If your Church is against a preventive war, as you declare: Why do you not finally give up your teaching of a just war? According to the teachings of Jesus, every war is fratricide. Jesus said:

“The one who takes the sword will perish by the sword.

According to the German Bishop’s Conference in the year 2000, the Church teaching about a just war expressly includes deterrence by the use of weapons of mass destruction. And so with this, you are condoning fratricide. The extensive atomic weapons arsenals of the great powers are considered ethically justifiable by representatives of the Church. Is this the teaching of Jesus? How can you credibly be for peace as long as you represent such ethics? Jesus had other ethical principles

Why do you not unequivocally work against every kind of weapon production and weapons trade? Weapons serve to kill. Killing and war is fratricide. God said in His commandments:

“You shall not kill.”
 

The violence of mankind that breaks out in war is the result of a violence in thought and action that precedes it. Honorable Brother Wojtyla, you have recognized that your Church has practiced violence, killing and murder for centuries during the Crusades and the Inquisition. This is why you spoke your “Mea Culpa” three years ago. But in the process, you placed the blame on the confused sons and daughters of your Church and made no confession of guilt for your institution itself. Who caused the sons and daughters of your Church to practice this brutality of the Inquisition? Who were the Inquisitors, the instigators of these bloodbaths?

If you want to make reference to Jesus, the Christ, should you not also reconcile with the descendants of the native inhabitants of Latin America by giving back the goods stolen by the Church and making reparation to the descendants of the murdered and tortured ones? Crimes that have not been expiated continue to have their effect as negative energies in humans and souls for generations and are the seed for new violence. Jesus also spoke differently than the Church here. He said:
“So if you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled with your brother, and then come and offer your gift.”
 

The one who speaks of peace also must always bear in mind hunger and need as causes for worldwide violence. This is why we ask you: Is it not time that the Church makes its immeasurable wealth available to the poor of this world? You let the collection plate be passed among your faithful, among people who are themselves becoming ever poorer. Why do you not sell your stocks and bonds and real estate? You would receive millions for them, with which you could soothe the misery in this world.

Why, for example, does your Church demand millions in subsidies from the state in Germany? Why do you not see to it that the state let this money flow to the middle class and the poor? Does your institution want to become even richer? Why do you not keep the teachings of Jesus, the Christ? As is well known, He said in His conversation with the rich young man:

“How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God. For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

Do you not thus reject the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus as utopia, when especially the Sermon on the Mount leads the people to equality, to peace and to the well-being of all? For us as Original Christians it is understandable that you, as a Church worth billions, will not come through the eye of the needle and for this reason also reject the Sermon on the Mount, because it teaches equality, freedom, unity, brotherliness and justice.

Why do you have your churches and cathedrals built and restored with state funds while on the other hand, people are living in poverty and hunger? The prophet Isaiah already then, indicated that God does not dwell in houses of stone. And the martyr Stephanus, beatified by your Church, repeated this statement of the prophet and was then stoned to death by order of the priesthood of that time.
 

Why does your Church incorporate paganism and not the teachings of Jesus, the Christ? Paganism was and is warlike. It transmits fear and lack of freedom. Much of what plays a role in your rituals and dogmas originates from pagan mystery cults. How do you want to bring the Catholic adoration of the Mother of God, which reminds one of the Egyptian goddess Isis, into accord with Jesus of Nazareth? Or the worship of relics, which comes from ancient Egypt? Or the dogmas about the saintliness of the Church, the raising of the mother of Jesus to become the one who bore God, and the concept of eternal damnation – teachings which were not inspired by the Holy Spirit at the first councils of Constantinople, Ephesus and Chalcedon but initiated by the Roman emperors? And the indulgence portal, which you had your faithful pass through in the year 2000, is a pagan custom from ancient Rome and is connected with the “Portal of Janus,” which the Roman emperor opened during times of war and closed when peace came. What would Jesus have to say about the pagan commerce in indulgences, which was brought back to life again under your pontificate? What would He think of the worship of saints with statues and processions, which in many ways reminds one of the belief in idols and demons of ancient Babylonia? Even the pope’s tiara, the bishops’ mitre and the gowns worn for mass by the clergy are taken from the wardrobe of ancient mystery cults.

Would it not be better if the pope and his cardinals and bishops were to put aside their splendid garments? Are these not somewhat embarrassing in times of need and compared with the simplicity of the Nazarene and His apostles?
 

It was not only splendid garments that Jesus of Nazareth had nothing to do with. Magnificent titles were also foreign to Him. Just as we, you also know that He expressly said:
“But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brethren. And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. And only he is holy.”

Can you imagine, honorable brother, that Jesus of Nazareth would agree to your having yourself called “Holy Father”? As long as you cling to your hierarchies and your authoritarian thinking, you do not act in the spirit of Jesus, the Christ, of the teacher of brotherliness. And as long as you do this, your appeals for peace will be without strength. In face of the Church’s doctrine of a just war, including the threat of weapons of mass destruction and given your institution’s overwhelmingly bloody past, the ecclesiastical appeals for peace have rather a mocking and ridiculing effect toward the great teacher of love for God and neighbor.
 

How do you explain that at all times the priests were the opponents of the prophets of God and had most of them killed – the messengers of God from the Old Testament, and then Jesus of Nazareth and later the representatives of Inner Christianity, like, for instance, the Cathars or mystics like Savonarola?
 

We Original Christians are not against Catholicism or Protestantism. Each one can think and live as he wishes. But, may one, so we ask, adorn himself with the Christian name, when one disdains the basic principles of the great teacher, of Jesus, the Christ?