The Jesuits ... What is their role? Part 1 and 2

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BreadOfLife

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Just stop...it is all in the past...rehashing it will not accomplish anything.
What is your problem??

I'm NOT the one bringing this stuff up.
Why don't you tell this to your fellow Protestants who ARE.

You attacking me for responding to this nonsense is a textbook case of anti-Catholicism.
It's okay for them to attack the Church- but it's NOT okay for me to defend the Church, is that it??
 

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What is your problem??

I'm NOT the one bringing this stuff up.
Why don't you tell this to your fellow Protestants who ARE.

You attacking me for responding to this nonsense is a textbook case of anti-Catholicism.
It's okay for them to attack the Church- but it's NOT okay for me to defend the Church, is that it??
I am not attacking you. Get that straight. History bores people so what they read and hear is not accurate one way or the other. As you move back in history the cruelty increases. It does not matter if it is the Catholics or the Israelites. By our standards there are a lot of horrors in the past. The Protestants do not have a lot of that in their history because they never really had any power. Historians will tell you that no matter what it looks like on the surface, it is not a simple thing.

Forgiveness is a tenant of Christian faith. Most Christians have some understanding that if you cannot forgive, Christ said that we should not expect Him to forgive us. That means if they cannot forgive they will die in their sins. I do not condemn the Jews or the Catholics. I am more concerned with what they are doing today.
 

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Why not bring it up? Is there a fear of exposure..... to self? or is it easier to continue living in denial and misrepresentation?

Misrepresentation?? yeahhhh....how often has it been said here that it is the RC system that is the culprit....the people are pawns and are not blamed nor is it held against them.....yet it is put out again and again and again that the Catholic people are targeted. Just on this one point its defenders shoot themselves in the foot.

'There is nothing hidden that won't be revealed'.....'What you have heard in inner rooms, proclaim from the housetops' - Jesus.....but of course the Jesus of history just as the history of God's people under the thumb of religious oppression is not something that's popular with oppressors......they need to construct their own stories on these matters.....they need to delete the history of their evil deeds as quickly as they occur.

God in his providence has made sure this history is available to all who seek it in spite of the concerted efforts to eradicate and deny it.

The second angels message of Revelation 14:8 proclaims 'Babylon is fallen, is fallen.....' You may as well hold back the tide as hold back the history of the perpetrators of what we today know as the Dark Ages....and for good reason.
Proverbs 26:20 Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
21 As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
 
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I am not attacking you. Get that straight. History bores people so what they read and hear is not accurate one way or the other. As you move back in history the cruelty increases. It does not matter if it is the Catholics or the Israelites. By our standards there are a lot of horrors in the past. The Protestants do not have a lot of that in their history because they never really had any power. Historians will tell you that no matter what it looks like on the surface, it is not a simple thing.

Forgiveness is a tenant of Christian faith. Most Christians have some understanding that if you cannot forgive, Christ said that we should not expect Him to forgive us. That means if they cannot forgive they will die in their sins. I do not condemn the Jews or the Catholics. I am more concerned with what they are doing today.
WHHHHAAAT??

This is absolute anti-historical nonsense.
Henry VIII and his daughter Elizabeth I murdered over 72,000 Catholics. His Catholic daughter Mary, executed under 200 - yet in England, SHE is known as "Bloody Mary". This is a classic example of skewed anti-Catholic history.

As for your assertion that history "bores" people - again, I was responding to an attack. I'm NOT the one who brought any of this up.
Go and admonish your fellow anti-Catholics - but don't tell me not to defend my Church against these lies.
 
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Those poor Pharisees! Jesus must have given them and unjustified hard time.....of course they were innocent upstanding role models of their society.....how dare Jesus speak so cruelly of them! Just look at the evidence....they tithed mint and cumin....they prayed fervently for widows who had lost their houses.....they washed their hands before every meal and never hung out with questionable characters like tax collectors and prostitutes but it does make me wonder how they caught the woman in the very act of adultery......interestingly enough, they didn't bring her mate.....Ohh yes, he was excusable, you know, men do that all the time.....we won't mention those in religious office.....and of course the rabble which they despised was eagerly sort to add volume to their voice of condemnation in the early hours of the morning when they pulled him in under cover of darkness.....yeahhh, they had their contacts....sound familiar?

The evidence is clear....Jesus was out of order to criticise them.....he should have held his peace and allowed the wealthy to deposit their offerings without highlighting the greater gift of the two mites. He should never have turned water into wine.......to the tune of eighty gallons....I mean, that's just whistling down the alley of any alcoholic.....and feeding thousands for free....don't you get it? any fool can see it'll stuff the economy keeping that up......and making that whip, a deliberate and protracted effort ......what a hypocrite!...what a charlatan!.....he speaks of love yet whips the tail offa those money changers who after all were only doing their job.

Bury him alive....burn him at the faggot.....strangle him at the gallows.....rip out his beard, banish him for eternity....cast him out with a thousand anathemas.....yeahhhh, turn him into the excrement of the world......how dare he threaten the law and order of our well established and traditional holy system!!!

I actually have read some of the writings of EGW the false prophet. She had the typical Protestant beliefs with their hatred of Catholicism and their comical understanding of prophecy where they shoe horn Daniel and Revelation into worthless historical ages. Some how she got it into her mind that the evil pope changed the Sabbath to Sunday and plastered this theme into many of her writings. Thus she condemned multiple generations of SDA to endless legalism where they try to make Saturday holy and keep the ten commandments. I actually feel sorry for SDA, I can't imagine growing up and living in that kind of darkness - it must be hell on earth.
 

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Just stop...it is all in the past...rehashing it will not accomplish anything.
History is supposed to teach us lessons, but never does. Hence the saying "History repeats itself". If the Jesuits have been involved in nefarious plots in the past, what makes you think that they are still not doing the same thing?

Take Pope Francis who is a Jesuit. A fellow Jesuit quipped "He may act like a Franciscan, but he thinks like a Jesuit". Even many Catholic clergy were shocked that a Jesuit became a pope.If you have followed his career you will note that:

1. HE HAS DONE HIS UTMOST to undermine nationalism and promote Globalism and the New World Order through migrant invasion and other insidious means.

2. He has done his utmost to undermine Western nations by constantly telling the world that illegal migrants should simply flood the West. And the Catholic Church has a hand in maintaining and encouraging illegals in the USA -- IN VIOLATION OF THE LAW. Which means that it has a hand in undermining proper democratic elections while encouraging voter fraud.

3. He has become a leading champion of the Climate Change Hoax.

4. He has undermined the teachings of the Catholic Church, and there are many Catholics who see him as a heretic."Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger [who later became a pope] "investigated, sanctioned and sometimes silenced Jesuit theologians who were considered too eager to marry the Gospel to suspect social movements" (National Catholic Reporter)

5. He always speaks out of both sides of his mouth, and his public statements have to be constantly clarified and defended.

6. He claims that Muslims are his brothers, and says not a word about Radical Muslim terrorism.

7. He has attacked Donald Trump and said that Trump is not a Christian, because Trump opposes Globalism.

8. He has attempted to pacify the Chinese Communist thugs at the expense of Chinese Catholics.

9. He believes in Communistic Liberation Theology:"In the 1960s, the Jesuits collectively opted for a decisive shift to emphasizing working on behalf of the poor and for social justice. In the developing world, that put Jesuits on the front lines of popular movements for the poor, such as liberation theology, and led to martyrdom at times" (National Catholic Reporter).

10. He believes in undermining Catholic theology while promoting promoting Maryolatry.
 
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History is supposed to teach us lessons, but never does. Hence the saying "History repeats itself". If the Jesuits have been involved in nefarious plots in the past, what makes you think that they are still not doing the same thing?

Take Pope Francis who is a Jesuit. A fellow Jesuit quipped "He may act like a Franciscan, but he thinks like a Jesuit". Even many Catholic clergy were shocked that a Jesuit became a pope.If you have followed his career you will note that:

1. HE HAS DONE HIS UTMOST to undermine nationalism and promote Globalism and the New World Order through migrant invasion and other insidious means.

2. He has done his utmost to undermine Western nations by constantly telling the world that illegal migrants should simply flood the West. And the Catholic Church has a hand in maintaining and encouraging illegals in the USA -- IN VIOLATION OF THE LAW. Which means that it has a hand in undermining proper democratic elections while encouraging voter fraud.

3. He has become a leading champion of the Climate Change Hoax.

4. He has undermined the teachings of the Catholic Church, and there are many Catholics who see him as a heretic."Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger [who later became a pope] "investigated, sanctioned and sometimes silenced Jesuit theologians who were considered too eager to marry the Gospel to suspect social movements" (National Catholic Reporter)

5. He always speaks out of both sides of his mouth, and his public statements have to be constantly clarified and defended.

6. He claims that Muslims are his brothers, and says not a word about Radical Muslim terrorism.

7. He has attacked Donald Trump and said that Trump is not a Christian, because Trump opposes Globalism.

8. He has attempted to pacify the Chinese Communist thugs at the expense of Chinese Catholics.

9. He believes in Communistic Liberation Theology:"In the 1960s, the Jesuits collectively opted for a decisive shift to emphasizing working on behalf of the poor and for social justice. In the developing world, that put Jesuits on the front lines of popular movements for the poor, such as liberation theology, and led to martyrdom at times" (National Catholic Reporter).

10. He believes in undermining Catholic theology while promoting promoting Maryolatry.
What if Christ promoted "Maryolatry" Don't forget you are talking about His mother.
Does everyone need someone not to like? To some degree that might be true.
I don't like commie democrats. Our country is under attack from the democrats...all of them. I don't see many of them standing up against Petty Pelosi so they are all enemies of the state trying to force some sort of weird form of new age communism on the United States. Blood thirsty baby killers and and any one that votes for them.
So we all have people we do not like, but we can probably find more constructive topics.
Earlier I put forth the idea of the Hater's Church....ever consider that?
 

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There is nothing to be learned from quietthinker's rubbish except how much some people hate the Catholic Church and will propagate any lies they come across.

I always find it Funny, how one one hand Catholics Boast of being the oldest Christian Church...and on the other hand when someone brings up Undesirable Things that have occurred Within Leadership through centuries of the Catholic Church...:
The response by a Catholic is Always:
"That's rubbish...OR...you are a hater".

You should take a step into Reality...the Catholic Leadership is not immune to Flaws.

Discussion of Catholic Flawed Leadership does not MAKE a person a hater! :rolleyes:
 

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I always find it Funny, how one one hand Catholics Boast of being the oldest Christian Church...and on the other hand when someone brings up Undesirable Things that have occurred Within Leadership through centuries of the Catholic Church...:
The response by a Catholic is Always:
"That's rubbish...OR...you are a hater".

You should take a step into Reality...the Catholic Leadership is not immune to Flaws.

Discussion of Catholic Flawed Leadership does not MAKE a person a hater! :rolleyes:
A hater...hater... You go to the Bible and open it up and you read it and it reads you. And it will be your character that you pull from the scriptures....if you are a condemner...you will find condemning scriptures...you want to hate...you will find that too....must hate your mother and father.
Forgiveness is a tenant of Christian faith. Most Christians have some understanding that if you cannot forgive, Christ said that we should not expect Him to forgive us. That means if they cannot forgive they will die in their sins. I do not condemn the Jews or the Catholics. I am more concerned with what they are doing today.
The purest of denominations live in glass houses...some houses larger than others...and all shall sin and fall short of the glory of God....boy we have all wore that one down to the rim.
We can go through the Israelites swording the bellies of pregnant women.
We can talk about King David being a murderer and an adulterer.....enjoy Psalms...religious advise from who?
We can talk about King Solomon, the wisest man, building temples and worshiping the goddess, according to Old Testament law that is not a good thing. Enjoy the religious advise of Proverbs.
 
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A hater...hater... You go to the Bible and open it up and you read it and it reads you. And it will be your character that you pull from the scriptures....if you are a condemner...you will find condemning scriptures...you want to hate...you will find that too....must hate your mother and father.
Forgiveness is a tenant of Christian faith. Most Christians have some understanding that if you cannot forgive, Christ said that we should not expect Him to forgive us. That means if they cannot forgive they will die in their sins. I do not condemn the Jews or the Catholics. I am more concerned with what they are doing today.
The purest of denominations live in glass houses...some houses larger than others...and all shall sin and fall short of the glory of God....boy we have all wore that one down to the rim.
We can go through the Israelites swording the bellies of pregnant women.
We can talk about King David being a murderer and an adulterer.....enjoy Psalms...religious advise from who?
We can talk about King Solomon, the wisest man, building temples and worshiping the goddess, according to Old Testament law that is not a good thing. Enjoy the religious advise of Proverbs.

You are off on a tangent.

Parents are to teach their child the Truth, before they are exposed to the world of lies and deception.

Disney had a long standing reputation for Fantasy of young child's play...
They should no longer have that standing reputation.
 

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You are off on a tangent.

Parents are to teach their child the Truth, before they are exposed to the world of lies and deception.

Disney had a long standing reputation for Fantasy of young child's play...
They should no longer have that standing reputation.
Teaching children hate at a young age is a formula for disaster.
 

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Teaching children hate at a young age is a formula for disaster.

WHO brought up HATE? Catholics!
That was a point the Catholics always bring up HATE when historical Catholicism is discussed.

And where did "you" come up with teaching Children HATE?

I said nothing about that.
 

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WHO brought up HATE? Catholics!
That was a point the Catholics always bring up HATE when historical Catholicism is discussed.

And where did "you" come up with teaching Children HATE?

I said nothing about that.
Parents are to teach their child the Truth, before they are exposed to the world of lies and deception.

Disney had a long standing reputation for Fantasy of young child's play...
They should no longer have that standing reputation.
 

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Parents are to teach their child the Truth, before they are exposed to the world of lies and deception.

Disney had a long standing reputation for Fantasy of young child's play...
They should no longer have that standing reputation.

Uh, why are you repeating my post?
 

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Parents are to teach their child the Truth, before they are exposed to the world of lies and deception.
So ok? What do you mean by this?

The Truth is God designed boys to become men and girls to become women and together to become husbands and wives.

Don't you believe that is Gods design?
 

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The Truth is God designed boys to become men and girls to become women and together to become husbands and wives.

Don't you believe that is Gods design?
Different topic but I can go along with that