Things They Don't Tell You About Christianity - Summary

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Things They Don't Tell You about Christianity - Summ…

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Things They Don't Tell You about Christianity History Ancient Greece and Rome The early fathers of the Church hated Greek civilisation and civilisation and sought its destruction: The philobarbarian attitude of Saint of Saint John John Chrysostom [3rd-4 [ 3rd-4th th century]: "The more a nation looks barbaric and is estranged from Greek culture, the more our teachings shine - this (faithful) barbarian has conquered the entire world and while all Greek culture is extinguished and destroyed, his (the barbarian's) shines brighter every day". [ Link Link]]

All over the empire, mobs of Christian monks went about destroying the destroying the many Greco-Roman works of art, libraries of antiquity, and pre-Christian temples: The Greek called them "swinish black-cloths", because "they looked like men but lived like pigs". A contemporary writer tells us "armed with clubs or stones and swords they ran to the temples, some without these weapons only with their bare hands and feet" -- (Libanios "Pro temples" 389 AD) As soon as they had destroyed one temple, they dashed away to the next. They toppled over walls, smashed idols, statues and art-objects and altars, and stole the temples wealth for themselves. [Link [ Link]] From the time of Constantine Constantine,, Rome's first Christian emperor: Hellene leness (ancient Greeks) were persecuted and their civilisation destroyed. The Greeks were from 314 CE all the way to 988 CE , the Hel exterminated if they would not convert 359 CE - In Skythopolis, Syria, Christians organise the first death camps for the torture and execution of arrested Gentiles [adherents of pre-Chri pre-Christ stiian reli religions] ons] from from all all aroun around the the Em Empire. pire.

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... 385 to 388 - Maternus Cynegius, encouraged by his fanatic wife, and bishop, "Saint" Marcellus with his gangs scour the countryside, sack and destroy hundreds of Hellenic Temples, shrines and altars. Amongst others they destroy the Temple of Edessa, the Cabeireion of Imbros, the Temple of Zeus in Apamea, the Temple of Apollo in Dydima and all the Temples of Palmyra. Thousands of innocent Gentiles from all sides of the Empire suffer martyrdom in the notorious death camps of Skythopolis. ... 950 to 988 - Violent conversion of the last Gentile Hellenes of Laconia by the Armenian "Saint" Nikon. [Link Link]] The oldest and most renowned Churches are actually built on sites which previously had pre-Christian temples on temples on them - which Christians had demolished. This happened all over the Roman Empire, to Syria in the East and North Africa and Palestine in the South. And: The cave of the Vatican belonged to Mithra until 376 A.D., when a city prefect suppressed the cult of the rival Savior and seized the shrine in the name of Christ, on the very birthday of the pagan god, December 25. -- Barbara G. Walker Until Constantine's time, the most favourable estimate (which many scholars consider too optimistic) of the Christian population population in the entire empire was no more than 5%. About 2/3 of these were in Armenia, and much of the remainder in Syria and Asia minor. According to Roman sources, the Christians ...in Rome ...were considered a small, uneducated group of religious troublemakers from the lowest social classes, operating in the shadowy sides of society. [Link [ Link]] The educated Romans disliked the religion. religion. Some of them wrote books refuting Christianity, like the Epicurean Kelsos in his Alethes Logos, the Christianon, and Porphyry's Agains Againstt the Christi Christians ans. The Church, unable to sufficiently counter their welllast pagan emperor Julian in his Kata Christianon reasoned arguments (which it occasionally attempted), "won" the debate by destroying these works when it finally got into power. Even so, some scanty ancient literature against Christianity remains, pieced together from the unsuccessful attempts at responding by Christian Church fathers.

The ancient Romans: persecutors or persecuted? Facts

No Chri Christian stian was put put to to death death in the the Coli Coliseum seum All stories of Christians being exposed to lions in the Roman Amphitheater are bogus. -- Joseph McCabe, historian and former Franciscan monk

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3rd century St. Cyprian's letters to the pope describe how a large part of his clergy and bishops were unmitigated scoundrels: fornication, murder, embezzlement, and all the rest of it . -- How Christianity Grew Out of Paganism, by Joseph McCabe St. Jerome was convinced that Christian men and women, including priests and nuns, could not be trusted. According to him the only women of virtue to be s een on the streets of Rome were not Christians but pagans . All the early bishops from all over the empire - St Augustine, Bishop Optatus, St. John Chrysostom, St. Gregory of Nyssa, Saint Hippolytus and others - insisted that their congregation of Christians were highly immoral and corrupt.

Why and how did the pagans of the empire convert?

The ... undisputed fact is that there was no "attraction" of the pagans at all. In the extant Theodosian Code we have ten decrees which the bishops got from the emperors suppressing all rival religions and sects under pain of fine, imprisonment, or death. -- How Christianity Grew Out of Paganism, by Joseph McCabe Beginning with Constantine, and under succeeding "Christian" emperors, there is a series of scores of laws which the Christians procured to be enacted for the suppression and persecution to death of Pagans, heretics and Jews . These laws and edicts are to be found in the Codes of Theodosius and of Justinian , the two famous codifleations of Roman Law. -- Forgery in Christianity, by Joseph Wheless See details The conversion of the ancient Greeks and Romans was achieved through violence and systematic destruction of the Greco-Roman civilisations

Christianity improved Rome? Slavery Professor Dill comes close to the facts when he says that "the slave class of antiquity really corresponded to our free labouring class." It will not do, therefore, to identify Pagan with Christian slavery. -- Christianity, Slavery and Labour, by Chapman Cohen By the first century the Stoics openly condemned slavery. Other Greek moralists besides the Stoics condemned it. -- The Story Of Religious Controversy, by historian Joseph McCabe Such was their influence that in still-pagan Rome: the "manumission" of slaves -- the grant or sale of freedom to them -- was a daily occurrence.

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The illiteracy of Europe had increased to more than ninety-nine percent. -- The Story Of Religious Controversy, by Joseph McCabe Facts about "monks preserving knowledge"

Where the monks did spend any part of their time in "the writing room," they were, naturally, copying the Fathers of the Church and later Christian literature. -- The Story Of Religious Controversy, by Joseph McCabe Most of the ancient writings had been burnt on purpose, either along with the ancient libraries or in the Medieval auto-da-fes . A few were preserved wholly by accident when monks, desperate for papyrus which was expensive, collected old manuscripts and overwrote them. Among them: Parts of the Iliad and the 'Elements' of Euclid were covered by monkish treatises. -- Forgery in Christianity, by Joseph Wheless Ancient works were never willingly preserved: As for "monks constantly occupied in copying the classic texts," for the preservation and diffusion of Pagan culture, it is a joke! They couldn't read Greek nor good Latin, and nobody else could read at all, -- also, Holy Church and Churchmen loathed Pagan culture and literature. -- Forgery in Christianity, by Joseph Wheless Read more about the ignorant Dark Ages brought on by Christianity

More Christian fictions about Rome Blaming the northeners for the fall of Rome Medical Science and Unions Gladiatorial Games Roman versus Christian morality

Converting the rest of Europe to the True Faith It is estimated that Europe was Christianised at a cost of about 8 to 10 million lives. [Link]

804 CE. The last heathen resistance in Saxony is put down. In thirty years of genocide, from 774 to 804, two thirds of the Saxons have been killed. [Link] Sami people [the indigenous people of Scandinavia] were converted to Christianity by force and shamanic practices were forbidden. [ Link]

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Pelagianists, the Priscillianists in Spain, and the Manichaeans in the whole Roman empire, were persecuted - mostly to extinction. Read more about the early Christian sects victimised for heresy, and how murder and threats ("divine inspiration") during the early Church Councils determined the orthodox Christian doctrines of today.

Crusades Besides the infamous Children's Crusade, and those against the Jews and Moslems and Eastern Orthodox Church, there were also: Crusades to convert-or-kill the pagans of Eastern-Europe and the Balkans:

among such pagans were the Obotrites, Pomeranians, Wiltzi, Serbs, Letts, Livonians, Finns, and Prussians. -- Forgery in Christianity, by Joseph Wheless The Baltic (original) Prussians were completely exterminated in a mass genocide, as were the Stedingers of Germany. Heathen Lithuania also faced routine genocides of its population by Christians, and in the end lost out: Crusades were undertaken against Livonia, Courland, Esthonia, and Prussia. In Lithuania Christianity did not win until 1368. ... In Hungary, during the tenth and eleventh centuries, "the new religion was spread by the sword. ..." -- Forgery in Christianity, by Joseph Wheless Crusades to exterminate heretical Christian sects:

The Catharan, Albigensian heretics: in the Albigensian Crusade half of France was exterminated. By the end of the 13th century one million of the French heretics had been mass acred. [Link] In 1487, Pope Innocent VIII called for a Crusade against the French Waldensians, who had already been declared heretics in the 1184 Council of Verona. They were hounded and killed until the 17th century. [ Link] See more on the Crusades

Inquisitions and witch hunts Then there were the three Inquisitions: the first was against heretics and witches mainly; 95% of the victims of the Second (Spanish) Inquisition were Jews; and the Third Inquisition went after Protestants and other heretics as well as witches again. At the start of the First Inquistion, the victims were only burnt to death. But: Torture of suspects was authorized by Pope Innocent IV in 1252, and thus inquisition chambers were turned into places of abject horror.

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...Torture was not finally removed as a legal option for church officials until 1917 when the Codex Juris Canonici was put into effect. [Link] Inquisitors were placed entirely above the law by Pope Innocent IV's bull Ad extirpanda. Most of the torturing was performed by members of the Dominican order, whilst many other inquisitors and torturers were monks of the Franciscan order. The inquisitors and the Holy Church became filthy rich from the assets of their victims. The edicts that established the Inquisition have never been repealed. They are "officially still part of the Catholic faith, and were used as justification for certain practices as recently as 1969." [Link, see also here for more on this] Historian Will Durant, in his History of Civilisation puts the number of fatalities of the witch hunts between 7 and 9 millions . Entire villages and towns were depopulated of their women-folk. For 5 centuries throughout Europe, both the Protestant and Catholic Churches went after "witches", especially those referred to as "good witches": Even relatively permissive England killed 30,000 witches between 1542 and 1736. [ Link] More on the inquisitions and witch hunts

Reformation Facts

The Thirty Year War (1618-48) between the Protestants and Catholics, led to the deaths of more than a quarter of Europe's population. -- Ed Babinsky In Germany alone, the war resulted in an estimated drop of its population from 18 million to 4 million. [ Link] In Bohemia, its 30,000 villages were reduced to 6,000 and its 3 million citizens slaughtered down to 780,000. -- Joseph McCabe In the Netherlands, Catholic Spain murdered more than a 100,000 men and women. -- Joseph McCabe During the many Huguenot wars ravaging France, Huguenot soldiers hunted [Catholic] priests like animals and one captain is reported to have worn a necklace of priests' ears. [Link] The Catholics butchered 30,000 Huguenots in one day: the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre . There was also utter intolerance and mutual persecution between the numerous Protestant sects that had sprung up all over the continent. More on the Reformation, its intolerance and the Reformers

Women

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Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God. -- Saint Augustine (354-430) "Wife: Be content to be insignificant. What loss would it be to God or man had you never been born." -- John Wesley (1703-91), Reformer, founder of the Methodist movement More of what respected Christians have said about women, firmly basing their views on the Bible. The Biblical Curse of Eve was used by clergy to prevent physicians from administering anaesthetics to relieve pain during child birth. Fact 584 CE Council Of Macon: bishops gathered to vote on "Are women human?" By a narrow vote (of 1), women obtained human status in Christianity. Apparently, the decision was not final, as the question had to be reconsidered by the Protestants too:

Lutherans at Wittenberg debated whether women were really human beings at all. -- The Dark Side of Christianity, by Helen Ellerbe Equality in Christianity today: "A wife should submit herself to the leadership of her husband. Leadership in the church should always be male." -- Southern Baptist Convention (2000) [Link]

Children Since the birth-control policy of Christianity resulted in couples having many unwanted children, many of them were mistreated in the Middle Ages. In later times (like during the Industrial Revolution) they were still seen as just another mouth to feed and sent off to do gruelling work, even in mines, and were often kept illiterate. Besides hard labour, children of Christian families have also been subjected to severe mental abuse and have also suffered from physical abuse, as sanctioned by the Bible. Fact

Several Christian denominations have brought back child-beating to chastise their erring children. There are Christian sites selling rods for this purpose, as specified by the Bible.

Christianity in the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific

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Convert and kill in the Americas When in 1530 CE the Pope finally declared that the Indians were human, the pious Christians began converting the heathens: "The [Catholic] Spaniards in Mexico and Peru used to baptize Indian infants and then immediately dash their brains out; by this means they secured that these infants went to heaven." -- Bertrand Russell The Indian chief Hatuey fled with his people but was captured and burned alive. As "they were tying him to the stake a Franciscan friar urged him to take Jesus to his heart so that his soul might go to heaven, rather than descend into hell. Hatuey replied that if heaven was where the Christians went, he would rather go to hell." -- American Holocaust, by D. Stannard [Link]

The Inquisition remained active until 1834, especially in Central and South America, where "heathen" natives were tortured and burned for crimes against the true faith, such as, "not believing in it". [Link] Massacre of Sand Creek, Colorado 1864. Colonel John Chivington, a former Methodist minister and still elder in the church had a Cheyenne village of about 600, mostly women and children, gunned down despite the chiefs' waving with a white flag: 400-500 killed. -- American Holocaust, by D. Stannard [Link] Facts

Christianity in the Americas: 60 million Native Americans had been exterminated by the end of the 16th century itself. [Link] For instance, good Christians from Spain "hanged thirteen [natives] at a time in honor of Christ Our Saviour and the twelve Apostles ... then, straw was wrapped around their torn bodies and they were burned alive." -- American Holocaust, by D.Stannard [Link] Christians went around burning down libraries of the Indians of Central America, demolishing shrines and burning books Convert or die: 19th century Christian missionaries exterminated the Californian Indians in the most gruesome manner. More on the horrendous history of Christianity in the Americas

Africa: Christian slavery and colonialism Facts

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-- A Rationalist Encyclopaedia, Joseph McCabe

Find out who did and who (predictably) did not agitate for abolishing African slavery. Fact

During the brutal Christian colonisation of the Congo, which was defended by the Catholic Church, As many as 10 million Congolese are estimated to have died as a result of executions, unfamiliar diseases and hunger. -- Leopold reigns for a day in Kinshasa - The Guardian, February 4, 2005 This and much more on the history of Christianity in Africa

Christian colonisation of Asia Facts

In China , Japan, Thailand: Here Christians of the Catholic Church implemented forced conversions, persecuted the followers of Buddhism and other pre-Christian religions, and attempted political take-overs of these countries. Christian converts became traitors to their own government, like those of ancient Rome had been. Fortunately, the end result in each case was that these countries expelled the Christian missionaries and closed themselves off to foreign (Christian) relations entirely. In Vietnam the situation was much the same, except that it did not succeed in expelling the missionaries, for which it paid the price later. In India and Sri Lanka , Christians from Portugal destroyed hundreds of indigenous shrines and built Churches over them (as usual). Once again, they went about violently converting the local population and exterminating any of the Hindus and Buddhists who did not convert. In India, Saint Francis Xavier got the Inquisition started in Goa which terrorised, tortured and gruesomely murdered many of the pagans. Read the details on the ruthless Christian colonisation of Asia

The Pacific Fact

In thirty years of despicable missionary rule in Tahiti, only 6,000 of the indigenous people remained from an initial 200,000. [ Link, which cites The Missionaries, by Norman Lewis] The Protestant missionaries then carried out the same conversion/extermination campaign in the rest of the Pacific.

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Christians in Hawaii, had massacred most of the population: By the 1860s, "in Hawai'i the Reverend Rufus Anderson surveyed the carnage that by then had reduced those islands' native population by 90 percent or more , and he declined to see it as tragedy; the expected total die-off of the Hawaiian population was only natural, this missionary said, somewhat equivalent to 'the amputation of diseased members of the body'." -- American Holocaust, by D. Stannard [Link] More on Christian genocide in the Pacific

Missions and colonialism Teurer Segen - Christliche Mission und Kolonialismus by Gert von Paczensky ("Costly blessing - Christian mission and colonialism"), translation of the book summary and review at KirchenKritik: Missions were in league with colonialism, often even gruesomely so. They helped to destroy old cultures, to uproot people, to divide families and entire populations . They supported and approved of a system that let countless of millions in three continents be reduced to poverty , bringing them hunger and sickness. In the misdevelopment of Latin America, Africa and Asia - [which is] the major problem in the present - missionaries and Churches of all persuasions and confessions (denominations) were complicit .

Review from KirchenKritik: This work lacks neither facts, nor references nor information handed down from the time of mission-work and colonialism. It is established that the Church has to answer for the main share of the guilt of the impoverishment of the present 3rd world. Yes, one can even go so far and assert that without the Church everything would have turned out differently! In light of this book, the numerous speeches of Pope John Paul II in impoverished countries appear hypocritical and cynical. Moving historical literature at it's best. Parts of it are not for weak nerves.

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Anti-Semitism before Nazism The Jews are the most worthless of all men. They are perfidious murderers of Christ. The Jews are the odious assassins of Christ and for killing God there is no expiation possible, no indulgence or pardon. God always hated the Jews. It is incumbent upon all Christians to hate the

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Jews. -- Saint John Chrysostom, Church Father, 4th-5th century C.E. More of the highly anti-Semitic statements of the pious early fathers of the Church, Popes and Reformers. Facts

The centuries of Christian preaching against Jews was founded on the Bible - the New Testament in this case. Martin Luther's book On the Jews and their Lies inspired Nazis and Christian Churches in Nazi Germany. The Church invented most of the means of persecuting Jews which the Nazis later used All the early non-Jewish Christian sects, like the Marcionites, were anti-Semitic. As soon as the Greco-Roman empire was wrested from pagan hands, the Christians started persecuting the Jews. Christian Roman Emperor Justinian was the one

who legalized the burning and pillaging of Jewish synagogues by Christian bishops and monks (often canonized later). [Link] Then in the Middle Ages, a great many extermination campaigns were enacted by Christians. In the large scale pogroms of Orthodox Christian Russia and Ukraine, at least several hundreds of thousands of Jews were exterminated. "But we must never forget that the Jews have crucified our Master [Jesus] and have shed His precious blood." -- Czar Alexander III , affirming the eternal Christian doctrine (more recently, Mel Gibson did the same in his film The Passion of the Christ ) Fact

The Protocols of the (Learned) Elders of Zion, in which Jews supposedly conspired to bring down the western Christian nations, is a Russian forgery: If The Protocols appeared outlandish, it may have been because they were a Russian forgery plagiarized from a 1869 German novel which, itself, was plagiarized from a 1864 French political satire. [Link] The forger was Czarist agent Sergei Nilius whose work was designed to deflect the misery of Nicholas II's policies onto a scapegoat: the Jews of Russia. [ Link] This forgery is still used by many pious Christians as additional "proof" of why Jews are to be hated. More on anti-Semitism before Nazism

Roma (Gypsies)

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Pagan Origins Fact

Many sayings associated with [the pre-Christian deity] Osiris were taken over into the Bible. This included: 23rd Psalm: an appeal to Osiris as the good Shepherd to lead believers through the valley of the shadow of death and to green pastures and still waters Lord's Prayer: "O Amen, who art in heaven..."

[Link] "Love your neighbor as yourself" (Leviticus 19:18) originates from an Akkadian proverb. I am willing that any man should come before us and say, Jesus taught that you must love your enemies , it is written in the Bible; but, if he will open the old manuscript of Diogenes Laertus, he may there read in texts that have never been disputed, that the Greek philosophers, half a dozen of them, said the same before Jesus was born. -- Col. Thomas W. Higginson , cited in The Christ by John E. Remsberg The saying "To give is more blessed than to receive" [Acts 20:35] is actually an ancient Greek aphorism. [Link] More pre-Christian statements incorporated into Christian scripture

Pre-Judeo-Christian motifs in the Bible About the Holy Bible , by Robert G. Ingersoll states how the Creation stories in the Bible were "far older than the Pentateuch" and writes that in the Persian story of Creation:

God created the world in six days, a man called Adama, a woman called Evah, and then rested. The Etruscan, Babylonian, Phoenician, Chaldean and the Egyptian stories are much the same. The very name "Eden" is also originally a Sumerian name and simply means "plain/flat terrain". ... The story of how man was created from dirt (clay?) and brought to life through a breath of air through the nose as told in Gen 2,7, is a copy of the far older Sumerian creation myth. The Sumerian legend is preserved as a seven-tablet epos, Enuma Elish, "In the beginning". [Link] The biblical "And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." (Deut 19,21; Ex 21,23.25) is actually from [the laws of] Hammurabi. [Link]

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We know that this [Flood] story in Genesis was copied from the Chaldean . There you find all about the rain, the ark, the animals, the dove that was sent out three times, and the mountain on which the ark rested. -- About the Holy Bible, Robert G. Ingersoll Pre-Christian Zoroastrian and Buddhist elements in the New Testament

The principal demon (Ahriman) promised Zarathustra earthly power if he would forsake the worship of the supreme God. Ahriman, like Satan when tempting Jesus, failed. [Link] Paradise (both the word and concept are of Persian origin), the Lake of Fire , Seventh Heaven, Angels and Demons are all from Zoroastrianism. So is the tale of the Three Kings / Three Wise Men:

...the story of the Magi, who were said to have visited the newborn Jesus, resembles an earlier story of Magi who looked for a star foretelling the birth of a Savior, in this case Mithras . Magi were not kings but Zoroastrian astrologers... [Link] Buddha (500 BCE): Buddha and Jesus are both said to have walked over the water ( Jatakas 190; Matthew 14) Buddha feeds 500 people by miraculously multiplying the available food. According to the Gospel writers, Jesus feeds 5000 people in this manner ( Jatakas 78 ; Mark 14). Other elements in the Gospels which scholars admit were entirely from the pre-Christian religions of Zoroastrianism and Buddhism. Fact:

In their confusion, early Judeo-Christian sects merged the two totally different concepts of Messiah and Saoshyant together. Christ was neither. Zoroastrian Saoshyant (saviour): Zarathustra predicted the imminent arrival of a World Savior (Saoshyant), who would be born of a virgin and who would lead humanity in the final battle against Evil. Jewish Messianism grafted these conceptions onto their pre-existing expectations of a Davidic king who would redeem the Jewish nation from foreign oppression. -- Zoroastrianism: The Forgotten Source [Link] According to Persian Mithraism, Mithra, born of Anahita, was the prophesied Saoshyant. Not Jesus, who does not fit the bill. Jewish Mess iah: Jesus did not fulfill the messianic prophecies; Jesus did not embody the personal qualifications of the Messiah; Biblical verses "referring" to Jesus are mistranslations

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-- Summary from: "Why don't Jews believe in Jesus?"

Pre-Christian symbols in Christianity Facts

- The church did not adopt the cross until about the 6th century ( New Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 4, p. 475). - The Sixth Ecumenical Council ratified the use of the crucifix in 680 CE (Canon 82), and decreed that 'the figure of a man fastened to a cross be now adopted' . - Pope Hadrian I (772-795) confirmed this new logo of the Church. Greek stauros - a stake - was incorrectly translated as cross, and Early Christians usually depicted their religion with a fish symbol (ichthus), dove, or bread of the Eucharist, but never Christ on a cross (or on a stick). [Link] Images of the crucified Roman deity Bacchus were already common in early centuries The fish symbol (Ichthus) to signify Jesus was also of pre-Christian origin Of course, it is well-known that the Christmas tree is entirely pagan in origin too. See more Virgin Mary and child

It was the gnostic art that reproduced the Hathor-Meri and Horus of Egypt as the Virgin and child-Christ of Rome.... -- Gerald Massey, Egyptologist Irenaeus, 2nd century father of the Church, tells us that the MSS [manuscripts] of Matthew's gospel used ca. A.D. 185 by the Ebionites (the original Jewish Christians of Jerusalem) lacked the first two chapters - the chapters containing the imaginary genealogy of Jesus, the - virgin birth story, the wise men, and Herod's slaughter of the innocents. Small wonder that the earliest Christians did not believe the story about Mary and the angel! [ Link] There was no virgin birth in Mark's gospel, for the simple reason that, according to scholarly consensus, it hadn't been invented yet. -- Gospel Truth, by Bible scholar Russell Shorto There was no cult of the Virgin Mariam or Mary in the early centuries of the church -- Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics The 5th century Patriarch Nestorius and his followers did not accept the perpetual virginity of Mary. They insisted that Mary was only mother to

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the human portion of Christ, and denied that God had a mother. The Nestorians insisted she ought not to be worshipped as Mother of God. (- History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science, by John William Draper ) However, St Cyril (bishop of Egypt's Alexandria, where the Goddess Hator-Meri and her saviour son Horus had been worshipped before Christianity) got Nestorianism declared heresy at the Council of Ephesus and proclaimed the Virgin Mary as "mother of god." Since then it's been Church doctrine. The reverence for Mary as the Virgin Mother of God derives entirely from a pre-Christian practice.

Pre-Christian festivals, holy-days and t erms for God Facts

On 25 December, the Romans had long celebrated the birth of Roman deity Sol Invictus Mithras. Christians then took over this date: 4th century Bishop John Chrysostom writes: On this day also the Birthday of Christ was lately fixed at Rome [Link] Sunday was not made the "official" Sabbath day until around 364 CE, when

The Church Council of Laodicea ordered that religious observances were to be conducted on Sunday, not Saturday. Sunday became the new Sabbath. [Link] More: Easter, New Year's, The Epiphany and the observance of the Three Kings, Lent and St. Valentine's Day all stem from preChristian celebrations too, and were appropriated by Christianity in later times. Pre-Christian terms for God Chrestos, not Christos , was used by the early Christians. It had been a common designation for pagan deities:

According to Realencyclopaedie , the inscription Chrestos is to be seen on a Mithras relief in the Vatican. According to Christianity and Mythology , Osiris, the Sun-deity of Egypt, was reverenced as Chrestos. In the Synagogue of the Marcionites [an early Gnostic Christian sect] on Mount Hermon, built in the third century A.D., the Messiah's title is spelled Chrestos. According to [3rd and 4th century Christians] Tertullian and Lactantius, the common people usually called Christ Chrestos. [ Link] The most ancient dated Christian inscription (Oct. 1, 318 A.D.) runs "The Lord and Saviour Jesus the Good"— Chrestos, not Christos. This was the legend over the door of a Marcionite Church, and the Marcionites were Anti-Jewish Gnostics [Gnostic Christians], and did not confound their Chrestos with the Jewish Christos (Messiah). -- Did Jesus Live 100 B.C.? by G. R. S. Mead

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Christ. Some of today's Christian apologists, unable to implicate the devil in their "scholarship", try to argue that the pre-Christian religions copied their saviours from Christ, aiming to convince any ignorant people. In doing so, they go against all the evidence as well as the eye-witness accounts of the early Church Fathers who had to admit that the pagan saviour religions were pre-Christian.

Read about the flawed Christian apologetics from both the past and the present More on the pre-Christian origins of:

words, statements, myths and narratives incorporated into the Bible symbolism, festivals and terms for God, now wrongly thought of as Christian rituals like Baptism and Eucharist, now considered Christian the saviour concept: pre-Christian saviours, and the flawed Christian apologetics related to this

Myth How much we have profited by the legend of Christ -- Pope Leo X Facts

No Nazareth anywhere near the 1st century: ...archaeological excavations at present-day Nazareth -- ...carried out by Franciscan monks and priests... -- have failed to show the remains of a single building credibly datable to the first century B.C.E. or the first century C.E. The oldest buildings found seem to date from the last half of the third century, and there is no information to indicate what the inhabitants of those buildings called their village. Before the second or third century C.E. -- going back to the Middle Bronze Age -- the site now occupied by Nazareth was a necropolis , a city of the dead. [Link] Other places mentioned in the New Testament that did not exist at the time Jesus was said to have lived About the alleged Roman Census during Quirinius in Luke : Herod died in the year 4 BCE. So Jesus could hardly have been born both in the reign of Herod and at the time of the Census of Quirinius in 6-7 CE [Link] Quirinius' census was of Judaea, not Galilee, and Herod never ordered a slaughter of infants [ Link]

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-- The Jesus Puzzle, by Earl Doherty (Journal of Higher Criticism) [Link]

Further details and more on the non-historicity of Jesus

Early Christianity The letters of John are not written by John the apostle. All the "Catholic letters" (I Peter, II Peter, I-III John, Jude) are also forgeries. And six of the thirteen letters of St. Paul are not by him. Even his "real" letters were later heavily edited by the Church. Among the later added parts, not in the original Gospel texts: The sermon on the Mount, The story of Jesus' birth (Luke 2:1-21) and the stories of Jesus' resurrection! [Link] About the Trinitarian proof-text (verse 1 John 5:7 ): It is now known that the verse was a fourth-century Spanish invention, finally appearing in MSS [manuscripts] of the Latin Vulgate (the official Bible of the Roman Catholic Church) around the year 800. [Link] ... the second half of the last chapter of Mark, from the ninth to the twentieth verses, does not exist in the oldest manuscripts, while some manuscripts give a different ending altogether. -- Crimes of Christianity, by G W Foote and J M Wheeler The 9th to 20th verses which are missing in the oldest manuscripts of Mark (and Mark is the oldest of the four Gospels ), concern the alleged post-resurrection appearances of Jesus. Which books?

Different Church fathers considered different books canonical whilst rejecting others. The Christian canon was changed during several Councils of the Church. Among the Protestant "reformers," opinions differing greatly from those held by Protestants today were common. [ Link] And finally, the Roman Catholic Church in the council of Trent , and the Greek Church in the council of Constantinople , decided once for all what the list should be for their adherents; and the Westminster Assembly gave the English-speaking Protestants their catalogue. -- A Short History of the Bible, by Bronson C. Keeler Early Christian Bibles, Gospels and other Scriptures

Of the books used in Christian Churches, and mentioned by name in the writings of the Christian Fathers of the Church during the first four centuries, at least seventy have entirely disappeared . ... many other Gospels which were once in common use , but which were subsequently considered to be unorthodox, have disappeared.

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... Two epistles and a hymn attributed to Jesus himself have disappeared. ... many other books which once ranked as equal to the books of our New Testament, have also ceased to exist. -- Shaken Creeds - The Virgin Birth Doctrine, by Jocelyn Rhys Facts

Other Gospels have a totally different story of Jesus, some have no resurrection for instance. And in The First Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ : As a boy, Jesus was playing on a river bank on the Sabbath. Another boy came along and saw young Jesus making fish pools and became righteously indignant over Jesus' breaking of the Sabbath laws. The boy set about destroying the pools, whereupon Jesus struck him dead. In the same chapter, Jesus struck another boy dead for bumping into him while running in the street (I Infancy 19). [Link] Different early Christian sects had different sets of books in their Bibles. No saving or resurrected Jesus in the Q Source: The Synoptic Sayings Source [Q source] was written, and presumably passed around, during the generation or two after Jesus died and before the gospels were written . ... the Synoptics Sayings Source never mentions Jesus' death and resurrection, or Jesus bringing salvation. [Link] A Short History of the Bible by Bronson C. Keeler states:

Many Gospels, Epistles and Revelations, not now in use, were read in the churches in the early centuries. ... the Fathers [of the Early Church] instituted the theory that certain books were inspired . ... They declared many books to be inspired which we do not think to be; and they ignored and rejected many books which have since been invested with divine honors. The Bible did not form the beliefs. The beliefs formed the Bible. Our four Gospels were selected by the Church, which pronounced them the true Word of God. The Church guarantees the books, but who will guarantee the Church? -- Crimes of Christianity, by G W Foote and J M Wheeler Early Christian sects and their beliefs

Jesus' earliest followers ...did not know stories about His death and resurrection. [Link] Jesus' Jewish followers in Jerusalem, the Ebionites , did not believe in Jesus' virgin birth, his divinity, nor in his saving resurrection either. The authentic Ebionites of today still don't believe in these things.

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The Gnostic Christians , who developed in the first century, who were the first Christians in Egypt and elsewhere, believed Jesus brought salvation by bringing sacred wisdom, not by dying on the cross. [Link] Fact

For hundreds of years everyone assumed that the earliest Christians were orthodox New Testament Roman Christians, and "heretical" Christianities — like Gnosticism and Marcionism — developed later... Then in the 1930s ...Walter Bauer decided to actually look at the evidence: the "heresies" weren't branches off any trunk, they were the original local Christianities . And they weren't small marginal sects, they were the main local Christianities. all around the Mediterranean, outside Rome, the orthodox New Testament Roman Christianity was a secondary sect , a sect that became dominant only after the conversion of Constantine gave it the advantage of Roman swords. [Link] Gnostic Christianity developed from pre-Christian Gnosticism. Mandaeism is another pre-Christian religion of the region; Mandeans are followers of John the Baptist .

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Canonical Gospels, Acts and the Pauline Epistles Facts Acts ... is a tendentious creation of the second century ... Many scholars now admit that much of Acts is sheer fabrication [Link] All the Gospels derive their basic story of Jesus of Nazareth from a single source: whoever produced the first version of Mark . That Matthew and Luke are reworkings of Mark with extra, mostly teaching, material added is now an almost universal scholarly conclusion, while many also consider that John has drawn his framework for Jesus’ ministry and death from a Synoptic source as well. [Link] ... except for a thing called "P52," a tiny mid-second century fragment maybe from John, there are no gospel manuscript fragments till about 200 AD [Link] What's more, the Apostolic Fathers ...like Clement, Polycarp and Ignatius were Christians alive in the late first and early second century. ...they do not quote, or even mention, the gospels . In fact, no Christian quotes or mentions our modern gospels until the middle of the second century AD. [Link] In other words, there is no evidence our modern picked-by-Catholic-priests-in-the-fourth-century gospels existed before 150 AD

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[Link] Unnamed Gospel manuscripts

The names Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were not added to the Gospels until late in the second century. Thus, although Papias ca. 140 CE knows all the gospels but has only heard of Matthew and Mark, Justin Martyr (ca. 150 CE) knows of none of the four supposed authors. It is only in 180 CE, with Irenæus of Lyons, that we learn who wrote the four "canonical" gospels, and why:

"There are four principle winds, four pillars that hold up the sky, and four corners of the universe; therefore, it is only right that there be four gospels." -- Church father Irenaeus [Link] More about Papias: Papias said that of the four gospelers, only Matthew knew Jesus — yet Matthew copies extensively from Mark, who never met Jesus. [ Link] Papias referred in some letters ... to St. Mark's "Memoirs of Jesus," which Papias stated were derived from St. Peter, and to some "Sayings of Jesus" written by St. Matthew ... Papias was Bishop of Hierapolis, and none of his writings survive except in the form of alleged quotations made by Eusebius about 150 years later. -- Shaken Creeds, by Jocelyn Rhys Suppose Papias is referring to our present Gospel of Mark; what testimony have we to the authenticity of Jesus' words as contained in it? Just this: Eusebius says that Papias said that John the Presbyter said that Mark said that Peter said that Jesus said thus and so. That is the historical lineage of the authenticity of the Gospel of Mark. When the reader has that, he has it all. He knows as much of it as the best theologian does, and is just as competent to decide whether or not it is to be credited. -- A Short History of the Bible, by Bronson C. Keeler Eusebius of Caesarea - how trustworthy is he? He [Eusebius of Caesarea] tells us that his chief business as a writer is to "edify"; which means, to advertise the Church. So modern historians are discreetly reticent about the zealous and courtly bishop. I will, as usual, supply the word which they leave unspoken. Eusebius was a liar . -- The Story of Religious Controversy, by Joseph McCabe, historian and former Franciscan monk

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The Four Gospels: not eye-witness accounts

the gospels of Matthew and Luke could not possibly have been written by an eye-witness of the tales they tell. Both writers plagiarize (largely word-for-word) up to 90% of the gospel of Mark Mark the oldest surviving Gospel: [Whoever wrote] Mark was a non-Palestinian non-disciple , which would make his story mere hearsay The alleged postresurrection appearances reported in the last twelve verses of Mark are not found in the earliest manuscripts , even though they are still printed in most modern bibles as though they were an "authentic" part of Mark's gospel. ...there is evidence that the Gospel of John, like Matthew and Luke, also is a composite document, incorporating an earlier " Signs Gospel " of uncertain antiquity. ...the very chapter that asserts the author of the book to have been "the disciple whom Jesus loved" [John 21:20] was a late addition to the gospel. Matthew and Luke contradict each other in such critical details as the genealogy of Jesus The most critical need was for a genealogy proving that Jesus was of the lineage of David, since it was widely believed that the Messiah would be a descendent of the lascivious king. So the genealogies were the first additions to be forged and added to the Markan account. [Link] The Pauline Epistles

These are the letters attributed to Paul/St Saul Facts

St. Saul's testimony can be ignored quite safely, if what he tells us is true, namely, that he never met Jesus "in the flesh" it turns out that only four [of the 13 letters attributed to Paul] can be shown to be substantially by the same author, putatively Saul . Even the letters supposed to contain authentic writings of Saul/Paul have been shown by a number of scholars to be as composite as the gospels. ... the core Pauline material in these letters is what might be termed a pre-Christian Gnostic product. The Pauline Epistles do not know the life of Jesus described in the Gospels [Link] The Falsified Paul: Early Christianity in the Twilight by Hermann Detering (NT scholarship of the Radikal Kritik school):

This book shows that all the Pauline letters are all 2nd-Century fabrications , Catholically redacted from Marcionite gnostic dualist-god original versions.

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More on More on the Canonical Gospels and the Pauline Epistles

The Apostles [Link]] The twelve disciples were a late addition to the Christ myth [Link Facts

Even though both Matthew and Luke are known to have copied the narrative framework of Mark’s gospel, it is interesting to note that their lists of disciples (or apostles) do not match Mark’s exactly. the Twelve clearly serve a zodiacal function in the gospels, and the sun-god nature of Jesus The solarity of Jesus and the zodiacal nature of the Twelve is further underscored by the fact that the latter are related to the mythical Twelve Tribes of Israel It has long been known that the tribes are themselves zodiacal symbols, part of the solar development of the Yahweh cult that took place centuries before the turn of the era. The disciples both represent the twelve tribes and judge them. [Link Link]] Late martyrdom fictions for fictional Twelve

the Twelve Apostles belong to the realm of mythology, and their alleged martyrdoms are pure inventions. In the significant words of the eminent Dutch theologians, Dr. Kuenen, Dr. Oort and Dr. Hooykaas, "All the Apostles disappear without a trace." -- The Christ, by John E. Remsberg

In the time of Tertullian and Clemens of Alexandria [late 2nd - early 3rd centuries] the glory of martyrdom was confined to St Peter, St Paul and St James. It was gradually bestowed on the rest of the apostles by the more recent Greeks, who prudently selected for the theatre of their preaching and sufferings some remote country beyond the limits of the Roman empire -- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon [Link [Link]] the martyrdom of Peter is generally rejected, and is not claimed until about 170 [the year 170 CE] -- The Story of Religious Controversy, by Joseph McCabe The Legend of Saint Peter by Arthur Drews (first version translated by Frank Zindler, available from American Atheists) Atheists) shows how since Peter is a myth and:

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the stories about him based on mere midrash, myth, dogmatism, and forgery, the alleged historical foundation of apostolic succession via St. Peter is nothing but a joke. [Link [Link]] Writing towards the end of the second century of our era, Irenaeus says that there existed then only four genuine graves of the Apostles, namely, those of Peter and Paul at Rome, that of John at Ephesus, and that of Thomas at Edessa in Mesopotamia. -- The Twelve Apostles, published by Thomas Scott Multiple death scenarios for many of the Apostles

Ecclesiastical traditions are much at variance with each other regarding the places where the Twelve Apostles died, or were put to death. Thus these traditions variously represent Peter to have been put to death at Rome and at Edessa, Philip at Athens and Scythia, Bartholomew at Cyprus and at Milan, Judas, the brother of James, in Phoenicia and in Persia, Simon Zelotes in Egypt and in Mauritania, Andrew in Scythia and at Patrae in Achaia, Matthew in Ethiopia and in Persia, Thomas in Edessa, Scythia, and India. According to Matthew (xxvii. 5) Judas Iscariot hanged himself, but according to the writer of the Acts (i. 6) Judas fell headlong, and his bowels gushed out.

In reading these stories, any reader who knows that inversion of a story into its opposite is a characteristic of legendary history, must be struck by the numerous instances where the place where the death of one and the same apostle occurred is inverted north and south, east and west, V.C., V.C ., Rome Rome and Edessa - -Scyth -S cythiia and a nd India India --Eth -- Ethiiopia and Persia! -- The Twelve Apostles, published by Thomas Scott, 1870 More on More on the fictive Apostles. Further details on details on their fictional multiple-martyrdoms

Biblical Scholarship: NT and OT Fact The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts by Neil Asher Silberman and

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Israel Finkelstein, who are authorities on the archaeology of early Palestine, discusses how archaeology has shown that there is no evidence for the existence of : Abraham and any of the Patriarchs Moses and the Exodus The period of Judges and the united monarchy of David and Solomon Not onl only hav have Adam Adam and and Ev Eve and th the flood flood stor story y passed over over to myt myth holog ology, y, but but we we can no no lon longer tal talk k about a tim time of th the patri patriarch archs. s. There There never was a 'United Monarchy' in history and it is meaningless to speak of pre-exilic prophets and their writings. ... the Bible's 'Israel' [is] a literary fiction ... We can now say with considerable confidence that the Bible is not a history of anyone's past . -- Thomas L. Thompson, Professor of Old Testament at the University of Copenhagen and one of the leading biblical archaeologists in the world on New Test Testam amen entt and Old Testament scholarship Testament scholarship M any more more readi re ading ng sugges sugge s tion tionss for books on New

Deception and falsification Facts 40 non-existent saints were removed from veneration by Pope Paul VI in 1969 , such as Christopher, Valentine, Anastasia and Barbara. (-- The Incredible Book of Vatican Facts and Papal Curiosities: A Treasury of Trivia, by Nino Lo Bello ) Thanks to the profitable Relic Industry of the Dark Ages:

Thousands of believers were deceived into purchasing expensive relics from [Pope] Gregory I, who claimed they belonged to saints – many of whom never existed! [Link [Link]] Further medieval relics included: Seven churches had Jesus authentic umbilical cord, and a number of churches had his foreskin (removed at circumcision and kept as a souvenir by Mary), six churches had the six heads cut off John the Baptist -- The Story Of Religious Controversy, by Joseph McCabe Constantine and the Isidorian Decretal Decreta ls. Papal forgeries for gaining power included the Donation of Constantine and Donation tion of Constantine C onstantine was a forgery, the 12th century English Pope Adrian IV really didn't own Ireland and therefore had no Since Since the Dona right to give it to England. [Link [ Link]] Today: Duplicated relics of St Peter at the Vatican: two skulls of St Peter, bones belonging to more than 2 legs and bones of domestic

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creation.

Details and links to more news articles on the fiasco to science and education that is Intelligent Design Other Christian frauds and deceptions

The Rapture: a recent Christian invention Tales of heretics who supposedly recanted on their deathbeds, like Charles Darwin, are Christian fictions Deceiving people about Luther and Mother Teresa Biased reporting in the press Christian terrorism Tsunami myths of miraculous, exclusive Christian survival - too good to be true Details on all these and more

Scripture August 2000, AFP [Associated Foreign Press] revealed two lawyers in Munich had written to German Family Minister Christine Bergmann asking her to officially class the Bible among books considered dangerous for children because of its violent content. Bavarian lawyers Christian Sailer and Gert-Joachim Hetzel said in their submission

"It preaches genocide, racism, enmity towards Jews, gruesome executions for adulterers and homosexuals, the murder of one's own children and many other perversities" See here Fact The Holy Bible - inerrant Word of God:

terrible atrocities and vile profanities full of errors, inconsistencies and absurdities Biblical personas: Patriarchs : murderers, rapists, adulterers and polygamists God in the Bible commands and carries out genocide, like

The angel of the Lord went forth and struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. Early the next

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morning they were there, all the corpses of the dead. -- Isaiah 37:36 NAB Jesus and his teachings: not the Prince of Peace

If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he can not be my disciple. -- Jesus (Luke 14:26 NAB) Christian ethics - the doctrine of Hell:

He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. -- John 3:17-18 The Doctrine of Infant Damnation extended Hell to infants who died unbaptised: St. Augustine affirmed this atrocity with all his vehemence; all the Fathers without exception dinned it eternally -- as yet today -- Forgery in Christianity, by Joseph Wheless Today's Christian doctrine on Hell is no better. "Ethical" God punishes the billions of unbelievers - of all time, including pre-Christian history - with eternal torture in Hell. Multiply the almost two millennia-long Christian violence by infinity to attempt to imagine this. You are my friends if you do what I command you. -- Jesus (John 15:14) Read up on counter-apologetics which thoroughly refute Christian apologetics Fact Vatican scholars prepare to rewrite the Bible - news from The Guardian, September 11, 2001

Denominations Saints To remove Hypatia from our collective memory the Church made up a new Saint: Catharine of Alexandria. ... For six hundred years, she had

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Croatian Eagles Pope Pius IX, an anti-semite who was also opposed to civil rights Mother Teresa, a fraud and worse

Details of these and other Saints. And the forgeries that created the legendary Saints

Catholicism Some early Popes were gay or bi-sexual and over a dozen were atheists. Others went beyond merely breaking Christian taboos, into the realm of vice. Countless early Popes were infamous for nepotism, simony and greed. Some were gluttons. Yet many Popes were downright criminals besides instituting Crusades, Inquisitions, witch hunts, pogroms and other persecutions and holding slaves: Facts

Some of the early Popes who committed: Murder: Sergius III, John XII, Benedict VIII, Benedict IX, Boniface VIII, Boniface IX, John XXIII, Alexander VI Paedophilia: Sergius III, Paul II, Julius II, Julius III, Leo X Rape and incest: John XII, John XXIII (the first - 1410-1415), Anacletus Rape: Benedict V, Benedict VIII, Boniface VIII Incest: Sixtus IV, Alexander VI, Paul III

Damasus I, Sixtus III, John XII, John XIII, John XXIII (the first - 1410-1415) were some of the many papal adulterers . Details from the lives of some of the infamous early Popes. Book suggestions, including:

Lives Of The Popes by Richard McBrien Sex lives of the Popes by Nigel Cawthorne The Incredible Book of Vatican Facts and Papal Curiosities: A Treasury of Trivia by Nino Lo Bello Vicars of Christ by Peter De Rosa

The Roman Church has never erred, nor will it err to all eternity. -- From the Dictatus of Pope Gregory VII (1073-1085) Since the Reformation the popes have been obliged to live more decently, or at least to conceal their vices instead of flaunting them before the

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world. -- Crimes of Christianity, by G W Foote and J M Wheeler Then in 1870, the pontiff came up with the doctrine of Papal Infallibility - to ensure that whatever the Pope might do, his flock will always have to think it's right. Recent Popes and the Vatican Facts

Meddling with the sovereignty of countries by using its influence on Catholic populations: Vatican abortion treaty brings down government - The Guardian, February 11, 2006: The Vatican has inadvertently triggered the collapse of the government in Slovakia, one of the economic stars of the 10 entrants to the EU, in a row over abortion rights. Telling Italy's Catholic population to oppose changes to harsh laws on fertility treatments, which has stirred controversy over the role of the Roman Catholic church in public life and put a question mark over the scientific future of Italy. -- Italians consider reform of harsh fertility law - The Guardian, June 11, 2005 The fertility law is seen by many as an attack on Italy's secular democracy by traditional Catholic-minded MPs. ...Medical experts and opposition politicians say it is a Catholic law that is "anti-women" and "morally disgusting". -- Italians force referendum on fertility law - The Guardian, October 1, 2004 New Pope condemns Spain gay bill - BBC News, 22 April, 2005: A senior Vatican official ... said Roman Catholic officials should be prepared to lose their jobs rather than co-operate with the law. ... the Church was making an urgent call for freedom of conscience for Roman Catholics and appealing to them to resist the law. The "freedom" to give up individual conscience and side with the Church. There's no inquisition to enforce the Holy Church's wishes now. New pope intervened against Kerry in US 2004 election campaign - Yahoo news, April 19, 2005 Ratzinger told his flock in the US to vote for born-again Bush rather than Catholic Kerry. This is reminiscent of how Pacelli (who'd become Hitler's Pope Pius XII) and Pope Pius XI had told the Catholics of Germany to dissolve the Center Party - Germany's parliamentary force and let Hitler have dictatorial powers. The Vatican (and all recent Popes) also

Protects abusive priests and criminalises the victims.

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Pope Benedict XVI faced claims last night he had 'obstructed justice' after it emerged he issued an order ensuring the church's investigations into child sex abuse claims be carried out in secret. -- Pope 'obstructed' sex abuse inquiry news from The Observer, April 24, 2005 Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope) under Pope John Paul II covered-up sexual abuse by high-profile priest Father Marcial Maciel: Maciel is the founder of the little-known but well-connected and well-financed Legion of Christ which has raised millions of dollars for the Church. -- Priestly Sin, Cover-Up - ABC news, April 26, 2002 Apparently, money and the Church's public image are more important than protecting children Attempts to whitewash Vatican support for Fascism and its complicity in the Holocaust Avoids responsibility for genocide in Rwanda and its colonial genocide in the Congo. Near-apologies do not cut it Supports inculturation of Catholics living in non-Catholic countries, like Orthodox countries, Africa and Asia Refuses to learn from its past: continues to support and sponsor anti-Semitism in Palestine, calls for a conversion of non-Christian Asia like Christianity perpetrated in the Americas and Africa Refuses to recognise that its stance on contraception and safe sex are vastly increasing the occurrence of fatal venereal diseases in Africa, Asia and elsewhere Details John Paul II

Saint factory: Pope John Paul II has beatified 805 people and canonized a record number of saints - 280 - during his papacy. [ Link] Quite of a number of those sainted are criminals, fascist war criminals, and frauds He did nothing useful to stop abuse of nuns by priests (who believed they were avoiding AIDS this way) Inadequate apologies for the Native American and African genocides inflicted by Christianity. His advertised apologies to Jews were in fact nonapologies. Not even inadequate or non-apologies for past crimes of the Church in Asian countries were given. Since they are not yet Christian nations they don't deserve any. Pretends concern for human rights whilst opposed to it, encourages superstitions, and cracked down on dissident Catholics Pope Benedict XVI (Ratzinger) Besides the other wrongs listed under Facts above, he has continued Catholic intolerance, offending Protestants, in his document

Dominus Jesus, in which he argued:

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"Only in the Catholic church is there eternal salvation". -- Papal hopeful is a former Hitler Youth - The Sunday Times, April 17, 2005 More on Catholicism and its central Popes

The Orthodox Church Problems in America: The head of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America has resigned ... He was accused of financial mismanagement, covering up sexual harassment at the Holy Cross Seminary in Brookline, Massachusetts, and demagoguery. -- Greek Orthodox archbishop resigns amid money questions - CNN August 19, 1999 Much greater scandals in Greece:

The Greek Orthodox Church suspended a senior bishop and an influential priest surrendered to police yesterday as corruption allegations involving bribery, drug dealing and sexual favours swamped the country's powerful clergy. -- Corruption scandal hits the Greek Church - Telegraph News, February 5, 2005 The revelations are mind-boggling. Almost daily, men once revered as paragons of virtue have been exposed as lascivious moneygrabbers. Recorded conversations of eminent clerics engaging in 'love talk' have been broadcast on television, secret bank accounts revealed, and malfeasance unearthed, with priests emerging as central players in activities as disparate as trial-fixing, antiquities smuggling and election rigging. Highlighting a raft of lurid sexual claims, one newspaper splashed what was purported to be a 91-year-old priest in bed with a woman across its front page. -- Greece in revolt as scandals sweep the Orthodox church - Guardian Unlimited, March 20, 2005

Orthodox Church versus Catholicism

After the Schism, the Crusade against Orthodoxy and sack of Constantinople, after the wartime genocide of the Orthodox Christian Serbs by Catholicism, and bearing in mind the Roman Church's eternal goal to convert the Orthodox east, the Greek Church was right to fear the Pope's visit: Pope Visits Greece Today on a Tough Mission of Reconciliation - New York Times, May 4, 2001: Orthodox priests and monks have held protest vigils and marched under signs that read "the heretic pope" and "two-horned monster of Rome." Archbishop Christodoulos, head of the Greek Orthodox Church, has vowed not to pray alongside the Roman Catholic pope, who arrives in Athens on Friday.

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...the most contentious issue for Orthodox believers are the Byzantine Catholics , who follow Eastern rites but are loyal to Rome. The Orthodox church views them as a kind of Trojan horse to convert Orthodox believers . ...inroads made by the Catholic Church in other predominantly Orthodox states in eastern Europe have earned it a reputation for conversion. ...Fr Nektarios, abbot of a monastery on the Corinthian Gulf: "Popes have fooled the Orthodox Church in the past. This pontiff will not be allowed to repeat the trick. He has the burden of history on his back. He cannot be trusted. You don't honour a criminal, you put him in jail." -- Pope's visit to Greece infuriates Orthodox Church - Telegraph News, April 29, 2001 So too in Orthodox Ukraine: Pope's visit fails to heal old wounds - The Guardian, June 28, 2001

More on Orthodox Christianity

Protestantism The Reformers

The Anglican Dean Inge, of St. Paul's Cathedral , London, did not hesitate to say: 'If we wish to find a scapegoat on whose shoulders we may lay the miseries which Germany has brought on the world, I am more and more convinced that the worst evil genius of that country , is not Hitler or Bismarck or Frederick the Great, but Martin Luther.' [Link] Free will after the Fall is nothing but a word. Even doing what in him lies, man sins mortally. -- Luther in 1518 [Link] Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his Reason. -- Luther [Link] Besides writing the booklet On the Jews and their Lies on why and how the Jews ought to be persecuted - which inspired the Nazis Luther also wrote on: the uprising of the peasants, instructing the German nobility to brutally crush them. This directly resulted in the deaths of 100,000 of them [Link] how disabled children were "true devils" and those with mental disabilities were possessed. Robertson's History of Christianity tells how Luther advocated throwing a possessed child into the river to be killed or cured. These Lutheran teachings also got Nazi Germany's Evangelical institutions for the disabled to have their wards murdered [see here]

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He advocated torture of prostitutes and persecution of religious minorities [ Link, partly translated here] Next to referring to the Fall to blame women for men's errors, Luther also confirmed the place of women in Christianity: "Even though they grow weary and wear themselves out with child-bearing, it does not matter; let them go on bearing children till they die, that is what they are there for." -- Works 20.84 [Link] The other Reformers were no better: The Reformers in England, through a statute of Henry VIII, forbade "women and others of low condition" to read the Bible.

In Switzerland, John Calvin created a vicious theocracy in which morality police were employed to control people's behavior. Citizens were harshly punished for a wide variety of moral infractions, including dancing, drinking, and generally being entertained. Theological dissidents were summarily executed, like Michael Servetus who was burned for doubting the Trinity. [ Link] Thousands of people were imprisoned, tortured, and burned to death during Calvin's reign, but he never attended the final Autos de Fe. [Link] Zwingli was an "inveterate adulterer" who "had marked militaristic tendencies": "Zwingli had gone the length of declaring that the massacre of the bishops was necessary for the establishment of the pure Gospel ..." The Protestants were as intolerant as the Catholics: As soon as they had the power to persecute they did." -- Preserved Smith Under Elizabeth, Presbyterians, for example, were "branded, . . . imprisoned, banished, mutilated and even put to death. A few Anabaptists and Unitarians were burned alive." "The Reformers themselves . . . e.g., Luther, Beza, and especially Calvin, were as intolerant to dissentients as the Roman Catholic Church." -- Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Link Much more on Protestantism, the Reformers and their intolerance

Modern Protestant Churches including Fundamental, Evangelical Churches Racism and intolerance 4 major American Churches split over the issue of slavery , forming northern and southern factions, including:

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The Methodist Church. In 1861, the North Carolina Christian Advocate wrote of "the demon spirit of abolitionism" and how Southern Methodists had "tested it fully, and found it to be heartless, inhuman and Christless." Although the two factions reunited in 1939 as the Methodist Church, they retained racial segregation. The country's Presbyterian Church also split into two. The Baptist Church: The Southern Baptists are the largest and most reactionary christian denomination in the USA. They split away from the Baptists in 1845 over slavery, because they thought that slavery was okay . After the civil war, some Southern Baptists founded the Ku Klux Klan. In the 1960s, the Southern Baptists supported segregation laws and opposed the black civil rights movement. In 1995, the Southern Baptist Convention issued an apology to all African-Americans and asked for their forgiveness. In reality, though, only the target of hate has changed, from black to gay. [ Link] The apology has not wiped away the lingering racism. More Pious Christians: rich televangelists Pat Robertson: Publicly called for the assassination of Venezuela's president, and then stated that's not what he said. Finally, he admitted he was wrong for having said it (out loud, that is). Blames Israel's Sharon for having troops withdrawn from Gaza, insisting that division of Israel (not a Christian country) is against God's wishes:

Pat Robertson suggested Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine retribution for the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, which Robertson opposed. -- Robertson suggests God smote Sharon - CNN, January 5, 2006 Knowing his Bible well, he defends the vengeful nature of God, justifying the Biblical slaughter of the Midianites. A misogynist, who's as intolerant as other Christians before him. Also anti-constitution, ignorantly insisting that state-Church separation is not constitutional [Details] Friends with criminal dictators: Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko (see Pat's diamond mining project below), Charles Taylor of Liberia, Guatemalan President Jorge Serrano, Zambian President Frederick Chiluba (-- Robertson in gold mining deal with Liberian strong man; part of "Christian ministry" exploitation?) Robertson redirected charity funds and resources to his African diamond mining project , after having raised money in the name of his charity Operation Blessing "to help Rwandans".

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Robertson was chasing diamonds in Zaire with Mobutu's blessing as early as 1992. The Virginia Beach-based broadcaster ratcheted up the effort in 1994, the same year that eastern Zaire was flooded by more than 1 million refugees fleeing the bloody civil war in Rwanda. -- News from The Virginian-Pilot, April 27, 1997 Africa is all about the money for Pat, he doesn't care a hoot about its people. And he's a racist. His 1992 statement on Apartheid in South Africa: "I think 'one man, one vote,' just unrestricted democracy, would not be wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for the minority which the white people represent now, a minority, and they need and have a right to demand a protection of their rights." -- Robertson in his televised program "The 700 Club" Pat was deservedly sued by his African-American employees, as he had been: forcing them enter its offices through a back door and eat in a segregated area -- Pat Robertson's Katrina Cash - The Nation, September 7, 2005 Benny Hinn is a con-artist like Robertson and others, but Christians keep donating:

The flamboyant Pentecostal preacher offered the crowd a multimedia tour of his proposed $30 million shrine to faith healing and solicited donations to pay for it . ... Mr. Hinn's "World Healing Center" never materialized. -- What happened to Hinn's promised healing center? - Dallas Morning News, June 23, 2002 Where does world-famous televangelist’s money go? - Dateline NBC News, December 27, 2002: "Benny Hinn has millions of believers and millions in donations" Pentecostal Churches and Benny Hinn are duping Africans: "Four million dollars down the drain," he [Hinn] shouted into the microphone from the huge rostrum. ... The Pentecostal faith in Nigeria is a veritable goldmine , judging by the opulence of most of its pastors. -- Pastor Hinn in Nigerian money row - BBC News, June 27, 2005

Fact Dark Ages: Gullible Christians paid a lot for fake relics Today: Gullible Christians donate a lot to televangelists, fraudulent Christian charities, and to multi-million dollar ministries

The money-making Evangelical Baptist and Pentecostal, Charismatic Churches make a tidy buck even from poor people and in impoverished countries.

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Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. -- Statement made by Pat Robertson (Southern Baptist) on his televised program The 700 Club, January 14, 1991 Facts

There are over 20,800 Christian denominations, according to the World Christian Encyclopedia [Link] The various denominations can't agree on how salvation is obtained either. Christians, it is needless to say, utterly detest each other. They slander each other constantly with the vilest forms of abuse and cannot come to any sort of agreement in their teaching. Each sect brands its own, fills the head of its own with deceitful nonsense, and makes perfect little pigs of those it wins over to its side. -- Celsus, 2nd Century CE Details

The Present Abuse Facts

Four in 10 US Catholic nuns report having experienced sexual abuse... The study found that sisters have known sexual abuse less in childhood, dispelling what the authors call an "anti-Catholic" canard that girls fled to convents to escape sexual advances. During religious life, close to 30% of the nation's 85,000 nuns experienced "sexual trauma," ranging from rape to exploitation to harassment. A total of 40% reported at least one experience of that kind. NCR [National Catholic Reporter], 1/15/99 The Presbyterian Church stated that 10-23% of clergy have "inappropriate sexual behavior or contact" with clergy and employees. The United Methodist research (1990) showed 38.6% of Ministers had sexual contact with church members and that 77% of church workers experienced some type of sexual harassment. The United Church of Christ found that 48% of the women in the work place have been sexually harassed by male clergy. The Southern Baptists claim 14.1% of their clergy have sexually abused members. Link Fact Child-abuse by clergy is also rampant amongst all Christian denominations .

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Books on the history of sexual abuse in Christianity Much more statistics and documentation on abuse, especially child abuse among various denominations and countries. Some of the endless news reports in recent times on clerical child abuse

Nuns abused

The Vatican yesterday acknowledged a report that some priests and missionaries were forcing nuns to have sex with them, and in some cases forcing their rape victims to have abortions. ... the report cited cases in 23 countries , including the United States, Brazil, the Philippines, India, Ireland and Italy. ... the report said most incidents of sexual abuse against nuns occurred in Africa, where the nuns were identified as "safe" at a time when AIDS is devastating the continent. -- Vatican Recognizes Rape Report - Washington Post (Reuters AFRICA) March 21, 2001 (See also: Vatican 'knew of widespread abuse' - BBC, 21 March, 2001) More Ne glected clergy in the US: AIDS due to lack of support Aids in the Priesthood - Kansas City Star News, 2000

Hundreds of Roman Catholic priests across the United States have died of AIDS-related illnesses, and hundreds more are living with HIV, the virus that causes the disease. It appears priests are dying of AIDS at a rate at least four times that of the general U.S. population. As the Kansas City Star's coverage makes clear, the issue is troubling many denominations (not just the Catholic Church, though it is the only one imposing celibacy on all its clergy). Because of Christianity's negative and repressive views on the matter, and the lack of support or even Church programs to educate priests about safe sex, many clergymen have ended up with AIDS: Experts say that until the church starts encouraging a more healthy understanding of sexuality, priests will continue to die of AIDS. [ Link] Seminary taught spirituality, liturgy and Latin -- sexuality was taboo Nuns have been abusing deaf children:

Attorney: 1 in 4 nuns abused deaf kids - The Enterprise (Boston), May 12, 2004 Deaf plaintiffs speak loudly: Nuns raped us, tortured us - Boston Herald, May 12, 2004

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As elsewhere in Africa, in order to convert the population in Rwanda , the missionaries considered it important to understand the indigenous culture and social structures, and the interpretations that came from their study of the culture greatly influenced both the colonial administration and, subsequently, Rwandan self-perceptions. the missionaries, ignoring important divisions within each of the groups, viewed Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa as three distinct peoples representing three separate waves of immigration. ...the missionaries hypothesized that the Tutsi were not really African but a Hamitic or Semitic group from the Middle East, perhaps a lost tribe of Israel.

Having become the colonial pets, the Tutsis understandably became unpopular and so: The shift in missionary support from Tutsi to Hutu in the 1950s The new "progress ive" missionaries who championed the cause of the Hutu in the 1950s promoted an ideology of exploitation that identified the Tutsi as the culprits in Rwandan history while ignoring exploitation by the German and Belgian colonial rulers. The inaccurate idea promulgated by the missionaries that Tutsi had grossly exploited the Hutu for centuries continues to shape Hutu understandings of Rwandan history and eventually became a primary ideological justification for genocide . [Also from: Christian Churches and Genocide in Rwanda ] Facts

Besides inventing ethnicities and then creating false histories of exploitation, Christianity is also directly implicated in the genocide. Rwandan Christian priests participated in the massacres of members of their own congregation, reminiscent of how German Churches ratted out Christian members with Jewish ancestry: Odd denials of involvement were printed in Catholic church journals, before even anybody had openly accused members of the church. Then, 10/10/96, in the newscast of S2 Aktuell , Germany - a station not at all critical to Christianity - the following was stated: "Anglican as well as Catholic priests and nuns are suspect of having actively participated in murders. ... According to eyewitnesses clergymen gave away hiding Tutsis and turned them over to the machetes of the Hutu militia." More recently the BBC aired: Priests get death sentence for Rwandan genocide -- BBC News April 19, 1998 [Link]

Australia: Australian Aboriginals

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-- The Vatican's Holocaust, by former BBC commentator Avro Manhattan

Fact Christian conversion technique: torture the non-Christian populace into conversion

In Hue, meanwhile, when another demonstration of Buddhists paraded the city, troops dispersed them, using tear gas bombs. Result: sixtyseven people were taken to hospital with chemical burns. ... ...discriminations against the Buddhists continued unabated. Arrests of Buddhist monks multiplied. Pagodas were declared out of bounds, closed and at times even attacked... ... Buddhist monks, Buddhist nuns and Buddhist leaders were arrested by the thousand. Pagodas were closed or besieged. Buddhists were tortured by the police. ... Within a brief period, seven [Buddhist monks] had burned themselves alive in public . Vietnam was put under martial law. Troops now occupied many pagodas and drove out all monks offering resistance. More Buddhist monks and Buddhist nuns were arrested and taken away in lorries, including a large number of wounded. Many were killed. ... Ten thousand Buddhists took part in a hunger strike in blockaded Saigon, while a giant gong tolled from the tower of the main Xa Loi Pagoda in protest against the persecutions. At Hue, in the North, [Buddhist] monks and nuns put up a tremendous struggle at the main pagoda of Tu Dam, which was virtually demolished, while eleven Buddhist students burned themselves inside it. -- The Vatican's Holocaust, by former BBC commentator Avro Manhattan Details of these recent cases of Christian-inflicted genocide

Present-day genocide Think that's all in the past and that Christian missionaries and their converts have changed? No, because Christianity will not change. Fact [Genocide convention:] Article II In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, as such:

1. Killing members of the group;

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2. 3. 4. 5.

Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Missionaries have done all of the above, and continue to do most of these things even today (supported with you donations, and taxes). [Link]

Americas Tried and true Christian conversion technique: round up unconverted pagans in camps and then convert or kill. This is what the early Christians did to the Hellenes (ancient Greeks). It worked then to exterminate pre-Christian religions, so the missionaries are certain it will work now.

The New Tribes Mission (NTM): Abuse, genocide and round-ups (called manhunts) of indigenous people who are unwilling to conv

Sporadic stories of abuse from the NTM have been emerging for years, despite the fact that most of their activities take place we from outside scrutiny. Many stories have come from the rainforests of South America where the missionaries found that the only convert nomadic communities was to force them into camps, or reservations, driving out into the forest to roundup those not come. [Link] Multinational corporations and faith-based initiatives fund these pious Christian missionaries in spreading God's Word, getting something

The controversial group [NTM] has been accused of prospecting for strategic minerals on behalf of transnational corporations an forced acculturation and conversion of indigenous people.[Link] But the New Tribes Mission isn't the only one of its kind operating in South America: Read about how the most horrendous genocides are still being perpetrated on the unconverted Indians of South America by missions .

Africa

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Case 1: Enslaved Prostitution Through the intermediaries - European priests and "sisters" - ... many women have been tricked into prostitution Case 2: Enforced Schooling There have been times when the military has searched for Hadzabe children hiding in the bush to escape the duty of being schooled. Hadzabe girls often complain about being raped by the teachers in the Endamaga school. This happens even with the Hadzabe mothers. Later the Hadzabe girls are compelled into prostitution. Case 3: Bad Religion Many times white parsons tried to baptise the Hadzabe and to destroy their traditional beliefs and lifestyle.

More: the Bayaka Pygmees are also victims of such deculturisation Faith-based US initiatives promoting abstinence only programs

Which then kill Africans in the long run. Uganda is very nearly a Christian theocracy, where militant Christian terrorist armies like the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and Uganda Democratic Christian Army (UDCA) go around killing people. The LRA is fighting for a Christian theocracy. -- Heidelberg Institute on International Conflict Research (Germany), report U.S.-Sponsored HIV Strategy Threatens Youth

...Uganda faces a nationwide condom shortage due to new government restrictions on condom imports. ...The U.S. government has already budgeted approximately U.S. $8 million this ye ar on abstinence-only programs in Uganda as part of President George W. Bush's global AIDS plan. The National Youth Forum, headed by Ugandan First Lady Janet Museveni, a vocal proponent of abstinence-only, has received U.S. funding under the plan . The First Lady has lashed out against groups that teach young people about condoms and called for a national "virgin census" to support her abstinence agenda. The Virginia-based Children's AIDS Fund , an organization with close ties to Janet Museveni, was rece ntly approved for a major abstinence-only grant... -- HRW, March 30, 2005 Fact

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AusAid (Australia) is funding a Missionary Project to kidnap Akha children from their families and force them into mission schools, where: Sexual abuse of Akha children in these compounds is rife. ...this whole child removal thing that western [all Christian] missions have been doing for the last four hundred years! [ Link] Cultural genocide and demonising of indigenous Akha culture "The US Missionary "Joshua Project" and Campus Crusade Vow To Destroy All of Akha Culture" [Link] Preventing non-religious help: Denmark students groups blocked from building non religious school in akha village by chinese baptist church of maesai, chiangrai, Thailand! [Link ] Christian charity: missions feel that only they should "help" the Akha, because non-religious help will not result in conversions. Converting part of a village, then declaring it a Christian village and banning indigenous beliefs: Akha Village Split By Taiwan Missionaries (it's Christian missions from everywhere, not just western missions)

The mission operators of these missions are Chinese, Taiwanese Chinese and American Citizens. All these missions, as with most missions in Thailand, are supported by donations from American Evangelical missions organizations and church members. West Papua

West Papuans still holding to their indigenous beliefs want an end to terrorist religions trying to convert them. In their own words: Missionaries are actually in essence terrorists. ... missionary work is more dangerous to indigenous and tribal peoples than any other work on earth that you know. [ Link]

Mosques and Churches dominate modern architecture in Papua: "Religion is a tool used by those in power to control the human beings of this earth." ... There are four enemies of the Tribal Community on this earth. They are; 1) Religious organisations 2) Governments 3) NonGovernmental Organisations(NGOs ) and particularly the Aid Organisations (AOs) and 4) Multinational Corporations (MNCs). -- Just Leave us Alone - A letter from a Papuan Tribesman NGOs , though their name makes them appear harmless, usually tend to be Christian "charity" organisations, bent on missionary (genocide) work.

The Batak of Palawan Christian concentration camps again and the eternal terrorism from Christianity - exactly what the Christians did to the ancient Greeks and Romans:

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missions are taking advantage of the country's political doctrine to prey on the nation's overwhelmingly Taoist, Confucian and Buddhist population.

India

Christian terrorists in India give ultimatum "Convert or die" Fact Christian conversion technique: fund terrorism and militancy

The twin militant outfits, NSCN(IM) and NSCN(K) have demanded annexation of land from the Buddhist and other indigenous faith followers and issued a decree for their conversion to Christianity The militant outfits have left the villagers with two options – embrace Christianity or face capital punishment . -- Arunachal Buddhists allege militants harassment - Assam Tribune online, August 23, 2004 Baptist Church is involved in backing separatist rebels ... rebel National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) ... forcing Tripura's indigenous tribes to become Christians and give up Hindu forms of worship in areas under their control. ... The NLFT manifesto says that they want to expand what they describe as the kingdom of God and Christ in Tripura -- Church backing Tripura rebels - BBC News, 18 April, 2000 A tribal Hindu spiritual leader has been killed by separatist rebels [NLFT] in the northeastern Indian state of Tripura. The separatist group says it wants to convert all tribes people in the s tate to Christianity . ... the majority of tribals, who are Hindu or Buddhist ... -- Hindu preacher killed by Tripura rebels - BBC News, 28 August, 2000

Genocide: The Hindu casualties in a single attack by the NLFT outnumber the Christians killed in religious violence for an entire decade in the whole of India. ...American Baptist and Evangelical groups have long been said to be financing the propagation of Christian religious bigotry of the most obscurantist kind in India's Northeast and tribal belts. Much of this bigotry has resulted in armed separatism, terrorism and ethnic cleansing of tribes refusing to become Christians . [Link] More on Christian terrorism in India Stealing children for overseas adoption:

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Missions want to ensure that no new temple construction activity starts . With this objective they are converting masons, craftsmen and others involved in temple construction activity. Over the past 20 years, missionaries also appear to have invested a lot in handling the political leadership ... It seems that a good section of media is also on their side to such an extent that any group opposing their activity finds itself identified as a militant or extremist group in the news media. [Link] More on the Joshua Project in India and the rest of the unconverted, pre-Christian world Details on this and much more, including:

How the word "secular" has a totally different meaning in India How the Catholic Church uses inculturation there to appropriate local traditions in the hope of attracting more confused locals Sri Lanka Christian propaganda: as always, when they can't wipe out the competition, Christians need to lie to win arguments : pamphlets, by the Christian group "The sword of the lord" , from Tennessee USA printed in Singhalese and Tamil and English. The pamphlet claimed that the people would be better off, if they would give up Buddha , who is constantly alliterated as a reincarnation of the Satan himself. ... The monk said the Christian group who was in charge of these camps to do "humanitarian work" complained to the police about his presence and the way he publicly defended Buddha in his preaching in the Camps. - the Sri Lankan Police in return warned him and now he is no longer allowed to visit those camps due to an order. Strange world, isn’t it?.

It seemed to me that Sri Lankan Human Rights organizations and foreign Conflict Management Organization who cry loud in regular intervals of human rights violations and fundamental right abuses seems to be deaf, dumb, dead silent – and most certainly - absolutely inactive on this issue. -- The Next Tsunami Coming to Sri Lanka is a Religious One - journalist Christian Eckert, May 22, 2005 Christian behaviour is the same since the times they destroyed the civilisations of ancient Greece and Rome. Yet again, converts desecrate statues of Buddha, in the exact same manner as converts in today's Korea and India : the disharmony began when they [missionaries] began to insult Buddha statues by smashing them and getting "the new entrants" to their faith to spit and urinate on the smithereens; [ Link]

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The missions even: began a scheme to send paid workers to destroy Buddhist archeological sites and rob temples [ Same Link] Fact Christian conversion technique: how to discredit Buddhist monks [Evangelical groups] paid men to don the yellow robe and misbehave in society to create a rift between the Buddhist temples and the Buddhists by getting these "fake Buddhist monks" to go and purchase liquor from the liquor bars, to go into meat stalls and super markets and purchase meat and fish for everyone to see, to go into restaurants after 12 noon and order food and partake of it, to be seen by others etc; they used young couples to go into village temples in the night requesting shelter from the temple monk (on the excuse that they were travelling far) and in a short while the male would leave the female alone in the temple, and go out- within minutes, the girl would ring the temple bell and inform the villagers that the monk had tried to molest her (the purpose is to bring disrepute to innocent monks)

[Same Link] Compare this to factual abuse by Christian clergy. Fact

The Tamil terrorists (LTTE) is fully backed by the Catholic/Christian churches and is no secret. When they attacked religious places of worship, only Hindu and Buddhist places were attacked- not Catholic/Christian churches! [ Link] This is only logical, as the highest leaders of the terrorist LTTE organisation are Christians , including: Prabhakaran, the man in charge of the LTTE Anton Balasingham Some of the leading Christian priests have acted as front men for the LTTE in Western countries. Fr. S. J. Emmanuel, former Vicar— General of Jaffna, who is now residing in Germany, is a prime example of the Church joining hands with the LTTE. [ Link] The Sri Lankan government proposed a Bill against unethical conversions. The Christians, Churches and missionary organisations working in Sri Lanka, cried "persecution" and lobbied the UN to intervene. The UN special reporter denied that coercive and other unethical conversions were taking place among the practitioners of Sri Lanka's indigenous religions: I, too, was astonished - to say the least - on the remarks in the conclusions of the United Nation's Special Rapporteur, Mrs. Asma Jehangir and her denial that there was 'no concrete proof' of anyone being forced or coerced into giving up their ancestral religion.

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