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The world experienced a long drawn-out media
spectacle during the first months of 2005. First with the death of the
former occupant of the Chair of Peter and then the inauguration of his
successor. So much pageantry, pomp, resplendence and riches were placed
on show, that it raised questions which we will be examining in a series
of programs starting with the following:
What is actually behind this Chair of Peter, also
known as the Holy See, which lets itself be so continuously celebrated
for so long in Rome?
How did this Holy See portray itself in the past?
What are its intentions?
And: What should we still expect from it?
Read about
it:
"What does God say today about the Holy See?
The Living Word of God Exposes the Holy See."
Discussions
from the series:
"For the
Analytical Mind: Who Is Sitting on the Chair of Peter?"
to the following topics:
We Are Collecting Signatures:
The Catholic Church Should
No Longer Call Itself Christian!
What would Jesus of Nazareth say if He returned to earth and saw what the churches have made of His life’s work? The Vatican –
The Greatest Warmonger
Jesus taught love of enemy and non-violence: “The one who takes up the sword will perish by the sword.”
(Mt. 26:52) However, as absolute monarch of the church state, the pope in Rome has often waged war, himself, and participated in civil wars. The popes have always instigated and supported wars, even inciting entire nations to war against each other – for instance, the Byzantines against the Ostrogoths, the Franks against the Lombards, the Normans against the Staufers and vice versa. During the 17th century, the Vatican inflamed the 30-years war in Germany, and in 1914, the Vatican ambassador in Vienna turned the Habsburgs against the Serbs during the First World War.
Crucifixes, hand grenades and pistols: Symbols of the fascist-Catholic Ustascha, that murdered hundreds of thousands of Orthodox Serbs between 1941 and 1943.
Catholic military chaplains on both sides of the front always sent the soldiers into battle with “God’s blessing.” The Vatican supported all fascist and right-wing dictators in Europe and Latin America. Catholic clergy were significantly involved in the genocide committed by the Croatian fascists against the Orthodox Serbs during 1941-43, in the bloody cleansings that took place in Argentina during 1976-83, and in the genocide committed by the Hutus against the Tutsis in Ruanda in 1994. During the Gulf War in 1991, Pope John Paul II said: “We are not pacifists.” (Abendzeitung Munich – Feb. 18, 1991) And in 1995, he called for a “just war” in Bosnia. (Abendzeitung München – July 24, 1995). And as Cardinal Ratzinger, a few months before his election, the present pope rejected pacifism as being “un-Christian” (Radio Vatican, Nov. 23, 2004). This means that he rejects Christ, doesn’t it? Intolerance
Instead of Love for Neighbor
Jesus called all people to brotherliness and respect for one another’s free will. But the Church instead spilled a lot of blood persecuting dissenters over and over again. From the Markionites to the Cathars and Bogumiles, to the Waldensers and Anabaptists, it exterminated all movements that linked up with original Christianity. It stirred up the pogroms against the Jews, initiated the Inquisition and inflamed the witch hunts. It spread church doctrine with fire and sword, thus having on its conscience the genocide of the South American Indians and the ransacking of an entire
 continent.
Spanish soldiers hung 13 Indians for "the glorification of Jesus and the twelve
apostles," in such a way that their feet just barely touched the
woodpile. As the wood burned, the rope slowly tightened.
Even today, the Vatican is still persecuting religious minorities everywhere its arm can reach.
The Wealth of the Church
Is Based on Blood Money
Jesus lived modestly and taught that man should not “layup….. treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume…”
Over many centuries, the Church has amassed immense wealth, by plundering the population, mercilessly collecting tithes, enriching itself on the victims of the Inquisition and witch hunts, falsifying documents, practicing legacy-hunting and ensuring itself state subsidies and tax exemptions that are still valid in many countries today. Whatever good the Church does in the world today is never financed by its huge assets, but exclusively by the donations of the faithful and state subsidies.
At an execution, the victims of the Inquisition were shown the crucifix. After that, the Church raked in a large part of the wealth of the one murdered in this way.
20 tons of gold stolen from the Indians decorate
this altar in Sevilla, Spain.
The Pope – the Father of Evil
Jesus taught the God of love, who loves all His children equally and undertakes everything possible to have them with Him again. He did not teach eternal hell. However, right up until today, the Church spreads the pagan concept of a punishing God, who punishes those who do not follow the caste of priests with eternal damnation. Through this, countless people are filled with anxiety and dread until today, undermined in their mental health and alienated from God. This is a sin against the Holy Spirit, as are the untold sexual crimes committed year after year by the priests against children and youth.
Abuse of
the Name of Jesus
by the False Father in Rome
Jesus was a simple, modest person, who honored God in everything. At all times, His alleged followers have surrounded themselves with every imaginable kind of pageantry and pomp for which the people have had to bleed. They cultivated a personality cult and had themselves revered as
The alleged representatives of Christ still had themselves carried about in a sedan chair during the 20th century, escorted with peacock feathers like the Egyptian pharoahs. Jesus abhorred any manner of personality cults.
“Holy Father,” although Jesus said: “And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.” (Mt. 23:9) In the Lord’s Prayer, we address this Father simply as “Father,” but his alleged representative on earth, we should address with “Your Holiness.” Is the high priest of the Roman Church in pagan robes something more than God? Abuse of Jesus
by the God of Rome
Jesus neither appointed priests nor established a church. He gave the people an understanding of the inner religion of the heart, for: “The Kingdom of God is within, in you!” The Church,
however,
Honoring
the bones of those long deceased is a pagan cult of the dead.
turned the positive onset of Early Christianity into the outright opposite of what Jesus wanted: a hierarchically organized church of priests with rituals, vessels, robes and customs, all of which can be verified as having stemmed from
paganism. The Church tied and ties people to these external pagan rituals, such as the worship of saints, pilgrimages, the ritualistic celebration of mass, holy water and sacramental ceremonies, thus rendering them captives of an externalized religion.
Rome –
the Apparatus of
Discrimination Against Jesus
Jesus always championed the oppressed: women, slaves,
outsiders, including the animals and God’s creation.
Ever since its emergence, the Church has oppressed women. For
centuries, priests and monks kept “church slaves,” who were not
allowed to be set free.
This book gives many explanations about the
ecclesiastical roots behind the torture of animals that takes place
today on a massive scale.
The Church has always sided with the mighty and rich and justified social differences. The individuals who do not act like this serve merely as a welcome
alibi, clouding the facts. The Church also denied a soul to
animals, thus causing the million-fold ill-treatment and torment of
animals in animal experiments, factory farming and hunting, as well as
the unlimited and brutal exploitation of nature all over the earth.
Despite all these clear contradictions, the Church still calls itself “Christian.” We no longer wish to acquiesce to such flagrant hypocrisy.
This product has nothing to do with Jesus of Nazareth.
Let’s Have an End
to this Product Piracy
of the Church!
We are free Christians, who advocate the Christ of the Sermon on the Mount. We feel linked with Christ and committed to Him, who as Jesus of Nazareth lived among us and who conveys His pure teaching to us again today, through the prophetic word. No one has to share this faith – because like our role model, Jesus, we respect the free will of every one of our fellow men. But whoever calls himself “Christian” should not constantly do the opposite of what Jesus, the great freedom teacher, wanted and taught. Imagine the following: One of your ancestors developed a unique product of highest quality and introduced it on the market. At first, this product enjoyed great esteem among the consumers and was highly valued. But then, along came a product-pirate who produced an inferior product under the name of your ancestor. Although it carries the same name, the product is worthless; it even harms people after short use. How would you react? Would you simply look on – or would you try to point out the deception, the product piracy, to your fellow men and warn them?
This is why we are carrying out this signature
campaign. You do not tie yourself to anything
or any one. We merely ask you:
Join us in making this deception known to the
public!
Join us in warning your fellowman!
Join us in calling on the Church to name itself
“Roman Catholic” but to drop the term
“Christian”!
Free Christians for the Christ
of the Sermon on the Mount
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Ghostwriter for the Pope
In January 2008, Radio Vatican went looking for a ghostwriter for the pope – that is, for the speech Joseph Ratzinger is slated to hold before the United Nations in New York. Several Original Christians, committed to the original teachings of the Nazarene, did not hesitate to extend their help to a fellow man and sent to Eberhard von Gemmingen, the head of the German-speaking editorial department of Radio Vatican, a suggestion for the pope’s speech – adding, however, that they declined with thanks the first prize of participating in a general audience with the pope in Rome. ...
Draft of a speech Pope Benedict XVI could hold
before the United Nations in New York
Representatives of all nations! You people in all the countries of this Earth, you, who are all children of the one Father in heaven! As head of a church and as head of state of one of the smallest countries on Earth, I have been invited to speak to you. But today, this is a secondary issue. I want to speak to you today as a brother, as human being among human beings. That’s why I come before you in ordinary, simple clothing and not in splendid attire. During the past weeks and months, I have reflected a great deal about what role the church, whose head I was elected to be, has played in the history of mankind, and still plays today. Particularly at a time, in which mankind stands on the brink of a worldwide climate disaster, I can no longer remain silent. You people in all the world, I have to admit to you: The institution that I am responsible for is deeply in your debt.
Nature is inferior to man - the crown of creation
It was the institution of the church that century after century taught people in the so-called Christian countries that nature has an inferior position to human beings, and that animals, in particular, have no souls.
With this, in the eyes of people we have degraded nature – which has life breathed into it, and which is constantly permeated by the Spirit of God – into a mere thing, with which man can do as he pleases. Over the centuries, we have laid the cornerstone for the so-called “progress” of modern western civilization – a progress that has brought people many a technical ease, which, however, with cruel ruthlessness, ignored the natural basis of life for the planet Earth, because it starts with the unlimited exploitation of this Earth.
We condemned vegetarianism
 Where individual people or movements wanted to bring about a true progress of the heart, we didn’t encourage it, but fought against it. Already in the fourth century, we condemned as “heresy” the teachings of the Early Christian vegetarian Priscillian and had him beheaded in Trier. During the Middles Ages, we had people burned as “heretics” when they refused to kill an animal. Under my personal leadership, which I meanwhile deeply regret, even in the 20th century we reinforced in our Catechism that people may avail themselves of animals, even for such cruel practices as animal testing.
We never raised a voice against
the egotistical exploitation of nature
 The Holy See, whose representative I am as I stand before you today, has never uttered a word against the scandalous mistreatment of animals in industrial factory farming, which, as we know today, has an 18% higher share in climate change than does the whole worldwide transportation industry. To grow the feed for this factory farming, more rainforests are being constantly cut down.
We have said nothing against the mistreatment of our soil, the basis for life for all human beings, by a ruthless industrial agriculture that torments and leaches out the life of the soil with chemical fertilizers and agro-poisons, with animal excrements, which has cleared out whole swathes of land and tolerates no life outside of its own monocultures – just like the egoistical human, who lives in the delusion that he could live without nature, without the Mother Earth.
We banned reincarnation from our doctrines
even though it is the truth  During the past weeks I have thought a great deal and have realized that we, the church, have primarily caused this madness. We have kept the law of sowing and reaping from the people, even though it can be read in our own Bible: …“whatsoever a man sows, that he will also reap.” (Gal. 6:7) If we had emphatically pointed out this law to the people, they could not
torture the animals, destroy nature and wage wars against each other to this extent today – because they would have known that this cannot remain without consequences for their souls and possibly for their bodies, as well. Reincarnation, which is a known fact to the many peoples of this world, we have also banned from our church doctrine, even though it is a truth, as the great theologian Origen knew in the third century. Why did we do this?
No need for intercessors ...
 It is a bitter recognition, but I must speak it out:We have kept these truths from people because then they would have taken responsibility for their lives. Because they would have then been aware that they themselves are the temple of the Holy Spirit, and that they need no intercessors, neither priests nor bishops nor a pope, in order to grow closer to God in their inner being. Instead of this, we have tied them to external ceremonies and complicated dogmas, most of which stem from paganism, and have drummed into them the fear of the torments of hell over and over again, enabling us to better control them.
A bitter truth, particularly
for Catholics ...
It is a bitter truth, particularly for the brothers and sisters who call themselves Catholic, but also for many other denominations that use the word Christ – however, during this hour
 I want to make a clean sweep of things and ease my conscience: In part, we have uttered the teachings of the Nazarene – but in reality, in many respects, we have done just the opposite of what He wanted and taught.
"They have sworn to be obedient." Pius XII, on Hitler's soldiers.
He was a pacifist – but we have justified wars over and over again, yes, we have even repeatedly driven the mighty of this world to start wars, so that we become mightier ourselves. Many wars in this world would have presumably not even broken out if, as the Nazarene wanted it, we had taught people that every war begins in the thoughts and feelings of the people, who with the help of the inner strength of Christ, should recognize and clear them up. But then we, the caste of priests, would have had to start with ourselves and be role models.
We have laid up
riches and might ...
 We have laid up riches and might in unimaginable measure, even though the Nazarene charged us not to lay up treasures, which moths and rust consume. Our churches are embellished with gold and filled with treasures. Where did they come from? The money and gold were extorted from the poor through church tithes, through extortion and raids, by confiscating the assets of heretics and those condemned by the Inquisition, or by plundering and murdering the natives of South America. I am ashamed of this! And at this point I proclaim: What was robbed from the natives of South America and from other peoples of this Earth shall be given back to them! The gold treasures in the Vatican, the portfolios of stocks in countless
firms, including the armament industry, will be liquidated in the coming weeks and the proceeds will go to the poor of this world, as a help for self-help in the spirit of the Nazarene: “Bear one another’s burdens.” (Gal. 6:2)
The institution Church has piled
crime upon crime onto itself!
I have to simply say it this way: The institution church has piled crime upon crime onto itself. The German author Karlheinz Deschner, against whom we’ve always fought, was only too right when he wrote, and I may quote: After intensely studying the history of Christianity, I know of no organization in antiquity, in the Middle Ages and during the present times, including and especially the 20th century, that at the same time is so long, so continuously and so terribly burdened with crime as is the Christian Church, particularly the Roman-Catholic Church. I have to correct him on only one point: Unfortunately, according to what I have now recognized, we were never a “Christian Church” – because Jesus of Nazareth never founded a church. He founded Original Christianity – and that is, as I must admit today, something totally different.
We have never asked
for forgiveness
 We have never asked mankind for forgiveness for the countless crimes that were committed in the name of God by my institution, the church. And my predecessor, Pope John Paul II, together with his cardinals, of whom I was also one, merely pretended to apologize in 2000. He spoke only of “individual Christians,” who had incurred guilt – thus, shoving the responsibility onto the church folk instead of the church and ultimately, the papacy, which, in the end, should have and still has to answer for the injustice of the Inquisition, of the burning of witches, of the Crusades, of the bloody conquest of South America, just to mention a few. This apology was meant to avoid putting the alleged infallibility of the papacy into question – an infallibility that Jesus of Nazareth never taught, because He never appointed a pope. However, I don’t want to push the blame onto my predecessor for this totally inadequate and alleged request for forgiveness from 2000. As I said, back then, I was there myself and, referring to the time of the Inquisition, I spoke the following words which I will now quote myself …
“Let each of us gain the insight that people of the church, in the name of the faith and morals and in their necessary work to protect the truth, have now and then also resorted to methods that don’t correspond to the gospel.”
A common
scene during the Crusades. Mass decapitation
of
prisoners and civilians before Richard the Lionhearted.
From today’s viewpoint, I have to say that at that time I not only once again made light of the Inquisition, I also neglected to ask forgiveness, with sincere heart, of all the victims that had to suffer under the brutality of ecclesiastical torture and the unmerciful eradication of everything not Catholic.
I ask forgiveness ...
I ask all people and souls for forgiveness, who over the course of centuries were defamed, persecuted, robbed, banished, tortured and murdered by the Holy See. In the name of the Holy See, I also ask for forgiveness of all people and souls who have become bewildered in their belief in God because of the crimes committed by the church and because of the dogmas laid down by the church, which have only very little to do with the teachings of the Nazarene. Above all, I ask for forgiveness of the children and young people who until very recently, were sexually abused by the priests of my church and have often suffered their whole life long from this abuse.
14,000 molestation claims have been filed against Catholic clergy since 1950, to the tune of $2.3 billion IIn 2007, there were 691 new allegations, and total
abuse-related costs surpassed $615 million
Following are some settlement examples:
Los Angeles: $660 million - 508 victims / $114 million -
86 victims / Davenport: $37 million - 156 victims /
Spokane: $48 million - 140 victims / Portland: $75
million - 150 victims / San Diego: $198 million - 144
victims / Alaska: $50 million - 110 victims / Boston:
$85 million - 45 victims / Louisville: $26 million - 240
victims Orange: $100 million - 87 victims, etc.
I ask all people and souls: Do not charge all that has happened to the account of the merciful God and His Son, Christ. They neither initiated nor wanted all this. Instead, it was and is alone the responsibility of the institution church.
I also ask forgiveness of the countless people, especially in Africa, who have to suffer under the consequences of a terrible disease called Aids, which is reinforced by the fact that my church, through unworldly, abstract moral concepts, prevents them from using corresponding means of protection.
I ask forgiveness of all animals and plants ...
By way of the Spirit of God, I also ask all animals and plants for forgiveness that, through the fault of my institution, have to suffer so unendingly under the savagery of mankind.
... of those who gave warning of the impending climate disaster
I very especially ask forgiveness of those who over the past 30 years gave warning of the impending climate disaster. The present state of the Earth has opened my eyes. In the beginning, I said: The world is standing on edge of the abyss. But this didn’t have to happen. It would not be on the brink of a worldwide climate disaster if the Holy See had not disdained the many warnings that were given already decades ago by numerous scientists, but also by God-filled people, for whom the protection of Mother Earth as a planet blessed by God was and is truly a concern of the heart. We can read in the Bible: “The Spirit of God blows where it wishes.” (John 3:8) However, to this very hour, the institution church raises the claim that the entire Bible – despite all the contradictions and, in part, even atrocities that it contains – is the pure word of God. But it did not take this Bible verse in particular to heart. Instead, it tried to hinder and to silence the Spirit of God, which wanted to express itself in manifold ways, mainly outside the walls of the church. I also ask forgiveness for this today. And I can say that in a certain way I am glad that despite all our efforts, we never completely managed to silence the Spirit of God. But I am profoundly sad that in many respects it seems to be too late to avert much of what mankind has set into motion on this Earth in the way of negativity. And I am especially sad that this happened mainly through the fault of the institution of which I am the head.
I can only humbly go down
on my knees before you ...
I can only humbly go down on my knees before you, before the representatives of all the nations of this Earth, and apologize. As a sign of penance and change, I decree that the church is dissolved as an institution and that its assets will benefit the poor.
I call upon the faithful ...
the clergy ... upon all the peoples ...
I call upon the faithful of my church, which is forthwith no more: See yourselves as brothers and sisters, with all the people of this Earth. Turn to God in your inner being! Form brotherly-sisterly Original Christian communities in the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount and the Ten Commandments – communities of people who help and support one another!
I call upon the priests, monks, cardinals and bishops: Take off your splendid attire! I have already done so. Live among the people from the work of your hands, as the carpenter Jesus did as an example.
And I call on all the peoples of this Earth: Respect the animals and don’t consume them anymore! Respect nature, which God gave us! If we end the war against Mother Earth – then it will be easier to end conflict and war among us human beings. Perhaps some of the things that are coming toward the Earth and mankind can then be averted and lessened. I wish this for all of us from the bottom of my heart!
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The Bible
was falsified...
Jerome, the Church Falsifier
of the Bible
“In reality, no original ever existed, neither
a New Testament text nor any biblical book at all was preserved in
its original text form. Nor do first copies exist. There are only
copies of copies of copies. Today’s text of the New Testament is a
mixed text, pasted together from various writings that had been
passed down.”
Karl-Heiz Deschner, renown church historian, “Again, the Cock
Crowed.”
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