Is it any wonder at all, seeing all that people have invested into their religion, physically, financially and emotionally; that the gospel of Christ can possibly be freely offered as Paul so clearly says?
Romans 5:15-18 KJB… “But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification. For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.”
There’s no money in freely offered grace; that’s why there are so few purely grace churches.
The grace of God is 100% FREE. It is a gift. When you get a gift there is NO CHARGE! In government, a free GIFT WILL have a charge hidden in the silver lining.
Stucky
December 14, 2021 1:38 pm
It’s Tuesday so let’s bash Joos, Mooslims, Kneegrows, CATHOLICS!!
I grew up Catholic. Catholic school. Alter boy. The works. But, I left the Catholic Church permanently in my teen years. I disagree strongly with many of their doctrines. Disgusted with the rampant pedophilia. The Popes are mostly evil. And their devotion to and love of money and power is Satanic in origin.
But, all this is well known. The video reveals no new information. So, what is your overall purpose? It can’t be education. It must be to start a Shitfest. And such purposes are abhorrent to me.
Stephanie, if I could recommend you a book titled “The Sion Revelation” by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince. The book has nothing to do with the Jewish folks. It has to do with a group called “The Priory of Sion”, of Rennes le Chateau’s fame. It’s an very interesting story. The authors go into the P2 (Propaganda Due) involvement.
I think a lot of that information was in The DaVinci Code. Most of my interest in the Catholic Church these days is regarding the Italian Mafia. The biggest mafia round up in Italy’s history has been taking place throughout the pandemic and there’s mostly a media blackout on it outside of Italy.
Da Vinci code is just a novel. The book I mentioned has all the links. Not to mention Dan Brown used another book by Picknett and Prince: Templar Revelation.
Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln wrote a book called Holy Blood, Holy Grail in 1982, almost two decades before Picknett and Prince wrote their book.
The DaVinci Code was based mostly on Baigent & Leigh’s theories.
I’m perfectly aware of Holy Blood Holy Grail, but if you had read Brown’s book you would have found out that he used primarily two books for his novel, the ones Baigent Leigh and Lincoln (who was the first instigator for the book). I had a first edition signed of Holy Blood Holy Grail.
Picknett and Prince went on to write Templar Rev after doing research on the Turin Shroud.
So buzz off. I know more on subject than most, prolly more than Brown himself.
They don’t have a choice. The ‘Ndrangheta clan works with Los Sinaloa Cartel to bring Fentanyl into the USA. While everybody was distracted by the Mueller shitshow Jeff Sessions was going after the transnational cartels.
I don’t understand those thumb down business when sharing information. I sometimes do it but it’s not a attack on person but on the comment. I didn’t know about Sessions work. Didn’t spent much time on the net in those days.
Don’t know who gave you the thumb down but as far as I’m concern, he is a dumb ass. Since my leaving the Catholic church, I’ve been reading every book on the subject (I mean those I could afford). My studies on the Knights Templar lead me to the disgraceful pogroms of the Middle Ages, the Cathar Crusade, the burning of innocent people simply because they disagreed with them.
Too much to tell.
Estimates of the inquisition deaths run to the 50 millon area. True believers, gypsies and many other people groups were exterminated by the Catholic Church. The Catholic church is the current version of the Mother & Child Religion that traces it’s roots back through all cultures to Nimrod and Semiramus at Babel. For the full story see TWO BABYLONS by Alexander Hislop. I believe it was written 1931. Hard reading but quite informative.
Two Babylons is very well documented, with over 300 other works quoted, several from as far back as the 1500’s. A much easier read of the same information is Ralph Woodrow’s Babylon Mystery Religion. The connection between the Universal (Catholic) church and Ancient Babylon is undeniable.
I don’t know how anyone gets over the fact that their Hierarchy (esp the Papacy) is in direct contradiction of the Gospels. It’s something that occasionally gets lip service and then people pretend they don’t know that.
Yahshua/Jesus HATES the deeds of the Nicolaitans. Nico = victory, Laity = the common people, Nicolaitan = victory over the people. God is no respecter of persons, one Torah (teaching or instruction) for *everyone.*
Over 1 billon Catholics have no clue they have been duped, therefor these articles may reach one of them and their light will come on like yours did Stucky.Everybody should get a chance to find out what is true and what ain’t.
Actually, I loved it. 100% truth, imho. It explains so much and so quickly about why people act as they do …. great example he gives being the mask wearers. Thanks.
Balbinus, Duped, yes, but our language doesn’t have a better, stronger word to describe the depth of the duping. I’ve often said that Catholics have the highest titer of cognitive dissonance of any other slice of humanity. It requires a lot of self-deception, laziness, and lack of critical thinking to align many of their beliefs with the free Gospel of Jesus Christ. Not just the churchs’ materialism, pedophilia, the papacy, and works salvation, but the rank and file support of policies and politicians that support baby killing. Their warped notions of social justice are indistinguishable from communism. I could go on, but hope not to start the “shitfest” to which Stucky refers.
I was Catholic for 30 years, but God’s mercy gave me Free salvation, adoption as a son, and deliverance from the big Dupe. All my old family and lots of friends are Catholic. I love them all, but only God can drop the scales from their eyes. I sometimes feel like I suffer from survivors guilt because I cannot reach them, but for some reason God smiled on me. The word duped just doesn’t convey the depth and width that it needs to.
Stuck, I think you’ re right on with this. similar background, similar conclusions; Nothing new here. Lets all move on
Georges S
December 14, 2021 2:24 pm
In the late 90’s the Vatican’s was considered as the largest slumlord in NYC. Today all the sites that were proving it are closed. Some old links that I had saved show Nothing found.
Just like Stucky, I was raised Catholic, altar boy also and going to Thursday school called Catechism. In my teen I rebelled and quit. For punishment, my father made me kneel on gravel in the garage on bare knees. After few hours and bleeding knees, he made me stand and asked me if I was sure of what I was doing, we talked and he asked me to forgive him for what he had done.
The fact that the OSS was using Vatican bank in the 40’s could explain how many German wanted criminal could have escaped. Check out the Odessa files, not the book by Frederick Forsyth, but the true story behind it and remember Alan Dulles was head of OSS for Europe in the 40’s.
The Conquistadors left Padres behind after annihilating the fighters in the native population and it seems their message stuck.
rhs jr
December 14, 2021 2:29 pm
Thanks, I really appreciated that video because when I was single, a friend persuaded me to attend Charismatic Catholic services which aren’t far from what I know as a Protestant. I married a sweet Catholic who drug me to Catechism classes, which went badly for almost 6 months because they blaspheme the New Testament to Hell. A Priest called us in for a meeting and tried to persuade her to get an annulment which infuriated me and I quit, but not her. She still goes and donates weekly to Satan’s Cult. I pray for her Conversion and pass on everything that should help her Epiphany like this video. I hate that when I die, the Satanic Catholic Cult will get some of the fruits of my life’s labors, damn them. PS: I have come to realize people continue to behave like children in many ways. Give a child a choice between ice cream and a hardy soup, he’ll always take the ice cream. We adults know we have to make the child eat the soup or he will become fat and sassy. As adults, we find virtue colorless, odorless and tasteless so we want to enjoy sins instead. We have to realize that we have to slap ourselves upside the head or we will become spiritually rotten and disfavored by God if we don’t pass on the many adult varieties of ice creams. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: I see some beautiful women as Demons (her guests are in the depths of Hell) and some homely women as Angels because I see more clearly. If we try to see things through Jesus’ eyes, as we all should, it will be like putting on Infrared Glasses at night and seeing the predators out to destroy us clear as day. If we go for the ice cream, the moment we touch it, we should recoil like a toddler touching a hot wood stove in the Winter. Stolen kisses are sweet, the Scroll tasted sweet but made him sick. Don’t be a dog returning to it’s vomit. Virtue is not sour, bitter, or tasteless but becomes ever sweeter over time. The Bible tells me so and I have proven it’s true.
Excellent comment. Our pulpit pounding pastor was raised Catholic. Was sent to Vietnam and tried Buddhism. Finally, in NC he was introduced to JESUS and never looked back. Even as a lost man he could see Catholicism and Buddhism were empty shells of man’s version of religion.
There is plenty to criticize the Catholic Church about as it exists today. This video however is bullshit. I scrutinize EVERYTHING I see, read and hear. My bullshit meter went off after 2 minutes simply because the irrational errors involved are most egregious and should be obvious to any thinking person.
FUNNY MATH:
He asserts that the Church collects $30 billion per year at a conservative 3% interest on $2 trillion in cash reserves. This can only be true if they had that much cash. But do they?
Where did they get that much cash? It’s asserted from collecting $5,454 from 372 million Catholics per year or $105 per week every week for 52 weeks a year per person. That number includes ALL Catholics: husbands, wives and children. Big problem here. This means that a family of four (husband, wife and two kids) would have to throw into the collection plate $420 each week, every week or over $1,700 per month. At $5,454 times four people, times 52 weeks comes out to a yearly average $21,816 per Catholic family of four.
The US census indicates that the average e household earns $67,521 in 2020. Are we to believe that the average Catholic donates a third of his income to the Church?
The presenter goes off track from the very beginning. He claims that the Church has $30 billion in wealth in Australia alone. But he doesn’t show his work. Most likely this is the valuation of the properties of the Churches themselves throughout the country i.e. the real estate valuation. To conflate this with the cash necessary to draw interest requires either incredible stupidity or intentional malevolence.
I could go on but I’ve wasted enough of my time here.
The presenter goes off track from the very beginning. He claims that the Church has $30 billion in wealth in Australia alone. But he doesn’t show his work
He’s literally getting the Australian $30 billion statistic from the news.
He never used the term cash in the estimate. He specifically used the term WEALTH. His math was that the Australian church has $30 billion and 5.5 million Catholics to get the $5,454 per person. He simply trying to get a per person estimate of how much each Catholic is worth to get an overall estimate of what the entire church might be worth worldwide. There’s no way to know the exact wealth of the church.
Wrong Stephanie. He describes it as “wealth” then goes on to extrapolate the Australian “wealth” figure, projecting into onto the US, Canada and Europe as interest bearing cash to produce the sensationalist $2 trillion figure. Be more careful.
If he didn’t mean this to be construed as a liquid asset (cash) then why did he indicate a $30 billion per year gain in interest payment on $2 trillion?
He took the reported Australian wealth of $30 billion and divided it by the total of Australian Catholics to get the $5,454 per person. He then multiplied $5,454 by the 1.2 billion Catholics in the world to get the estimated worlwide wealth of $ 2 Trillion. Then he calculated the possible yearly interest of the very low 3% figure to get a possible $60 billion per year the Catholic church might earn in interest.
So to break it down:
$30 billion/5.5 million= $5,454
$5,454 X 1.2 billion = $2,000,000,000,000
$2,000,000,000,000 X 0.03= $60,000,000
He’s not calculating the church’s cash holdings. He’s simply calculating a per person average based on the Australian statistic to estimate the church’s worldwide wealth.
That’s not what he said. He was getting a rough estimate of what the church could be worth worldwide based on the Australian figure divided by the total population of Australian Catholics because there’s no way to get a per country figure. He uses the $2 Trillion estimate to calculate the lowest possible interest the church possibly takes in every year. Your listening skills suck. He never said this was the actual wealth of the church because there’s no way to know that.
The burning of Notre Dame was arson, although the French police called it an accident. I have been doing lots of research on the Gothic technics of construction.
The beams used for holding the ceiling were made of treated oaks.
First the oak was chosen for its length and diameter, cut in the fall when the sap was at the minimum. It was laid down in an 20 to 30 degrees angle. The bark was pealed off. In the Spring, the beam was laid to rest in a river with very high limescale content. Depending on the diameter, the beam was left in the water for 3 to 4 years, then removed and left out to dry.
Only after that treatment the beam was installed. Only thermite could set it up on fire.
I have many Catholic friends and they are in a word “cheap”. I did meet a local priest at a gun auction many years ago and he told me he was praised from the hierarchy as they just passed 1 millon dollars in the church account. Our town is a town of 5000 residents.
A video from 1 to 2 years ago did show the leader of the Salvation Army visiting the Pope and said he got to go to the basement. That’s when I dropped my support of the SA.
Religion is a business, it was a business back in ancient Egypt and it continues to this day. Just market any religious icon and BAM, the money flows in to your pockets. The Vatican is a dark hole of disgusting activity wrapped up in the Christian flavor of religion.
Worshiping God is free. If you don’t get that, you need to stamp sucker on your forehead.
Yup, altar boy, 1st Communion and Confirmation. Then I gave up on the Catholic church right after high school. But it wasn’t because of their obvious and continuing corruption. They told me I needed their permission to get laid. Bye bye.
anon y mous
December 14, 2021 7:11 pm
pure bullshit
Balbinus
December 14, 2021 7:25 pm
Sell salvation? Why would you buy something that is free? Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace are ye saved thru faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the GIFT of God, Not of works lest any man should boast.
It is worse than that. They sell salvation [ indulgences ? ] for your dead relatives/friends.
mark
December 14, 2021 7:25 pm
“This disturbing expose describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and US mafias, and the Vatican to thwart the possibility of a Communist invasion of Europe.
Journalist Paul L. Williams presents evidence suggesting the existence of “stay-behind” units in many European countries consisting of five thousand to fifteen thousand military operatives. According to the author’s research, the initial funding for these guerilla armies came from the sale of large stocks of SS morphine that had been smuggled out of Germany and Italy and of bogus British bank notes that had been produced in concentration camps by skilled counterfeiters.
As the Cold War intensified, the units were used not only to ward off possible invaders, but also to thwart the rise of left-wing movements in South America and NATO-based countries by terror attacks.
Williams argues that Operation Gladio soon gave rise to the toppling of governments, wholesale genocide, the formation of death squads, financial scandals on a grand scale, the creation of the mujahideen, an international narcotics network, and, most recently, the ascendancy of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a Jesuit cleric with strong ties to Operation Condor (an outgrowth of Gladio in Argentina) as Pope Francis I.
Sure to be controversial, Operation Gladio connects the dots in ways the mainstream media often overlooks”.
I know many people who either don’t read books…or only read fiction books…bright people…people who are an inch deep and a mile wide in what they really know.
This book describes, with extensive back up footnotes, the bridge from post WW2 to where we are now…as far as this continuing UNHOLY TRINITY.
Anonymous
December 15, 2021 7:31 am
My two favorite quotes; Man’s faith in Religion is equal to his lack of faith in himself.
Mark Twain; Faith – Faith is believing in something you know ain’t so
I think by second or third grade in the Catholic School I knew this religious stuff was too bizarre to really believe. So the nuns beat it in a little harder.
The made up stuff in the New Testament (even wonderful literary stories like the woman caught in adultery added to John 400 years later) should be highlighted by publishers, and the fools that added it condemned for having brought doubts on the Truth. But we can point to the Holy Shroud and the Face Cloth that validate the Gospel Crucifixion stories, and to thousands of Jesus’ appearances to people over the last 2,000 years. Science can’t explain Spiritual things; theologins can’t even connect all the dots (Why did He take 300,000 years to “come”? Why are the records so weak, confused and polluted?). But the basic Christ story is real: Jesus is the Messiah Savior of Mankind who fulfilled Is 53 etc even if He didn’t fully understand it all during His appx 33 year long lifetime on Earth. The offer of Eternal Life is to everyone but God is very picky about which Humans He will make his own children and give Eternal Life to, to live in Heaven with Him forever after.
bug
December 15, 2021 8:32 pm
Sorry to see so many invested in Anti-Catholic bigotry. All of this stuff has been debunked time and time again.
Perverts in the Church. Yeah. Lots of them. All hiding themselves and acting against church teachings. I have a lot more against them than any of you anti-Catholics. But the fact is that a priest is statistically the safest person to be with children. Far above protestant ministers, rabbis, police officers, doctors, school teachers, day care and so on.
Everybody is always envious of the “wealth” of the Catholic Church. The vast majority of this wealth is used in the performance of her mission. The diocese of Los Angeles has a bigger budget than the Vatican, and by far. The bulk of the Vatican’s wealth is in real estate and historic art. Not particularly liquid assets. After all, you need real estate to have churches, offices, hospitals, schools, etc. The art has historic value, and the bulk of it was created to teach the faith in a time when the only literate people were likely to be the priests and nobles.
The Catholic Church founded universities, hospitals, and charitable foundations unrivaled in the world. The Church was the number one patron of the SCIENCES, despite the calumnies told about her. This is because of her RELIGIOUS beliefs. “There is a God, God is Rational, and His creation can be studied and understood by man.” You don’t get that from Islam, Jews, or Pagans.
The Inquisition was conducted by sectors of the church due to subversive groups who were harming society. It developed a large part of what we know of as Due Process today. Final punishments were carried out by the secular authorities, and while in the process, any defendant could repent and get off lightly. Also, the Inquisition only extended to those who were baptized Catholics, and no one else. The “Spanish Inquisition” was brought about because of converso Jews who were actually collaborating with the Moors in their efforts to subject Spain to Islamic rule. These Jews had accepted baptism to take advantage of the benefits of Church membership, but were acting against her.
All of this is well known for those who would like to look it up. The Catholic Church is a historical body that has perdured for two millennia. Much of what we know of history is due to records kept by the Church, so there is no doubt about what happened. Things like the protestant revolt were simple land grabs and looting that gave the various nobilities the opportunity to seize church lands for themselves. This looting had a decidedly negative impact on places like England. Much of the poverty that one reads about in Dickens novels is due to the nobility seizing church lands, closing them in, and removing resources from the poor and the income streams that allowed the church to perform her charitable missions.
Also, the church is the largest organized religious body on the planet. So it is an easy target for folks out to use or abuse her for money. A few homosexuals sneak in and abuse children, and gov’t prosecutors sue for money that was donated by the faithful for her charitable works. Was it me, I’d happily have another inquisition to root out the homosexual priests and bishops…all the way to the top.
How would folks here compare the Church to the Gov’t? What about gov’t wealth and corruption? The gov’t owns land, armies, the legal system, and printing presses, and uses them to oppress her own people. You can leave the church, as many here have proudly crowed about. You can sue the Church, as we well know. Can you leave the gov’t? Can you sue them? Ha! Not unless they let you.
And for the anti-Catholic Christians out there, Jesus founded a Church. The Catholic one. He did not write a book so you could have proof-texts. Your Scripture was handed on to you by the Church. The Bible exists upon the Authority of the Catholic Church and even protestant scholars admit this.
I would suggest caution. In attacking the Church, you are keeping very bad company. Satan has been attacking her for two thousand years. You have heard of “Black Masses,” but you have never heard of black revival meetings, black synagogue services, or black praise and worship groups. He has been sneaking heresies into the church for two thousand years, and the church has always cast them out.
But since “Father” Luther put his statement on the Cathedral door, there has been a new non- Catholic denomination created every week, on average over the centuries. It is estimated there are now over 30,000 different pseudo/semi-Christian denominations. The Church gets rid of the heresies, but the others embrace them and just start up a new denomination. Everybody crabs about the Pope, but each one of them are happy to go out and become their own pope. It is really pretty silly.
But go ahead and have your fun. This little “two minutes” of hate will give you good practice for what you might be doing for Eternity.
Sounds like you teach Catholic Catechism from the text book we used and from those millions of traditional Catholic Church sources. I never said this to anyone before but I hope you stay a happy Catholic and never darken a Protestant Church doorway, not that you’d convert anyone but because you’d cause people to puke.
Sorry, couldn’t watch through. Too painful.
Is it any wonder at all, seeing all that people have invested into their religion, physically, financially and emotionally; that the gospel of Christ can possibly be freely offered as Paul so clearly says?
Romans 5:15-18 KJB… “But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification. For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.”
There’s no money in freely offered grace; that’s why there are so few purely grace churches.
The grace of God is 100% FREE. It is a gift. When you get a gift there is NO CHARGE! In government, a free GIFT WILL have a charge hidden in the silver lining.
It’s Tuesday so let’s bash
Joos, Mooslims, Kneegrows, CATHOLICS!!I grew up Catholic. Catholic school. Alter boy. The works. But, I left the Catholic Church permanently in my teen years. I disagree strongly with many of their doctrines. Disgusted with the rampant pedophilia. The Popes are mostly evil. And their devotion to and love of money and power is Satanic in origin.
But, all this is well known. The video reveals no new information. So, what is your overall purpose? It can’t be education. It must be to start a Shitfest. And such purposes are abhorrent to me.
Ever heard of Propaganda Due?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_Due
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7uSt74irBc
Stephanie, if I could recommend you a book titled “The Sion Revelation” by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince. The book has nothing to do with the Jewish folks. It has to do with a group called “The Priory of Sion”, of Rennes le Chateau’s fame. It’s an very interesting story. The authors go into the P2 (Propaganda Due) involvement.
I think a lot of that information was in The DaVinci Code. Most of my interest in the Catholic Church these days is regarding the Italian Mafia. The biggest mafia round up in Italy’s history has been taking place throughout the pandemic and there’s mostly a media blackout on it outside of Italy.
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2021/11/16/100-ndrangheta-arrests-in-three-italian-regions_82a0cc41-3382-4466-aaa7-12f764511843.html
https://www.dw.com/en/italy-convicts-first-70-ndrangheta-members-in-massive-mafia-trial/a-59744936
Da Vinci code is just a novel. The book I mentioned has all the links. Not to mention Dan Brown used another book by Picknett and Prince: Templar Revelation.
Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln wrote a book called Holy Blood, Holy Grail in 1982, almost two decades before Picknett and Prince wrote their book.
The DaVinci Code was based mostly on Baigent & Leigh’s theories.
I’m perfectly aware of Holy Blood Holy Grail, but if you had read Brown’s book you would have found out that he used primarily two books for his novel, the ones Baigent Leigh and Lincoln (who was the first instigator for the book). I had a first edition signed of Holy Blood Holy Grail.
Picknett and Prince went on to write Templar Rev after doing research on the Turin Shroud.
So buzz off. I know more on subject than most, prolly more than Brown himself.
Italian lefties arresting Mafioso? Wow.
They don’t have a choice. The ‘Ndrangheta clan works with Los Sinaloa Cartel to bring Fentanyl into the USA. While everybody was distracted by the Mueller shitshow Jeff Sessions was going after the transnational cartels.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-sessions-announces-new-measures-fight-transnational-organized-crime
I don’t understand those thumb down business when sharing information. I sometimes do it but it’s not a attack on person but on the comment. I didn’t know about Sessions work. Didn’t spent much time on the net in those days.
Don’t know who gave you the thumb down but as far as I’m concern, he is a dumb ass. Since my leaving the Catholic church, I’ve been reading every book on the subject (I mean those I could afford). My studies on the Knights Templar lead me to the disgraceful pogroms of the Middle Ages, the Cathar Crusade, the burning of innocent people simply because they disagreed with them.
Too much to tell.
Estimates of the inquisition deaths run to the 50 millon area. True believers, gypsies and many other people groups were exterminated by the Catholic Church. The Catholic church is the current version of the Mother & Child Religion that traces it’s roots back through all cultures to Nimrod and Semiramus at Babel. For the full story see TWO BABYLONS by Alexander Hislop. I believe it was written 1931. Hard reading but quite informative.
Two Babylons is very well documented, with over 300 other works quoted, several from as far back as the 1500’s. A much easier read of the same information is Ralph Woodrow’s Babylon Mystery Religion. The connection between the Universal (Catholic) church and Ancient Babylon is undeniable.
I don’t know how anyone gets over the fact that their Hierarchy (esp the Papacy) is in direct contradiction of the Gospels. It’s something that occasionally gets lip service and then people pretend they don’t know that.
Yahshua/Jesus HATES the deeds of the Nicolaitans. Nico = victory, Laity = the common people, Nicolaitan = victory over the people. God is no respecter of persons, one Torah (teaching or instruction) for *everyone.*
“There is ONE mediator between God and man, the [ Son of ] Man Christ Jesus.”
God wants a personal relationship with His children – no middlemen- no hired help.
God is a consuming fire; “the lusts of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life” will be burned off.
Over 1 billon Catholics have no clue they have been duped, therefor these articles may reach one of them and their light will come on like yours did Stucky.Everybody should get a chance to find out what is true and what ain’t.
Actually, a very good point.
My error is that too often I think other people are as smart as I am. 🙂
Stucky – you will enjoy this;
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P7xRW9ByClE
Actually, I loved it. 100% truth, imho. It explains so much and so quickly about why people act as they do …. great example he gives being the mask wearers. Thanks.
Balbinus, Duped, yes, but our language doesn’t have a better, stronger word to describe the depth of the duping. I’ve often said that Catholics have the highest titer of cognitive dissonance of any other slice of humanity. It requires a lot of self-deception, laziness, and lack of critical thinking to align many of their beliefs with the free Gospel of Jesus Christ. Not just the churchs’ materialism, pedophilia, the papacy, and works salvation, but the rank and file support of policies and politicians that support baby killing. Their warped notions of social justice are indistinguishable from communism. I could go on, but hope not to start the “shitfest” to which Stucky refers.
I was Catholic for 30 years, but God’s mercy gave me Free salvation, adoption as a son, and deliverance from the big Dupe. All my old family and lots of friends are Catholic. I love them all, but only God can drop the scales from their eyes. I sometimes feel like I suffer from survivors guilt because I cannot reach them, but for some reason God smiled on me. The word duped just doesn’t convey the depth and width that it needs to.
Thank you for your story. It is really great to realize we are not alone in our faith in this present world.
Stuck, I think you’ re right on with this. similar background, similar conclusions; Nothing new here. Lets all move on
In the late 90’s the Vatican’s was considered as the largest slumlord in NYC. Today all the sites that were proving it are closed. Some old links that I had saved show Nothing found.
Just like Stucky, I was raised Catholic, altar boy also and going to Thursday school called Catechism. In my teen I rebelled and quit. For punishment, my father made me kneel on gravel in the garage on bare knees. After few hours and bleeding knees, he made me stand and asked me if I was sure of what I was doing, we talked and he asked me to forgive him for what he had done.
The fact that the OSS was using Vatican bank in the 40’s could explain how many German wanted criminal could have escaped. Check out the Odessa files, not the book by Frederick Forsyth, but the true story behind it and remember Alan Dulles was head of OSS for Europe in the 40’s.
Catholic Charities is one of the largest recipients of the federal grant program relocating illegal aliens.
As always, follow the money to find the corruption.
South of the border is Catholic land, plum to Tierra del Fuego.
The Conquistadors left Padres behind after annihilating the fighters in the native population and it seems their message stuck.
Thanks, I really appreciated that video because when I was single, a friend persuaded me to attend Charismatic Catholic services which aren’t far from what I know as a Protestant. I married a sweet Catholic who drug me to Catechism classes, which went badly for almost 6 months because they blaspheme the New Testament to Hell. A Priest called us in for a meeting and tried to persuade her to get an annulment which infuriated me and I quit, but not her. She still goes and donates weekly to Satan’s Cult. I pray for her Conversion and pass on everything that should help her Epiphany like this video. I hate that when I die, the Satanic Catholic Cult will get some of the fruits of my life’s labors, damn them. PS: I have come to realize people continue to behave like children in many ways. Give a child a choice between ice cream and a hardy soup, he’ll always take the ice cream. We adults know we have to make the child eat the soup or he will become fat and sassy. As adults, we find virtue colorless, odorless and tasteless so we want to enjoy sins instead. We have to realize that we have to slap ourselves upside the head or we will become spiritually rotten and disfavored by God if we don’t pass on the many adult varieties of ice creams. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: I see some beautiful women as Demons (her guests are in the depths of Hell) and some homely women as Angels because I see more clearly. If we try to see things through Jesus’ eyes, as we all should, it will be like putting on Infrared Glasses at night and seeing the predators out to destroy us clear as day. If we go for the ice cream, the moment we touch it, we should recoil like a toddler touching a hot wood stove in the Winter. Stolen kisses are sweet, the Scroll tasted sweet but made him sick. Don’t be a dog returning to it’s vomit. Virtue is not sour, bitter, or tasteless but becomes ever sweeter over time. The Bible tells me so and I have proven it’s true.
Excellent comment. Our pulpit pounding pastor was raised Catholic. Was sent to Vietnam and tried Buddhism. Finally, in NC he was introduced to JESUS and never looked back. Even as a lost man he could see Catholicism and Buddhism were empty shells of man’s version of religion.
This Poop is a Jesuit…nuff said.
A Jesuit and a whacko leftist. That is quite a combo.
How did we get so lucky!
There is plenty to criticize the Catholic Church about as it exists today. This video however is bullshit. I scrutinize EVERYTHING I see, read and hear. My bullshit meter went off after 2 minutes simply because the irrational errors involved are most egregious and should be obvious to any thinking person.
FUNNY MATH:
He asserts that the Church collects $30 billion per year at a conservative 3% interest on $2 trillion in cash reserves. This can only be true if they had that much cash. But do they?
Where did they get that much cash? It’s asserted from collecting $5,454 from 372 million Catholics per year or $105 per week every week for 52 weeks a year per person. That number includes ALL Catholics: husbands, wives and children. Big problem here. This means that a family of four (husband, wife and two kids) would have to throw into the collection plate $420 each week, every week or over $1,700 per month. At $5,454 times four people, times 52 weeks comes out to a yearly average $21,816 per Catholic family of four.
The US census indicates that the average e household earns $67,521 in 2020. Are we to believe that the average Catholic donates a third of his income to the Church?
The presenter goes off track from the very beginning. He claims that the Church has $30 billion in wealth in Australia alone. But he doesn’t show his work. Most likely this is the valuation of the properties of the Churches themselves throughout the country i.e. the real estate valuation. To conflate this with the cash necessary to draw interest requires either incredible stupidity or intentional malevolence.
I could go on but I’ve wasted enough of my time here.
He’s literally getting the Australian $30 billion statistic from the news.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-12/catholic-church-worth-$30-billion-investigation-finds/9422246
He never used the term cash in the estimate. He specifically used the term WEALTH. His math was that the Australian church has $30 billion and 5.5 million Catholics to get the $5,454 per person. He simply trying to get a per person estimate of how much each Catholic is worth to get an overall estimate of what the entire church might be worth worldwide. There’s no way to know the exact wealth of the church.
Wrong Stephanie. He describes it as “wealth” then goes on to extrapolate the Australian “wealth” figure, projecting into onto the US, Canada and Europe as interest bearing cash to produce the sensationalist $2 trillion figure. Be more careful.
If he didn’t mean this to be construed as a liquid asset (cash) then why did he indicate a $30 billion per year gain in interest payment on $2 trillion?
You’re really not getting this…
He took the reported Australian wealth of $30 billion and divided it by the total of Australian Catholics to get the $5,454 per person. He then multiplied $5,454 by the 1.2 billion Catholics in the world to get the estimated worlwide wealth of $ 2 Trillion. Then he calculated the possible yearly interest of the very low 3% figure to get a possible $60 billion per year the Catholic church might earn in interest.
So to break it down:
$30 billion/5.5 million= $5,454
$5,454 X 1.2 billion = $2,000,000,000,000
$2,000,000,000,000 X 0.03= $60,000,000
He’s not calculating the church’s cash holdings. He’s simply calculating a per person average based on the Australian statistic to estimate the church’s worldwide wealth.
That’s not what he said. He was getting a rough estimate of what the church could be worth worldwide based on the Australian figure divided by the total population of Australian Catholics because there’s no way to get a per country figure. He uses the $2 Trillion estimate to calculate the lowest possible interest the church possibly takes in every year. Your listening skills suck. He never said this was the actual wealth of the church because there’s no way to know that.
I thought it was hilarious when they were trying to fund raise when Notre Dame burned. I was sorry it burned, but riiiiiight.
It was torched and so were a lot of other EU churches; if you need two guesses (hint: open borders) , you’re out…
Please say it isn’t so!
The burning of Notre Dame was arson, although the French police called it an accident. I have been doing lots of research on the Gothic technics of construction.
The beams used for holding the ceiling were made of treated oaks.
First the oak was chosen for its length and diameter, cut in the fall when the sap was at the minimum. It was laid down in an 20 to 30 degrees angle. The bark was pealed off. In the Spring, the beam was laid to rest in a river with very high limescale content. Depending on the diameter, the beam was left in the water for 3 to 4 years, then removed and left out to dry.
Only after that treatment the beam was installed. Only thermite could set it up on fire.
I have many Catholic friends and they are in a word “cheap”. I did meet a local priest at a gun auction many years ago and he told me he was praised from the hierarchy as they just passed 1 millon dollars in the church account. Our town is a town of 5000 residents.
I read that 80% of Catholic church tithes go to Rome.
I would not like to argue that point. Sounds reasonable!
When I visited the Vatican I asked one of the gatekeepers if I could get a tour of the underground vaults if I paid a little extra. He laughed.
….so did you get a tour? 😉
A video from 1 to 2 years ago did show the leader of the Salvation Army visiting the Pope and said he got to go to the basement. That’s when I dropped my support of the SA.
Good. The Salvation Army aren’t who they seem either.
The Pope was asked what the he gave for anal sex….he replied two cokes and a candy bar if the alter boy is under 12 .
When I was an altar boy for a few years, I didn’t get any attention from the priests at all. It was false advertising, if you ask me.
You insider you!
Religion is a business, it was a business back in ancient Egypt and it continues to this day. Just market any religious icon and BAM, the money flows in to your pockets. The Vatican is a dark hole of disgusting activity wrapped up in the Christian flavor of religion.
Worshiping God is free. If you don’t get that, you need to stamp sucker on your forehead.
Catholics do sort of by wearing crosses showing Jesus suffering whereas Protestants wear plain crosses showing Jesus Risen.
With indelible ink!
Yup, altar boy, 1st Communion and Confirmation. Then I gave up on the Catholic church right after high school. But it wasn’t because of their obvious and continuing corruption. They told me I needed their permission to get laid. Bye bye.
pure bullshit
Sell salvation? Why would you buy something that is free? Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace are ye saved thru faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the GIFT of God, Not of works lest any man should boast.
It is worse than that. They sell salvation [ indulgences ? ] for your dead relatives/friends.
“This disturbing expose describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and US mafias, and the Vatican to thwart the possibility of a Communist invasion of Europe.
Journalist Paul L. Williams presents evidence suggesting the existence of “stay-behind” units in many European countries consisting of five thousand to fifteen thousand military operatives. According to the author’s research, the initial funding for these guerilla armies came from the sale of large stocks of SS morphine that had been smuggled out of Germany and Italy and of bogus British bank notes that had been produced in concentration camps by skilled counterfeiters.
As the Cold War intensified, the units were used not only to ward off possible invaders, but also to thwart the rise of left-wing movements in South America and NATO-based countries by terror attacks.
Williams argues that Operation Gladio soon gave rise to the toppling of governments, wholesale genocide, the formation of death squads, financial scandals on a grand scale, the creation of the mujahideen, an international narcotics network, and, most recently, the ascendancy of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a Jesuit cleric with strong ties to Operation Condor (an outgrowth of Gladio in Argentina) as Pope Francis I.
Sure to be controversial, Operation Gladio connects the dots in ways the mainstream media often overlooks”.
I know many people who either don’t read books…or only read fiction books…bright people…people who are an inch deep and a mile wide in what they really know.
This book describes, with extensive back up footnotes, the bridge from post WW2 to where we are now…as far as this continuing UNHOLY TRINITY.
My two favorite quotes; Man’s faith in Religion is equal to his lack of faith in himself.
Mark Twain; Faith – Faith is believing in something you know ain’t so
I think by second or third grade in the Catholic School I knew this religious stuff was too bizarre to really believe. So the nuns beat it in a little harder.
The made up stuff in the New Testament (even wonderful literary stories like the woman caught in adultery added to John 400 years later) should be highlighted by publishers, and the fools that added it condemned for having brought doubts on the Truth. But we can point to the Holy Shroud and the Face Cloth that validate the Gospel Crucifixion stories, and to thousands of Jesus’ appearances to people over the last 2,000 years. Science can’t explain Spiritual things; theologins can’t even connect all the dots (Why did He take 300,000 years to “come”? Why are the records so weak, confused and polluted?). But the basic Christ story is real: Jesus is the Messiah Savior of Mankind who fulfilled Is 53 etc even if He didn’t fully understand it all during His appx 33 year long lifetime on Earth. The offer of Eternal Life is to everyone but God is very picky about which Humans He will make his own children and give Eternal Life to, to live in Heaven with Him forever after.
Sorry to see so many invested in Anti-Catholic bigotry. All of this stuff has been debunked time and time again.
Perverts in the Church. Yeah. Lots of them. All hiding themselves and acting against church teachings. I have a lot more against them than any of you anti-Catholics. But the fact is that a priest is statistically the safest person to be with children. Far above protestant ministers, rabbis, police officers, doctors, school teachers, day care and so on.
Everybody is always envious of the “wealth” of the Catholic Church. The vast majority of this wealth is used in the performance of her mission. The diocese of Los Angeles has a bigger budget than the Vatican, and by far. The bulk of the Vatican’s wealth is in real estate and historic art. Not particularly liquid assets. After all, you need real estate to have churches, offices, hospitals, schools, etc. The art has historic value, and the bulk of it was created to teach the faith in a time when the only literate people were likely to be the priests and nobles.
The Catholic Church founded universities, hospitals, and charitable foundations unrivaled in the world. The Church was the number one patron of the SCIENCES, despite the calumnies told about her. This is because of her RELIGIOUS beliefs. “There is a God, God is Rational, and His creation can be studied and understood by man.” You don’t get that from Islam, Jews, or Pagans.
The Inquisition was conducted by sectors of the church due to subversive groups who were harming society. It developed a large part of what we know of as Due Process today. Final punishments were carried out by the secular authorities, and while in the process, any defendant could repent and get off lightly. Also, the Inquisition only extended to those who were baptized Catholics, and no one else. The “Spanish Inquisition” was brought about because of converso Jews who were actually collaborating with the Moors in their efforts to subject Spain to Islamic rule. These Jews had accepted baptism to take advantage of the benefits of Church membership, but were acting against her.
All of this is well known for those who would like to look it up. The Catholic Church is a historical body that has perdured for two millennia. Much of what we know of history is due to records kept by the Church, so there is no doubt about what happened. Things like the protestant revolt were simple land grabs and looting that gave the various nobilities the opportunity to seize church lands for themselves. This looting had a decidedly negative impact on places like England. Much of the poverty that one reads about in Dickens novels is due to the nobility seizing church lands, closing them in, and removing resources from the poor and the income streams that allowed the church to perform her charitable missions.
Also, the church is the largest organized religious body on the planet. So it is an easy target for folks out to use or abuse her for money. A few homosexuals sneak in and abuse children, and gov’t prosecutors sue for money that was donated by the faithful for her charitable works. Was it me, I’d happily have another inquisition to root out the homosexual priests and bishops…all the way to the top.
How would folks here compare the Church to the Gov’t? What about gov’t wealth and corruption? The gov’t owns land, armies, the legal system, and printing presses, and uses them to oppress her own people. You can leave the church, as many here have proudly crowed about. You can sue the Church, as we well know. Can you leave the gov’t? Can you sue them? Ha! Not unless they let you.
And for the anti-Catholic Christians out there, Jesus founded a Church. The Catholic one. He did not write a book so you could have proof-texts. Your Scripture was handed on to you by the Church. The Bible exists upon the Authority of the Catholic Church and even protestant scholars admit this.
I would suggest caution. In attacking the Church, you are keeping very bad company. Satan has been attacking her for two thousand years. You have heard of “Black Masses,” but you have never heard of black revival meetings, black synagogue services, or black praise and worship groups. He has been sneaking heresies into the church for two thousand years, and the church has always cast them out.
But since “Father” Luther put his statement on the Cathedral door, there has been a new non- Catholic denomination created every week, on average over the centuries. It is estimated there are now over 30,000 different pseudo/semi-Christian denominations. The Church gets rid of the heresies, but the others embrace them and just start up a new denomination. Everybody crabs about the Pope, but each one of them are happy to go out and become their own pope. It is really pretty silly.
But go ahead and have your fun. This little “two minutes” of hate will give you good practice for what you might be doing for Eternity.
Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus
“In Defense Of Catholicism”, by Mr. Bug, Chief Attorney to Da Pope!
Sounds like you teach Catholic Catechism from the text book we used and from those millions of traditional Catholic Church sources. I never said this to anyone before but I hope you stay a happy Catholic and never darken a Protestant Church doorway, not that you’d convert anyone but because you’d cause people to puke.
I am happy to grant your wish.
But in turn, I also will pray that you too can come to the Church and receive salvation.
Yes, even Stucky has a chance, but he’ll have to get past the whole horse-dick thing…