 The New Testament “fulfills” the Old
and “sheds light” on It.
Both Are the “true word of God.”
Millions of Victims of the Church
In the Catechism of the Catholic Church,* No. 140,the Roman clergy has put down the following: … The Old Testament prepares for the New and the New Testament fulfills the Old; the two shed light on each other; both are the true Word of God.
The cruelty to animals continues; the slaughterhouses remain open. Today animals are being sacrificed, the carcasses hacked to pieces and cut up for the benefit of the human “gods” to satisfy their lust for culinary pleasures.
People as well were tortured and killed in cruel and bestial ways. And yesterday may become today.
What this “fulfillment” that has been prepared in the Old Testament looks like may be clearly seen by the fruits that the so-called Christian Churches have brought forth over the centuries.
A few days ago I came across a brochure, documentation by an initiative called “A Memorial to the Millions of Victims of the Church.” The following is written there:
The Millions of Victims of the Church:
Inquisition: 13th-18th century, between 1 and 10 million dead and countless tortured, maltreated or terrorized people. (Der Spiegel, 6.1.1998 [The Mirror])
Crusades: 11th-13th century, up to 22 million dead, among them thousands of German Jews. (Hans Wollschläger, “Die bewaffneten Wallfahrten nach Jerusalem” [The Armed Pilgrimages to Jerusalem])
“Heathens”: 9th-12th century. During the Middle Ages tens of thousands of Germanic or Slavic “heathens” are forcefully converted to “Christianity” or cruelly slaughtered. The Church gives its blessing or calls for “crusades” against the Slavs. (Karlheinz Deschner, Kriminalgeschichte des Christentums, vol. 4–6 [Criminal History of Christendom]).
Jews: During the Middle Ages, between the 11th and 14th century there were numerous bloody pogroms with several thousands dead, the result of centuries of Church propaganda. The prominent Nazi Julius Streicher justified the holocaust during the Nuremberg trials by explicitly citing Martin Luther’s speeches of incitement against the Jews. (Friedrich Heer, “Gottes erste Liebe” [God’s First Love])
The conquest of America: During the first 150 years after the Spanish conquest, 100 million people died “in the name of God” – the “greatest genocide of all time.” (Theologe Boff, Publik-Forum, 5.31.1991)
Cathari, Waldensians, Hussites, Baptists: Thousands with different beliefs die at the behest of the Church (including the Protestant-Lutheran Church).
“Witches:” 16th-18th centuries, between 400,000 and 1 million people, mostly women, die cruel deaths, roughly half of them in Germany. Luther has witches burned as well. The instructions, the “Witch-Hammer,” are written by two German Dominican monks (cf. Hubertus Mynarek, “Die Neue Inquisition” [The New Inquisition]).
And how is it today? The roots of the Old Testament, mainly the “Books of Moses,” according to the Catholic Catechism, “shed light” on the New Testament, that is, on our times.
In the quoted brochure we read further:
Genocide in Croatia: In the middle of the 20th century, between 1941 and 1943, roughly 750,000 orthodox Serbs were murdered with the aid of Catholic clergymen and with the Vatican’s approval … The Vatican is informed about everything, but treats the bloody regime with considerable benevolence. The Catholic hierarchy, foremost the military vicar and archbishop Stepinac (beatified by the pope in 1998), gives the regime moral support to the very end. (Compare Deschner, “Ein Jahrhundert Heilsgeschichte,” vol. 2, 1983 pp. 210 ff., [A Century of the History of Salvation?] and Vladimir Dedijer, “Jasenovac – das Jugoslavische Auschwitz und der Vatikan,” 1988 [Jasenocvac – the Yugoslavian Auschwitz and the Vatican])
Child abuse by priests and ministers: The victims of child abuse often suffer for years and decades from the humiliation. Experts estimate that in the USA 2,000 of the 51,000 Catholic priests have been accused of sexual abuse over the last twenty years (Hanauer Anzeiger, 7. 13.1998 [Hanau Gazette]). That is approximately four percent, even without unreported cases. In Germany, Prof. Hubertus Mynarek also estimated a share of 3-5 percent of pedophile priests. (Akte [File] 97, 9/14/1999)
* Catechism of the Catholic Church,
Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1994, ISBN 0385-47967
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