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Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
He met with General Jaruzelski the Polish President and as is customary when heads of state meet the Polish President gave the Polish Pope a oil painting by a local Polish artist of a local Polish Landscape valued at 15.00 USD. The Pope gave the Communist Leader an original Rembrant valued at 3,000,000.00 USD.
Originally posted by Expat888
And ? Take a look at history.. The vatican is worse than the u.s when it comes to arrogance and meddling in the affairs of governments around the world.. Instigating wars and toppling governments..
Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by burntheships
I don't see it in the past of anybody. You can't judge current day people by their entire history, especially one that goes back literally 2000 years ago.
Once they started actually reading their own Bible, they stopped such things.
It's not complicated at all. You don't judge a main based on how his ancestors acted. I'd say the only exception would be Nazis and that's all that comes to mind. Last I checked, the Pope was just one of many children forced marched into youth groups.
Point is. You judge a man based on his current statements. Not even his previous ones from decades ago, for people change. You judge a man by his current statements, beliefs, and actions. You don't judge the men under his command by his actions. You judge them by their own.
Along with the Vatican, the American evangelicals, the Iranians, and many others are gaining back positions they lost long ago. That doesn't make them all evil, that doesn't mean they are trying to being the world into the past, that doesn't even mean they're interested in taking over the world. It means a human being is doing what a human being would do in a high position: have a voice and be listened too.
Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by burntheships
So do try to learn history, do try to learn doctrines of faith to the religion you criticize, and do try to base on current sayings of a man.
The religion I follow, and I am a catholic Christian, states quite clearly I don't have to do a damn thing to do with the church except visit once a week for mass. Anything else is your interpretation of my religion, not what it is.
I don't have to do a damn thing to do with the church except visit once a week for mass. Anything else is your interpretation of my religion, not what it is.
The Great Law was in fact so greatly written nothing can actually supercede it to this day, which is why the Supreme Court of the State of Pennsylvania is the Highest Court in the United States because it is the best versed with the Great Law, Crown Law and Cannon Law, all of which are still used in appeals as Mr. Hazard is nice enough to demonstrate, because one of the things in the Great Law is that every act of importance pertaining to the government must be recorded.
A binding contract from a thousand years ago is just as binding today, which is yes, why, in fact, these lazy stupid humans you have so little respect for labor away at ongoing plans because the contract that governs that calls for it.
Really then please explain to me why billions of people are still listening to Jesus who claimed to be just a man, and listening to Mohamed who claimed to be just a man and living their lives and planning their futures based on what they had to say about their beliefs in a monotheistic system of worship.
Why do we hear 10,000 times a day here on ATS someone mention Thomas Jefferson, or Benjamin Franklin or George Washington?
I need no evidence that the Jews have steadfastly refused to name their God(s) because you yourself don't know the names of their God(s).
Further you have no idea what was around before Rome since Rome has controlled the History of the World for thousands of years by being the main point of desemination for it.
Let's not even get into some of the absurdities of some of the Jewish beliefs, for instance that their are only 600,000 Jewish Souls and if there are more than 600,000 Jews alive, that each is only considered to be a fragment of one of those souls, and the numerology involved in the religion because once you understand Jewish Numerology then yes conquering the world based on a simple plan of math not only becomes plausible but down right obvious child's play.
I will admit I host vistors from time to time who are not of this dimension. This makes me nothing but a gracious and open minded host, and not a member of a religion or a cult.
The Planet itself is a life form, a concious one, so are the other planets. Have these spirits aided me with knowledge that even at times has saved my life? Yes, but I don't put it past them from having first created the situations where my life becaome endangered for them to save it.
Our limited understanding of evolution and the Universe has in part been largely impeded by Rome and the Monotheistic Concepts of God that still make and have long made some mysteries off limits and a matter of herracy, or the pervue of the Devil.
Anyway I do intend to do a gray area thread on the 12 classic Gods one of these days, and I will certainly invite you to participate and take part in it, and look forward to more of your thoughts on this.
Originally posted by Alethea
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
He met with General Jaruzelski the Polish President and as is customary when heads of state meet the Polish President gave the Polish Pope a oil painting by a local Polish artist of a local Polish Landscape valued at 15.00 USD. The Pope gave the Communist Leader an original Rembrant valued at 3,000,000.00 USD.
Would the Pope give me an audience if I brought an old "Elvis on Velvet"? It's got to be worth more than 15.oo USD. It's antique.
Really, Proto, is the exchange of paintings a recognized ritual? Is this still customary today?
By any other name, it is still a form of "money laundering", is it not?
edit on 28-12-2010 by Alethea because: add
You have a source for saying the Pennsylvania Supreme court is higher than the SCOTUS?
How is it binding? Who is binding it? Its mere parchment, unless there is true faith or force to back it up. Contracts are absolutely useless unless they are enforced. You give humanity too much credit when it comes to honoring agreements. They honor nothing unless their lives are at stake.
Who really follows them?
Priests and Clerics invoked the names of the Christ and the Prophet for their own ends, to justify their own endeavors such as the Crusades and Jihad. Preachers use it to justify the million dollar homes they live in. Politicians use it to justify their campaigns and later their actions when they "do what’s right".
Those names have become tools.
Likewise with the American Founding Fathers, Politicians and Pundits spout them off without really knowing what the men stood for.
They are modes of persuasion.
So you are saying the Tetragrammaton isn't the Name?
There are historical documents around before the time of the Romans. The Islamic world held numerous texts beyond the grasp of the Catholic Church.
The Roman Church was and is neither omnipresent or omnipotent.
Jewish belief? As if all Jews follow the Kabbalah. That is a Kabbalist belief and you know it.
So you admit belief in the existence of such phenomena, but yet do not entertain the idea that a phenomena much older and without the fragilities of humanity doesn't sit at the top of the food chain?
Yet, you think humans are in absolute control, that only humans are guiding and directing humanity?
What exactly is wrong the concept of an Infinite Singularity? Both Pythagoras and Plato spoke of the Monad and the Form of the Good, even the writings of the "Hermes Trismegistus" speak of The All.
Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by burntheships
Assuming again. I said the only thing to do with the church, not the only thing to do with Jesus Christ and the faith as a whole. They are, as you said, separate. The only thing the church matters for, at its core, is a house of worship once a week. To teach the word as it is found, offer an opinion from the church and and then another opinion of the priest himself, pray, receive communion, and than leave to think, live it out, and teach it to others. That is what the church's purpose plays. Nothing more and nothing less. There are appendages of that people chose to be part of that are not needed.
Going to church is but a small part of being Christian. And I like to hear the words that the church speaks on matters. I can chose to say they are wrong on one thing and right on another. As can anyone. I think the church is quite wrong in it's handling of sexual abuses. But that is but one thing wrong with them amongst the many rights and other wrongs.
www.c-fam.org...
the Vatican's Permanent Observer to the United Nations since 1986,
www.christiananswers.net...
the Vatican officially teaches that the Pope is the substitute for Christ Jesus. The words of the official pronouncement are:
“The Pope, Bishop of Rome and Peter's successor, 'is the perpetual and visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful.'
'For the Roman Pontiff, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, and as pastor of the entire Church has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise.” [Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition (Washington, DC: US Catholic Conference, 1994, 1997) #882.]
[Definition: “vicar”—in the broadest sense means someone who is authorized to act as a substitute or agent for a superior / compare “vicarious”—serving in the place of someone else; assuming the position, place, or office of another person]
Originally posted by Missing Blue Sky
reply to post by burntheships
Dated material...the Archbishop of New York City is Rev. Timothy Dolan.
Originally posted by c3hamby
This shouldn't be too much of a surprise.
Stephen Greer in Hidden Truth states that the Vatican is as much a world power now as it ever was, and that there were certain factions within the Jesuit community that were into Satan worship and it was this group that were in the inside of the ET knowledge.
Before any Catholics take offense, understand it was a Jesuit Priest who turned me onto this book and who also confirmed that Greer was correct on the involvment of Satanism of some of the Jesuits.
“[Jesuit Adam] Weishaupt established the [modern version of the] Illuminati specifically to be a front organization behind which the Jesuits could hide. After being [formally] abolished by [Pope] Clement XIV in 1773, the Jesuits used the Illuminati and other organizations [Secret Societies] to carry out their operations.
Thus, the front organizations would be blamed for the trouble caused by the Jesuits.”
Bill Hughes...Author of The Secret Terrorists and The Enemy Unmasked
There is some evidence to suggest that the priestly class for instance in the catholic church is using altered states of mind through natural mood enhancers and hallucinogens while incanting rituals that tap into the collective energy of the combined laity in the congregation who are completely unaware that their own power is being channeled and redirected through the priests in this process.
Originally posted by General.Lee
This is really nothing new. The Vatican has always had significant world influence. In my opinion, the Vatican has more influence in world affairs than many smaller countries. The Illuminati have been closely tied with the Vatican. There is an informative document called "The Anti-Christ Identity" that closely ties Vatican to many world events and world affairs.
Originally posted by wcitizen
reply to post by burntheships
There's an interesting diagram of the power structure, pretty much as you describe it. It can be found on the link below:
www.thewatcherfiles.com...
The Black Pope
Peter-Hans Kolvenbach
Superior Jesuit General
The Society of Jesus
The White Pope
Karol Wojtyla
The Papal Caesar
Pope John Paul II
The Archbishop of New York
Edward Cardinal Egan
“Archbishop of the Capital of the World”
Military Vicar Over:
The American Branch of the Knights of Malta
The Knights of Columbus
The Masonic Supreme Council of the 33rd Degree
New York City’s
Council on Foreign Relations
Shriner Freemason Peter G. Peterson, Chairman
Shriner Freemason David Rockefeller, Presider
Shriner Freemason Henry A. Kissinger, Presider
Shriner Freemason George H. W. Bush, Presider
Knight of Malta Alexander M. Haig, Presider
Knight of Malta William F. Buckley, Jr., Presider
Knight of Malta Frank C. Carlucci, Presider
Jesuit Joseph A. O’Hare, Presider
Freemason Jesse L. Jackson
National Security Agency
Condoleezza Rice, Presidential Advisor
CFR Member
Central Intelligence Agency
George J. Tenet, Director
Presidential Advisor
The Holy Roman
American Empire
Bush Family Dynasty
George H. W. Bush
Ex Director, CIA
“Christian” Freemason
CFR Member
The Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia
Bin Laden Family Dynasty
Osama bin Laden
Contract Agent, CIA
“Islamic” Freemason
The Carlyle Group
Frank C. Carlucci, CEO (left)
Knight of Malta, CFR Member
Ex-Deputy Director, CIA
&
George H. W. Bush, Investment Advisor
Shriner Freemason, CFR Member
Ex-Director, CIA
&
James A. Baker, III, Investment Advisor
CFR Member
Ex-Secretary of State Under President George H. W. Bush
The Carlyle Group
Investing In:
Bioport Corporation
(The Nation’s Only Manufacturer
of an Anthrax Vaccine Called “Cipro”)
Robert Myers, CEO
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
reply to post by MikeboydUS
Who really follows them?
Priests and Clerics invoked the names of the Christ and the Prophet for their own ends, to justify their own endeavors such as the Crusades and Jihad. Preachers use it to justify the million dollar homes they live in. Politicians use it to justify their campaigns and later their actions when they "do what’s right".
Those names have become tools.
Likewise with the American Founding Fathers, Politicians and Pundits spout them off without really knowing what the men stood for.
They are modes of persuasion.
As the great Chinese Emperor once said, religion is the Opium of the people. People take solace in these things, and find various forms of comfort that allow for a stoicism and acceptance of the imperfect by a belief that these intangible concepts and things will one day bring them perfection.