The dictatorship of the Holy See
is based on the pagan religion of the priests. Blatant contradictions
in the Old Testament


The credibility of the books of Moses
in question. Texts first written by priests during the 6th century
before Christ

Today it is generally known that one of the original texts, to which the Old Testament in its present form goes back, is the so-called “writings of the priests.” Everything that we read today in the Old Testament was contained in these. For the first time, reference was made in them to the fact that Moses allegedly received instructions for the priesthood from God. Thus, scientific scholars themselves confirm that what we read in the Old Testament is simply not credible.
That the books of Moses cannot have come from Moses can simply be taken from the fact that at the end of the five books of Moses we can read, Moses was one hundred twenty years of age when he died. (Dt. 34:7) He cannot possibly have written this himself.
However, in the Catholic Catechism we can read … under No. 136: “God is the author of the Sacred Scripture, because he inspired its human authors; he acts in them and by means of them. He thus gives assurance that their writings teach without error his saving truth.”
And under No. 140, one can read: “The Old Testament prepares for the New and the New Testament fulfills the Old; the two shed light on each other; both are the true Word of God.” Note well – “both!” One can only conclude that if according to ecclesiastical opinion the Old Testament should be fulfilled in the New, then this invalidates the teachings of Jesus, the Christ. For Jesus taught something entirely different from the Old Testament. So who is invalidating whom? The caste of priests stands in the middle, and takes from each whatever happens to fit its scheme of things, in order to ultimately lead astray and seduce mankind, which to a great part believes in it.
The institution of the Holy See always referred to those passages of the Bible that were written in by the caste of priests, and has always been against the statements made by Jesus of Nazareth. We only have to think of the core teaching of Jesus of Nazareth, the Sermon on the Mount. The caste of priests says that it is utopian and cannot be lived. On the other hand, such things as the robes, the splendor, the pomp find approval at the Holy See. Or we remember the many instructions for killing in the Old Testament and the bloody tracks of the Vatican Church over the centuries. So, the Holy See has always been for the old pagan religions of the priests.


Whoever contradicts the viewpoint of the churches or of the priests “shall die.”
The murderous instructions of the
Old Testament still hold true according to the Catholic Catechism and
Protestant doctrine

Even though Moses gave the commandment “You shall not kill,” any instructions to murder in the Old Testament have been attributed to Moses as the word of God. For example, in Dt. 20:13, He is alleged to have said:
“you shall put all its males to the sword.” Or in Dt. 32:42: “I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh – with the blood of the slain and the captives.” Although He gave the commandment “You shall not kill,” He is supposed to have given the order in Num. 31:17: “Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by sleeping with him.” Unbelievable! This can only have been instructed by a demon, but never God!
Although many may tend to dismiss this by thinking that these are merely words, experience teaches differently. Politicians, for example, take such words very seriously. In the biography of the former president of Croatia, Franjo Tudjmann, who was involved in the war in Yugoslavia, this statesman is quoted as saying: “Genocide is not only allowed, but recommended.”1 And he literally based himself on the almighty Jehovah of the Old Testament. And that in the present time!
And what did Jesus say? “Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you.” (Mt. 5:44) This is in direct contradiction to what the Catholic and Lutheran churches teach.
May the reader examine what he or she believes. – Is it what the institutional churches teach?


The belief of the uneducated masses will grow, “when the authority of the Holy Chair is visible in majestic buildings that appear to be created by God” – thus speaks a Pope.
And what did Jesus say?

But it would be interesting to know what the caste of priests thinks of its faithful. In relation to this, Pope Nicholas V, for example, is alleged to have said that to create a lasting conviction in the brains of the uneducated masses, something has to be present that pleases the eye, because a faith that is based solely on doctrines will always be only weak and wavering. He went on to say that when the authority of the Holy Chair is visible in majestic buildings that appear to be created by God, then the faith will grow. And what did Jesus say? He said: “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures, where moth and rust consume” (Mt. 6:19) and He also spoke about the fact that a person is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and that we need no external temples; we can find God in ourselves.


The churches invented dogmas
to intimidate the people and to have a pretext for going after those who deviated from them

In the New Testament, in the words of Jesus, the Christ, nothing is said about dogmas. It would be interesting to know where dogmas come from.
The church started them through its councils, and said: From now on this is valid as a dogma and then later, another one. And so, one dogma after the other showed up. The last one was the physical assumption of Mary into heaven, announced in 1950, which we can read in the Catechism of the Catholic Church in No. 966 and 974. Since it is a dogma, a Catholic must believe this. If he does not believe it, then he is considered a heretic and eternal hell will be waiting for him. This is also a part of the “religious truths” that are binding. The people are made afraid and intimidated. Jesus did not say anything at all about this. He neither taught such things nor did He talk about dogmas at all.
And so, dogmas may be church doctrines, but never the divine laws of God. They first emerged when Original Christianity had already turned into its opposite, as the priests took over the power.
What the church has to say about this today, we can read in the book: “The Teaching of the Catholic Church as Contained in Her Documents,” by Neuner-Roos, No. 149: “But the task to authoritatively explain the written or passed-down word of God is entrusted solely to the living office of doctrine of the church.” Or in No. 151: “Everything that concerns scriptural explanations is ultimately subject to the judgment of the church.” In this, we can recognize the church’s claim to unconditional power, its presumptuousness.
At this point, we would also like to expressly make clear that every person has the freedom to believe what he wants. And every institution can teach what it wants. However, Original Christians do not remain silent when an institution calls itself Christian, whose teachings not only have nothing to do with the teachings of Jesus, the Christ, but even contradict them.


A work of reference for gathering
information

The first programs of our series, “For the Analytical Mind – Who is Sitting on the Chair of Peter?” brought out quite a lively echo from our listeners …
A listener from Germany wrote the following question to us:
“I am a vegetarian but if I talk about it with my friends, they always argue that there’s nothing in the Bible about the fact that Jesus never ate any meat. How come? In your program it was stated that God never wanted the animal sacrifices described in the Old Testament, and that Jesus never wanted people to kill animals. Could you tell me more about this? Are there any books on this subject?”

Answer: A church father, Hieronymus, also known in English as St. Jerome, compiled the first Bible for the Catholic Church back in 370 AD. It is generally assumed that Jerome had access to all the scriptures on the teachings of Jesus that were still available at his time. Commissioned directly by Pope Damasus I, whose secretary he was, he compiled the Vulgate, the first Latin Bible. And Jerome knew very well from all his readings that Jesus did not eat meat and also taught that animals are to be loved and not killed. In a letter to Jovinianus, Jerome made a noteworthy statement to this topic. He wrote: “The eating of flesh was unknown until the deluge. But after the deluge, the poison of flesh-meat was offered to our teeth ... But once Christ has come in the end of time, and Omega passed into Alpha and turned the end into the beginning, we are no longer allowed to eat flesh.” (Adversus Jovinianus) 1

It is quite clear from this that Jesus apparently commanded that no meat be eaten, something that is confirmed in the ancient gospels that were not included in the Bible. Despite this, in compiling the Vulgate – today’s Bible – Jerome withheld these important aspects of the teaching of Jesus, including instead, documents that had already been falsified.
Every day, millions of animals pay with their lives for this falsification of the teaching of Jesus.


The sacrificial mass –
a crass and mystically elevated practice
of pagan thought in terms of the
blood sacrifice


A question to the pagan insertions contained in the Bible that were then taken over by Church Christianity:
“In the second program, you explained about paganism’s belief in sacrifices. But isn’t the celebration of mass in the church also a kind of sacrificial mass built around pagan concepts?

Answer: What is being addressed here is the central and worst falsification of the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth. In the so-called “sacrifice of the mass,” the church sees the symbolic re-enactment without blood of the blood sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. At every mass celebrated, the blood sacrifice is again portrayed in theme and symbol. The concept of sacrifice is of ancient pagan origin. Originally, these were human sacrifices, then they became animal sacrifices, and then it again became a human sacrifice, namely, the sacrifice of the Son of God. He is supposed to have come to the earth in order to die as the “sacrificial lamb,” so that mankind could be reconciled with God. This is how it was announced by Paul, and adopted by the church over the centuries. This is why practically every normal Catholic today believes in this. If someone were to ask “Why did Jesus come to the earth?” the most frequent answer given is, “to die for us, because it is only in this way that He could redeem us.”

But Jesus of Nazareth did not come to the earth to die; He came to found the Kingdom of Peace, the Kingdom of God on earth. He came to bring the people the “Glad Tidings,” the teaching that leads the people into a life in the Spirit of God, into peace, into the great unity of life, and above all, a teaching that leads the people to God in their inner being.


“Blood Sacrifice” also in war? Soldiers should sacrifice themselves for the “Fatherland.” “The canons of war” as the “speaking instruments
of the calling grace” of God

Apropos the idea of “blood sacrifices,” in the commandments it says, “You shall not kill.” … isn’t the idea of blood sacrifice also a part of war?

There were certainly many army chaplains who brought this thought to the soldiers in the first, as well as the second, world war, in the sense that the soldiers should devote themselves, even sacrifice themselves, for their fatherland. Cardinal Faulhaber, who later was formalized as an alleged resistance fighter to the Third Reich, said as an army chaplain during the first world war: “The canons of war are the speaking instruments of the calling grace of God.” 2 This statement bears the thought that war is a process of purification, whereby the moral shortcomings of the people are washed pure in war, and that the soldier should devote and sacrifice himself for this higher goal. The macabre in this is the fact that such army chaplains stood on both sides of the front and said the same thing to all the soldiers who then slaughtered each other.

The hypocrisy of the Catholic Church takes on extreme forms.
Popes publicly proclaim: A praise to the Inquisition; genocide in the conquest of South America is “a happy guilt,” etc.

This hypocrisy of the Catholic Church is also expressed in the fact that the current pope so deliberately wants to be linked with Benedict XV, his predecessor by name, who allegedly stood so resolutely for peace in Europe. During the First World War, Benedict XV, who was at the head of his church during that time, repeatedly and publicly mourned the disaster of the war that was destroying Europe. However, what did he personally do about it? He saw to it that on both sides – in France and in Germany and in all the states that were engaged in the war – the presence of military chaplains was particularly strengthened. Why didn’t he excommunicate the statesmen that participated in the war? After all, the church is always so eager to excommunicate people who do not follow its teaching.
Meanwhile, Pope Benedict XVI has brought hypocrisy and schizophrenia to an all-time high. It was he who recently defended the Inquisition. A few weeks before his election to the papacy, he gave a rather brash interview on the ARD public television program “Contrasts” on March 3, 2005. There he explained: “We stand in a line of continuity with the Inquisition.” One can hardly believe that he expressed this sentence in such a relaxed manner as he did. But it gets even more incredible, because in the next breath he spoke according to the following: “It cannot be denied that the Inquisition brought a certain step of progress to mankind, namely in the sense that those accused were questioned beforehand and given a hearing.”
Basically it’s pure cynicism speaking here, when we consider the fact that the hearings that took place during the Inquisition were connected with the worst kind of torture, during which so many “questioned” died.
And this cardinal who more or less supports all of this is now the pope, the so-called “Holy Father.” This means that as far as the Church is concerned, you can be for killing, for slaughtering, just be sure to serve the church – and then you are “holy.”

This can be seen in numerous examples, including those of the predecessor of the current pope, John Paul II, whom many want to have beatified. At the time of the 500 year anniversary of the evangelization of South America, he said: “The conquest of Latin America by the Catholic Spanish conquerors may have shown certain violent characteristics, and as such, should be condemned. However, because this truly admirable evangelization contributed to an expansion in the annals of salvation, in the end, it actually has become a ‘happy guilt.’” 3 What kind of cyn-icism lies behind this statement when one can so insolently speak of a “happy guilt” in face of the many cruelties carried out in this conquest of South America that cost so many countless lives?


Outgrowths of institutional superstitions:
Scraping Madonna, ingesting pictures – “a means to salvation”? Crawling for Indulgences – To become free of sin?

Question:
“In an auction on Internet, a scraping Madonna from Altötting and a sheet of ingesting pictures were offered. What are these?”
Answer: … This custom of the scraping Madonna was still around even in the 20th century. Someone may think these have to do with the Middle Ages – but no, they apparently are still of interest today, as we can conclude from the question.

From a work of reference compiled on Dr. Edmund Müller’s collection of relics called “Healing Remedies,” we can read the following on page 43: “A very striking possibility to consume a remedy when in need was to take shavings from the clay figure of a ‘Black Scraping Madonna.’ Still well-known into the 20th century, the black scraping Madonnas came from Altötting in Bavaria and among the folk, were known as ‘bodily’ copies of grace from Einsiedeln in Switzerland. The latter were held to be miraculous and healing because the clay supposedly had soil and mortar from the Lady Chapel mixed into it as well as relic particles. This held true only for those scraping Madonnas that were sold by the convent itself, carrying the seal of authenticity on its back.” 4 One can only hope that with these relic pieces mixed in, no corpse pieces were involved.
In terms of the so-called “ingesting pictures,” these were pictures of saints that people actually swallowed. We can also read about this in “Healing Remedies” on pages 44-45: “Whole sheets of such ‘ingesting pictures’ could earlier be acquired at many different places of pilgrimage. The buyer assumed that these sheets had been blessed and sanctified by a cleric and if possible, had also been touched by the revered image of grace at the place of purchase.” … “In danger or need, the individuals would swallow little pictures the size of postage stamps or given them to their sick cattle. The pictures that were used as sacraments were perceived as a kind of medicine, which bore great powers through the priestly blessing.”… “Still in 1903 the Roman Congregation of Rites permitted the application of ingesting pictures” … The custom of swallowing small pictures has its origin in ancient times.” 5


Doctrinal statements of the Holy See:
Absurdities and unbelievable nonsense.
Whoever doesn’t believe is
“excommunicated,” damned
and condemned

We have already addressed the fact that certain things taught by the church have to be believed according to the regulations of the Catholic Church. If a person doesn’t believe in these things then he is eternally damned. And now, a listener asked a question:

Earlier, in Neuner-Roos – a fundamental work entitled “The Teaching of the Catholic Church as Contained in Her Documents” – we could read the words “eternally damned,” but today, we talk about being excommunicated. Does this mean that today we are no longer eternally damned if we doubt the Catholic teaching?

Answer: Not at all, because to be excommunicated means to be eternally damned. In earlier times, the language used expressed things rather directly, and now in our time, language has been altered to fit the spirit of our times, so that what is expressed sounds moderate, formulated in a seemingly harmless way, but the meaning of which is still the same. To be excommunicated means to be closed off from salvation, thus, eternally damned. In original Latin, this was expressed with the words “anathema sit” – which means, “let him be damned”, that is, condemned.
At this point, the question is raised as to whether this change was undertaken in view of other religions. Today, with the tendency to be rather ecumenical in approach in trying to win over others, perhaps this word is a bit too strong, after all, according to this Catholic teaching, aren’t the adherents of all other denominations “eternally damned”?
According to Neuner-Roos, No. 350, we read: The Holy Roman Church, founded through the word of our Lord and Savior, firmly believes, professes and proclaims that no one outside the Catholic church, neither heathen nor Jew nor unbeliever nor anyone separated from the unity, will take part in eternal life; instead he will fall victim to the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels, if he does not join her, the church, before death.


We people need neither a Catholic nor a Protestant Church. We need Jesus, the Christ. The mighty spirit of love dwells in every person

In Matthew 7:12, Jesus, the Christ, taught us: “Do to others as you would have them do to you.” This sentence is generally known as the “Golden Rule.” Said in a different way, this means, what you don’t want others to do to you, don’t do to anyone else either. If this were kept by all the people worldwide, then we would no longer need a Catholic Church that practices paganism. Then we would need no Lutheran Church, which is really an appendage of the Catholic Church anyway.
We people need only Jesus, the Christ. And Jesus taught us to go into a quiet room and to talk to God, our Father, there.
Because God is the Spirit of love.
God is the Spirit of peace.
God is the Spirit of unity.
The mighty Spirit of love dwells in every person, for every person is the temple of the eternal Spirit, the spirit of our eternal Father. In the quiet chamber, when we find calm and peace, and we pray to within and fulfill our prayers, then step by step we will also live in the commandments of God and in the teachings of Jesus, the Christ. Then we change to the positive, to the good, and the great, mighty spirit of our Father can be active through us. This is, in general terms, the teaching of the Original Christians.


The Early Christians lived according to the teaching and the role model given by Jesus of Nazareth. The disastrous development into a totalitarian cult of idolatry, into the Catholic Church

The first Christian communities were formed from the circle of people that Jesus of Nazareth had gathered around Himself. Early communities were formed without priests, without a hierarchy. There was no one among them who set the tone, much less a kind of pope who said what was right; instead, what emerged at the beginning was a loose affiliation of independent communities. The members of these early communities held everything in common. There is even a passage in the New Testament that expresses this. It says: “Now the company of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had everything in common.” (Acts 4:32)
Even if only one sentence, it does express how the Early Christians lived. They were equal before the law; they had equal rights – including the women. Everyone lived from the work of his own hands.

The important characteristic of the Early Christians of that time is the fact that they were followers of Jesus, the Christ, because they incorporated in their way of thinking and living the teachings of this great Spirit, who is our Redeemer.
They may not have been perfect, but they were working toward putting into practice in their daily lives the spiritual principles that Jesus of Nazareth had taught. They did not hold a ritual of communion, but rather ate together, remembering Jesus of Nazareth, who had brought them this teaching. While partaking of the food, they made themselves aware of the fact that the Spirit of God is effective in the food; they respected the life that is in all things. They did not carry out a ritual of baptism. They simply accepted people into their circle. Everything was much plainer and simpler and more ingenious than what the churches have made of it.

So how did the Early Christians of that time treat the Mother Earth, the plants and animals? … It can be said with certainty that the largest part of the membership of the early communities enjoyed the consumption of no meat. For example, John Crysostom, born in Antioch circa 347 and generally considered the most prominent Doctor of the Greek Church said: “No streams of blood are amongst them, nor cutting up of flesh, … neither are there unpleasing smells of meat amongst them, … neither runnings and tumults, and disturbances, and wearisome clamors…” 6


Charismatic tasks of the Early
Christians in the communities:
Prophets, teachers, healers; they lived what they taught

… the prophetic word was among the first Christians. God spoke to the first Christians through illumined men and women, and to all those who wanted to hear it, just as God spoke to the Israelites through the great prophets in the Old Covenant. We can also see this in another passage, in Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, chapter 12, verse 28, where we read the following: “And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, helpers, administrators, speakers in various kinds of tongues.”
These tasks in the community were not carried out in an authoritarian manner. Instead, they were based on charisma, that is, on the spiritual radiation of the person. The people who carried out these tasks were measured on whether what was taught through them was also expressed in their daily life, in their behavior. And when this was not the case, it became clear that they were not fit for their task …
Those who principally had external tasks, later called priests and bishops, took over the power and the other three task areas, the prophets, teachers and healers, whose charismatic tasks were far more important for the life of the community from a spiritual point of view, were suppressed, just like a cuckoo pushes the eggs out of another bird’s nest…
The strongly determining influence
of Paul contributed very decisively to the almost total dissociation of Early
Christianity from its origin, from the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth

Paul played an important role in this, for he was markedly influenced by a Roman polytheism that developed from paganism, and moreover, had never even lived with Jesus of Nazareth. Paul, who did not get to know Early Christianity first hand, brought his ideas into Early Christianity in a very dominant way. These concepts were, for example, on the one hand, an authoritarian way of thinking, and on the other hand, a way of thinking that put women in second place, something that was not the case at all in Early Christianity, where many women were active in the capacity of prophets … But it wasn’t only these two aspects – Paul took a great deal away from Early Christianity, bringing his pagan ideas in its stead.

Paul … is also the author of the concept that Jesus of Nazareth had to be sacrificed in such a bloody way, in order to reconcile God with mankind. A concept that was fully foreign to Jesus of Nazareth, but which Paul, however, introduced. …

But the second and perhaps even worse falsification of the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth took place through Paul when he said in the following sense: Decisive is that you believe in God and in Christ, His Son; the deeds in the following of the Nazarene are not so decisive. Paul taught: “For we hold that a person is justified by faith apart from works prescribed by the law.” This is how it reads in his letter to the Romans 3:28.
Quite the opposite of the many statements of John, who was called “a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,” and who belonged to the early community in Jerusalem. He said, What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? And He also said, So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead. Or the following: Do you want to be shown, you senseless person, that faith apart from works is barren? And lastly, You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. (Jas. 2:14, 17, 20, 24).

And what did Jesus himself say? Also quoting from the Bible (Mt. 7:24-27), the following: … And the one who hears these words of Mine and does not follow them should be compared with a foolish man who built his house upon sand. And the rain fell and the floods came and the winds blew and beat against that house and it fell in, and great was its collapse.

Paul … totally adapted Christianity to the concepts of the Roman Empire, by declaring that a Christian must obey the authority of this world, because it is instituted and instructed by God and does not bear the sword in vain; it is the servant of God to execute his wrath on the wrongdoer. (Rom. 13:1-4) A teaching, which when we look back, had a devastating effect over the subsequent 2000 years.
And yet, Jesus said: “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s.” (Mt. 22:21) Or in another place even: “We must obey God rather than men.” (Acts 5:29) Of course, the church was glad to seize upon the words of Paul, in order to justify the death penalty or even war, for which they often blessed weapons. …
The cult of Mary and revering relics:
Whoever does not believe in this is eternally damned by the
Catholic Church

Mary, as taken over by the Roman Catholic Church and magnified to the mother of God, is portrayed as the direct successor to Egyptian goddesses, such as Isis and other figures of pagan mystery cults. She is the successor of Diana or Artemis, or even Astarte, who was the Phoenician divinity of fertility. And this dogma of enthroning Mary as a mysterious cult goddess developed in Ephesus, a city where the cult of the mother of God had been a custom for centuries. What is also significant is the fact that while the council of Ephesus was taking place, a crowd of fanatics went through the city demanding that the old Diana-cult, as the cult of the great mother, the mother of God, be made into a dogma of the up and coming Roman Catholic Church. …


Whoever does not pay deep respect
and honor to the relics of the saints
is damned by the Catholic Church.
A cult of the dead: Belief and practice
in this church is based on bones

… This matter of relics was taken in hand by the pope right from the very beginning: “In about 750, long lines of wagons constantly came to Rome bringing immense quantities of skulls and skeletons which were sorted, labelled and sold by the popes. Graves were plundered by night and tombs in churches were watched by armed men! ‘Rome,’ wrote Gregorovius, was like a moldering cemetery….” 7 In the church of St. Prassede there is a marble tablet, still today, on which is written that in the year 817 Pope Pascal had the bodies of 2300 martyrs brought from cemeteries into this church. And when Pope Bonifatius VI transformed the Pantheon into a Christian church in the year 609, “twenty-eight cartloads of sacred bones were said to have been removed from the catacombs and placed in a porphyry basin beneath the high altar.” 8 The foundation of this church consists of hundreds upon hundreds of skeletons, and the high altar was built upon this.
It could be said that the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church are really founded on bones, that it is a cult of the dead. … Generally we can conclude that much found in the Catholic Churches, almost all their customs, stem from paganism.
Jeremiah … said: “For the customs of the peoples are vanity. A tree from the forest is cut down and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman. They decorate it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so that it cannot move. Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, and they cannot speak; they have to be carried, for they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.” (Jer. 10:3-5)


Dark superstition – still today:
A relic in the pectoral cross of bishops, a relic in every altar…
Dogma: “Those who do not accept
all the church traditions…”
– are already almost in hell

… Since the 12th century, every bishop has to wear a certain pectoral cross. Already in the 4th century, it was an amulet, a vessel that held a relic. And to this day, a relic must be in this pectoral cross as stipulated. In this and similar ways, these rituals and insignia are brought into the present and passed on. So today it is not any different – as so many would like to think – instead this is the present, the absolute present.
A relic is also worked into every altar. A Catholic altar is fully consecrated only when it contains a relic. …
Here, a thoughtful contemporary would ask: Do the people really have to believe in this cult of relics? And if it is not accepted by the so-called faithful, that is, if the people do not believe in it, what then?
We have already referred to the fact that it was particularly the power of relics that had to be believed. In general, it can be said that there is a dogma that predominantly makes the following clear: “Any one does not accept the whole of the Church’s tradition, both written and unwritten – anathema sit.” (Neuner-Roos, No 78) …
However, … the church is not shy to industriously collect money from the many who don’t believe in all of their dogmas, even though it explains to them: “You are damned forever, because you do not believe everything that we proclaim.”


The caste of priests determines
what takes place in the state –
as long as the people allow this.
A dictatorship tries to prevail
over a democracy

If we look very exactingly at the Catholic doctrine, above all, the statements in the books of Moses, which according to Catholic doctrine are the “true word of God” and which the New Testament is said to “shed light” on, then we actually don’t need a worldly legal system because in the end, the priests always have the last word. And so, we could say that this worldly legal system is merely a cloak that is draped around oneself, while actually the Catholic Church says what should be done, and the world order should do what the Church wants. This is how the national or state legitimized order of law appears in the doctrine of the Church. One could also say that democracy, where power starts with the people, should be maintained for the sake of appearances. In reality, it is the caste of priests of the prevailing religion that want to determine what is done. …

This is also rather ingeniously stated in the book by Neuner-Roos (Nr. 349): “We decree that the Holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff have primacy in the whole world.”

One would have to say that the people are led to believe in democracy, but in reality, isn’t it the dictatorship of the church behind democracy? Consider the fact that the church demands of its faithful, in every situation – be it private or professional – that they see to it that the Christian doctrine – understood according to church dogmatic – prevails; with this, the ideology of an organization is being placed above the state legal system. Since it is a totalitarian ideology, which has nothing in common with democracy, one could justifiably say that here a dictatorship is attempting to prevail over a democracy.





Footnotes:

1. Hieronymus Adversus Jovinianum (Against Jovianius I), by St. Jerome, taken from online Catholic Encyclopedia / www.newadvent.org/fathers/30091.htm

2. Karlheinz Deschner, Ein Jahrhundert Heilsgeschichte, Kiepenheuer u. W., Köln (1982), Vol. 1, p. 253

3. Spiegel, Special Edition 3/2005, p. 91

4. Special Exposition 2005, Mittel zum Heil, Religiöse Segens- und Schutzzeichen in der Sammlung Dr. Edward Müller, Scientific analysis by lic. phil. Dominik Wunderlin, Curator, Museum der Kulturen, Basel, Switzerland

5. Ibid

6. John Chrysostom, “New Testament Sermons,” Homily 69 on the Gospel of St. Matthew, translated by Rev. Sir George Prevost, Baronet, M.a. of Oriel College, Oxford, St. Pacomius Library

7. Ralph Woodrow: Babylon, Mystery Religion, Riverside, California, 1966, p. 66

8. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 661