREAKING NEWS
msnbc.com staff and news service reports
updated 18 minutes ago


CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Six miners were killed and at least 21 are unaccounted for Monday in an explosion at an underground coal mine, the state mining director said.

Ron Wooten said the blast was reported around 3 p.m. at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch mine in Raleigh County, about 30 miles south of Charleston. The company did not provide details on the extent of the damage. A Boone County ambulance dispatcher also said he has the same number of fatalities and missing miners.

The mine is operated by subsidiary Performance Coal Co.

We're uncertain as to what happened but we are working diligently on rescue efforts and we are in contact with all of the appropriate agencies," Massey CEO Don Blankenship told WCHS TV.

Mine emergency crews from the State Office of Miners' Health Safety and Training were on the scene, along with a family liaison, according to an agency statement.

Gov. Joe Manchin was out of town, but working to get back, according to his office. Chief of Staff Jim Spears was headed to the mine.

Other deaths at mine
At least three fatalities have happened at the mine in the past dozen years.

In 1998, a worker was killed when a support beam collapsed, dumping bags of cement mix and other materials onto the man, according to a report from the federal Mine Safety & Health Administration. Federal investigators blamed poor welding and construction.

In 2001, another worker at the mine died after a portion of roof fell in on him, and an electrician died after being electrocuted while repairing a shuttle car there in 2003.

The mine produced 1.2 million tons of coal in 2009, according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Massey Energy is a publicly traded company based in Richmond, Va., that has 2.2 billion tons of coal reserves in southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, southwest Virginia and Tennessee, according to the company's Web site.

In 2006, 12 miners died in a methane explosion at the Sago Mine in West Virginia. Six were killed in the collapse of the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah in 2007.

Last year, the number of miners killed on the job in the U.S. fell for a second straight year to 34, the fewest since officials began keeping records nearly a century ago. That was down from the previous low of 52 in 2008.

U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration documents show 18 of the deaths occurred in coal mines, down from 29 in 2008; and 16 were in gold, copper and other types of mines, down from 22 in 2008. Most involved aboveground truck accidents on mine property, though some resulted from rock falls and being struck by machinery.

This is a breaking news story. Please check back for more details.


Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36183425/ns/us_news-life/
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A rare heads-up: A vacancy on the Supreme Court

Posted: Monday, April 05, 2010 3:04 PM by Daily Nightly Editor

Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor



Not since the grave illness of former Chief Justice Rehnquist have we realized this far in advance that the president will have an upcoming vacancy to fill on the Supreme Court. I follow the court fairly regularly, and this kind of public airing of his life is in keeping with the straight-ahead approach of John Paul Stevens. It will be interesting to see how it accelerates the "pre-debate" over the president's selection.

In other news: A number of e-mails from Florida say we misreported the facts of the bus collision that took the life of a little boy at Walt Disney World. We are looking at the anatomy of how we told and reported that story based on what we knew when it aired.

And finally, a great item on women in space.

We're back from Easter weekend to start a new week. We hope you can join us.


Source: http://dailynightly.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/04/05/2258091.aspx

Police patrol quake-damaged Calif. border town


People gather at a parking lot outside their buildings after 6.9 earthquake hit the area in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, April 4, 2010. According to the US Geological Survey a 6.9 magnitude earthquake was registered 26 kms (around 16 miles) south west Guadalupe Victoria, in the Mexican state of Baja California. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)


By JULIE WATSON (AP) – 28 minutes ago

CALEXICO, Calif. — Inspectors red-tagged nearly 80 percent of the city's historic downtown area Monday, where roofs were caved in, windows smashed and inventory strewn about after a deadly Easter earthquake in nearby Mexico.

Damage included three huge tanks that hold the city's water supply, as well as a 10 million gallon water clarifying tank, said City Manager Victor Carrillo.

City officials, under a state of emergency, asked residents to limit water use to essential bathing, cooking and washing.

Two people were killed and at least 100 injured near the epicenter of the magnitude-7.2 quake in Mexicali, just south of the border.

There were no injuries reported in Calexico, the U.S. city hardest hit by the quake, but in neighboring El Centro, someone was injured when hit in the head by a sign at a downtown car wash.

Philip Kim and his family spent much of the night picking up bottles of shampoo, lotion and beauty products at his Best Price beauty products store.

"It's a hard situation and sales were just picking up in March," Kim said, adding that 90 percent of his customers were from Mexicali and he was worried they wouldn't be coming back for awhile.

The downtown area is made up primarily of discount and 99-cent type stores.

The quake could be devastating for the economy of Imperial County, which already has the highest unemployment rate in the state, said Hildy Carrillo, executive director of the Calexico Chamber of Commerce.

"It will be months before downtown is back. It's a mess," she said.

Sal Farah, 62, spent the night in his 50-year-old, downtown Yturralde Furniture store, fearing it could be looted since the giant storefront windows were knocked out by the quake.

"I didn't get much sleep, especially in the morning when it shook hard again," Farah said, standing in the store littered by broken vases, lamps and shattered knickknacks.

They planned to board up the windows later Monday.

Scientists measured about 100 aftershocks early Monday, said seismologist Kate Hutton at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Statistically, there will be one aftershock of around 6.0 and perhaps 10 of 5.0 or larger, she said.

The initial earthquake downed three power lines in Calexico, a gas leak forced a brief evacuation of about 30 homes, and residents were removed from a senior living center built in the early 1900s. Electricity was out for hours in the city's southeast area.

The U.S damage appeared to be limited to California's southeastern Imperial Valley in what was one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the region in decades. The shaking was felt hundreds of miles away in Phoenix and Las Vegas.

Associated Press Writers Elliot Spagat in Calexico contributed to this report.

Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5irKWAOvNtZ_122Q8fnnh1O6SpKlwD9ET2BA02?index=0
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The Catholicization of America (Bob Trefz)


The Catholicization of America (Bob Trefz)
57:21 - 2 years ago
Elder Bob Trefz



Mass Hysteria: Fear of Flying.

A time for every purpose



Ecclesiastes 3


1To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

2A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

3A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

4A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

5A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

6A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

7A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

8A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

9What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

10I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

11He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

12I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

13And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

14I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.

15That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.

16And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

17I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

18I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

19For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.

20All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

21Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

22Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?


King James Version (KJV)
Public Domain
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Sunday, April 04, 2010

Influencing Governments On Both Sides of the Atlantic


Commission des Episcopats de la Communauté Européenne (in French)

Acronym: COMECE

Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community



It has been almost two weeks since the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community, a.k.a. COMECE (the European equivalent to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops) met with the European Parliament. On Wednesday, March 24, 2010, COMECE, organized a Conference to relaunch the debate on Sunday protection. This reunion was held at the European Parliament Building, Brussels-Belgium. COMECE supports the Conference on Work free Sunday. At this session COMECE interacted with Parlimentary Ministers (MEP's) of the European Union to advance the Sunday Rest Legislation.
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We can see the bold moves that this Catholic Church's organ is undertaking to impose its agenda upon the European Union. The similarities on both side of the Atlantic Ocean are flabbergasting. The fundamental difference of COMECE and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is that the previously named organization includes Muslims, Jews, and other religious persuasions; (Wow, Europe is now inclusive!) While the U.S.C.C.B. only represents Catholics. However, the differences are only cosmetic since if you join (partner) with the Catholics on any issue, you are in essence just fostering the Vatican's global ambitions.
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As far as I know, in Europe there are no distinctions between Church and State; The Vatican through its Bishop of Rome has in the last few years reminded Europe that its identity is almost wholly Catholic. The Reformation was virtually crushed by the holy see in its bloody resistance against the propagation of the Protestant Movement; Only Britain and Germany, fundamentally survived this onslaught. Europe has practically an exclusive Roman Catholic cultural precedent dating back to Charlemagne and Clovis, the Holy Roman Emperors.
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The scenes on both sides of the pond are a harbinger of the expansive global plans of the Roman Catholic organization and its interference in governments. I can only see an ever increasing momentum for the achievement of the One World Religion, where all churches bow to the pope of Rome. Yet, I can reassure you that this grand design will be short-lived if the Bible prophecies are correct; Since The Prince of Peace will soon return to establish His justice, and to redeem His faithful remnant. Blessed be His name. Hallelujah!
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No longer will men Lord over men!
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U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops




Recently in the United States of America the headlines were full of references to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops were conducting closed-door meetings with the U.S. Congress. First, they were aggressively attempting to pass the Health Care Overhaul (Reform) Bill in Nancy Pelosi's U.S. House of Representatives, then their focus turned to Harry Reid's U.S. Senate. Remember how both the Senate and Congress deliberated past normal business hours, working on week ends? And even late on Christmas Eve to achieve their goal?
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Once the Health Care Overhaul Bill was passed by a mostly partisan Democrat majority in both houses of Congress; The U. S. Conference of Bishops and some nuns, then flip-flopped when they pretended to oppose the Health Care Law and its potential for providing and sponsoring abortions. What duplicity? It's a good thing that some of us can remember things?
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As I analyze the latest actions of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops; I can only wonder where do you draw the line between Separation of Church and State?
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
First Amendment of the Bill of Rights
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How can the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church (The Vatican is a sovereign state and also a religious hierarchy) openly lobby the U.S. government without any trepidation? In spite of the Roman Catholic religion boasting the largest body of believers in the country; The government can not be overtly solicited at such a level. Most of the original settlers of this nation fled England and Europe, from the persecution of the popes and kings. How can we now have those representing the same tyrannical institutions subvert the free exercise of representative government? The RC Church can not manipulate the legislative process without any restrictions, or we will wind up back in the days of Galileo; A time when the Catholic Church (ruled unchallenged) impeded religious and civil freedoms. Is this what all these public manifestations are leading to? Back to the fold of the tyrannical holy see? Back to being beholden to the whims of the bishop of Rome?
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In the U.S. no one has documented this phenomenon better than Cliff Kincaid (a Catholic), the Editor of the AIM Report. Here are some of his articles:
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The Bishops, Not Stupak, Are the Problem - Mar 23, 2010
Catholic Bishops Lobby for ObamaCare, Amnesty for Illegals - Jan 28, 2010
Blame the Bishops - Dec 24, 2009
An Eye-Opening Account of Health Care Lobbying - Nov 20, 2009
Catholic TV Host Challenges Bishops - Nov 18, 2009
Vatican Engineered Victory for Pelosicare - Nov 10, 2009
Catholic Bishops Help Pass Pelosicare - Nov 9, 2009


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Pope's immunity could be challenged in Britain


Legal experts discuss possibilities ahead of September visit


By PAISLEY DODDS
updated 12:22 p.m. ET, Sun., April 4, 2010


LONDON - Protests are growing against Pope Benedict XVI's planned trip to Britain, where some lawyers question whether the Vatican's implicit statehood status should shield the pope from prosecution over sex crimes by pedophile priests.

More than 10,000 people have signed a petition on Downing Street's Web site against the pope's 4-day visit to England and Scotland in September, which will cost U.K. taxpayers an estimated $22.5 million. The campaign has gained momentum as more Catholic sex abuse scandals have swept across Europe.

Although Benedict has not been accused of any crime, senior British lawyers are now examining whether the pope should have immunity as a head of state or whether he could be prosecuted under the principle of universal jurisdiction for an alleged systematic cover-up of sexual abuses by priests.


Universal jurisdiction — a concept in international law — allows judges to issue warrants for nearly any visitor accused of grievous crimes, no matter where they live. British judges have been more open to the concept than those in other countries.

Lawyers are divided over the immunity issue. Some argue that the Vatican isn't a true state, while others note the Vatican has national relations with about 170 countries, including Britain. The Vatican is also the only non-member to have permanent observer status at the U.N.

Then again, no other top religious leaders enjoy the same U.N. privileges or immunity, so why should the pope?

David Crane, former chief prosecutor at the Sierra Leone war crimes tribunal, said it would be difficult to implicate the pope in anything criminal.

"It's a fascinating kind of academic, theoretical discussion," said Crane, who prosecuted Sierra Leone's Charles Taylor when he was still a sitting head of state. "At this point, there's no liability at all."

But Geoffrey Robertson, who as a U.N. appeals judge delivered key decisions on the illegality of conscripting child soldiers and the invalidity of amnesties for war crimes, believes it could be time to challenge the immunity of the pope — and Britain could be the place. He wrote a legal opinion on the topic that was published Friday in the U.S. news site The Daily Beast and Saturday in the British newspaper the Guardian.

"Unlike in the United States, where the judges commonly uphold what the executive says, the British courts don't accept these things at face value," Robertson told The Associated Press on Saturday. "The Vatican is not a state — it was a construct of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini."

But Jeffrey Lena, the California attorney who argued — and won — head of state immunity for Benedict in U.S. sex abuse cases, said the pope could not successfully be prosecuted for crimes under international law.

"Those who would claim that 'universal jurisdiction' could be asserted over the pope appear to completely misunderstand the sorts of violations, such as genocide, which are required to assert such jurisdiction," he said.

Still, Israeli officials, including former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, have recently been targeted by groups in Britain under universal jurisdiction. The law principle is rooted in the belief that certain crimes — such as genocide, war crimes, torture and crimes against humanity — are so serious that they are an offense against humanity and must be addressed.

Judges an unknown factor


It's a tactic that the British government would likely abhor, but British judges have often gone against government wishes in lawsuits.

Recent examples include British judges who issued an arrest warrant against Israel's former foreign minister for alleged war crimes, and a British court ruling this year that forced the government to release its intelligence exchanges with U.S. officials about the torture claims of a former Guantanamo detainee.

Prosecution in the deepening cleric sex abuse scandal, however, ultimately rests on the question of immunity. If British judges do challenge the pope's immunity, there are a handful of possible legal scenarios — all of them speculative.

The pope could be served for a writ for civil damages, a complaint could be lodged with the International Criminal Court, or abuse victims could try to have Benedict arrested for crimes against humanity — perhaps the least likely scenario.

Lawyers question whether an alleged systematic cover-up could be considered a crime against humanity — a charge usually reserved for the International Criminal Court — and whether it could be pursued under universal jurisdiction.

Attorney Jennifer Robinson in London, who has been researching the possibilities, says rape and sexual slavery can be considered crimes against humanity.

Others, like Hurst Hannum with the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University near Boston, are skeptical.

"No one would question that the Church's response to widespread abuses has been atrocious, but it's very difficult for me to see how that would fit 'crimes against humanity,'" said Hannum.

Robertson is more in favor of challenging the immunity question.

"Head of state immunity provides no protection in the International Criminal Court," said Robertson, who represented The Associated Press and other media organizations who sought to make U.S.-U.K. intelligence exchanges public in the case of former Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed.

"If acts of sexual abuse by priests are not isolated or sporadic events but part of a wide practice both known to and unpunished by their de facto-authority — i.e. the Catholic Church ... then the commander can be held criminally liable," Robertson said.

CONTINUED : Is Vatican really a sovereign state?
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Cardinal: People of God Not Frightened by Gossip

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Cardinal: People of God Not Frightened by Gossip

Affirms Support, Prayer for Pope

VATICAN CITY, APRIL 4, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Cardinal Angelo Sodano assured Benedict XVI today that the Church is particularly united to him even as the media continues its frenzy of attacks related to the scandal of sexual abuse.

The dean of the College of Cardinals made this affirmation when he presented the Pope with official Easter greetings.

At the beginning of the Mass that the Pope celebrated in St. Peter's Square, the former secretary of state assured: “We are rallying around you.”

“We are deeply grateful for the strength of soul and the apostolic courage with which you proclaim Christ’s Gospel,” he said.

“The People of God are with you,” the cardinal affirmed. “They do not let themselves be frightened by the ‘gossip’ of the moment, by the trials that sometimes befall the community of believers.

“The cardinals, your co-workers in the Roman Curia are with you. Your brother bishops throughout the world, who lead the planet’s 3,000 ecclesiastical districts, are with you. In these days the 400,000 priests, who generously serve the People of God in parishes, oratories, schools, hospitals and in many other contexts, and in the missions in the remotest parts of the world, are with you.”

Cardinal Sodano recalled that last Thursday in the Mass for the blessing of the holy oils, the Pope recalled that Peter described Christ’s attitude during the Passion in the following way: “Insulted, he did not respond with insults; mistreated, he did not threaten, but entrusted himself to him who judges with justice.”

“On this Pascal Solemnity,” Cardinal Sodano concluded, “we pray for you that the Lord, the Good Shepherd, continues to support you in your mission of service to the Church and the world.”
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Strong Mexico quake shakes L.A., San Diego

Parts of Arizona also feel tremor that hit Baja California

BREAKING NEWS

NBC News and news services
updated 25 minutes ago

TIJUANA - A strong 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck in Baja California, Mexico, on Sunday, rocking buildings and panicking residents as far away as Tijuana, Los Angeles and even Phoenix, Ariz.

Multiple aftershocks followed but officials had no immediate reports of injuries or significant damage.

The quake shook high-rises in downtown Los Angeles and San Diego and was felt across Southern California and Arizona.

In El Centro, a California town near the border and just 25 miles from the epicenter, most residents lost power and phone service, the Fire Department told NBC News.

Crews were responding to numerous reports of gas leaks and some structural damage to older buildings downtown was reported.

In Los Angeles, the city fire department went on earthquake status and some stalled elevators were reported.

Jean Nelson of Indio, outside Palm Springs, said she was "shaking like a leaf ... the pool water was just going everywhere."

In the Phoenix area, Jacqueline Land said her king-sized bed in her second-floor apartment felt like a boat gently swaying on the ocean.

"I thought to myself, that cant be an earthquake, I'm in Arizona," the Northern California native said. "And I thought, oh my God I feel like I'm 9 years old."

A police dispatcher in Yuma, Ariz., said the quake was very strong there, but no damage was reported.

Mike Wong, who works at a journalism school in downtown Phoenix, said he was in his second-floor office getting some work done Sunday when he heard sounds and felt the building start to sway.

"I heard some cracking sounds, like Rice Crispies," he said. "I didn't think much of it, but I kept hearing it, and then I started feeling a shake. I thought, 'You know what? I think that might be an earthquake.'"

Wong said the swaying lasted for "just a few seconds," and he didn't notice any damage.

The quake was felt for about 40 seconds in Tijuana, Mexico, causing buildings to sway and knocking out power in parts of the city. Families celebrating Easter ran out of the homes, with children screaming and crying.

Baja California state Civil Protection Director Alfredo Escobedo said there were no immediate reports of injuries or major damage. But he said the assessment was ongoing.

The U.S. Geological Survey reported the quake occurred at 3:40 p.m. PT and was located 16 miles south-southwest of Guadalupe Victoria, at a depth of 20 miles. The area was hit by magnitude 3.0 quakes all week.

The office initially reported the quake as a 6.9 but later changed that to 7.2.
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The Origin of Babylon, Sun Worship and the Sunday Sabbath – The Church Of Satan

Satan's church had its beginning at Babylon with the construction of the Tower of Babel on the plain of Shinar by the River Euphrates many generations after the deluge. At the time of the construction of Babylon at the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-4), mankind had multiplied and spoken one language. Cush who was the son of Ham and grandson of Noah (Genesis 10:1, 6), helped to plan with his son Nimrod, a blueprint by which to rule the world of humanity through a wicked counterfeit religion. Nimrod was the originator of sun worship and founder of Babylon. A Bible translation called the Targum says, “Nimrod became a mighty man of sin, a murderer of innocent men, and a rebel before the Lord.”


The beginning of Nimrod's evil plan had its origin at Babel which was later known as Babylon. This city of Babylon with a tower “whose top may reach unto heaven” was built by Nimrod (Genesis 10:8-10; 11:4). They called the tower “Babel, the gate to heaven,” but God called it what it was which was, “Babel, confusion,” for there God confused the language of the people which forced them to scatter. This heaven defying group of people wanted one government to rule the world and one religion to sway the hearts of mankind. This was Satan's attempt to defy God and His authority and the ring leader of his scheme was Nimrod. But God came down and stopped this world wide rebellion at Babel, in defiance of His command for mankind to replenish the earth (Genesis 9:1) by confusing their language into many languages so they could not understand one another's speech. Mankind discontinued the building of Babel and were scattered to different parts of the world (Genesis 11:8-9).

Nimrod had a plan to weld together and strengthen this evil religious system and so he married his own mother who was Semiramis. She was the first deified queen of Babylon and Nimrod was the first deified king. Semiramis was as wicked as her son Nimrod, and as much sold out to Satan and devil worship as did he. Incest was used here as a basis to unite this newly false religious system. Nimrod and his mother/wife would be greatly used by Satan in the following centuries to send countless millions and even billions of souls to hell.
Satan's plan was to develop a counterfeit, opposition system of religion to attract worship away from the true God of Heaven. This false system had its sacrificial plan just as God had a plan of sacrifice. But Satan's pagan worship required the offering up of human beings, which was often the sons and daughters of the worshipers. A counterfeit holy day was instituted in honor of the sun god, (Sun-day) and this was designed by Satan to rob God of his peculiar authority as the Creator of the universe as designated by His Holy day the Sabbath.

Have you noticed how occult symbols are typically reversed? Example: The occult symbol for a cross is an inverted cross. Most have never noticed that God uses the 6:1 principle. That is, you have 6 of something normal and then on the 7th something special happens. Example: God created the world in 6 days and the 7th is a special day of rest and worship. Crops were grown for 6 years and the 7th year the land was rested. Slaves were kept for 6 years and were to be set free on the 7th year. There are 6 weeks from Passover to the 7th week being Pentecost. There are 6 months from Passover to the 7th month being the Day of Atonement. Bible chronologists say we are currently approaching the end of 6000 years since creation and if Christ returns at the end of 6000 years, we will then have the 7000th year being the 1000 year millennium. (See Revelation 20:1-15) So 6000 years + 1000 years (millennium) = 7000 years. None of this is by chance and is God’s plan. Observe the days of the week below.
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The first six days are normal but the 7th day is the “Sabbath of the Lord thy God.” Remember that the occult uses the reverse symbol or is the opposite (in opposition) to God. So if Sunday was Satan's plan for a day of worship, and we have seen from history that it is, then his week would be the reverse God's week. Instead of being the 6:1 principle it would be 1:6. As seen from the table below, this is the case and so it is not really just two days side by side. It is the occult equivalent and this is not by chance but Satan's choice.
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Nimrod's and Semiramis' followers plunged so deeply into sin and the occult that they even sacrificed babies to Satan in their worship of him. This became a common practice until Shem who was one of Noah's three sons and the great uncle of Nimrod, in his anger and wrath killed Nimrod and cut him up into small pieces as an example to others not to commit such abominable sins and not to follow such evil religious practices. (Shem was a godly man and it was through his seed the Messiah would come.)

Because of Nimrod's death, the followers of Nimrod and Semiramis were stunned and experienced much grief. Their religious hero was dead. They were afraid to continue in their worship of Satan for fear that what happened to Nimrod would also happen to them. For a short time the practices of this counterfeit religion ceased but Semiramis, the mother/wife of Nimrod, had a brilliant idea of how she could successfully revive her and Nimrod's pagan religion and give it a new form. Semiramis proclaimed that her son/husband Nimrod was then officially a god, and she as the mother/wife of Nimrod was a goddess. She then announced herself to be “The Queen of Heaven” and that she should be worshiped as such. She claimed that her spirit was the moon and when she died she would dwell in the moon, even as Nimrod was already in the sun. What a devilish brainstorm inspired by Satan!

Satan was laying the foundation for every system of falsehood and error the world has ever known. They took the truth of God and turned it into a lie and “worshipped and served the creature (on a wider application also includes Satan) more than the Creator.” Romans 1:25. This system of paganism, while professing to be the true religion, is actually devil worship. It professes and claims to be the truth of God but in reality it is Satan's masterpiece, the “mystery of iniquity.”

As Satan's church gained momentum, Semiramis pushed this satanic religious order underground. The followers of this counterfeit religion had to take secret oaths. The secret societies (some unscriptural lodges of today) thus had their beginning. The confessionals and priesthood were set up. The followers of this pagan religion confessed their sins to their priests. (what church continued this unbiblical pagan tradition?) See also 1 Timothy 2:5, Luke 5:20-21. By so doing, Semiramis could control her followers and exercise lordship over them. She boldly and brazenly proclaimed that she and her priests were the only ones who understood the mysteries of God and that they were the only possible way to God. Because of dedication to and fear of this false religious system, the followers of this religion fearfully complied.

Semiramis and her priests of Satan were deep into the occult, magic and illusion. They were masters of lies and deception. Everywhere there were statues or idols of this mother/child cult. Semiramis was soon hailed as “The Queen of Heaven” (Ashtarte). Her symbol became the moon and her husband/son Nimrod, was then called “Baal” (the “sun god”) Nimrod's symbol became the sun. The city of Babylon was the seat of Satan worship until its fall to the Medes and the Persians in 539 BC. At this time the Babylonian pagan priests left Babylon and went to Alexandria and Pergamos. See 666 number of the beast or the origin of 666 for more.

It should be noted that the majority of the Babylonian pagan priests went to Pergamos more so than Alexandria, so for many centuries after the fall of Babylon, Pergamos became the new seat of Satan (Revelation 2:12-13), but around 129 BC, opportunity arose for them to leave Pergamos and go to Rome and thus Rome became the final seat of Satan where he set up his church, and hence sun worship, which was practised on Sunday, was most prevalent in Alexandria and Rome by the time of Christ.

Church historian Socrates Scholasticus (5th century) wrote: “For although almost all churches throughout the world celebrate the sacred mysteries [of the Lord's Supper] on the Sabbath of every week, yet the Christians of Alexandria and at Rome, on account of some ancient tradition, have ceased to do this.” – Socrates Scholasticus, Ecclesiastical History, Book 5, ch. 22.

So Baal worship was in full swing. It caught on fast and spread to many parts of the world. In Egypt, Semiramis became known as “Isis”, “The Queen of Heaven.” Nimrod became known as “Osiris”, the husband/son, and frequently called “horus” (the sun god). In Phoenicia, Semiramis and Nimrod were worshipped as or known as Ashterath and Tammuz; in Greece, Aphrodite and Eros; in Rome, Venus and Cupid, and in China, Mother Shing Moo and her child.

When the cold season began every year, they believed their sun god was leaving them. It was on December 25th that they noticed the gradual return of the sun god. So they called this day the birth of the sun. Tammuz was hailed as the son of the sun. He was idolized and even worshipped and the first letter of his name became the symbol of sun worship. Human sacrifices to the sun god were offered on this initial letter made of wood, known as the cross “T” and this “T” for Tammuz is also the true origin of Catholics crossing themselves. His birthday of December 25 was honored more and more. Satan worked many years before the conception and birth of the true Messiah to counterfeit through sun worship His miraculous conception and birth. Satan succeeded many times in leading God's people into sin and pagan sun worship.

The true date of the birth of Christ was most likely between July and September but since the exact date of Christ's birthday was unknown, it was suggested, “Why not call it the same date as the birth of Tammuz, which was December 25?” This was the time when the sun had reached its lowest point on the horizon and started back up into the heavens and so the sun god had come to life, so to speak. So gradually December 25 came to be known as the birthday of Christ. The Papal Church finally instituted a special mass on that day, “Christ's Mass,” and so December 25 became “Christmas.” The yule log burning in the fire followed by the green tree lit with candles all came from the pagan worship representing Nimrod being dead, while his spirit still lived on in the sun and was alive again in Tammuz his son.

Jesus was crucified and resurrected in the spring of the year near the time of the moon festival. The devil was at work once again to bring the idea of having a celebration at the same time as the heathen but calling it “in honor of the resurrection.” And in regards to the worship of the moon goddess Semiramis, the so called queen of heaven. The cakes to the QUEEN OF HEAVEN were round and on them was cut a cross in honor of the sun god, and they were offered to the queen of heaven and today we call them “hot cross buns.” (Read Jeremiah 7:16-18). The forty days of “weeping for Tammuz” became Lent and at the close of Lent came Easter Sunday. The prophet Ezekiel was shown even greater abominations. (Read Ezekiel 8:12-18). This goddess Ishtar (Easter) came to be known as the goddess of springtime as in “new life,” or as history records it, the “goddess of reproduction.” The pagans would go to some mountain side early Sunday morning and worship this goddess as the sun was rising in the east. They gave themselves to immorality and indecency of every description. The eggs and rabbits were used as symbols of fertility and germination and hence “new life.” It all came into the Church gradually and was all blessed by the Catholic Church and given to the world. And some people wonder why God calls the Catholic Church Babylon!

“The use of temples, and these dedicated to particular saints, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; holy water; asylums; holydays and seasons, use of calendars, processions, blessings on the fields; sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure, the ring in marriage, turning to the East, images at a later date, perhaps the ecclesiastical chant, and the Kyrie Eleison are all of pagan origin, and sanctified by their adoption into the Church.” — An Essay on the The Development of the Christian Doctrine John Henry “Cardinal Newman” p.373.

“It has often been charged… that Catholicism is overlaid with many pagan incrustations. Catholicism is ready to accept that accusation and even to make it her boast… the great god Pan is not really dead, he is baptized” — The Story of Catholicism p 37.

As time elapsed, stories spread worldwide about Semiramis and Nimrod as Baal worship was everywhere. (The above information on the beginning of Satan's church and its unscriptural practices is found in The Two Babylons, by Rev. Alexander Hislop) In his book he has composed a list of names adopted in other parts of the world that can be traced back to Semiramis and Nimrod in one way or another. The list of names are as follows:

SEMIRAMIS or Ashtarte........................NIMROD or Baal the sun god
Cybele (Goddess Mother)......................... Asia Deoius (Asia)
Fortuna (Pagan Rome)...............................The Boy Jupiter (Pagan Rome)
Isis (The Queen of Heaven) Egypt............Osiris or Horus (Egypt)
Isi (Goddess Mother) India........................Iswara (India)
Venus (Rome).............................................. Cupid (Rome)
Ashterath (Phoenicia)..................................Tammuz (Phoenicia)
Aphrodite (Greece)..................................... Eros (Greece)
Irene (Goddess of Peace) Greece..............The Boy Plutus (Greece)
Ishtar (Babylon)...........................................The Winged One (Babylon)
Rhea (Mother of Gods)................................Orion (Constellation)
Diana (Ephesian)..........................................Bacchus (God of Party going) of Ancient Greece
Shing Moo (Holy Mother of China)............The Centaur (Greece)

Satan pulled it off well as he had the whole world trapped into some form of Baal worship. The entire world had lapsed into polytheism (worship of many gods or idols). Mankind no longer desired to serve the true and living God and to accept His scriptural plan of salvation. (Romans 1:18-32).

Around 2000 BC in Abraham's day, Baal worship and its pagan rites had so permeated the human race that God called Abraham out from it to be the progenitor of a nation of people (the Israelites or Jews) who would be instructed by God through Moses and the prophets to be a shining light and an example of godliness to the heathen nations and reveal to them God's scriptural plan of salvation (Genesis 11:26-12: 1-5; Exodus 19:5-6; Hebrews 11:8).

The Jews were greatly blessed by God as His chosen people, who were to serve as His representatives of godliness to those heathen nations who had become entrapped by paganism, to evangelize those godless nations and to show them God's love. The Jews were repeatedly told that if they were to sin by serving other gods, to depart form the Lord and fail God in their mission as His representatives to those nations trapped in Baal worship, the Jews would suffer terribly at the hand of God and be dispersed into all the nations of the earth. (See Deuteronomy 4:1-40; 6:14-18; 7:6-26; 8:6-20; 10:12-20; 11:1-28; 12:28-32; 29:16-29; 30:11-20).

Before his death, Moses foretold that after his death the Jews would disobey and turn to other “gods” to worship and serve them (Deuteronomy 31:27, 29; 32:16-29). After Moses' death, Joshua took command and led the children of Israel across the River Jordan into Palestine. The Jews were ordered to exterminate the Canaanites of the land because they were so wicked and so deeply involved in the evil practices of Baal worship, and to take the land as their dwelling to be used for the glory of God in leading the ungodly nations to God and His plan of redemption. The Jews took the land and exterminated some of the inhabitants of the land but not all. The Jews here had already begun to disobey God. They soon became weary in their conquests of Palestine and stopped fighting. Soon afterwards the Israelites departed from their worship of the Lord and started to worship and serve other gods as Moses had predicted. The Jews soon became so involved in Baal worship and its pagan practices that some of them even sacrificed their children to Satan.

Because of their disobedience to God's command to be faithful in their worship of and service to the true and living God, the Jews would have to suffer. On many occasions God allowed the children of Israel to be captured by their enemies and to be persecuted. When the Jews cried out to God in sorrow for their sins, the Lord delivered them. The Lord raised up Judges to secure their deliverances. After each time the Lord brought about the deliverance of the captured, suffering children of Israel, the Jews would plunge back into sin and Baal worship. As time passed the Jews became even more involved in pagan worship in spite of God's warnings and chastisements. God raised up prophets to warn the Israelites to repent or suffer more. Prophet after prophet was raised up for that purpose and many of them were executed by the Jews. In 722 BC the ten Northern tribes were captured by the Assyrians and scattered never to return, and in 586 BC the Babylonians captured Judah and Jerusalem. This was the third time Babylon came up against them but this time brought about their total destruction as everything was torn down. After the Babylonian captivity in 539 BC at which time Babylon had fallen to the Persians, the Persians granted the Jews in Babylon permission to return to Jerusalem.

Many Jews did return to Palestine during the years 539 BC, 457 BC and 445 BC. Others doubtless returned between those years and after 445 BC. See also Daniels 70 weeks and prophecy of weeks. In 70 AD the Romans under General Titus captured Jerusalem and persecuted the Jews. The Jews final dispersion took place at this time. After 70 AD, the Jews had been dispersed into all the nations of the world to suffer. Nearly all nations who had received Jews eventually turned on them and persecuted them. The Jews have been the most hated and persecuted people in history and have suffered more than any other people. They disobeyed God and they had to suffer as God said they would.

When the Roman Empire was in power during the earthly life of Jesus and during the early Church period, the Roman Caesars were to be worshipped as gods. The early Christians were persecuted by the Romans because they would not bow down to the pagan Caesars. Satan directed this persecution of the early believers in an effort to stamp out Christianity. But instead of wiping out Christianity, persecution resulted in its growth! As more Christians were put to death, more and more Christians rose up to replace them. Satan saw that his directed persecution of the early believers would not obliterate Christianity so he moved to attack the Church from within instead of from without.

Satan devised a plan by which he would lay the foundation for and establish his own counterfeit church. Under Satan's direction paganism would get a new face. Satan would introduce to the world his own version of a “Christian Church.” As was indicated earlier, the Caesars were worshipped as gods. As the Roman Empire was near disintegration, the pagan Caesars did not want to lose their power in controlling the world, so they decided on a plan by which to keep their power and influence in the world. The Roman Caesars simply exchanged their Roman togas for religious costumes. Thus they could control the world's governments and their economies through religion.

After Constantine defeated Maxentius in 312 AD in a battle for the throne of Rome, Satan continued in his clever plan to build his own version of a “Christian Church.” After his ascension to the Roman Throne, Constantine issued his Edict of Toleration in 313 AD to stop the persecution of the true believers in Christ. Under Constantine the Christian Church for a time found relief from persecution. Satan succeeded temporarily in stopping his persecution of the Christian Church from without, but he would now proceed to attack the Church from within. Since John said that antichrist came from the Church, one might ask who is the antichrist today?
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Under Satan's direction, Constantine set up the “Council of Nicaea” and presided as “Summus Pontifex”, the official title of a Pope. Constantine's job was to mix paganism with a perverted form of Christianity to make his new religious organization look respectable. This mixture of paganism with some of the teaching of Christ was Satan's version of a “Christian Church.” This powerful religious institution would be later used by Satan to send millions of souls to hell and to cause the deaths of many Bible believing Christians.



Many changes took place in this Babylonian pagan church. Under Constantine, the pagans were permitted to bring their statues and idols of Semiramis, “The Queen of Heaven”, and Nimrod, “Baal”, “The Sun God', into the Church. The names were changed to the Virgin Mary, “Queen of Heaven” and little Jesus, “The Sun God.” For example: Is this Catholic image Mary and baby Jesus or is it Semiramis, “The Queen of Heaven” and son Nimrod? Note the pagan trident symbol from the head of what is supposedly baby Jesus and that the hand is displayed with two fingers and a thumb prominent, being another way of symbolizing the trident and is a Satanic hand sign symbolic of occult powers. This is also used by high Church officials and priests in blessings invoking the sign of the cross by motioning their right hand with two fingers and thumb casually extended. It is also found in freemasonry of which origins can be found in the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church erroneously say that Peter was the first so called Pope of this Papal system but in fact it was really Constantine. So under Constantine as its first Pope, the Roman Catholic Institution as we know it today had its beginning. See also paganism in the Catholic Church and Catholic Church error and was Peter the first Pope.

The Roman Catholic Church grew in power as the people in Rome were again under the priests and each succeeding Pope. Constantine had fifty Bibles made of perverted manuscripts composed by pagan worshippers of Baal from Alexandria. Alexandria was not only the seat of Baal worship but was also the headquarters of the most liberal philosophers. Those wicked philosophers produced their own perverted version of a Bible, and fifty such copies were made for Constantine to be given to the new “Church” over which he presided. The Latin Vulgate, authored by Jerome and based on the above fifty Bibles, later became the Roman Catholic Bible, which was kept from the people so that unscriptural traditions would have greater emphasis in the minds of the followers of the Pope.

The above information can be found in the books, The Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop and the Angel of Light by Jack Chick. Alexander Hislop in his book also traces Roman Catholic sacraments, ceremonies, doctrines, confessionals, priesthood, etc. back to ancient Babylonian Baal worship. Roman Catholicism is based on ancient Babylonian Baal worship and on the man made traditions of the Church fathers. Catholicism is not based on the teachings of God's Word or on the Scriptural plan of salvation. So we find that Satan has had a long term plan for his church and sun worship. But what was his final plan, as in what became of this sun worship, which was practiced on Sunday, and was initially most prevalent in Alexandria and Rome? Too many people are too quick to write off the fourth Commandment as unimportant when clearly it is. See also who is the antichrist.
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