A Woman Rides the Beast by Dave Hunt
very educational.
We're continuing in the chapter entitled, The Reformation Betrayed, speaking of
Roman Catholicism and leading into a discussion about ecumenism, which is
indeed the betrayal of the Protestant Reformation.
But Dave Hunt quotes a Roman Catholic apologist who interviewed Roman Catholics
and asked them certain questions.
And of their responses, he says, quote, and by the way, if you're following
along, we're on page 408, about halfway down the page, the quote by Peter Kreeft
is his name.
He says, Over the past 25 years, I have asked hundreds of Catholic college
students the question, if you should die tonight, and God asked you why he should
let you into heaven, what would you answer?
The vast majority of them simply do not know the right answer to this.
The most important of all questions, the very essence of Christianity.
They usually do not even mention Jesus, unquote.
So this is an admission, in a sense, that Roman Catholicism does not teach the
gospel of Jesus Christ, according to the Bible.
It's an admission that most Roman Catholic college students don't even mention Jesus
when they're discussing salvation.
The Roman Catholic Church teaches salvation by other means, sacramental
means, by means of works, and not grace.
Dave continues, he says, Here we have an admission that the Roman Catholic Church
does not teach salvation by grace through faith, in such a manner that most
Catholics understand it.
Martin Luther, John Calvin, and the other reformers did not come to know the
biblical gospel from their many years as devout Roman Catholics.
In fact, they claimed that Rome didn't teach this truth, and they appealed to her
to do so.
But her answer was no.
Trust me, she still says no.
She will not preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, because it's not the church of
Jesus Christ, it's the church of Antichrist.
In the same book, Kreef claims that Rome has always taught and still teaches the
true gospel, and that the Protestant Reformation was based upon an unfortunate
misunderstanding.
Yet that quote-unquote misunderstanding, by his own admission, persists to this day
in the minds of intelligent college students who have grown up in the Roman
Catholic Church.
Why?
Because it's not a misunderstanding.
Rome has added to justification by faith a complex system of religion by which
Catholics embrace a false gospel.
This is the very perversion of the gospel that Paul cursed in Galatians chapter 1
verse 6 through 9.
A missionary friend of the author, Dave Hunt, who has spent years in
door-to-door and street evangelism in Roman Catholic Spain, readily related
sadly, quote, I have yet to talk to a single Roman Catholic over here who can
explain what the gospel is, or just what it takes to be saved.
They are incredulous when I explain that I am assured of going to heaven after I die,
because the scriptures say so, and God doesn't lie.
None of them would say that it is sufficient only to believe in Jesus to be
saved, or that the blood of Jesus alone is in itself a sufficient price paid to
redeem them from the curse of sin.
The more involved they are in Roman Catholicism, the more firmly it seems that
they hold to the necessity of works added to their so-called faith.
Unquote.
A flickering candle of truth.
If we truly love the lost souls about us, no matter what their religious
affiliations, we will increase our efforts to bring them the truth of the gospel
before it's forever too late.
Such was the passion of Bishop Hugh Latimer, England's most powerful preacher
in his day, he had dared to explain the errors of transubstantiation, and of
Rome's false gospel, even during the reign of Roman Catholic Henry VIII, for which he
was imprisoned in the Tower of London.
Released when King Edward came to power, Latimer continued his passionate preaching
of the gospel of salvation by grace through faith in the finished work of
Christ, until, under Roman Catholic Bloody Mary, he was imprisoned again and burnt at
Balliol College on October 16th of 1555.
Bound back to back with iron chains at the same stake with Bishop Nicholas Ridley,
Latimer was heard to call out to his companion in martyrdom as the flames
engulfed them.
Here's what he said.
Be of good courage, Master Ridley, and play the man.
We shall this day, by God's grace, light such a candle in England as I trust
will never be put out." Such is the heritage of today's Protestants,
which evangelical leaders are now dishonoring and even repudiating.
Christian leaders who likely would not have known the gospel but for the martyrs
who bravely stood up to Rome are now joining in an unholy partnership with that
very institution which shed the martyr's blood.
Yes, the woman rides the beast, and part of that ride is an unholy
alliance with those who ought to know better.
Let us stand firmly against the descending darkness as that candle ignited by the
immolated bodies of countless martyrs flickers ever more dimly in our day.
That's the conclusion to chapter 25.
We'll now proceed to chapter 26 entitled, Apostasy and Ecumenism.
As all the other chapters, it begins with some very poignant quotes.
This one from the great Protestant Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
Listen to what he says.
It is the bounden duty of every Christian to pray against Antichrist.
And as to what Antichrist is, no sane man ought to raise a question.
If it be not the potpourri of the Church of Rome, there's nothing in the world that
can be called by that name.
It wounds Christ, robs Christ of his glory, puts sacramental efficacy in the
place of his atonement, and lifts a piece of bread in the place of the Savior.
If we pray against it because it is against him, we shall love the persons,
though we hate their errors.
We shall love their souls, though we loathe and detest their dogmas.
Now, a quote from a modern evangelical, Paul Crouch of Trinity Broadcasting
Network, recently deceased.
He says, quote, I'm eradicating the word Protestant even out of my vocabulary.
I'm not protesting anything.
It's time for Catholics and non-Catholics to come together as one in the Spirit and
one in the Lord.
And finally, 33rd degree Freemason Robert Schuller, the head Spiritist over the
Crystal Cathedral that's so popular, he said, quote, it's time for Protestants
to go to the shepherd, meaning the pope, and say, quote, what do we have to do to
come home?
Unquote.
Now, chapter 26, Apostasy and Ecumenism.
The statements with which we introduced this and the previous chapter indicated
dramatic change in thinking of Christian leaders regarding Roman Catholicism from
the days of Spurgeon to the present.
For 350 years, most Protestant creeds identified the papacy as the system of
antichrist.
That identification is now being dropped.
The world's foremost evangelist called Pope John Paul II, quote, the greatest
religious leader of the modern world, unquote.
One of America's foremost experts on the family considers the pope to be,
quote, the most eminent religious leader who names the name of Jesus Christ,
unquote.
One frequently hears of leading evangelicals who have visited the pope and
come away convinced that he is born again.
If so, how could he continue in that fraudulent office leading that corrupt
religious system with its false gospel of works and ritual that is sending multitude
to condemnation?
Increasing numbers of today's evangelicals are accepting Catholics as Christians and
seem to find no problem in joining with them in the evangelization of the world.
That fact is made clear by the very title of the historic joint declaration referred
to earlier by Catholic and evangelical leaders entitled Evangelicals and
Catholics Together, the Christian Mission in the Third Millennium.
Evangelicals and Catholics are declared to be full partners in this Christian mission
of taking the gospel to the world, and they are not to evangelize one
another.
Quote, it is neither theologically legitimate nor prudent use of resources
for one Christian community that is evangelical to proselytize among active
adherents to another Christian community, for instance, Roman Catholicism,
unquote.
Some of the leading Protestant evangelists are now conducting their crusades in full
partnership with Roman Catholics.
However, Dr. D.
Martin Lloyd-Jones explains why he could not support such crusades in England.
Quote, I remind you that the Protestant reformers were not just bigoted zealots
for the truth or fools.
Their eyes were opened by the Holy Spirit.
They saw this horrible monstrosity depicted in the Bible, and they warned
against it.
At the risk of even losing their lives, they stood up and protested.
A Christianity that merely preaches, come to Christ or come to Jesus,
cannot stand before Rome.
Probably what that will do ultimately will be to add to the numbers who belong to the
Roman Catholic Church.
People who hold evangelistic campaigns and say, are you Roman Catholics?
Go back to your church, unquote, are denying the New Testament teaching.
We must warn them, unquote.
So what is the New Testament teaching?
Come out of the Roman Catholic Church.
That's what the New Testament teaching is.
Revelation 18 verses 4 and 5.
We have shown that the Beast of Revelation 13 and 17 represent both the revived Roman
Empire and the Antichrist.
The false church headquartered in Rome is the woman riding the beast.
But that identification of the woman, which for centuries was almost unanimous
among Protestants, is accepted by only a few evangelical leaders today.
A new spirit of ecumenism is sweeping the Christian world.
Consider the following from Christianity Today editorial, quote, as we,
that is Catholics and evangelicals, discuss the meaning of the gospel and what
Christ meant to us, it became abundantly evident that we shared a common faith.
Traditional Roman Catholics accept the doctrine of grace alone.
They, Roman Catholics and evangelicals, share the promise of the Father that they
have been accepted by him, and so they, his children, had better accept each
other, unquote.
Nothing could be further from the truth, as we've thoroughly demonstrated.
The Catholic view of grace, faith, and salvation is not at all what the Bible
teaches.
Yet misinformation about Catholicism persists.
For example, Tom Houston, at the time International Executive Director of the
Luzan Committee for World Evangelism, told a plenary session of Luzan II in
Manila in 1989, quote, There are six saving acts of God in Jesus Christ.
The Incarnation, the Cross, the Atonement, the Resurrection, the Ascension,
Pentecost, the Second Coming of Christ.
Now all these churches, Anglican, Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Evangelicals,
Orthodox, and Pentecostals, believe in all six saving acts.
Let us make our unflinching goal to stay together as reflected in the Luzan
Covenant, unquote.
So at last, we learned from the previous director himself, that from the beginning
of the Luzan Covenant was intended to embrace Catholics and Orthodox.
That revelation came as a shock to those participants who knew the heresies of
Rome, which Houston's speech denied.
Delegates from Latin America, knowing Catholicism only too well, objected
strenuously to the embrace of Catholics as Christians.
Their protest was respected temporarily, but the momentum toward full fellowship
with Catholics now seems irreversible.
Now, Dave Hunt tells us the real direction of ecumenism.
A one-way street.
Evangelicals who imagine an equal partnership with Rome seem blind to the
obvious.
The term separated brethren, as used in Vatican Council too, and ever since then
in Catholic ecumenical documents, clearly indicates that unity can be
obtained only by non-Catholics joining the Roman Catholic Church.
This fact has also been declared in numerous papal pronouncements to the
Catholic faithful even before Vatican Council too.
Typical is the following from Pope Pius XII, quote, We must not pass over in
silence or veil in ambiguous terms the truth of Catholic teaching, that the only
true union is by return of the separated Christians to the one true Church of Jesus
Christ.
For those who do not belong to this visible body of the Church, none can be
assured of salvation, because they're still deprived of the helps and heavenly
favors found only inside the Roman Catholic Church, unquote.
Again, we see Rome teaching that a person cannot simply come to Jesus Christ and be
saved through faith in his all-sufficient sacrifice for sin.
There are other, quote, helps and heavenly favors, unquote, which are necessary for
one to be saved.
And these are found only inside the Roman Catholic Church.
Fortunately, the day has passed when this dogma had to be embraced under pain of
death.
That day, however, will come again, and perhaps sooner than we think.
And that's why this program is entitled Inquisition Update.
My belief is the same as Dave Hunt's in this respect.
Rome is going to get the upper hand again over God's people.
And if we don't heed these warnings, if we don't expose what Rome intends to do
in this country, God can only help us.
Dave continues, he says, ecumenism is no equal partnership, but a one-way street to
Rome.
There's an all-out effort by Roman Catholic apologists to refute the errors
and inadequacies in evangelicalism.
Thomas Howard's book describing his journey to Rome was titled Evangelical Is
Not Enough.
Tapes and books of this type are offered freely by Christian distributors and
carried without objection in most Christian bookstores.
Yet many of these same distributors and bookstores which handle Catholic material
refuse to stock books and tapes that are in any way critical of Catholicism,
even though they present the truth.
There's a new strategy at the Roman Catholic Church.
It's called ecumenism, and it's going to startle those who are not familiar with
its true tenets.
Dave says, having lost her status as the official state church in most parts of the
world, and no longer able to impose the death penalty for non-conformance,
Rome has adopted new tactics.
It was at her initiative, following the publishing of Digitatis Humanae,
that is, the Declaration of Religious Freedom at Vatican Council II,
that the concordats in the few remaining countries where only Catholicism was
allowed were changed to grant freedom of religion.
This occurred in Colombia in 1973, opening the door to all religions and
separating church from state.
The same action was taken in 1974 in the Swiss Canton of Valais, followed in 1975
by annulment of Article 24 in the 1940 Concordat with Portugal.
Religious liberty was granted in Spain in 1976 by revision of the Concordat to
provide for separation of church and state, followed by similar action in Peru
in 1980 and in Italy in 1984.
Finally, in July of 1992, laws guaranteeing freedom of religion for
non-Catholics at last went into effect in Mexico, though persecution and even
killing of Christians by Catholics is continued.
These moves did not reflect generosity on Rome's part, but a clever strategy of
taking the initiative to effect what was already inevitable in today's world.
Catholicism has become the ecumenical leader in a move to unite not only the
separated brethren of Protestantism, but all the world's religions in a new
world church.
To large Hindu audiences in India in 1986, John Paul II declared, quote, India's
mission is crucial because of her intuition of the spiritual nature of man.
Indeed, India's great contribution to the world can be to offer to it a spiritual
vision of man, and the world does well to attend willingly to this ancient wisdom
and in it to find enrichment for human living, unquote.
What an astonishing commendation of Hinduism by the Pope.
One of the world's most influential Hindu leaders, Sri Chinmoy, known as the guru of
the United Nations, where he holds twice-weekly meditations for UN staff,
has been praised by more than one Pope.
Chinmoy's 80-plus meditation centers around the world have led millions into
Hindu's darkness.
Yet, John Paul II considers him a friend and a co-worker and has greeted him thus,
quote, Bless your blessings to you and to your members.
We shall continue together, unquote.
Pope Paul VI told Chinmoy, quote, The Hindu life and the Christian life
shall go together.
Your message and my message are the same, unquote.
And now evangelical leaders are telling Rome that its gospel and their gospel are
also the same.
Rome, of course, will be the headquarters of the new world religion, and the Roman
Catholic hierarchy will be in charge.
Already she is preparing the way with amazing statements of acceptance of almost
anything, from voodoo to evangelicalism, while at the same time attacking the
latter.
We've come upon the break.
We'll continue with our reading and discussion of Dave Hunt's book,
A Woman Rises the Beast.
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about.
By uniting the rest of the world's religions, she is against Protestantism.
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Now, Dave Hunt is telling us that the Vatican is uniting all the world's
religions.
All of them.
And if you've been paying attention to this Jesuit Pope, Jorge Bergoglio,
even atheists are included in the new religion.
The new global religion.
And Satan, through the papacy, is doing exactly what could have been
foretold.
And was foretold in the Bible.
That the Vatican, that whore that rides the scarlet-colored beast of Revelation
chapter 17, would cause the whole world to unite once again against God.
That this man of sin in Rome is going to unite the whole world as it was at the
time of the Tower of Babel and Nimrod, the mighty hunter before or against the
Lord.
To unite all the nations to commit abominations before the Lord.
To worship every god.
And to bend the knee to every idol.
And Dave is absolutely correct in that assessment.
He says Rome, of course, will be the headquarters of the new world religion.
And the Catholic hierarchy will be in charge.
Already she is preparing the way with amazing statements of acceptance of almost
anything from voodoo to evangelicalism.
While at the same time attacking the latter, evangelicalism.
During his 1993 tour of Africa, the Pope, quote, sought common ground with
believers in voodoo.
Suggesting that they would not betray their traditional faith by converting to,
quote, unquote, Christianity.
Explaining that, quote, the Catholic Church wants to establish positive and
cooperative relationships with various faiths in view of a mutual enrichment,
unquote.
John Paul II declared that, quote, the Second Vatican Council recognized that
in all diverse religious traditions there is something true and good.
The seeds of the word, capital W.
It encouraged Christ's disciples to discover, quote, the riches which a
generous God has distributed among all nations, unquote.
Try to imagine Moses suggesting that Israel discover the riches to be found in
the religions of the idol-worshipping pagans around them.
Or imagine Paul suggesting that the Christians in Ephesus discover the riches
of the pagan worship at the Temple of Diana.
Then what are leading evangelicals doing in becoming Rome's partners?
The Vatican is embracing all religions except the true religion of Jesus Christ.
Like Mother Teresa, Pope John Paul II praises all religions.
Examples are legion, but we have space for only a few.
In 1985, speaking to Muslims at Brussels, Belgium, the Pope said, quote,
Christians and Muslims, we meet one another in faith in one God and strive to
put into practice the teachings of our respective holy books, unquote.
Islam's Allah is not the God of the Bible, nor could any Christian commend the
teachings of the Quran.
Meeting with Muslim leaders in West Africa in 1993, the Pope said, quote,
he called on Christians, Muslims, and animists to respect one another's
religious beliefs, unquote.
How can one respect beliefs that lead people to hell?
Far from asking us to respect pagan beliefs, the Bible condemns them.
Speaking to Shintoists and Buddhists in Tokyo in 1981, John Paul II commended the
wisdom of their ancient religions, which inspired them, quote, to see a
divine presence in each human being.
As Christ's vicar, I express my joy that God has distributed these religious gifts
among you, unquote.
An unthinkable statement in view of the errors of Shintoism and Buddhism.
In Togo in 1985, the Pope exalted that he had, quote, prayed for the first time with
animists, unquote.
A conservative Catholic critic of his church's astonishing ecumenism writes,
quote, originally ecumenism was concerned with unity among Christians, but it is now
increasingly with seeking the union of all religions, Christian or non-Christian.
On May 19th, 1964, Pope Paul VI officially launched a Secretariat for the
Non-Christians, which played an important role during the last two sessions of the
Council.
Some months later, Monsignor Wojtyla, who became Pope John Paul II, declared,
quote, nostalgia for the unity of Christians makes common cause with that of
unity for the whole human race.
This gives rise to the attitude of the church toward the other religions,
which is based on the recognition of their spiritual values.
Humans and Christians together, reaching out to such religions as Islam,
Buddhists, and Hindus, unquote.
While the Pope's embrace of all religions shocks conservative Roman Catholics,
it is actually consistent with history.
From the very beginning under Emperor Constantine, when statues of Isis and
Horus were renamed Mary and Jesus, and Pope Leo I, who reigned from 440 to
461 AD, boasted that St. Peter and St. Paul had, quote, replaced Romulus and
Remus as Rome's protected patrons, unquote.
Roman Catholicism has always accommodated itself to the pagan religions of those
people which it Christianized.
During the 1984 visit to New Guinea, Pope John Paul II presided over an outdoor
celebration of the new mass for natives.
The mass involved dancers who pranced to the altar for the operatory procession,
throwing up clouds of orange and yellow smoke, a pagan custom to ward off evil
spirits, while an 18-year-old college student read a passage of scripture at the
altar, wearing her traditional clothes, nude from the waist up.
The New York Times said the mass was indicative of, quote, the Roman Catholic
Church's efforts to make its services more universal by integrating into its ritual
and liturgy elements of the cultures of the peoples to whom Western missionaries
brought their religion, unquote.
Such integration is as old as Roman Catholicism itself.
In Haiti, every voodoo ceremony begins with Catholic prayers.
There's a saying in Haiti... there's a saying that Haiti is 85 percent Roman
Catholic and 110 percent Vaudan.
The frightening spiritist cult of Santeria, exploding across America,
has also a blend of African paganism and Catholicism involving gods passed off as
Catholic saints who front for demons.
Visiting the cemeteries in Rio de Janeiro on any religious holiday, one finds Roman
Catholic faithful there petitioning the spirits of their ancestors along with the
Catholic saints.
In Brazil and Cuba, Spiritism and voodoo-related African religions of
various kinds blend with Catholicism, and throughout Latin America, native
superstitions remain among Catholics.
The use of images, holy water, and many other rituals, now part of Roman
Catholicism, have been adapted from paganism.
One can hardly call Roman Catholicism Christianity.
And if one is tempted to call Roman Catholicism Christianity, one has shown
evidence of his deceit.
There's nothing Christian about Roman Catholicism.
It has always been the anti-church, the anti-Christ.
Rome's showing her true colors.
She now worships every god, makes room for every idol ever made.
It is the great apostasy, one that should be shunned by anyone professing Christ.
And you know what's striking to me at this point?
While it is evident now to anyone who's paying attention that Rome is rolling out
the red carpet to every demon posed as every god in the world, what about the
multitudes of millions of Bible-believing Christians and non-Catholics that Rome has
slaughtered like sheep throughout the centuries?
Isn't Rome admitting now that all that bloodshed was wrong?
She's now rolling out the spiritual red carpet to every cult on the planet to join
the mother of all cults.
Isn't that a repudiation of all the millions that she shed the blood who would
not enter a Roman Catholic church or have any sort of unity with the anti-Christ
church of Rome?
What about those hundreds of millions of martyrs, those whose blood was shed by
Rome, those whose blood has made the Roman Catholic church drunk?
What is to be said for this church in Rome now, having slain untold millions over the
centuries?
She's now embracing every religion.
I'm going to tell my listeners now what it means to me, that it should now be evident
to everyone in the world, knowledgeable of her bloody history, that she should be
destroyed from stem to stern, that the world owes her double what she has done to
God's people.
And that prophecy is found in Revelation chapter 17, and that's exactly what's
going to happen.
God's judgment is going to fall on the Roman Catholic church.
She has now identified herself as gross error, bloody error, anti-Christ.
After century upon century, millennia, we war against the Lamb of God by making
war against His people.
Rome is now rolling out the carpet for every cult on the planet.
She's defied herself.
She has exposed herself for what God has described her in the Bible.
Drunk with the blood of the saints and the martyrs of Jesus, Rome has given up on her
own profession.
The defender of the faith?
Rome's going to answer for every drop of blood that she has spilled over the last
2,000 years.
I don't see how it can be perceived in any other way.
She's admitted her error by embracing all religions.
She's repudiating Christianity as if there was ever a pretense that it was a
Christian religion at all.
Embracing atheists now as a viable partner in this New World Order religion?
What about all of those that she martyred in the name of Christ because they
wouldn't embrace the Roman Catholic church?
Has she repented of that?
Rome is never going to repent.
Of doing what she believes is good works.
Exterminating God's people.
But she has clearly shown herself to the world to be not against error,
but only to be against the truth.
You talk about confusion?
The Roman Catholic Church is the Tower of Babel.
The Tower of Confusion.
Under the subtitle Paganism within the Roman Catholic Church, Dave writes,
one finds every shade of New Age cult and mystical belief inside the Roman Catholic
Church itself.
Catholic world had an entire issue affirming the New Age movement without a
word of condemnation or correction.
Thousands of priests and nuns practice yoga and other forms of Hindu and Buddhist
mysticism.
Catholic schools across the country, once looked upon as bastions of sound
education, are as permeated with occult and New Age methods as are the public
schools.
Spirituality of the Christian educator presents a sampling of Catholic education
today.
New Jersey, New York area Catholic schools utilize a program entitled Energetics for
Living, a curriculum enhancement program for peace education developed by sisters
Virgilia Jim OSF and Claire Lange OSU.
Its purpose is nothing less than the transformation of the child from within
through contact with the creative energy found at the very center of their being,
leading to an experience of, quote, interconnectedness and interdependency of
all living creatures, unquote.
Contact with the child's sacred center is affected through the regular practice of
mediation, meditation, visualization, relaxation and breathing.
They have adapted the Hindu greeting namaste, which means the God in me greets
the God in you.
Once the student sees that he and everything is God, quote, who would do
violence to God or to any of his creatures, unquote, asks Sister Loretta
Carey, RDC of Fordham University.
Sister Mary L.
O'Hara, CSJ, professor of philosophy at the College of St. Mary, Omaha,
specializes in promoting Buddhist and Hindu techniques for enhancing education
in Catholic schools, unquote.
Catholic retreat centers around the world mix Christianity with Hinduism,
Buddhism, and all manner of New Age beliefs and practices.
Typical is the Ashram Ya Azeem, a Franciscan sister center for meditation
in Willard, Wisconsin, which seeks to reach, quote, Christ consciousness,
unquote, through various New Age techniques.
In its defense, Virginia Barta, president of Franciscan Sisters in the
United States of America, explains, quote, we can be Catholic and at the same
time open to recognize the mystical truth in all religions, unquote.
At the start of his first U.S.
tour, the Dalai Lama, who claims to be God, and the 14th reincarnation of the
original Dalai Lama, was feeded at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral at what
Time Magazine called, quote, an extraordinary inter-religious festival,
unquote, hosted by Cardinal Cook.
Declaring that, quote, all the world's major religions are basically the same,
unquote, the Dalai Lama was given a standing ovation by the overflow crowd.
Cardinal Cook called the event, quote, one of the dramatic movements of
the spirit in our time, unquote.
Surely not the Holy Spirit.
The entire May-June issue of 1990's Catholic World was devoted to Buddhism.
The articles were all sympathetic, including favorable quotes from the Pope.
One article was even entitled, quote, the Buddha revered as a Christian
saint, unquote.
John Paul II takes a broad-minded view of Buddhism and all other religions.
He considers the Tibetan Buddhist deity, Yoga, of his good friend, the Dalai Lama,
along with the prayers of witch doctors, spiritists, and every other religion,
to be generating, quote, profound spiritual energies, unquote, that are
creating a, quote, new climate of peace, unquote.
Similar examples could be multiplied according to a Los Angeles Times news
report, quote, Pope John Paul II slipped off his shoes to sit quietly and solemnly
with the supreme patriarch of Thailand's Buddhists at a Buddhist monastery in
Bangkok.
The Roman Catholic pontiff later praised the, quote, ancient and venerable wisdom,
unquote, of the Asian religion.
I would ask, what do these ancient Asian religions think of Rome's bloody attempt
to Catholicize all of Southeast Asia from Japan and Vietnam, and all the bloodshed
that took place?
Surely blindness has engulfed the whole world.
He says, try to imagine the Apostle Paul attending a Buddhist temple ritual and
praising Buddhism's wisdom, or Paul telling an audience of Hindus,
as did John Paul II during his visit to India, that he had not come there to teach
them anything but, quote, to learn from their rich spiritual heritage,
unquote, and that the world needs to heed India's spiritual vision of man,
unquote.
The entire Christian, excuse me, the early Christians would never have been
martyred had they taken a similar ecumenical approach to Rome's pagan
practices.
Listen to what Dave said.
Dave comprehends.
He says the early Christians, God's true people, would never have been martyred by
the Roman Catholic Church had they taken a similar ecumenical approach to Rome's
pagan practices.
But they took a position counter to Rome's pagan practices, and they would do so
today.
If they could come out of their graves, they would condemn this ecumenical
movement in the strongest possible terms.
Think of the early Christians, the Apostolic Church, if it could see what
Rome is doing to God's people today, and how God's people are allowing Rome to
do it, and assisting her in doing it.
Why ecumenical popes are so popular.
John Paul II seems to be failing in health at the time of the writing of this book,
in the 80s.
It says whether he recovers his strength and continues, or is replaced by another
pope, will have little effect on the future.
While Pope John Paul II is the most blatant and effective ecumenist ever,
he is only following in the footsteps of his predecessors, and his successor will
continue in the same direction.
And we know that to be the case.
Benedict XVI, and most especially this current pope, have followed in John Paul
II's footsteps, and are uniting all the world against Christ, and his body.
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