I don't feel up to this, not to the topic and not even to the physical exertio of sitting at tmy computer to type it. But I am definiotely called to write something about this however inadeuate it muar vw.
I listened to an old book on the subject of the papacy as the antichrist by H Grattan Guinness but it's been a few weeks since I finished it, just haven't had theenergy to come to the computer. The reader of the book was overly dramatic and inserted his own opinions here and there, which I've neve encountered in a reader of an audio book before, which was rather distratacting and made me wonder if I was getting an accurate sense of the book.
The message that must be put across somehow is that the Roman Church is far more of a threat to Christianity and to the world than an;ybody has any idea in our day. The Protestant Church had s all but abandoned her first responsibility in this regard. What is the Church called to but to identify the enemy of CHrist and follow the Reformers in keeping him from rising to power again. That is the whole meaning of Protestantism, but what do we see in so called Protestant churches today but a nearly complete abdication of that responsibility. HJogn MacArthur keeps the message alive. So does Chris Pinto. There are others I'm not as familiar with. Richard Bennet died a few years ago. I think his website is probably still up[, the rean Beacon I think. But even the ministries to the Catholics, to try to save them from their doom in that soul killing institution are way too gentle about it, apparently fearing to drive them away if they speak as stronlgly as the subject warrants.
Catholicism is treated these days as just another denomination even by most Protestantsa. The nonChristian wrolrld thinks of it as the main representative of Christianity in the world, ooh miserable travesty. I mentioned in a previous post that Eric Metaxas seemed to be going out of his way tro avoid the problem of Catholicism in his recommendations ot Colson's efforts to unify all who call ghemselves CHristians for the purpose of taking on the evils in the culture. I recently heard a good discussion of the Christian character of western civilization on the podcast Uncommon Knowledge where the Inquiition was treated as an unfortunate failur of Christianity, certainly not the sign of the nonChristian nature of the Roman Church that is the true explanation of it. The same people always bring up the religionus wars too, as an argument against Christianity, without the slightest understanding of the cause of those wars even though theyu are historians and thinkers. That sort of analysis is jjust not part of any secular study these days, though I was impressed that they had all come to the recognition that Christianity played the dominating role in establishing western Ciilzation. These men were Doublas Murray and Tom Hollandj. Also Steven Meyter but he's a real Christian and I'm not sure of his view of these thigns, I don't think he had must to say baout it on that panel.
An;yway the book by H Grattan Guinness is a very stron gdenuniciation of the Roman Church and of the Protestant abdication of responsibility to keep it in the public eye as the great threat it is to civilization as well as to the true Church of Christ. He madkes the point that after the Reformation the nations that became Protestant wen t on to progress and prosper in all sort of ways while the nations that remained Catholic, or really, Roman, stagnated as they always had. America really owesa our liberties and properity to Protestantism, to the Reofrmation, no, not to theE Enlgihtenment. And although we have many names for our enemies these days, Marxism Wokeism, Communism, and so on, there is no doubt a strong Romanism influence influencing it all while flying under the radar. It emerges at least in its support of open borders and flooding the nation with foreigners, manu of whome are Catholic as well as direct enemies such as terrorist Islamists. I'm sure Chris Pinto has had a lot to say about this over the last year or so when I haven't been able to tget to his website. Even now I'm having trouble listening to it though I've been able to get back now and then. His is Noise of Thunder raDIO.
tHE PAPACY ITSELF ISA VIOLATION OF SCRITPTURE. wHEN THE rISHOP OF rOMAE SEDECLARED HIMSELF uNIVERSAL bISHOP OVER ALL THE OTHER BISHOPS HEW WAS USURPING A POWER THAT LAUNCHED HIM ON THE PATH TO THE FULL BLOWN ANTICHRIST WH PRESIDED OVER THE iNQUISISITON. eVEN gREGORY THE gREAT, THAT IS pope gREHGORY THE gREAT , SAID THAT THIS USURPATION OF POWER WAS A FIRST STEP TOAWARD TOHTE ROLE OF ANTICHIRST OR SOMEHINGA ALONG THOSE LINES, AND HE WAS THE FIRST POSPE, IN aD 607 TO TAKE ON THAT ROLE.
gUINNESS AMPLY PRESENTS ALL YTHE HORRIFIC ARROGANCEW OF THE PAPACY'S ASSUPTION OF POWERS OVER THE YEARS, AND ESPECIALLY ITS ARROGATION OF THE VERY POWERS AND IDENTIY OF goD. tHE HE AMPLY DESCRIBES THE HORRORS OF THE TORTUEUES INFLIECTED ON THE VISCTIMS OF THE iNQUISITION. oF COURSE THE rOMAN cHURCH HADA ALREADY BEEN PERSECUTING DISSIDENTS FOR YEARS ANYWAY, THE wALDENISANS AND THE OTHER GROPUS THAT RECOGNIZED THE PAPACY AS ANTICHRIST AND FORMED THEIR OWN DOMMUNITIES.
iN A WAY YOU'D THINK JUST THE OUTER TRAPPINGS OF THE rOMAN cHURCH WOULD MAKE IT CLEAR SHE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH cHRISTIANITY. tHE COLORFUL ROBES WHICH BELONG TO THE PAPGAN RELIGIONS OF rPAGAN rOEME, THE WEIRD LOOKING HGEADGREAR, THE LITTLE PAGAN PRACTICES LIKE THE SIGN OF THE CROSS, LIGHTING CANCDLES, DIPPING FINGERS IN "HOLY" WATER AND SO ON. tHE ROSARY WHICH IS USED IN bUDDHISM AND OTHER PAGAN RELIGIONS. L tHERE'S A LONG LIST OF THESE DEPARTURES FROM ANYTHING RLEATED TO BIBLICAL chRISTIANITY THAT IS ESCAPING ME RIGHT NOW.
i CAN'T DO THIS SUBJECT JUSTICES. i HOPE i'VE SAID ENOUGH FOR A START., AND THAT i'LL BE UP TO SAYING MORE EVENTUALLY
