Will, I just survived an intensive 2 1/2 days with my biological family in Southern California. We got together for an open house for my mother's 102 birthday. I have a cousin who says she is a Christian scientist; the only thing Christian in the Christian science faith is in the title. Being around her younger sister is like walking on eggs as I dare not even allude to anything Christian. My the sister-in-law is a lifelong Catholic and very devote. Her husband, my brother, challenges me at every opportunity.
I'm not sure what's set my Christian scientist cousin off, perhaps it was my mentioning the Christian rock group the Newsboys. In the course of conversation I mentioned how great the movie "God is not Dead" was in that I enjoyed the Newsboys so much I bought their album. My cousin blurted out I don't believe there is such a thing as hell glaring at me and blurted and I don't believe there's purgatory either glaring at my Catholic sister-in-law. That was the day of my mom's birthday.
The next day when my cousin came over I pretty much ignored her and worked on my KI studies. Later in the day my brother and sister-in-law came over and I don't know why my brother brought up the final pope but he did. So I started to talk about the prophecy of the popes and my sister-in-law said she was Catholic all her life and never heard of such thing.
My brother challenged me on the validity of the Bible as was written by mere man. I started to give him facts such as the hundred plus prophecies and the Old Testament fulfilled at the first coming of Jesus. He of course didn't listen to me. As always seems to be the case, my brother and I parted on reasonably peaceful terms.
I'm rather losing patience with unbelief and/or false doctrines. Many, including myself, are the opinion that we are in the end of the in days. So I put being PC aside and emailed my sister-in-law a PFD, from the Roman Catholic News Volume 5, Issue 66 WEDNESDAY 13 APRIL 2005 titled "Hoax or Authentic? The Prophecies of St. Malachy (Part 1)." I also emailed my brother the PDF that is part of CM's commentary on "Defending the Bible."
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Friday, May 23, 2014
An Interesting Read, "THE JESUIT CONSPIRACY. THE SECRET PLAN OF THE ORDER".
While I realize that the subject book is rather dated, in my opinion, the dialogue included is very relevant today. For hundreds, perhaps more than a thousand years, the Roman Catholic Church has suppressed the Holy Bible and tortured and killed people for possessing and/ or reading it. Thousands of believers in the early writings/ witness accounts of the apostles were hunted down and executed well before the time of the Reformation.
It is estimated today that there are 1.2 billion Catholics on planet Earth. I question that even a small percentage of this vast number of people have Investigated the horrific activity of the papal authority and its minions. In the last century the Vatican had a Concordat with both Hitler of Germany and Mussolini of Italy. To this day, Mussolini and Hitler have not been excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church. Much of the activity of Pius XII in the time leading up to and during WWII has been redacted by the church.
Rome has a relatively new Pope who seems to be very humble and winning the hearts of even non-Catholics. Looking below the surface of this rather jolly man is a member of the Jesuit order.
In the following excerpt a high-ranking member of the Jesuit order reveals to Leone the fact that there is no biblical support for purgatory or for other important facets of the Roman Catholic Church doctrine.
"THE JESUIT CONSPIRACY, THE SECRET PLAN OF THE ORDER"
DETECTED AND REVEALED BY THE ABBATE LEONE
"Then the Bible, that serpent which, with head erect and eyes flashing fire, threatens us with its venom whilst it trails along the ground, shall be changed again into a rod as soon as we are able to seize it ; and what wounds will we not inflict with it upon these hardened Pharaohs and their cunning magicians ! what miracles will we not work by its means ! Oh, then, mysterious rod ! we will not again suffer thee to escape from our hands, and fall to the earth!
For you know but too well that, for three centuries past, this cruel asp (crudele aspide) has left us no repose ; you well know with what folds it entwines us, and with what fangs it gnaws us!
We may recognise in this language a mind embittered and rankling with resentment against the English Bible Societies. He must often have encountered them in his path, and felt enraged at their influence. His savage expressions were received with a dry and forced laugh, quite different from the spontaneous gaiety before exhibited.
My brethren, as to the Bible, be advised by me. For our greater good let us avoid—let us carefully avoid this ground. If I may tell you, openly, what I think of this book, it is not at all for us ; it is against us. I do not at all wonder at the invincible obstinacy it engenders in all those who regard its verses as inspired.
You are aware that, when once entered upon theolo¬gical studies, we must of necessity make some acquaintance with the Bible. For myself, although in company with numerous fellow-students, mere machines accustomed to . confound the text and the commentary, as if they were one and the same thing (an illusion which, to confess the truth, is extremely useful to us), it was yet impossible for me, endowed as I was with some capacity for reflection (as proved by my presence here, amongst the small number of the elect)—it was impossible for me, I repeat, to be so absurdly credulous as not to distinguish the text from the commentary, by which its sense is almost always distorted. In the simplicity of youth I fully expected, on opening the New Testament, to find there laid. down, totidem literis (in lettere cubitali), the authority of a superior chief in the church, and the worship of the Virgin, the source of all grace for mankind. I sought with the same eagerness for the mass, for purgatory, for relics, &c. But in every page I found my expectations disappointed ; from every reflec¬tion that I made resulted doubt. At last, after having read, at least six times over, that little book which set all my calculations at nought, I was forced to acknowledge to myself that it actually sets forth a system of religion altogether different from that taught in the schools, and thus all my ideas were thrown into confusion (ne rimasi al sommo seompaginato)."
It is estimated today that there are 1.2 billion Catholics on planet Earth. I question that even a small percentage of this vast number of people have Investigated the horrific activity of the papal authority and its minions. In the last century the Vatican had a Concordat with both Hitler of Germany and Mussolini of Italy. To this day, Mussolini and Hitler have not been excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church. Much of the activity of Pius XII in the time leading up to and during WWII has been redacted by the church.
Rome has a relatively new Pope who seems to be very humble and winning the hearts of even non-Catholics. Looking below the surface of this rather jolly man is a member of the Jesuit order.
In the following excerpt a high-ranking member of the Jesuit order reveals to Leone the fact that there is no biblical support for purgatory or for other important facets of the Roman Catholic Church doctrine.
"THE JESUIT CONSPIRACY, THE SECRET PLAN OF THE ORDER"
DETECTED AND REVEALED BY THE ABBATE LEONE
"Then the Bible, that serpent which, with head erect and eyes flashing fire, threatens us with its venom whilst it trails along the ground, shall be changed again into a rod as soon as we are able to seize it ; and what wounds will we not inflict with it upon these hardened Pharaohs and their cunning magicians ! what miracles will we not work by its means ! Oh, then, mysterious rod ! we will not again suffer thee to escape from our hands, and fall to the earth!
For you know but too well that, for three centuries past, this cruel asp (crudele aspide) has left us no repose ; you well know with what folds it entwines us, and with what fangs it gnaws us!
We may recognise in this language a mind embittered and rankling with resentment against the English Bible Societies. He must often have encountered them in his path, and felt enraged at their influence. His savage expressions were received with a dry and forced laugh, quite different from the spontaneous gaiety before exhibited.
My brethren, as to the Bible, be advised by me. For our greater good let us avoid—let us carefully avoid this ground. If I may tell you, openly, what I think of this book, it is not at all for us ; it is against us. I do not at all wonder at the invincible obstinacy it engenders in all those who regard its verses as inspired.
You are aware that, when once entered upon theolo¬gical studies, we must of necessity make some acquaintance with the Bible. For myself, although in company with numerous fellow-students, mere machines accustomed to . confound the text and the commentary, as if they were one and the same thing (an illusion which, to confess the truth, is extremely useful to us), it was yet impossible for me, endowed as I was with some capacity for reflection (as proved by my presence here, amongst the small number of the elect)—it was impossible for me, I repeat, to be so absurdly credulous as not to distinguish the text from the commentary, by which its sense is almost always distorted. In the simplicity of youth I fully expected, on opening the New Testament, to find there laid. down, totidem literis (in lettere cubitali), the authority of a superior chief in the church, and the worship of the Virgin, the source of all grace for mankind. I sought with the same eagerness for the mass, for purgatory, for relics, &c. But in every page I found my expectations disappointed ; from every reflec¬tion that I made resulted doubt. At last, after having read, at least six times over, that little book which set all my calculations at nought, I was forced to acknowledge to myself that it actually sets forth a system of religion altogether different from that taught in the schools, and thus all my ideas were thrown into confusion (ne rimasi al sommo seompaginato)."
Thursday, May 1, 2014
Benghazi, the Disgraceful Story That Thankfully Will Not Go Away
As the cover-up continues, some come forward!
"I felt it was my duty to come forward." — Retired Brig. Gen. Robert Lovell testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today about the 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi.
In an unprecedented public statement from a leading military officer, General Lovell addressed the ongoing debate over whether U.S. military forces could have responded in time to the attack: "The point is we should have tried."
http://tinyurl.com/lxzl82s
Bill O’Reilly added his assessment:
"Proof the American Press Is Dishonest’: O’Reilly Slams Media for Failure to Cover Benghazi Memo"
"Bill O’Reilly said there’s no question that the White House misrepresented the Sept. 11, 2012, terror attack in Benghazi.
Five days after the attack, then-Ambassador Susan Rice told the world that the attack was not pre-planned and was a spontaneous reaction to a YouTube video."
“That was not true, that was not even close to being true,” O’Reilly said.
http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/04/30/%E2%80%98proof-american-press-dishonest%E2%80%99-o%E2%80%99reilly-slams-media-failure-cover-benghazi-memo
"I felt it was my duty to come forward." — Retired Brig. Gen. Robert Lovell testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today about the 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi.
In an unprecedented public statement from a leading military officer, General Lovell addressed the ongoing debate over whether U.S. military forces could have responded in time to the attack: "The point is we should have tried."
http://tinyurl.com/lxzl82s
Bill O’Reilly added his assessment:
"Proof the American Press Is Dishonest’: O’Reilly Slams Media for Failure to Cover Benghazi Memo"
"Bill O’Reilly said there’s no question that the White House misrepresented the Sept. 11, 2012, terror attack in Benghazi.
Five days after the attack, then-Ambassador Susan Rice told the world that the attack was not pre-planned and was a spontaneous reaction to a YouTube video."
“That was not true, that was not even close to being true,” O’Reilly said.
http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/04/30/%E2%80%98proof-american-press-dishonest%E2%80%99-o%E2%80%99reilly-slams-media-failure-cover-benghazi-memo
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Intolerance of the Left Towards the Freedom of Speech of the Right
"Free Speech Farce: Rise of American Fascism"
"America is facing a new fascism that does't tolerate any views it doesn't like - where "wrong" speech is demonized and shouted down, despite freedom of speech."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CVP6jInlaOg
Published on Apr 30, 2014 by CBN News
The Real War on Women
Good links dealing with The Real War on Women
https://www.facebook.com/actforamerica/photos/a.441861226363.238280.50783931363/10151946766976364/?type=1&relevant_count=1
http://www.actforamerica.org/index.php/learn/email-archives/3059-mainstream-us-muslim-jurists-association-sanctions-female-genital-mutilation — with David W Puckett.
https://www.facebook.com/actforamerica/photos/a.441861226363.238280.50783931363/10151946766976364/?type=1&relevant_count=1
http://www.actforamerica.org/index.php/learn/email-archives/3059-mainstream-us-muslim-jurists-association-sanctions-female-genital-mutilation — with David W Puckett.
Informative Videos Concerning Misinformation
Debunking the Palestine Lie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7ByJb7QQ9U&list=PLSsyDToSODlnihmFHp1uo7k5gPQXDugXI#t=186
Three things you don't know about Islam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=d8c38_46W5c#t=12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7ByJb7QQ9U&list=PLSsyDToSODlnihmFHp1uo7k5gPQXDugXI#t=186
Three things you don't know about Islam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=d8c38_46W5c#t=12
"The Middle East Problem" as Explained by Dennis Prager
Another great video by Dennis Prager, "The Middle East Problem."
As Dr. Prager puts it, "The Middle East conflict is framed as one of the most complex problems in the world. But, in reality, it's very simple. Israelis want to live in peace and are willing to accept a neighboring Palestinian state. And most Palestinians do not want Israel to exist."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EDW88CBo-8
Published on Apr 28, 2014
As Dr. Prager puts it, "The Middle East conflict is framed as one of the most complex problems in the world. But, in reality, it's very simple. Israelis want to live in peace and are willing to accept a neighboring Palestinian state. And most Palestinians do not want Israel to exist."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EDW88CBo-8
Published on Apr 28, 2014
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