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We'll continue now our reading and discussion of the book, A Woman Rides a
Beast, by Dave Hunt.
Beginning at the top of page 133, under the subtitle, No Discussion Allowed,
Dave Hunt is going to describe for us what was a gigantic fraud in the Roman Catholic
Church.
Vatican Council won, and the declaration of papal infallibility as a dogma of the
Roman Catholic Church.
A gigantic fraud.
Now, Dave Hunt is proving this, but he uses the testimony of Roman
Catholic bishops in attendance of that council, and of official Roman Catholic
Church historians.
It was widely discussed among Roman Catholics prior to that council that the
people did not believe in papal infallibility.
And neither did the bishops who participated in the council.
Now again, the subtitle of this portion of the chapter is entitled, No Discussion
Allowed.
It was a railroad job.
It says, Devout Roman Catholics today have sincerely believed the deceitful
impression given by their church that Vatican Council won's declaration of papal
infallibility represented the mind and the will of the attending bishops On the
contrary, many bishops were strongly opposed to affirming infallibility,
both on scriptural and traditional grounds.
Some left the council in protest before the final vote was taken, and only
affirmed it later under Vatican threats and for the sake of church unity.
Bishop Lecourtier was so distressed by the fraud that he, quote, threw his conciliar
documents into the Tiber and left Rome, unquote.
For that act, he was removed from his bishopric.
Attending bishops were virtual prisoners.
Exit visas were deliberately withheld to prevent anyone from leaving.
Among those fleeing Rome were two Armenian bishops, one of whom was Placidus
Cassangin, abbot general of all the Armenian Antonite monks.
From the other side of the Roman border, outside papal jurisdiction, he wrote both
the pope and the council that, quote, under the constant threat of
imprisonment and owing to his serious illness, he had feared for his life and
thought his only safety lay in flight, unquote.
In other words, he felt like his life was threatened and he needed to get out of
dodge.
That's the kind of power that was exercised by the papal proponents of papal
infallibility.
The Jesuits organized the convening of that council and they were simply
attempting to consolidate all the power of the Roman Catholic Church into one man
that they could control so that they no longer had to wrestle with church
councils.
It was extremely important to the Jesuits to have the pope declared infallible so
that they could easily control the church by controlling one single man.
They could unite all the church on one single man.
And I've asserted previously on previous programs that I believe the Jesuits had in
mind that if they could float this trial balloon called papal infallibility and if
it floated, then after a given period of time, after the controversy had subsided
over papal infallibility then would be an appropriate time to place a Jesuit upon
the papal throne.
That it was the object of the Jesuits to consolidate all the power of the Roman
Catholic Church into the papal chair and to fit it for the eventual occupation of a
Jesuit priest.
And that has occurred today.
Now, he continues, oppressive rules were imposed which designed to stifle
opposition and to eliminate free discussion.
Quote, there was to be no discussion in small groups, speeches at the council
could not be printed making it impossible to study the arguments and give a careful
response to them.
And bishops were forbidden under pain of mortal sin to say anything about what took
place in the great hall of the council.
Unquote.
Such was the cult-like control over council members.
Cult-like control?
That's because it is a cult.
Roman Catholicism is the greatest, the largest, the most powerful,
the most wealthy, the most all-controlling cult on the planet.
And it reminds me, this use of the word cult to describe this council,
it reminds me of the testimony by Janet Reno after the Waco tragedy.
After the public auto-defe, the burning alive of the Branch Davidians down in
Waco, Texas.
She was asked by a council convened to investigate the tragedy, and they asked
Janet Reno to describe what a cult is.
And if you listen to her testimony, you would think she was describing the
Roman Catholic Church.
And I advise my listeners, if you would like to go to Google Video and listen to
her testimony before that commission, and her description of what a cult is and
compare it, her description with the Roman Catholic Church, and you'll see what I'm
saying.
Now, in the main session of this council, Vatican Council 1, those who dared to
voice any opposition were interrupted, quote, often with the explanation that no
one was allowed to speak so negatively about the Holy See, unquote.
Sincere Catholics believe papal infallibility was passed down from Peter
to his successors, but in fact it was foisted upon the Roman Catholic Church by
a ruthless cadre of Vatican insiders who conspired to stifle discussion,
rigged the elections, and literally intimidated bishops into voting out of
fear for a proposition which they opposed.
The dogma of papal infallibility was widely opposed among the bishops,
widely opposed among the clergy, and it was a railroad job, plain and
simple.
The historians make this evident, so do the bishops who protested.
Quote, the elections are dishonest, unquote, was entered on December 20th,
1869, in Archbishop George Darboy's diary.
Another bishop complained of, quote, the utter worthlessness of these
elections, unquote.
Now, under licensing dictatorial powers, which is exactly what papal infallibility
accomplished, Dave Hunt says, quote, the pressure was felt in particular by
bishops' financial dependence upon the Vatican, unquote, was the earnest
complaint of more than one council member.
They were financially pressed into voting.
They were afraid of losing their jobs.
Now, many felt like they, quote, had a knife at their jugular, unquote,
forcing them to approve what the vast majority actually opposed.
When the Armenian bishops, in the face of dire threats, remained steadfast in their
refusal to support papal infallibility, the pope commanded their leaders,
quote, to perform compulsory spiritual exercises in a monastery, unquote.
In other words, drop it, give me 20, right?
It says, when Bishop John Stephanian refused to comply, the papal police
arrested him on the street.
So here we have even law enforcement getting involved to keep these people at
the council and to make them vote a certain way.
His resistance provoked a riot by a mob which rescued him.
If it weren't for a mob supporting him, he would have been arrested.
That's how much the people were against the declaration of papal infallibility.
Now, to aid in the intimidation of the bishops in attendance, the papal police
instituted surprise house searches.
Okay, they're going house to house.
Quote, Monsignor Lorenzo Randy, papal minister of police, and later a
cardinal, he was elevated to cardinal for obedient service to the pope, you might
know, had all letters from newspaper correspondents intercepted at the Vatican
post office and suppressed the most negative reports, unquote.
So now you know why he was elevated to cardinal.
He was a part of the police force and was later elevated to the cardinal because he
had all the newspaper, all the press articles about the council, Vatican
Council 1, filtered first to the Vatican post office so that they could be sorted.
So that certain negative reports could not reach the press.
That's a railroad job.
A gigantic fraud.
Using, once again, the civil power, the police force.
Now, as for J.
H.
Ignaz von Dallinger, one of the most eminent Roman Catholic historians and
theologians at the time, his reward for 47 years of teaching Roman Catholic theology
and history was to be excommunicated.
His crime had been to point out that the pope's claim to infallibility lacked
support either from scripture nor from church tradition.
Such was certainly the predominant view of Roman Catholic historians and even the
most bishops within the Roman Catholic Church at that time.
Von Dallinger's monumental work entitled The Pope and the Council, and I highly
recommend my listeners get a copy, The Pope and the Council, it's currently
being reprinted, it's available, and you will find, just type in the search
engine on eBay, The Pope and the Council, and you'll come up with dozens of works
that are current publications.
And read this for yourself.
Von Dallinger's monumental work, The Pope and the Council, published just
prior to Vatican Council I, was immediately placed on the index of
forbidden reading.
You know, just like the Bible is forbidden reading in the Roman Catholic Church.
According to Roman Catholic canon law, now somebody might roll their eyes and
say, well Catholics read the Bible in this country.
You've got to remember, they're under Protestant observation in this country.
In Roman Catholic countries, you rarely if ever see someone carrying or studying the
Bible alone.
They're taught to get their Bible teaching from the priest.
And if they're going to study the Bible alone, they have to have the approval of
their bishop.
So they're carefully guarded in what they read and what they believe from the Bible.
Now, Pope Pius IX could not afford to have the bishop read such facts from history as
the following, Tertullian, Cyprian, Lactantius know nothing of special papal
prerogative, or of any higher or supreme right of deciding in matters of doctrine.
In the writings of the Greek doctors Eusebius, St. Athanasius, St. Basil the
Great, the two Gregories and St. Epiphanius, there's not one word of any
prerogatives of the Roman bishop, the Pope.
The most copious of the Greek fathers, St. Chrysostom, is wholly silent on the
subject.
And so are the two Cyrils.
Equally silent are the Latins, Hilary, Hattian, and Zeno, Lucifer,
Sulpicius, and St. Ambrose.
St. Augustine has written more on the Church, its unity and authority,
than all the other fathers put together.
He urges all sorts of arguments to show that the Donatists are bound to return to
the Church, but of the papal chair as one of them, he knows nothing.
Unquote.
So, Church historians are poring over Church history to find some grounds,
some justification, some former teaching by some of the most prestigious writers of
the Roman Catholic Church.
Early writings of the Roman Catholic Church, called the Church Fathers,
searching in vain for any word to indicate that the Pope was infallible.
They simply couldn't find anything.
There's no support for papal infallibility in Roman Catholic Church history.
Bishop Joseph Hefela of Rottenburg, a former professor of Church history,
addressed these words to the First Vatican Council.
Quote.
Forgive me if I speak simply.
I'm very familiar with the old documentary sources of the history and the teachings
of the Church, with the writings of the Fathers and the Acts of the Councils,
so that I can say I've had them in my hands night and day, but in all those
documents I've never seen the doctrine of papal infallibility from a credible
source.
Unquote.
Hassler informs us further.
Quote.
Archbishop Thomas Connolly of Halifax, Nova Scotia, had come to Rome as a
convinced adherent of papal infallibility.
After thorough study, he became one of its declared opponents.
He repeatedly challenged the infallibilists in the Council Hall to come
up with clear text from the first three centuries, always in vain.
He made a private offer of £1,000, perhaps $30,000 in today's money,
to anyone who could provide the text that he wanted.
All he got was a forgery.
Unquote.
Von Dollinger, one of that day's great authorities on Roman Catholic Church
history, agreed entirely with Hefele.
His book, which by the way is banned by Rome, warned of Pope Pius IX's coming
attempt to push through the dogma of papal infallibility and reminded the bishops who
would gather to deliberate this vital decision.
Quote.
None of the ancient confessions of faith, no catechism, none of the patristic
writings composed for the instruction of the people, contain a syllable about the
Pope, still less any hint that all certainty of faith and doctrine depends on
the Pope.
For the first thousand years of Roman Catholic Church history, not a question of
doctrine was ever finally decided by the Pope.
Even the controversy about Christ kindled by Paul of Samasata, which occupied the
whole Eastern Church for a long time and necessitated the assembling of several
councils, was terminated without the Pope taking any part in it at all.
In three controversies during this early period, the Roman Catholic Church took an
active part.
The question about Easter, about heretical baptism, and about the penitential
discipline.
In all three, the Popes were unable to carry out their own will in view and
practice, and the other churches maintained their different usages.
Pope Victor's attempt to compel the churches of Asia Minor to adopt the Roman
usage by excluding them from his communion proved a failure." So the Pope couldn't
even disassociate with the church and to get the churches of Asia Minor to
cooperate with it.
Where's the papal infallibility in that?
There isn't any.
It is fully established fact of history that for many centuries after Christ,
the church had no notion, the church had no notion, that the Bishop of Rome had the
final word on all disputes, or that he was infallible.
Moreover, when the Popes began to assert their alleged infallibility, as we've
already seen, they often used it wickedly.
Furthermore, according to a 1987 Time poll, 93% of today's Catholics hold the
opinion that, quote, it is possible to disagree with the Pope and still be a good
Catholic, unquote.
So much for the practical effect of papal infallibility.
No wonder the church got along without it for 1800 years.
A tragic farce.
There's no doubt that the claim of infallibility further encourages the
despotism, which is already so much a part of the papacy.
Despotism in turn leads to contempt for truth, because the despot's power over
others must be maintained at all costs.
The defect of character in Pope Pius IX was evident to many observers.
Though the Pope had personally approved an article in La Civiltà Cattolica,
which in February of 1869 began his campaign for infallibility, he denied any
knowledge of it in an audience with foreign ambassadors.
The deceit was blatant, but the Pope seemed blind to the fact that anyone with
common sense knew he was lying.
The Pope wrote articles under another name, and then denied knowing of them.
When bishops Clifford, Ramadi, and Place protested the demeaning language
that Pope Pius IX had publicly used concerning them, quote, he denied the
whole thing.
Unquote.
Before many witnesses, Bishop Henry Merritt, Dean of the Sorbonne in Paris,
called Pope Pius IX, quote, false and a liar.
Unquote.
Pope Pius IX constantly applied pressure and threats, engineered behind the scenes
intrigue, and denounced in vicious terms any who opposed infallibility.
Yet to the very end, he insisted that he desired to, quote, leave the council
completely free.
Unquote.
Quoting further, the facts proving the opposite are too numerous to mention.
Unquote.
Wrote Count Trautmansdorf in Vienna on June 22nd, 1870.
In view of these and many other evidences of blatant dishonesty, Cardinal Gustav von
Hohenlohe remarked, quote, I need no other argument against papal infallibility than
this single one.
That in my entire life I have never met a man who was less particular about the
truth than Pope Pius IX.
Unquote.
Such was the man who used the power of his despotic office to force the bishops to
approve a dogma, which forced the bishops to approve a dogma which the majority of
them opposed.
Bishop Dupinloop noted on April 15th, 1870, that several bishops had said to
him, quote, I'd rather die than see all that.
Unquote.
Some of the bishops grew, quote, bitter from vexation and despair or fell
sick.
Unquote.
For many, the council looked like a degrading game, a tragic farce.
Bishop George Strassmayer complained that Vatican Council 1 had not had,
quote, the freedom necessary to make it a true council and to justify its passing
resolutions binding the conscience of the entire Catholic world.
The proof of this was perfectly self-evident.
Unquote.
Now under the subtitle Infallibility or Instability, Dave says, as we've already
noted, more than a few members, quote, left the council and discussed
before it ended.
Unquote.
On July 17th, 1870, the day before the vote was taken, 55 bishops who were
opposed declared that, quote, out of reverence for the Holy Father,
out of reverence for the Pope, they did not wish to take part in the
vote.
They then left Rome in protest.
Unquote.
They left the council out of concern for the Pope.
They didn't want this papal infallibility to destroy the papacy.
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Look, these things that we're talking about, what difference would it make to a
card-carrying Roman Catholic to hear the truth about Vatican Council 1,
and how it came about that the Pope was declared infallible despite all the
opposition against it?
What difference would it make to Roman Catholics?
And the better question is, what difference would it make to all the
evangelicals, the ecumenical evangelicals, who have essentially signed on as
co-religionists with Roman Catholicism, have literally abandoned Protestantism to
become Roman Catholics?
What would it do to their ecumenical endeavors to learn of how, in fact,
the papacy was declared infallible at First Vatican Council?
What would they all do if they became aware of the fraud that was Vatican
Council 1?
What would they do?
I know what I'd do.
It says, on July 18, 1870, the last day of the Council, there were only 535 yes
votes, less than half of the 1,084 original members entitled to vote.
Yet the Vatican newspapers deceitfully wrote it up as though the assent had been
unanimous.
There's the Pope's control of the press.
The newspapers wrote it up that it was unanimous.
Through threats of demotion and job loss and other pressures, the Pope managed
eventually to obtain the submission of most of those opposed.
Such was the unbiblical and scandalously dishonest manner in which papal
infallibility became a dogma of the Roman Catholic Church.
Unfortunately, far, far too few Catholics know the facts.
Bishop Dupinloop entered in his diary on the 28th of June of 1870, quote,
I'm not going to the Council anymore.
The violence, the shamelessness, and even more, the falsity, vanity,
and continual lying forced me to keep my distance, unquote.
On August 26th of 1870, 14 German theologians declared, quote, freedom from
every sort of moral coercion and from influence to superior force is a sine qua
non of all ecumenical councils.
Such freedom was missing from this gathering, unquote.
Further insights into the character and behavior of Pope Pius IX, which Hassler,
during years of research, gleaned from the secret Vatican archives and other
documents, are tragically reading.
Quote, the unhealthy mysticism, the childish tantrums, the shallow
sensibility, the intermittent mental absences, the strangely inappropriate
language, even in strictly official speeches, and the senile obstinacy all
indicate the loss of a solid grip on reality.
Beyond this, there are instances of near megalomania, which are still hard to
evaluate.
In 1866, Pope Pius IX applied Christ's saying, quote, I am the way, the truth,
and the life, unquote, to himself.
On April 8th of 1871, Count Henry von Arnanschau reported to the Imperial
Chancellor, Prince Otto von Bismarck, of Pope Pius IX's attempt to work a
miracle.
Quote, as he was passing by the church of Trinita de Monte, the Pope bade a cripple,
who was lying out in front, quote, rise up and walk, unquote, but the
experiment failed, unquote.
The historian Ferdinand Gregorovius had previously noted in his diary of June
17th, 1870, quote, the Pope recently got the urge to try out his infallibility.
While out on a walk, he called to a paralytic, quote, get up and walk,
unquote.
The poor devil gave it a try and collapsed, which put God's vice-regent
very much out of sorts.
The anecdote has already been mentioned in the newspapers.
I really believe that he's insane, unquote.
Pius IX gave the impression that he was suffering from delusions of grandeur in
other ways as well.
Some, even bishops, thought he was mad, or talked about pathological symptoms.
The Catholic Church historian Franz Xavier Krauss noted in his diary, quote,
apropos of Pope Pius IX, Ducamp agrees with my view that ever since 1848,
the Pope has both been mentally ill and malicious, close all quotes.
The bitter truth of papal tyranny.
While Pope Pius IX, living in his fantasy world of omnipotence, was forcing the
incredible concept upon the Church and the world that the magic of an office could
render a mere human infallible, the Italian people, chafing under the
Pope's depravity and barbarism, were planning his overthrow.
Accusing the papacy of erecting a, quote, fortress of usurped power upon the
corpses of passing generations, unquote, Italian patriot Giuseppe Mazzini
denounced Pope Pius IX and his predecessor popes eloquently.
Here's what he said.
The gospel whispers universal love and brotherhood, but you have sown discord.
You have inspired hatred.
You who would have protected the weak against the oppressor.
You who should have encouraged peace among citizens.
You have summoned the paid assassins from Spain, France, Austria, and Naples to whet
their murderous daggers upon the very stone of the altar while you have warned
your citizens' slaves, quote, do not dare to arise, unquote.
In 1861, the Parliament of the newly created Kingdom of Italy declared Rome to
be its capital.
Even though the Pope was still its tyrant.
When the time came to enforce that verdict, those fighting for Italian
independence would not be denied.
The combined Papal, French, and Austrian armies were not able to withstand the
forces fighting for Italian freedom and unity.
On September 20th, 1870, almost two months to the day after Vatican Council I had
confirmed the Pope's infallibility, he was finally deposed as the ruler of the
province of Rome.
Overwhelming the defending Papal army, the troops of the General Cordona battered
their way through Rome's walls near the Porta Pia, the plebiscite to which we have
already referred, confirmed by an overwhelming vote, Rome's annexation to a
united Italy.
Pope Pius IX withdrew into the Vatican in self-imposed imprisonment, and from that
sanctuary loosed a veritable bombardment of words upon his enemies.
His damnation of King Victor Emmanuel, which we've covered previously on this
program, we read every word that Pope Pius IX wrote about Victor Emmanuel,
a stunning, a stunning damnation that went on and on for pages.
Read something like this, this is an extremely abridged version of his
denunciation of King Victor Emmanuel, Quote, wherever he may be, whether in the
house or in the field, in all the faculties of his body, damned in his
mouth, in his breath, in his heart, may heaven, with all the powers that move
therein, rise up against him, curse him, and damn him.
Quote, the curse ran for more than 130 words, and my recollection of it was that
it was much longer than 130 words.
I read it here on the program and it took me quite a spell to read it all,
and it was a scathing, I've never read such cursing words in my life.
Not profanity, but spiritual curses that Pope Pius IX levied against Victor
Emmanuel.
And for what crime?
Simply putting the Pope in his place.
The Italian people said to the Pope, you shall not be a king over us.
And they ceded their own government.
The people rose up against the papacy and established their own republican
government and their own leaders.
And they started making their own laws.
And they were simply following the example of all of Europe at that time.
And yet Pope Pius IX, who had seen the last holdout, Italy, turn against him,
at this time chose to declare himself infallible, divine and infallible.
That's the arrogance of the papacy.
He says, as for the rest of his enemies, which according to the vote must have been
about 99% of the Italian population, the Pope thundered, quote, with the
authority of almighty God and the holy apostles Peter and Paul, all those who
have perpetrated the invasion, usurpation and occupation of the provinces
of our domain, or of this dear city, Rome, have incurred major excommunication
and all the rest of the censures and ecclesiastical penalties covered by the
sacred canons, apostolic constitutions and decrees of all the general councils and
especially the council of Trent, unquote.
Now, if you have any idea what he's just done, he's just, well, burned them all at
the stake.
Anyone who has supported the so-called rebels in Italy, the 99% of the
population, who were in favor of uniting Italy under a civil ruler and forming
their own constitution and leaving the Pope to be what he should be in the world.
Nothing.
Of course, the Pope's frustrated fulminations, at least on this occasion,
were in vain.
The Italians were not impressed with the new dogma of papal infallibility.
Rome has continued under the control of the Italian government to this day.
Now, he's not talking about Vatican City, he's talking about Rome proper.
Rome, the city of Rome, not the Vatican, but the city of Rome, remains under the
Italian civil government even to this day.
The papacy is not a dictator over Italy anymore, or at least theoretically not a
dictator over Italy anymore.
Now, as we've already mentioned, the Concordat with Mussolini in 1929 would
salvage for the Popes their autonomy over a city-state, the Vatican, which has
thereafter enjoyed equal status with the nations of the world.
Now, I want to make a correction here.
Dave Hunt, for all the good he's doing in this book, is telling an untruth,
and he knows it to be untruth.
The Bible clearly describes Vatican City as that great city which reigneth over the
kings of the earth.
Make no mistake about it, the Bible speaks specifically of Vatican City, and he calls
it that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth, situated on seven
hills, full of blasphemy.
That woman that rides the scarlet-colored beast in Revelation 17 is the Roman
Catholic Church, which is the Vatican, which is the papacy.
And he says, Dave says, that they enjoy equal status with the nations of the
world.
No, the Vatican rules over the kings of the earth.
The Bible is clearly describing a global government controlled by Vatican City,
that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
That's a reality today, and it was a reality during the time of the writing of
this book by Dave Hunt.
The Vatican does not enjoy equal status with anyone.
The Vatican is supreme and all-powerful, controlling all the governments of the
world.
And if that's not true, the Bible is a liar.
Dave Hunt well knows this.
He continues now, he says, The Vatican did not die, nor did the Roman Catholic Church
shrivel up.
It has grown worldwide to nearly one billion members.
The Pope's influence around the globe, though affected more subtly, is now
greater than ever.
John's vision is still remarkably accurate, though much remains to be
fulfilled.
That's as close as Dave Hunt comes to suggesting that the papacy controls all
the governments on the globe.
Now under the subtitle, Pomp and Adulation, Dave writes, Peter declared
that Christ had left us, quote, an example that we should follow his
steps, unquote.
See 1 Peter, chapter 2, verse 21.
He wrote that church leaders were not to act as, quote, lords over God's heritage,
unquote.
But, like Christ, were to be examples of the flock.
See 1 Peter, chapter 5, verse 1 through 3.
That the popes have disobeyed both Christ and Peter, whom they claim was the first
pope, is abundantly clear.
How could any ordinary member of the flock follow the example of the autocratic,
luxurious, and highly privileged papal lifestyle?
The popes, in defiance of the one whom they say was the first pope, are
literally, quote, unquote, lords over those under them.
This fact has been manifest for centuries in their tyrannical conduct, which has
been rendered even more offensive by the idea of infallibility becoming a dogma in
the Roman Catholic Church.
The donation of Constantine, though it admitted fraud, and we've already covered
this, and from which popes claimed to get their authority and power, reveals a great
deal about the way popes dressed, lived, and functioned during the Middle
Ages.
As Peter De Rosa puts it, quote, From the donation, the donation of
Constantine, it is plain that the bishop of Rome looked like Constantine,
lived like him, dressed like him, inhabited his palaces, ruled over his
lands, had exactly the same imperial outlook.
The pope, too, wanted to lord it over the church and the state.
Only 700 years after Peter died, the popes had become obsessed with power
and possessions.
Peter's alleged successors became not the servants, but the masters of the world.
They dress in purple like Nero, and call themselves Pontifex Maximus,
unquote.
The unbiblical nature of the papal office gives the man holding it a power greater
than even that of a political tyrant.
And both the opportunity and temptation for abuse is immeasurably increased when
the man is considered to be infallible, something which no civil ruler would dare
to claim today.
To see the devastating effect of ascribing such supreme authority to a mere man,
one need only watch the obsequious reaction of those who find themselves
fortunate enough to meet the pope in person, to shake his hand or reach out in
touching.
Observe the wild enthusiasm of tens of thousands who gather when the pope makes a
personal appearance.
In their fawning acknowledgment of infallibility, there is an unwholesome
identification of the Roman Catholic faithful with papal power.
It is an identification which breeds, even among common church members,
a blinding and destructive pride at belonging to, quote, the oldest,
the largest, the one true church, outside of which there is no salvation,
unquote.
That conceit makes devout Catholics insensitive to what would otherwise be
obvious failings in their church, and it keeps them in its power.
The Roman Catholic Church has become the savior in the place of Christ,
leading to the seductive and appealing belief that no matter what happens,
that institution with the good offices of the pope, the saints, and especially Mary,
will eventually get one to heaven if surviving relatives pay for enough masses
to be said in one's name.
It is a deadly delusion which is promoted in catechisms taught from childhood to all
Roman Catholics.
Such destructive deceit is made plausible by the teaching that although Christ paid
for our sins on the cross, the church is the dispenser of the, quote, graces and
merits he won.
Add to that the ruinous conceit that subtly ensnares members of the Roman
Catholic Church whose head is infallible, and one has the element to create craven
superstition, and finally, tragedy.
Yet the Roman Catholic Church has changed her mind enough times on important issues
to demonstrate, even to herself, that she is not infallible.
It used to be a mortal sin to eat meat on Friday, but that's no longer the rule.
One used to see medals and statues of Saint Christopher, patron saint of
travelers, displayed not only on dashboards, but even in elevators for
protection.
But this popular Catholic saint was declared a myth.
The millions who for centuries thought he protected them were deluded, according to
the latest ruling of the hierarchy.
As ex-nun Patricia Nolan-Savis puts it, quote, Any organization that can,
with the stroke of its sacerdotal pen, remove the pain of eternal punishment from
a Friday hot dog, and pluck Saint Christopher from millions of dashboards,
can surely admit that it has erred in other matters.
Unquote.
One would think so, but so far there has been no admission of wrongdoing by Rome,
even regarding the Inquisition, the mistreatment and massacre of tens of
thousands of Jews, the martyrdom of millions and I will say hundreds of
millions of Christians, the slaughter of one million Serbs just during World War
II, and the smuggling of tens of thousands of Nazi war criminals into safe havens
around the world.
Infallible?
Hardly.
It is the most diabolical institution on the planet.
It is the woman riding the scarlet-colored beast of Revelation chapter 17.
She has deceived the whole world.
Now Dave Hunt talks about these fawning multitudes that gather around the Pope at
any public appearance.
I'd like to ask the question, what about the kings of the earth over which he
rules?
Have you seen the pictures on Google images of the kings and the queens and the
presidents and the potentates of nearly every nation on the planet going to Rome
and wearing the colors of a penitent?
Black.
Always dressed in black.
And if they take their wives with them, they too must wear black and also a black
veil over their faces.
Have you seen the multitude of images that are now available to anyone to see how the
kings of the earth react in the presence of the Pope?
With heads bowed, with knees bent, while kissing his ring, or even more,
on their knees before his feet.
That's Bible prophecy being fulfilled right before our very eyes.
They believe the Pope is infallible.
They believe that the Pope is God on earth.
And even if they don't believe that, they dare not utter it.
Because they know the power that the Pope wields just by the breath of his mouth.
That any nation on this earth whose potentate will not bow before the Pope of
Rome, can the following day be under foreign attack or economic sanction or any
other penal penalty that the Pope wishes to perpetrate.
History repeats itself every day and it's time for God's people to wake up to the
reality.
And it's my pleasure to get to help that awakening.
That's all I have for today.
We'll continue with the reading of the book, A Woman Rides the Beast by Dave Hunt
on the program tomorrow.
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