New Pope no hope

Why does the Roman Catholic Church have any credibility?

The effectiveness of propaganda has no better example than the legitimacy of the Roman Catholic Church. How did one of the most corrupt and evil institutions in history convince the world that its intentions are enlightened? Just look at all the gushing articles on the new pope.

To understand the nature of the Roman Catholic Church and Christianity in general one must go back to its origins, specifically when Jesus entered Jerusalem in what would be the last week of his life, turned over the tables of the money changers (attacking the state currency) and drove the usurers from the grounds of the Second Temple.

As Jewish prophets go, Jesus’ message was a progression from the past, focusing on love as the central human state of being. But despite the best efforts of the Roman empire to do away with Jesus’ message, it found fertile ground in the minds of many. Thus, Rome found it necessarily to hijack and edit these teachings to control the masses.

To do so, first of all, meant changing the story and blaming his death on the Jews for blasphemy, the punishment for which at the time would have meant stoning to death, which to this day remains one of the biggest holes in the story that the Romans embedded in the New Testament, the lie within which became the root cause of global antisemitism that persists to this day, later adopted by Islam.

In its efforts to wipe out Israel and the Jews from the historical record, Rome also renamed Syria, Judea, and Palestina (Gaza) as “Syria Palestina,” a misnomer that persists today among fundamentalists Muslims and the adherents of their propaganda who, either purposefully or ignorantly, believe that Israel is Palestine, despite the fact that Palestinians have never ruled over Israel (unlike the many temporary invaders who have come and gone over the millennia, while some Jews have always remained and some have returned after various exoduses following these invasions).

So, from day one, the Roman Catholic Church was nothing more than a cynical attempt to hijack the teachings of Jesus and leverage them to conquer the world with their confabulation of a unassailable man-god, above and remote from humanity who rules, via a phalanx of theurgists headed by a pope “who channels the will of G-d.”

From there, this perversion of Jesus’ teachings stands as a justification for a blood-thirsty and decidedly claptrap of antisemitic ideas and practices that, among other things, murders Jews, steals their assets (money, land, etc.), and poisons the minds of populations, not to mention the Church’s complicity in the Holocaust and celebrations of such events in the present:

Why Does the Catholic Church Organize Europe’s Largest Nazi Rally?

… A look at history points to the answer.

The event commemorates the death of thousands of Ustashi soldiers (estimates vary wildly, but 45,000 seems to be the most commonly cited number). The Ustashi was a fascist movement that ruled the Nazi puppet state of Croatia during World War ii.

In May 1945, with the Nazis on the brink of defeat, thousands of Ustashi soldiers fled Yugoslavia to British-occupied Austria. The British handed them over to their allies—Josip Tito’s partisans—who killed them. The rally in Bleiburg commemorates their deaths.

Catholic clergy and Nazi officials, including Joseph Goebbels (far right) and Wilhelm Frick (second from right), give the Nazi salute.

Granted, there have been efforts on the part of the Roman Catholic Church and its pontiff to acknowledge its central role in antisemitism, but such admissions have fallen short of coming clean on the historical record (although the Church has gone further concerning its genocide of indigenous tribes in Canada: here, here, and here).

Pope's Auschwitz Speech Seen as Moving but Incomplete

``It's symbolically important that Pope Benedict went to Auschwitz, but I was expecting a different speech,'' Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League told La Stampa in Turin, noting that the Pope did not expressly condemn anti-Semitism.

Commentators also asked about the Vatican's role during the Holocaust, when Pope Pius XII did not speak out against Nazi oppression of the Jews.

One sore point is that the Vatican has not opened all its wartime files to historians, who want to know what Pius knew, when he knew it and what he discussed with his aides about it.

Regardless, it would be foolish to expect the Roman Catholic Church to admit full responsibility for antisemitism, because to do so would necessarily require revisiting its misappropriation of Jesus’ teachings and the acknowledgement that Jesus was, is, and forever will be a Jew, despite the Church’s best efforts to change history. In fact, Jesus would consider the tenets of Christianity (his divinity as an exception, rather than as a rule, the infallibility of the pope, etc.) as blasphemy.

All of this invariably leads to the illegitimacy of Christianity and, by references, Islam, and recalls Karl Marx’s maxim that “Religion is the opiate of the people.” Clearly, it’s time, nearly 2,000 years after the fact, to come clean on all of this because, foremost, it is necessary if humankind is going to evolve and leave these old dogmas behind.

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