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originally posted by: Hecate666
Sounds too godly to me to click.
Demons, bibles, mark of the beast...yeah, not my cup of tea, Ilike my conspiracy theories less... erm, christian
To me the whole human made religion thing is a big conspiracy and not the nicest.
I'm less scared of demons than christians and their meddling.
So I won't be watching. I'm out.
originally posted by: Hecate666
Sounds too godly to me to click.
Demons, bibles, mark of the beast...yeah, not my cup of tea, Ilike my conspiracy theories less... erm, christian
To me the whole human made religion thing is a big conspiracy and not the nicest.
I'm less scared of demons than christians and their meddling.
So I won't be watching. I'm out.
originally posted by: Coelacanth55
if you don't believe, not a bad idea to study what others do believe.
originally posted by: TruthJava
originally posted by: Coelacanth55
if you don't believe, not a bad idea to study what others do believe.
It's just a matter of less intelligence - those who are closed minded. When we have the ability to study all beliefs and be able to discuss anything, be willing/open to make changes if necessary, yet still hold our own beliefs, this is what being truly intelligent is. Sadly, not everyone can do that. This is why the masses are/have always been/will always be so easily controlled.
originally posted by: turdleton
originally posted by: Hecate666
Sounds too godly to me to click.
Demons, bibles, mark of the beast...yeah, not my cup of tea, Ilike my conspiracy theories less... erm, christian
To me the whole human made religion thing is a big conspiracy and not the nicest.
I'm less scared of demons than christians and their meddling.
So I won't be watching. I'm out.
Seems like you have your mind made up. That's pretty crazy to me that you think Christians are worse than the devil. You're on this site, so I'm sure you are aware of some of the Satanic stuff going on.
Stuff that Wikileaks has confirmed, like the code words that Hillary/Obama used in their emails for the stuff they have done to little children. Or when Hillary mentions her worshipping of Moloch.
Or the blatant Satanic symbolism that we see in the entertainment field today. What about "spirit cooking"?
There's much more historical evidence that these people believe in Satanism, and they use it to sacrifice children. There are receipts in this video.
FYI, I'm not even religious myself - I just have an open mind with recent events that have come out
originally posted by: ntech620
Well, after studying the subject for some time now I can tell you this.
According to scripture and some logic it seems the Apocalypse started sometime after WW2 and the creation of a state of Israel in 1948. Also it seems there's 3 time periods associated with it as well. A 70-80 year window. Then a 7 year window. Followed by a 3.5 year window. Like layers of a onion as you get to the middle. Then a 1000 year reign of the saints/day of Jezreel. So it would seem we're 76 years into the first layer. With the 2nd layer or the 7 year agreement of Daniel 9 occurring around 2026. And the 3.5 year layer starting around 2029. And I think I could make a good case for the 9-11 attacks being the event that marked the opening of the first seal of Revelation.
There's probably shreds of proof in what that guy is bringing up.
originally posted by: Hecate666
Sounds too godly to me to click.
Demons, bibles, mark of the beast...yeah, not my cup of tea, Ilike my conspiracy theories less... erm, christian
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Human Sacrifices to a False God
Since 1914, two world wars and over a hundred smaller conflicts have spilled an ocean of blood. A century ago, French writer Guy de Maupassant said that “the egg from which wars are hatched” is patriotism, which he called “a kind of religion.” In fact, The Encyclopedia of Religion says that patriotism’s cousin, nationalism, “has become a dominant form of religion in the modern world, preempting a void left by the deterioration of traditional religious values.” (Italics ours.) By failing to promote true worship, false religion created the spiritual vacuum into which nationalism was able to pour.
Nowhere was this better illustrated than in Nazi Germany, whose citizens at the beginning of World War II claimed to be 94.4 percent Christian. Of all places, Germany—birthplace of Protestantism and praised in 1914 by Pope Pius X as home of “the best Catholics in the world”—should have represented the very best that Christendom had to offer.
Significantly, Catholic Adolf Hitler found readier support among Protestants than among Catholics. Predominantly Protestant districts gave him 20 percent of their votes in the 1930 elections, Catholic districts only 14 percent. And the first absolute majority for the Nazi Party in state elections was in 1932 in Oldenburg, a district 75 percent Protestant.
Apparently, the “void left by the deterioration of traditional religious values” was greater in Protestantism than in Catholicism. Understandably so. Liberalized theology and higher criticism of the Bible were mainly the product of German-speaking Protestant theologians.
Equally significant is what finally solidified lagging Catholic support behind Hitler. German historian Klaus Scholder explains that “by tradition German Catholicism had especially close ties with Rome.” Seeing in Nazism a bulwark against Communism, the Vatican was not averse to using its influence to strengthen Hitler’s hand. “Fundamental decisions shifted more and more to the Curia,” says Scholder, “and in fact Catholicism’s status and future in the Third Reich was finally decided almost solely in Rome.”
The part Christendom played in both world wars led to a severe loss of prestige. As the Concise Dictionary of the Christian World Mission explains: “Non-Christians had before their eyes . . . the evident fact that nations with a thousand years of Christian teaching behind them had failed to control their passions and had set the whole world ablaze for the satisfaction of less than admirable ambitions.”
Of course, religiously motivated wars are nothing new. But in contrast with the past when nations of different religions warred with one another, the 20th century has increasingly found nations of the same religion locked in bitter conflict. The god of nationalism has clearly been able to manipulate the gods of religion. Thus, during World War II, while Catholics and Protestants in Great Britain and the United States were killing Catholics and Protestants in Italy and Germany, Buddhists in Japan were doing the same to their Buddhist brothers in southeast Asia.
Nevertheless, in view of its own bloodstained clothing, Christendom cannot self-righteously shake its finger at others. By advocating, supporting, and at times electing imperfect human governments, professed Christians and non-Christians alike must share responsibility for the blood these governments have shed.
But what kind of religion would put government above God and offer its own members as political sacrifices on the altar of the god of war?
“They Kept Spilling Innocent Blood”
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originally posted by: turdleton
a reply to: Hecate666
Seems like you have your mind made up. That's pretty crazy to me that you think Christians are worse than the devil. You're on this site, so I'm sure you are aware of some of the Satanic stuff going on.
... Knowledge (gno'sis) is put in a very favorable light in the Christian Greek Scriptures. However, not all that men may call “knowledge” is to be sought, because philosophies and views exist that are “falsely called ‘knowledge.’” (1Ti 6:20) ... Thus Paul wrote about some who were learning (taking in knowledge) “yet never able to come to an accurate knowledge [...] of truth.” (2Ti 3:6, 7)
How does God view the “wisdom” offered by human philosophy?
1 Cor. 1:19-25: “It is written: ‘I will make the wisdom of the wise men perish, and the intelligence of the intellectual men I will shove aside.’ Where is the wise man? Where the scribe? Where the debater of this system of things? Did not God make the wisdom of the world foolish? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not get to know God, God saw good through the foolishness [as it appears to the world] of what is preached to save those believing. . . . Because a foolish thing of God [as the world views it] is wiser than men, and a weak thing of God [as the world may see it] is stronger than men.” (Such a viewpoint on God’s part is certainly not arbitrary or unreasonable. He has provided in the Bible, the most widely circulated book in the world, a clear statement of his purpose. He has sent his witnesses to discuss it with all who will listen. How foolish for any creature to think that he has wisdom greater than that of God!)
originally posted by: Coelacanth55
if you don't believe, not a bad idea to study what others do believe.
... Following the Flood of Noah’s day, false religion had its beginning at Babel (later known as Babylon). (Gen. 10:8-10; 11:4-9) In time, Babylonish religious beliefs and practices spread to many lands. So Babylon the Great became a fitting name for false religion as a whole.
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Ancient Babylonian religious concepts and practices are found in religions worldwide
“Egypt, Persia, and Greece felt the influence of the Babylonian religion . . . The strong admixture of Semitic elements both in early Greek mythology and in Grecian cults is now so generally admitted by scholars as to require no further comment. These Semitic elements are to a large extent more specifically Babylonian.”—The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria (Boston, 1898), M. Jastrow, Jr., pp. 699, 700.
Their gods: There were triads of gods, and among their divinities were those representing various forces of nature and ones that exercised special influence in certain activities of mankind. (Babylonian and Assyrian Religion, Norman, Okla.; 1963, S. H. Hooke, pp. 14-40) “The Platonic trinity, itself merely a rearrangement of older trinities dating back to earlier peoples, appears to be the rational philosophic trinity of attributes that gave birth to the three hypostases or divine persons taught by the Christian churches. . . . This Greek philosopher’s [Plato’s] conception of the divine trinity . . . can be found in all the ancient [pagan] religions.”—Nouveau Dictionnaire Universel (Paris, 1865-1870), edited by M. Lachâtre, Vol. 2, p. 1467.
Use of images: ...
Belief regarding death: “Neither the people nor the leaders of religious thought [in Babylon] ever faced the possibility of the total annihilation of what once was called into existence. Death was a passage to another kind of life.”—The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, p. 556. [whereislogic: see also Myth 1: The Soul Is Immortal from the article series One Myth Leads to Another.]
Position of the priesthood: “The distinction between priest and layman is characteristic of this [Babylonian] religion.”—Encyclopædia Britannica (1948), Vol. 2, p. 861. [whereislogic: Jesus condemned a clergy-laity class distinction and forbade the use of religious titles: “But you, do not you be called Rabbi, for one is your Teacher, and all of you are brothers. Moreover, do not call anyone your father on earth, for one is your Father, the heavenly One.” (Matt 23:8,9)]
Practice of astrology, divination, magic, and sorcery: Historian A. H. Sayce writes: “[In] the religion of ancient Babylonia . . . every object and force of nature was supposed to have its zi or spirit, who could be controlled by the magical exorcisms of the Shaman, or sorcerer-priest.” (The History of Nations, New York, 1928, Vol. I, p. 96) “The Chaldeans [Babylonians] made great progress in the study of astronomy through an effort to discover the future in the stars. This art we call ‘astrology.’”—The Dawn of Civilization and Life in the Ancient East (Chicago, 1938), R. M. Engberg, p. 230.
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