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35 minutes ago, heartstrings said:

But it does have some scary looking characters.........

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http://www.centerforinquiry.net/images/blog_images/Pope_Ratzinger.jpg

Is this the trailer to the new exorcist movie?

47 minutes ago, John81 said:

Not that I know of but I'm not sure where the occult stuff began, I only know many Catholics mix the occult into their beliefs and practices.

Not to mention Catholicism was simply a make over of roman pagan worship of Diana and her little baby Jupiter with the statues and smoke and rituals and fairytales. They simply slapped some Bible names on the pagan characters and  bingbangboom, you got the official state religion of the "civilized" world.

That is how the dragon stopped the tide of Gospel back then. Now he does it with the new paganism called the emerging church. Just secularism/psychology with Bible names slapped on it.

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The current pope is no different from his predecessors.  They have never repudiated the claims of their predecessors, never admitted they were wrong in murdering millions of Christians, in fact they have always claimed it is their right and would do it again if they had the power,

Some of the claims they have never repudiated by Henry Grattan Guinness.

In A.D. 1294 Boniface VIII became pope, and by his superior audacity he threw into the shade even Innocent III. He deserves to be designated the most usurping of mankind, as witness his celebrated bull Unam Sanctam In this document the full claims of the Papacy come out. We have noted several ever increasing stages of Papal assumption already, but now we reach the climax ─ the claim which, if it were a true one, would abundantly justify all the rest; we reach the towering pinnacle and topmost peak of human self-exaltation. What was the claim of Boniface VIII? It was that

THE POPE REPRESENTS GOD ON EARTH.

As this claim is the most extraordinary and audacious ever made by mortal man, I will state it, not in my own words, but in the words of the highest Papal authority. In the summary of things concerning the dignity, authority, and infallibility of the pope, set forth by Boniface VIII, are these words: "The pope is of so great dignity and excellence, that he is not merely man, but as if God, and the vicar of God (non simplex homo, sed\par quasi Deus, et Dei vicarius). The pope alone is called most holy...Divine monarch, and supreme emperor, and king of kings..The pope is of so great dignity and power, that he constitutes one and the same tribunal with Christ (faciat unum et idem tribunal cum Christo), so that whatsoever the pope does seems to proceed from the mouth of God (ab ore Deo). 

The pope is as God on earth (papa est QUASI DIAS IN TERRA)." That which was claimed by Boniface VIII in the thirteenth century has been claimed ever since by a succession of popes down to Pius IX and Leo XIII in the nineteenth century. The pope speaks today as the vicar of Christ, as God's vice-regent. The great ecumenical council of 1870 proclaimed him such, and declared him to be INFALLIBLE! A professor of history in the Roman university, writing on the council of 1870, uses the following language, which strikingly expresses the Papal ideal: "The pope is not a power among men to be venerated like another. But he is a power altogether Divine. He is the propounder and teacher of the law of the Lord in the whole universe; he is the supreme leader of the nations, to guide them in the way of eternal salvation; he is the common father and universal guardian of the whole human species in the name of God. The human species has been perfected in its natural qualities by Divine revelation and by the incarnation of the Word, and has been lifted up into a supernatural order, in which alone it can find its temporal and eternal felicity. The treasures of revelation, the treasures of truth, the treasures of righteousness, the treasures of supernatural graces upon earth, have been deposited by God in the hands of one man, who is the sole dispenser and keeper of them. The life-giving work of the Divine incarnation, work of wisdom, of love, of mercy, is ceaselessly continued in the ceaseless action of one man, thereto ordained by Providence. This man is the pope. This is evidently implied in his designation itself, the vicar of Christ. For if he holds the place of Christ upon earth, that means that he continues the work of Christ in the world, and is in respect of us what Christ would be if He were here below, Himself visibly governing the Church."

 Do you hear these words? Do you take them in? Do you grasp the thought which they express? Do you perceive the main idea and central principle of the Papacy? The pope is not simply man, but "as if God" and "the vicar of God," as God on earth. No wonder the sentence is addressed to every pope on his coronation, "Know thou art the father of princes and kings, and the governor of the world"; no wonder that he is worshipped by cardinals and archbishops and bishops, by priests and monks and nuns innumerable, by all the millions of Catholics throughout the world; no wonder that he has dethroned monarchs and given away kingdoms, dispensed pardons and bestowed indulgences, canonized saints, remitted purgatorial pains, promulgated dogmas, and issued bulls and laws and extravagants, laid empires under interdicts, bestowed benedictions, and uttered anathemas! Who is like unto him on earth? What are great men, philosophers, statesmen, conquerors, princes, kings, and even emperors, of the earth compared to HIM? Their glory is of the earth, earthy; his is from above, it is Divine! He is the representative of Christ, the Creator and Redeemer, the Lord of all. He is as Christ; he takes the place of Christ. He is as God, as God on earth. This blasphemous notion is the keystone of the entire Papal arch; it is the stupendous axis on which the whole Papal world has rotated for ages, and is rotating at this hour.

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On 3/7/2016 at 7:08 PM, wretched said:

Not to mention Catholicism was simply a make over of roman pagan worship of Diana and her little baby Jupiter with the statues and smoke and rituals and fairytales. They simply slapped some Bible names on the pagan characters and  bingbangboom, you got the official state religion of the "civilized" world.

I think you got it the wrong way round.  It was Christianity that gradually added paganism till there was eventually no Christianity left. Although it had probably been developing gradually since the times of the apostles, it got a boost when Constantine made Christainity the only legal religion so pagans flocked into the church.  The Waldensians claimed their separation from Rome at that time, but there were others who stayed and for quite a long time continued to challenge Rome, while still in the church.  Some were Bishops, others priests or monks.  A number were burnt for their faith. One was Jan Hus. Another was a vicar in our county who was burnt to death in before the door of his own church.  Gradually more an more paganism was added, but till the reformation there was still a spark until Luther excommunicated the Pope any by implication, all Catholics.    Platina in his list of Popes said one added something and tge next adde something else an so on.  The all added something, sometimes quite small things.

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I was throwing some old magazines away and noticed that last July there was a radio programme about the Vatican having a college to train priests in exorcism. It seems there is a great need for it in the RCC. Mark 3:23

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