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TACKLING
the TOUGH TOPICS FACING AMERICANS TODAY! Issue #
75 // January 20, 2006 // Editor: Darryl Eberhart “DECEITFUL REVISERS AND
EDITORS
OF HISTORY”
((NOTE: All emphasis throughout this newsletter, unless otherwise noted, is by the editor of “Tackling the Tough Topics (TTT)”. Some issues of my TTT newsletters and my “Examining the Tough Issues (ETI)” newsletters can be read on the following three Internet web sites: www.tacklingthetoughtopics.net
, www.calltodecision.com ,
and www.libertytothecaptives.net
. The last site
has a link to the first site.)) WARNING:
This issue of the TTT
newsletter may seriously “disturb” some folks’
“comfort zones”.
However, TRUTH
is far more important than any of our “comfort zones”.
IMPORTANT NOTE #1: I
(the editor of the ETI & TTT newsletters) am not a Roman Catholic; I
also most definitely am not anti-Roman Catholic as far as individual
Roman Catholics go. My dad
and 90% of my relatives are Roman Catholic; my best friend is Roman
Catholic; and the majority of my friends are Roman Catholic.
I am, however, against the top levels of secret societies
(from the hierarchy of the Jesuit Order to the hierarchy
of Freemasonry). This
is because these secret societies control the leadership of the
Roman Catholic Church (through the Jesuit Order and P2 Masonry).
These secret societies also control the leadership of most
of the larger, non-Catholic, Christian denominations.
I am also against any religious hierarchy that tries
to place itself equal to or above the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God
– or equal to or above God’s Holy Word (i.e., the Holy Bible) and His
Ten Commandments! IMPORTANT NOTE #2:
We can no longer afford to REMAIN SILENT on these critical
issues for fear of offending any particular group – in this case, Roman
Catholics. Please carefully
consider this quote by author Dave Hunt: “We are told to love one
another as Christ has loved us. Pop
psychology trivializes that command by equating it with a ‘positive’
attitude. Forgotten is
the first duty of love: to speak the truth (Ephesians 4:15).
Real love does not flatter or soothe when correction is
needed but [rather] points out the error which is blinding
and harming the loved one. Christ
said, ‘As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; be zealous, therefore,
and repent’ (Revelation 3:19). Instead,
the idea is now current that love excludes rebuke, ignores
the truth, and seeks unity at any price.
Only disaster can result.”
Why Am I
Writing More & More About Roman Catholicism?
This editor of the ETI and TTT newsletters has been writing more on
the Roman Catholic Church’s hierarchy, and especially its Jesuit Order,
in recent newsletters because I keep uncovering more and more about the deep
hatred that the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church has for
independent Bible-believing Christians, Protestants, Orthodox Christians,
and Jews. We Americans have,
for the most part, been largely ignorant of the well-documented history
of the Roman Catholic Church in conducting brutal religious genocide (via Inquisition,
‘holy’ wars, and ‘holy’ crusades) against all
the afore-mentioned groups. (Please see my TTT newsletters entitled “Death
by Government and Death by Church” and “Bloody Hands &
Wicked Hearts” on Internet web sites: www.tacklingthetoughtopics.net
and www.calltodecision.com.))
Sadly, many Americans believe the “ecumenical rhetoric”
of the Roman Catholic Church’s hierarchy – i.e., that she has
“changed her ways” and now loves all the “separated brethren”.
However, my study of the Papacy shows me that this is just a RUSE.
(Per Webster’s New World Dictionary a “ruse”
is: “a stratagem” [which is] “any trick or scheme for
achieving some purpose”.)
The “purpose” is to bring all non-Catholic
Christian denominations under the “umbrella” (i.e., the
authoritative and totalitarian rule) of the Papacy! Yes, the
Papacy, despite its “ecumenical rhetoric”, has not
changed a bit over the many centuries in the following categories:
Indeed,
power – absolute power – has long been the Vatican’s
“primary objective”. History
has recorded the Vatican’s deep hatred for religious
liberty and freedom of conscience. The
U.S. Constitution, with it “Bill of Rights” guaranteeing such
liberties, has long been hated by the Vatican. (For a good
example of this hatred of religious liberty and freedom of conscience,
read the Syllabus of Errors that was issued in 1864 by Pope Pius
IX.) I have heard that
there is an acronym in use by some Knights of Columbus in America.
This acronym is “M.A.C.”: “Make
America Catholic”.
America is the last “roadblock” in the way of the Vatican
and the rest of the globalist rich and power elite in their dreams
for one-world government and one-world religion.
Is America scheduled for a religious genocide
– another Inquisition – as occurred in the 1940s in
Croatia? I believe the
danger is very real and possibly quite imminent – and that
is why I am writing about the Roman Catholic Church’s hierarchy, its
long-held dreams for domination, and its well-document
history of religious genocide! DEFINITIONS (Listed,
hopefully, in alphabetical order): “Deceitful”
(per Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language):
(Meaning #1): “Tending to mislead, deceive or ensnare.” “Editor”
(per Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language):
“[1.] A publisher; particularly, a person who superintends an
impression [i.e., a single edition] of a book; the person who revises,
corrects and prepares a book for publication…
2. One who superintends the publication of a newspaper.” “Front”
(per Webster’s New World Dictionary): (Meaning #15): “A
person or group used to cover or obscure the activity or
objectives of another controlling person or group.” “Inquisition”
(per Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language):
(Meaning #4): “In some Catholic countries, a court or tribunal
established for the examination and punishment of ‘heretics’.
This court was established in the 12th century by
‘father’ Dominic, who was charged by Pope Innocent III with orders to excite
[Roman] Catholic princes [i.e., rulers] and people to extirpate
[i.e., destroy completely] ‘heretics’.” “Red Herring”
(per Webster’s New World Dictionary): (Meaning #2): “Something
used to divert attention from the basic issue.” “Revise”
(per Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language):
“1. To review; to re-examine; to look over with care for correction…
2. To review, alter and amend…” “Reviser”
(per Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language):
“One that revises or re-examines for correction.” “Revisionist”
(per Webster’s New World Dictionary): “A person who revises,
or favors the revision of, some accepted theory, doctrine, etc.” “Scapegoat”
(per Webster’s New World Dictionary): (Meaning #2): “A
person, group, or thing upon whom the blame for the mistakes or
crimes of others is thrust.” “Smoke screen”
(per Webster’s New World Dictionary): (Meaning #2): “Anything
said or done to conceal or mislead.” HERE ARE SOME RELEVANT
QUOTATIONS: “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country... It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world…” (1928)
Edward Bernays (Called by some the “Father of Public Opinion”) “For
300 years past the Church of Rome has striven by an unceasing torrent of false
histories, pamphlets, and lectures to conceal from the nation [i.e.,
Great Britain] and the world the true face of her terrible
history before and during the Reformation.”
Albert Close (Author of the book Jesuit Plots from
Elizabethan to Modern Times) “Surely some Jesuit hand must have been at work influencing ‘Lord’ Romilly [Ed. Note: the “Master of the Rolls” (who was in charge of State Papers) in England] when he appointed [in 1859] a Roman Catholic [William Barclay Turnbull] to edit the State Papers of the reigns of [King] Edward VI [king: 1547-53] and [Catholic Queen] Mary [I; queen: 1553-58], above all others; and later to appoint the Rev. Joseph Stevenson as successor.” Albert
Close ((Ed. Comment to the
preceding quote: Interestingly, Joseph Stevenson later ‘becomes’ a Jesuit
in 1882. I’m sure his
‘later conversion’, and his becoming a Jesuit priest, were just
coincidences as concerns his earlier appointment to edit
British history at the office of the “Master of the Rolls”.
Has American history similarly been edited to remove
any evidence of Vatican and Jesuit wrongdoing?
It sure seems that it has!)) “The
greatest danger and damage to true British history today
lies in the almost criminal folly of the [British] Government
appointing Roman Catholics and Anglo-Romanists to edit
the Official Calendars of State Papers from the original Manuscripts of
the Reformation times. By
clever maneuvering, Rome [i.e., the Vatican – the
Papacy] has succeeded in the past in getting Roman Catholic
Calendarers on the Staff of the Master of the Rolls, with the result that
Vatican Documents and other old State Papers have either been suppressed
in our National Calendars of State Papers or edited in
favor of the Church of Rome.” – Albert Close ((Ed. Comment to the
preceding quote: I do not know if I would use the word “folly”
in the first sentence of the above quotation. Powerful people in the
British government knew exactly what they were doing. The Vatican
has for centuries instructed its “agents” (e.g., Jesuits, Knights
of Malta, Knights of Columbus, etc.) to infiltrate
governments, other religious denominations, intelligence agencies,
universities and colleges, school board committees, publishing houses,
etc., in a carefully planned and orchestrated effort to “erase”,
as much as possible, the Vatican’s history of religious genocide
and persecution, of fomenting revolutions and wars, of assassinating heads
of State, and of torture and Inquisition – and also to “rewrite
& revise” history textbooks and encyclopedias.
This effort has been immensely successful.)) “There
can be no shadow of doubt that the Jesuits and the Anglo-Romanist
party in Britain have gained great influence over the Cable
Services, Press Agencies, B.B.C., and chief newspapers of Great Britain…”
– Albert Close ((Ed. Comment to the
preceding quote: The same thing has happened here in the USA!)) ((Ed. Note: The four preceding quotations were taken from the excellent book Jesuit Plots from Elizabethan to Modern Times by Albert Close (with an additional chapter by Dr. Clive Gillis). This book is $9.95 postpaid from “The Conversion Center”. To order it by credit card, please call their toll-free line at 1-800-631-8220. Or you can make check or money order payable to “The Conversion Center, Inc.”, and mail it to the following address: The Conversion Center // P.O. Box 265 // Carthage, NC 28327-0265.))
“There is no doubt that the American Catholic
hierarchy has entered the political arena, and that it is becoming more and more aggressive in
extending the frontiers of Catholic
authority into the fields of medicine, education, and foreign
policy…
As we shall see in this book [Ed.
Note: American Freedom and Catholic Power], the Catholic
hierarchy in this country [i.e., the USA] has great
power as a pressure
group, and no editor, politician, publisher, merchant or motion-picture producer can
express defiance openly – or publicize documented facts – without
risking his future.”
(1949; Quote was taken from his book American Freedom and Catholic
Power.) – Paul Blanchard (Journalist and author) ((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote:
Please remember that this quote was made in 1949.
The power of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in the USA has not
diminished from that time, but has, in fact, grown.
Many powerful Knights of Malta
(under the control of the Roman Catholic Jesuit Order) have held key
positions in America’s mainstream media (e.g., Henry Robinson Luce and
William Randolph Hearst), in U.S. intelligence agencies (e.g., CIA chiefs
William Donovan, John McCone, and William Casey), in U.S. banking, in the
U.S. government, etc. Top-level
Knights of Columbus
(e.g., Senator Ted Kennedy) have held, and continue to hold, key
positions in the U.S. government. Many
of these men do NOT
have the best interests of the American people at heart – rather, they
serve the interests of the Vatican and her Jesuit Order.
These men share the goals of the Vatican for a
one-world government and one-world religion under the leadership and
control of the papacy!)) “In March 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests [Ed. Note: controlled by the Rockefellers]…got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the U.S. and [a] sufficient number of them to CONTROL generally the policy of the daily press of the United States. These 12 men worked the problem out by selecting 179 newspapers, and then began, by an elimination process to retain only those necessary for the purpose of CONTROLLING. They found it was necessary to purchase CONTROL of 25 of the greatest [news] papers. The 25 [news] papers were agreed upon; emissaries were sent to purchase the policy, national and international, of these papers. An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly SUPERVISE and EDIT information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the INTERESTS of the PURCHASERS… This policy also included the SUPPRESSION of everything in opposition to the wishes of the INTERESTS SERVED.” (Statement placed in the Congressional Record in 1917)
Oscar Callaway (U.S. Congressman)
“There is probably no
important magazine or newspaper in the country [Ed. Note: the USA] that is not COMMUNIST-penetrated
to some degree.”
Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961; American journalist; ex-member of
the Communist Party of the United States) ((Ed. Comment to the
preceding quote: For whom do the Communists work?
Author Gary Allen tells us: “The
Rockefeller family, through their Chase Manhattan Bank and other
entities, have been great benefactors of the Soviet Union ever
since [the] Communist
Revolution in Russia.” Which
brings us to these questions: For whom do the Rockefellers work?
Do they have any connections to the Rothschilds, who hold the title
“Guardians of the Vatican
Treasury”?)) “I questioned Dr. [Alberto] Rivera about the briefings he received in the Vatican when he was a Jesuit priest. I asked him if he was briefed on how the Vatican planned to take over the United States. He told me [that] his indoctrination [training as a Jesuit] went back [into American history] to the time of the Pilgrims. Because of the knowledge of the Inquisition and the slaughter of Christians by the Roman Catholic system, the early immigrants in America began passing laws to keep Jesuits out of this country and to outlaw the mass…to protect themselves from a Vatican takeover. These were Christian communities deeply concerned about the ‘whore [that is found in the book] of Revelation’. Jesuits
began arriving in America as early as the second group of Pilgrims.
They used different names with identifications.
They were followed years later when the Vatican sent
multitudes of Catholic families from England, Ireland, and France – posing
as Protestants – into the colonies.
These were ‘plants’.
They were holding secret masses in defiance of the laws. In those days, no Roman Catholic was to hold any position in
civil government. The Jesuits
made sure this part of our history was erased and removed. The
next major move by the Jesuits was to destroy or control all the
Christian schools across America. Throughout the years, Jesuits, working undercover,
have gotten into special committees on school boards to remove the
emphasis of the Bible and replace it with psychology as found in the
Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius de Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit
Society. Later, Catholic
schools and universities sprang up all across the nation under the Jesuits.
Today, they probably outnumber all the Christian schools and
colleges put together. The
third stage was to move into the courts and legislation…to take
over as judges and lawyers in order to manipulate the
Constitution in their favor until it could be changed.
Once this was accomplished, the thrust was into politics to capture
the political parties. Then [the Jesuits moved on to] the military and
the newspapers. Even
back in the time of Lincoln over half the newspapers in the United
States were controlled by the Vatican.”
Jack Chick (Author and publisher) ((Ed. Comments to the
preceding quote: (1) If you have any doubts
about the above claims by Jack Chick concerning the power and influence of
the Papacy, and especially her Jesuit Order, then you need to check out
his book Smokescreens, the book A Woman Rides the
Beast by Dave Hunt, the book The Secret History of the
Jesuits by Edmond Paris, the book 50 Years in the Church of
Rome by Charles Chiniquy, and the book Is Alberto for Real?
(compiled by Sidney Hunter). These
books can all be ordered via credit card by calling 1-909-987-0771. (2) If you have any doubts
about the Vatican’s heavy-duty takeover of much of America’s
newspapers, magazines, etc., then please do some research on such
Jesuit-controlled Knights of Malta named William Randolph
Hearst and Henry Robinson Luce. (3) Jack Chick says the Vatican controlled HALF of the [major] newspapers
in the USA back in the time of Lincoln!
What percentage of the U.S. mainstream press does she now control?)) “In 1997, wealthy media mogul Rupert Murdoch received papal knighthood for promoting the Catholic Church and the pope’s interests. This Roman Catholic version [i.e., the NIV] is Rupert’s bestseller! Let’s face it: Roman Catholic [Bible] versions have become big business.” – David W. Daniels (Author of the book Did The Catholic Church Give Us The Bible?) ((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote: I would again like to remind the
reader of this newsletter that a number of wealthy Knights
of Malta (a Roman Catholic
Order that is headquartered with, and controlled by, the Jesuit
Superior General) have been major players in the publication business,
such as Henry Robinson Luce and William Randolph Hearst.)) I. INTRODUCTION
This editor of ETI and TTT loves history – that is, I love TRUE
history. History is indeed
quite frequently “stranger than fiction”.
Sadly, a whole lot of important history – history that should
be known by the American people – has disappeared down a
very deep “memory hole”. And
even more history is headed for that deep “memory hole”.
This history that has disappeared – or is in the process of
disappearing – is true history that is very unfavorable to
the Vatican and/or her Jesuit Order.
It is very ugly, dark history – history that the Vatican and her
Jesuit Order are working overtime to destroy forever.
It is history that the Vatican and Jesuit Order want the American
people to forget – or, in the case of many Americans, to never
learn. It is the
well-documented history of the Vatican and/or her Jesuit Order in the
following categories:
Cui bono? That
is, who benefits from this disappearing history that
Americans should know about if they want to preserve their
liberties and their Constitutional Republic?
Some folks allege that “the Jews” run (i.e., control)
America’s publishing houses, its mainstream media, etc.
If this were so, then why would these “Jews”
be aiding and abetting the Vatican and her Jesuit Order
by covering up their numerous crimes against humanity?
After all, the Jews have suffered horribly at the hands of the Vatican!
Inquiring minds surely would like to know! I would like to cover some historical events here in this issue of TTT that I have covered in previous newsletters – albeit more briefly here, but with some new data wherever possible – especially some new quotations. So I ask those of you have read many of my previous newsletters to “stay with me” as I cover these pieces of “disappearing history”, even though I will be repeating some information here that has appeared in some of my more recent newsletters. ((I keep finding more new quotes to use in these newsletters that deal with much of this rapidly disappearing history.))
History is indeed very important.
While the dates, names of the leading players, and locations
change, the basic scenarios of tyranny, oppression, manipulated wars,
etc., keep repeating over and over again.
We should never forget these wise words from the Spanish
philosopher George Santayana: “Those who cannot remember the past are
condemned to repeat it.” In my last TTT newsletter, entitled “The Real Controllers of the USA”, I talked about “front groups”, “Red herrings”, and various smoke screens used by the real power brokers operating “behind the scenes” to confuse us as to true history, and as to what is currently going on in our country, the American Constitutional Republic. Revising and editing history – or, flushing parts of it completely down that deep “memory hole” – is a major part of this carefully planned strategy of deceit and control. And one of the greatest tools in their hands is a group of people whom I call the deceitful “revisers and editors of history”. These “revisers” and “editors” of true history have been very successful in the dirty work of erasing true history. They can be found on school board committees, in publishing houses, and in many institutes of higher learning. They are the editors of many top newspapers and newsmagazines. They write articles for history textbooks and for encyclopedias. They have infiltrated every important strata of our society. They have destroyed, and are in the process of destroying, many important portions of both American history and European history – especially here in America! II. IMPORTANT EXAMPLES OF REVISED HISTORY (E.G., PORTIONS OF HISTORY RAPIDLY DISAPPEARING DOWN A VERY DEEP “MEMORY HOLE”) A. Vicious Religious Genocide Against the Albigenses and Waldenses So few Americans are aware of the Vatican’s horrible persecution of Christian groups in the 12th through 16th centuries – much of it occurring long before the term “Protestants” ever came into being. Various popes ordered Catholic monarchs to send army after army against the Christian Albigenses in southern France, and against the Christian Waldenses in France and northern Italy – against farmers and peasants who were peaceful, moral people. Here are just a few quotes dealing with this horrible religious genocide by the Vatican against innocent Christian men, women, elderly, and children:
“The Albigensian Crusades slash through the history of France
and of the Church like a gaping wound.
From 1208 to 1226 the papacy sent army after army to the South of
France to crush the Albigensian ‘heretics’ and to punish their
supporters. …They
[i.e., the Albigensian Crusades] began with a calculated act of terror,
the massacre of [Ed. Note: large numbers of men, women,
and children at] Beziers; they ended with the establishment of the
Inquisition, one of the most effective means of ‘thought control’ that
Europe has ever known. ((Ed. Comment: The papal army butchered about
20,000 citizens of this French city populated then mainly by the
Albigenses.)) They [the papal armies] were completely
successful: The losing faith, the Albigensian ‘Heresy’, was exterminated. …Their disappearance as a social group was carefully planned and executed with persistent cruelty.” ((Ed. Comment: This is a clear example of religious genocide!))
Frank Chalk and Kurt
Jonassohn (Co-authors of the book The History and Sociology of
GENOCIDE) “[The
Albigenses] preached against the immoralities of the [Catholic]
priesthood, pilgrimages, worship of saints and idols…opposed the
claims of the Church of Rome; made great use of the Scriptures. …By
1167 they [i.e., the Albigenses] embraced possibly a majority of
the population of South France. …In
1208 a crusade was ordered by Pope Innocent III; a bloody
war of extermination followed, scarcely paralleled in
history. Town after town was
put to the sword, and the inhabitants murdered without
distinction of age or sex. …Within a hundred years the Albigenses were utterly rooted out.”
Henry H. Halley (Author of
the Pocket Bible Handbook) “These religious crusades [carried out by armies dispatched by order of the Vatican] and [accompanying] genocide (frequently in the form of State-Church genocide) were often directed at innocent peasants and farmers (e.g., Albigenses, Waldenses, French Huguenots, etc.) whose only ‘crimes’ were placing the Bible in higher authority than the pope, and refusing to recognize papal authority. These innocent people were falsely called ‘heretics’ [by the Roman Catholic hierarchy]. Papal armies were raised (often using murderers, rapists, etc., who had been released from prisons) and sent to exterminate entire villages and regions.” (July 13, 2005)
Darryl Eberhart (Editor of “Tackling the Tough Topics”)
This church [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church] that claims to be
“Christian” was involved in butchering, torturing, and killing in the
cruelest ways those Christians who disagreed with papal authority – or
who merely wanted to read, study, and share the Word of God.
Mass murder (i.e., religious genocide) by this religious
institution didn’t just occur in the 12th through the 16th
centuries – it occurred as recently as the 1940s in
Croatia, where the Roman Catholic Ustashi militia, led by
Roman Catholic clergymen, tortured and murdered from 600,000 to one
million innocent Serb Orthodox Christian men, women, elderly, and
children. ((Please see section II., (letter) I.))
Why isn’t this history taught to American school
children? Who
benefits by this history being kept from the American people, and who
is so powerful in this country that they have, for the most part, been
able to keep this history from the majority of the American people? ((For additional information on this topic, please read my TTT #72 entitled “Death by Government and Death by Church” and my TTT #73 entitled “Bloody Hands & Wicked Hearts” on Internet web sites: www.tacklingthetoughtopics.net and www.calltodecision.com.)) B.
The Inquisition and Torture
Author David W. Daniels gives us a brief “history” of the Inquisition
in his book Did The Catholic
Church Give Us The Bible?
( : ) “THE INQUISITION: The Horror Begins – With each council the level of terror increased:
1.
Almost never see your accuser. 2.
Never know why or of what you are accused. 3.
No lawyer. You have to
prove your innocence. 4.
You’re presumed guilty – period. 5.
The promise anything, but kill you anyway!” If the brutal Inquisition were merely something that existed a thousand years ago, then maybe there would be no need to discuss it here. However, the office of the ‘holy’ Inquisition STILL exists – it has never disappeared. Oh yes, because of the “bad press” that it has received in the past, the Vatican has made two “name changes”. F. Tupper Saussy, in his book Rulers of Evil, points out these two name changes: “Pontifex Maximus has laundered
the Inquisition’s name twice. In
1908, Pope Pius X renamed it ‘the Holy Office’, which [Pope] Paul
VI transformed into [the] ‘Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith’ in 1965.”
The office of Inquisition was set up in the 12th
century. Initially, the
Dominicans were in charge of it. Later,
the Jesuit Order would take the office of Inquisition from
the Dominicans. I will not name the encyclopedia here, but I did read in this encyclopedia, under the entry entitled “Inquisition”, a typical whitewash of this sick, barbaric, and inhuman institution (called the ‘holy’ Inquisition). Basically, whoever wrote the article for this “entry” in this encyclopedia didn’t consider the “Inquisition” a very big deal, saying that they didn’t use any worse torture than was used elsewhere in Europe at that time. Huh? The Roman Catholic Church refined “torture” to a new level, even bringing in medical doctors to make sure that the torture victim didn’t die while under torture. This was done so that he (or she) could be “revived and refreshed”, and thus could face days – weeks – and even months of more and more torture. By the way, I personally could not torture an animal. How is it that the Roman Catholic Church calls itself “Christian” and yet commands the most brutal torture of human beings – even of fellow Christians who simply disagree with papal doctrine and/or authority? How is it that the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church never seemed to have any problems finding lots of fiends to do its torture, and priests to oversee that brutal torture of human beings? Where do we find the Lord Jesus Christ anywhere in this type of sick activity? Oh, by the way, the Roman Catholic Church has never repudiated her “right” to use torture and force wherever and whenever she finds the opportunity to do so! Here are several more quotes dealing with the “holy” Inquisition: “It is so very hard today to imagine how anyone could watch and inflict systematic tortures [Ed. Note: as occurred during the so-called ‘Holy Inquisitions’] designed to bring its victims the most severe and agonizing pain, to the very point of death, yet denying death, and then start the process all over again – even on an animal, much less another human being.” John Daniel (Author of the book The Grand Design Exposed) “To wring out confessions from these poor creatures [Ed. Note: during the various Inquisitions], the Roman Catholic Church devised ingenious tortures so excruciating and barbarous that one is sickened by their recital.” Dave Hunt (Author of numerous books, including A Woman Rides the Beast) “The
most ghastly abomination of all was the system of torture.
The accounts of its cold-blooded operations make one shutter at the
capacity of human beings for cruelty.
And it was decreed and regulated by the popes
who ‘claim’ to represent Christ on earth…”
William Shaw Kerr (Bishop;
Church historian)
“What has turned my soul against Roman [Catholic]
abuse of power
is the way in which it has tortured
and burned such saints of
God as Joan of Arc, hundreds of the Albigensian martyrs in France in the
12th century, the Knights Templar, John Huss [Czech Jan Hus], the Dominican Savonarola, the Dominican Giordano
Bruno, [and] the Anglican bishops Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer.
The Inquisition has
promoted at least two wholesale massacres: thousands of Protestant Waldensians in northern Italy, and
thousands of Protestant Huguenots by the massacre of St. Bartholomew in
France. More than 30,000 of
the most cultured Protestants of France were put to the sword on
the night of St. Bartholomew, August 24, 1572.
At the news [of
this brutal, bloody massacre], the Pope had cannons fired, proclaimed a
jubilee, ordered a Te Deum of thanksgiving to be sung, and struck a
special medal to commemorate the glorious ‘victory’.” –
Charles A. Bolton (Ex-Roman Catholic priest) ((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote:
You can read about such “religious genocide” in a TTT
newsletter I wrote entitled “Death by Government and Death by
Church” by visiting Internet web site: www.tacklingthetoughtopics.net.
I also highly recommend that you get a copy of the book Foxe’s
Book of Martyrs by John Foxe by calling “Power of Prophecy”
(800-234-9673).))
“Of eighty popes in a line from the thirteenth century on, not
one of them disapproved of the theology and apparatus of Inquisition.
On the contrary, one after another added his own cruel touches to
the workings of this deadly
machine.”
Peter de Rosa (Catholic
historian & former Jesuit; author of the book Vicars of Christ:
The Dark Side of the Papacy)
“When confronted with ‘heresy’, she [i.e.,
the Roman Catholic Church] does not content herself with
persuasion, arguments of an intellectual and moral order appear to her
insufficient, and she has recourse to force,
to corporal punishment, [and]
to torture.”
H.M.A. Baudrillart (Rector
of the Catholic Institute of Paris)
“[The Inquisition’s] methods of terror
and persecution have been used and abused up to the present day.
These methods were not only new, but also so successful that they
have been copied by totalitarian regimes ever since.
The main features of these methods are:
1. Making the denunciation of fellow citizens an obligation
that takes precedence over ties of family and kinship; 2.
Extracting confessions by imprisonment and torture; 3.
Making the naming of fellow conspirators an essential part of
confessions; 4.
Defining the retraction of extorted confessions as a ‘relapse’ and
therefore a proof of guilt; and
5. In some cases, separating the proof of ‘heresy’ or
opposition from the execution of the penalty.
The Inquisition handed over its convicted ‘heretics’ to the
secular arm for punishment just as, hundreds of years later, during
Stalin’s purges of the Communist party, party members were often
deprived of their membership and then handed over to the NKVD for
punishment.”
Frank Chalk and Kurt
Jonassohn (Co-authors of the book The History and Sociology of
GENOCIDE) Why isn’t this history concerning this fiendish “Inquisitional” institution of brutal torture (that still exists) taught to American school children? Shouldn’t the American people be warned about this institution of torture, and the political-religious institution that operates it? Who benefits by this history being kept from the American people, and who is so powerful in this country that they have, for the most part, been able to keep this history from the majority of the American people? Certain elements within the CIA, which has had a number of Roman Catholic Knights of Malta at its head (e.g., William Donovan, John McCone, and William Casey), seem to really like torture! What agencies in the U.S. government and military have taught “torture” to their corresponding elements in Latin American countries? Could there possibly be any connection between those torture-loving elements within the CIA and that religious-political institution (i.e., the Vatican) that loves to use torture? C. The Council of Trent (1545-1563) and the Counter-Reformation
While most encyclopedias will give you the dates of the Council of
Trent and tell you a little about its history, they leave out some very
important details – and the historical importance of this Council. Here are a couple quotes by F. Tupper Saussy (as found in his book Rulers of Evil):
“Most of the eighteen-year lifetime of the Council of Trent [in Italy, 1545-1563] consisted
of two intermissions spanning four and ten years each.
At the beginning of the second intermission, Ignatius [of
Loyola – founder of the Jesuit Order]
founded a special college in Rome
[in 1552] for German-speaking
Jesuits called the Germanicum. ((Ed. Note: Pope Pius XI later would create the Russian college in Rome,
and put it under the Jesuit Order.)) Three years later [in 1555],
the Peace of Augsburg established the principle of ‘cuius regio, eius
religio’, ‘whose [i.e.,
the ruler’s] the region,
his the religion’. The
Peace of Augsburg was Jesuit ‘pay dirt’.
They could now bring whole populations to Rome simply by winning
over a few princes. And
so they did. By 1560, the Society [of
Jesus – i.e., the Jesuit Order] had
returned virtually all of South Germany and Austria to the [Roman
Catholic] Church.” ((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote: The Jesuits basically steered the
direction of the Council of Trent. Indeed,
the Jesuit Order was founded primarily to counter, and if possible, destroy
the Protestant Reformation. Much of Europe was starting to “go Protestant”, and the
Roman Catholic Church was losing entire regions and provinces to
Protestantism. The “Peace of Augsburg” in
1555 enabled the Jesuit Order to simply win over some key European princes
and thus bring whole regions and provinces back to Roman Catholicism.
But even this was not enough to stem the steady erosion of the
Catholic “faithful” leaving the mother church, and so religious
genocide, ‘holy’ Inquisition,
and religious wars (such as the
Thirty Years’ War of
1618-48) were launched to exterminate as many Protestants as
quickly as possible.))
“The fruits of the Germanicum
[i.e., the special college in Rome for German-speaking Jesuits] were so successful that when the Council of Trent finally adjourned on
December 4, 1563, its decrees and canons conceded nothing to the
Protestant reformers. Indeed,
under the spiritual direction of [Jesuit]
Superior General Diego Lainez
– Ignatius [of Loyola] had died in 1556 – the Council [of Trent] denied every
Protestant doctrine point by point. Anathematized
(eternally damned) was anyone who believed that salvation is God’s free
gift to His faithful and does not depend upon partaking of Church
sacraments. Anathematized
was anyone who looked to the Bible for the ultimate authority on
‘doctrine, reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness’
rather than to the teaching Church. Anathematized
was anyone who regarded as unworthy of belief such unscriptural
doctrines as (1) the efficacy of papal indulgences; (2) of confession
alone to a priest as necessary for salvation; (3) of the mass as a true
and real sacrifice of the body of Christ necessary to salvation; (4) the
legitimacy of teachings on purgatory; (5) the celibate priesthood; (6)
invoking saints by prayer to intercede with God;
(7) the veneration of relics; and, (8) the use of images and
symbols.
The Council of Trent hurled one hundred twenty-five anathemas
– eternal damnations – against Protestantism.” ((Ed. Comment to the
preceding quote: These vicious, unwarranted anathemas –
eternal damnations – have never been revoked.
Subsequent Councils have affirmed the Council of Trent.
The Vatican, despite “ecumenical rhetoric” to the
contrary, has not changed the basic doctrines of the Roman
Catholic Church that sent millions of innocent men, women,
elderly, and children to their deaths during numerous religious genocides,
long periods of ‘holy’ Inquisition, and actual
‘holy’ Crusades and wars launched against Christians!)) D. Attempts to Force England Back Under Papal Authority
We can see from the quotes at the beginning of this newsletter that the Vatican made mighty efforts to bring England back under Papal authority, especially in the 16th century. Here are some more
quotes about this chapter of history that is relatively unknown to many
Americans: “Eight
years before the attempted [Spanish] Armada invasion [of 1588],
Jesuits were seditiously active plotting the overthrow of
the English government. By
using different disguises, aliases, and secret codes, to illegally slip in
and out of England, Jesuit Robert Parson, in 1580, had led and then
later organized a mission to bring other Jesuits into England to
engage in a work of subversion. When
the [attempted] invasion [by the Spanish Armada] failed,
these masters of intrigue [i.e., the Jesuits] turned to another
bizarre scheme. Known in your encyclopedia under the subject, ‘The
Gunpowder Plot’ – thirteen Catholic noblemen and five Jesuits
formed a conspiracy devising a plan to explode 36 barrels of gunpowder in
the cellar of the House of Lords and kill King James I, and members of the
[House of] Commons as they assembled for the opening of Parliament
on 5 November 1605. Their
plan was to blow up the Parliament building and out of the chaos
incite the people into a full insurrection. …But
before the date it [i.e., the tunnel full of explosives] was to be
detonated, the explosives were discovered, leading to the arrest of all
those involved. …Of
the five Jesuits involved, two escaped, one died in prison, and two
were convicted and executed.” John
Daniel (Author of the book The Grand Design Exposed) ((Ed. Comments to the preceding quote: (1) What the encyclopedias
and most history books do NOT tell us is that the purpose of the
attempted invasion of England in 1588 by the Spanish Armada was to land
troops in England to be joined by local Roman Catholics in an effort to
overthrow the British government and return England, by force,
to the fold of the Roman Catholic Church! (2) What occurred in
England, i.e., the repeated political intrigues, attempted assassinations
of heads of State, etc., by the wily Jesuit Order, occurred all over
continental Europe too. This
was the reason why 83 countries, cities, and city-states had thrown the
Jesuits out of their areas by 1931! Many
of the European monarchs who expelled the Jesuits were Roman Catholics
themselves!)) ((Ed. Note: The following
quotation is an excerpt taken from an information sheet I recently typed
concerning Albert Close’s book Jesuit Plots from Elizabethan to
Modern Times.)): “Editor
of ETI and TTT has come to the following conclusion after studying the
history of the Roman Catholic Church and Europe:
It is virtually impossible to clearly understand European history
from the 16th century to the present time without ‘viewing’
it through the ‘lens’ of the ‘Reformation-Counter
Reformation’, Roman Catholic efforts to bring England back under
papal authority, and the Jesuit Order.
The famous Frenchman, the Marquis de LaFayette, stated: ‘It is my
opinion that if the liberties of this country – the United States of
America – are destroyed, it will be by the subtlety of the Roman
Catholic Jesuit priests, for they are the most
crafty, dangerous enemies to civil and religious liberty.
They have instigated most of the wars of
Europe.’ Many other famous
individuals, such as President John Adams, echoed similar condemnations of
this infamous Society of Jesus (a.k.a. the Jesuit Order)!
The Vatican (and especially her Jesuit Order from the mid 1500s)
tried to bring England back under papal authority by force and
subversion. A number of popes and European monarchs conspired to
assassinate British monarchs, to foment revolutions in the British Isles,
and to actually land foreign troops on British soil.
These attempts to bring England back under the pope’s authority by
force reached their zenith in 1588 when the 130-ship Spanish Armada,
carrying 20,000 troops, sailed for the British Isles.
Pope Sixtus V had promised Spanish King Phillip II 200,000 crowns
the moment the armada sailed, and another 100,000 crowns when troops were
placed on shore in England. Researchers
have examined British, French, and Spanish ‘State papers’ – and
Vatican documents, for this era. These
State papers and Vatican documents clearly show the Vatican’s
involvement not only in the planned invasion of England by the Spanish
Armada, but also in numerous attempts to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I! Sadly,
Roman Catholic writers, editors, and apologists have made, and continue to
make, tremendous efforts to rewrite and revise history and,
in the process, whitewash the Vatican and her Jesuit
Order’s frequent involvement in court intrigues, assassinations and
attempted assassinations of heads of State, fomenting of revolutions and
wars, infiltration of governments, orchestration of religious genocide,
etc. Fortunately, a number of
researchers and authors, such as Albert Close, have examined various
nations’ State papers and/or actual Vatican documents, which
substantiate totally the nefarious activities of the Vatican and her
Jesuit Order in Britain throughout the past four centuries!” –
Darryl Eberhart (Editor of ETI and TTT newsletters) (December
28, 2005)
We Americans must not allow this portion of British history to
disappear. The reason is
simple: The Vatican was not able to defeat Great Britain by “frontal
assault” (i.e., by force of arms) so as to bring it back under papal
authority, so it used INFILTRATION to get Great Britain in line
with papal desires and goals. Certainly,
the Vatican was not able to defeat our Constitutional Republic by
“frontal assault” (i.e., by force of arms), and so it has used INFILTRATION
to get the USA in line with papal desires and goals.
Why isn’t this history taught to American school
children? Who
benefits by this history being kept from the American people, and who
is so powerful in this country that they have, for the most part, been
able to keep this history from the majority of the American people? E. Religious Genocide Against Irish Protestants and French Huguenots
It is so very important that we Americans know about the history of religious genocide, because it certainly is not something that occurred only in the far distant past. Here are several quotes by Jack T. Chick from his excellent book Smokescreens: “On
August 22, 1572 [Ed. Note: Several books have the date as August 24th],
the bloody St. Bartholomew massacre began.
This was to be one fatal blow to destroy the Protestant
movement in France. The [Catholic] king of France had cleverly arranged a
marriage between his sister and Admiral Coligny, the chief Protestant
leader. There was a great
feast with much celebrating. After
four days of feasting, the soldiers were given a signal.
At twelve o’clock midnight, all the houses of the Protestants in
the city were forced open at once. The
admiral was killed, his body thrown out of a window into the street where
his head was cut off and sent to the pope. …They also slaughtered many other well-known Protestants. In the first three days, over ten thousand were killed. The bodies were thrown into the river and blood ran through the streets into the river until it appeared like a stream of blood. …From Paris, the destruction spread to all parts of the country. Over eight thousand more people were killed. Very few Protestants escaped the fury of the persecutors.” “A
similar massacre [Ed. Note: i.e., similar to the St. Bartholomew’s
Massacre] occurred in Ireland in 1641.
The [Catholic] conspirators picked October 23rd,
the feast of Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit Order.
They planned a general uprising for the whole country.
All Protestants would be killed at once.
To throw them [i.e., the Protestants] off guard while the
plan was being made, extra acts of kindness were shown to the Protestants.
Early in the morning [of October 23, 1641] the conspirators
were armed and every Protestant they could find was immediately murdered.
They showed no mercy. From
children to the aged, they were killed.
Even invalids were not spared.
They were caught by complete surprise.
They [i.e., the Protestants] had lived in peace and safety
for years and now found no place to run.
They were massacred by neighbors, friends, and even relatives. Death often was the least they had to fear. Women were tied to posts, stripped to the waist, their breasts cut off with shears and left to bleed to death. Others who were pregnant were tied to tree branches, their unborn babies cut out and fed to the dogs while the husbands were forced to watch.” “What you’ve just read [about the massacre of Protestants in Ireland in 1641 and in France in 1572] is fully documented and historically factual. It is found in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. …Both of these murderous assaults by the Vatican against the [Protestant] Christians in France and in Ireland followed a similar pattern. Before the attacks, there was a time of healing when the Roman Catholics became friendly and warm, and in both cases the [Protestant] Christians were so relieved that they let their guard down and assumed the Vatican had changed. This was their fatal mistake and it cost them their lives.” And here is a quote by John Daniel, author of the book The Grand Design Exposed: “The
sixth and last event to be considered is the barbarous Irish Massacre,
with its 23 October 1641 launching date – the date that also celebrates
the Catholic feast of Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits. …Again
the plot is instigated by the Jesuits, priests, and friars,
who excite the ignorant Irish Catholic people to a frenzy to commit the
most unheard of cruelties. In
far away France, Cardinal Richelieu, the French minister, had promised the
[Irish Catholic] conspirators a considerable supply of men and
money. In one stroke,
Catholics rose up against their peaceful and unsuspecting Protestant
neighbors, and spared no age, no sex, nor condition.
Led on and declared by their fanatical priestly leaders, that no
Protestant should be suffered to live any longer among them, adding that
it was no more sin to kill a Protestant than to kill a dog, and that the
relieving or protecting them was a crime of the most unpardonable nature.
The onslaught raged on, and when it had run its course, one
hundred and fifty thousand Protestants
lay mutilated, butchered, and dead. …For
the unbiased researcher, history reeks of the butchery of Romanism,
where whole cities and populations were unmercifully wiped out,
just because they worshipped God in a manner that was different from Roman
Catholicism.” Why isn’t this history taught to American school children? Who benefits by this history being kept from the American people, and who is so powerful in this country that they have, for the most part, been able to keep this history from the majority of the American people? ((For additional
information on this topic, please read my TTT #72, entitled “Death by
Government and Death by Church”, on Internet web sites: www.tacklingthetoughtopics.net
and www.calltodecision.com.)) F. Seeds Sown for the
Destruction of the American Constitutional Republic (Secret Meetings at
Vienna, Verona, and Chieri)
Here are a few quotes by author Bill Hughes concerning these secret
meetings in Europe in the 19th century:
“[American Secretary of the Navy R.W.] Thompson
pinpointed exactly who would be the agents used by the monarchs of Europe
to destroy the republic of America, namely, the Jesuits
of Rome! Since 1815 there has
been a continual assault on America by the Jesuits to try to destroy the constitutional rights of this great nation.
The famous inventor of the Morse code, Samuel B. Morse, also wrote
of this sinister plot [of
the Jesuits] against the United States.”
Bill Hughes (Author of The Secret Terrorists and The
Enemy Unmasked)
“These three meetings, at Vienna, [Austria
in 1814-15,] Verona, [Italy in 1822,] and Chieri, [Italy in
1825] were held with as much secrecy as possible.
However, one man attended the first two meetings that would not be
silenced. British foreign
minister George Canning contacted the U.S. government to warn them
that the monarchs of Europe [Ed. Note: with the encouragement and
support of the Papacy and its Jesuits]
were planning to destroy
the free institutions of America.”
– Bill Hughes
“During this Congress [of
Verona, Italy in 1822], it was decided that America would be the target
of Jesuit emissaries
and that America was to be destroyed at all costs.
Every principle of the [U.S.]
Constitution was to be dissolved and new Jesuitical
principles were to be put into place in order to exalt the Papacy
to dominion in America.”
– Bill Hughes ((Ed. Note: For more information about these three secret European
meetings, please read Bill Hughes’ book The Secret Terrorists
– see Section IV. 3.))
One would think that plans made for the destruction of our
American Constitutional Republic would be important enough to include in
our American history books. Why isn’t this history taught to American school children? Who benefits by this history being kept from the American people, and who is so powerful in this country that they have, for the most part, been able to keep this history from the majority of the American people? G. The American Civil War [1861-65] and the Assassination of President
Lincoln
Here are a few quotations that deal with the American Civil War of
1861-65, and with the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln: “This [American Civil] war [of 1861-1865] would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits. We owe it to popery that we now see our land reddened with the blood of her noblest sons.” – Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865; 16th President of the United States)
“Despite a declared neutrality
[during the American Civil War of 1861-65], the ‘Holy See’ [i.e.,
the Papacy]
was secretly aiding and abetting the Confederacy in the hope of dividing
Christian America.
The degree to which the Vatican could affect [President]
Lincoln’s war measures was astounding.
[Roman] Catholic citizens in the north aligned with their
southern brethren by voting Democratic, dodging or defending slavery and
by opposing Lincoln on all fronts. Irish
[Roman Catholic] federals [i.e., federal troops] deserted
in droves after learning that their ‘Holy Father’, Pope Pius IX, had
dispatched an official communiqué of support to [Confederate
President] Jefferson Davis, addressing him as ‘Illustrious and
Honorable President of the Confederate States of America’.
When the retreating forces from [Confederate General] Lee’s
debacle at Gettysburg [Pennsylvania in July 1863] should have been
crushed on the banks of the swollen Potomac [River], Lincoln’s [Roman]
Catholic [Union Army] commander, General George Meade,
‘conveniently’ diverted a third of his army to securing New York City
during the infamous ‘Draft Riots’, perpetrated by the rampaging
parishioners of [Roman Catholic] Archbishop [John] Hughes.”
Dr. William P. Grady ((Ed. Comment: It was quite apparent that Union General Meade allowed General Lee’s defeated army to escape, thus prolonging this
bloody war and the carnage that continued for almost two more years.))
“It would seem that the Jesuits
had had it in mind, from the beginning of the war [the American Civil
War of 1861-1865], to find an
occasion for the taking off [i.e., the assassination] of
Mr. [Abraham] Lincoln.”
– Thomas M. Harris (U.S. Army Brigadier General; Author of the
book Rome’s Responsibility for
the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln)
“These facts, as developed
on the trial of the conspirators before a military commission, and on the
trial of John H. Surratt two years later
[in 1867], before a civil
court…show conclusively the hand of Rome in this stab [i.e.,
the assassination of President Lincoln] at
our nation’s life.” –
Brigadier General Thomas M. Harris
“Right after [President]
Lincoln’s death [via an assassin’s bullet], John [Harrison]
Surratt, who was part of the assassination conspiracy, fled [Ed.
Note: with the help of Roman Catholic priests] to Montreal [in
Canada]. From Montreal [Ed.
Note: again with the help of Roman Catholic clergy] he was taken to
Liverpool, England and then to Rome.
When a United States official finally caught up with him, he was
found in the Pope’s personal army [i.e., the Pope’s Zouave
bodyguard unit]. A
conspirator in the assassination of [U.S. President] Abraham
Lincoln was a member of the Pope’s personal army!”
Bill Hughes (Author of the books The Secret Terrorists
and The Enemy Unmasked)
Why isn’t this history taught to American school
children? Who
benefits by this history being kept from the American people, and who
is so powerful in this country that they have, for the most part, been
able to keep this history from the majority of the American people? ((For additional information on this topic, please read my TTT #60, entitled “The Civil War and Abraham Lincoln: American History – Part II”, on web sites: www.tacklingthetoughtopics.net and www.calltodecision.com.)) H. The Vatican’s
Hatred of Religious Liberty and the U.S. Constitution in Her Own Words and
in the Words of Others
“The unrestrained freedom of thinking and of openly
making known one’s thoughts is not
inherent in the rights of citizens and is by no means
worthy of favor and support.”
Pope Gregory XVI “These false and perverse opinions [of democracy and individual freedom] are so much the more detestable, by as much as they…hinder and banish that salutary influence which the [Roman] Catholic Church, by the institution and command of her Divine Author, ought freely to exercise, even to the consummation of the world, not only over individual men, but [over] nations, [over] peoples, and [over] sovereigns.” (Quanta Cura; December 8, 1864) ((This quotation was taken from page 120 of the book A Woman Rides the Beast by Dave Hunt.))
Pope Pius IX (1792-1878; pope: 1846-1878) “The
State has not the right to leave every man free to
embrace whatever religion he should deem true. …The
[Roman Catholic] Church has the right to require that the
Catholic religion shall be the religion of the State, to the exclusion
of all others. …Cursed be those who assert liberty of conscience and of worship and such that maintain that the [Roman Catholic] Church may not employ force.”
The Syllabus of Pope Pius IX (December 1864) “No man ha |