Chaos may be defined as a state of complete confusion and/or total disorder. That exact situation appears to be happening in the Middle east today with tentacles extending worldwide. Innocent, or at least unarmed, people are caught between two hostile forces hurling lethal weapons at each other — most are defenseless and many die. Supporters of each side are demonstrating publicly worldwide with a noticeable number on major college and university campuses. Major news reports suggest that these demonstrating students have been ‘brainwashed’ by liberal college professors sympathetic to the Palestinian cause which seems to be supported by Hamas and other groups which have been labeled by the free world as terrorists.
And what is the basic cause of this hostility and chaos? It appears to me that it is a hostility between Judaism and the precursors of Islam. If we can believe the Bible, that hostility and bewilderment extends back to Ishmael and his nephew, Esau. If you will recall, Ishmael was the son of Abraham and his and Sarah’s Egyptian Slave girl Hagar which transpired at the insistence of his wife, Sarah. She was elderly and barren but did bear a son, Isaac later. When Ishmael was a juvenile, Sarah became increasingly jealous of Hagar and insisted on Abraham banish her and her son to the wilds, which he reluctantly did. That seems to be the beginning of hostility between Ishmael and Isacc and was furthered by Ishmael’s nephew Esau who was the elder of his twin brother Jacob and was fathered by Isacc. The Israelites (Jews) were descendants of Jacob while Esau is credited with being father of the Edomites who participated in destroying the first temple by king Nebuchadnezzar. The enmity between the Israelites and Arabs was engendered and has persisted to this day. There seems to be an ever-growing determination of one branch of Islam who are the descendants of Ishmael and Esau to totally destroy every Israelite in Israel. Nor does their enmity stop there — they seem hell-bent on destroying every human who is not a supporter of Islam. If I understand it correctly all non-Islamists are considered to be infidels and worthy of mandatory death.
That philosophy is in total contrast to the so-called Christian philosophy which says, ‘love your God with your total being and love your neighbor as yourself’ (paraphrased). Mind you, that was Jesus’ mandate which was totally abandoned by those who purport to be his followers and was supplanted by a quasi-Jewish religion of sacrifice which aims to appease a hostile God— The Holy Roman Catholic Church. I am keenly aware that many of you are totally unaware of your so-called Christian background, but believe me, it all began at the 1st council of Nicaea which was called by Roman emperor Constantine in the year 325 AD. He was not so much concerned with the unrest which existed in his empire as he was with the lack of productivity of the so-called Christians who were squabbling among themselves about what Jesus said, did, and meant, rather than producing for the Empire. It was at that council that Jesus’ name went down in infamy as a subscriber to a ‘punitive God’— as mater of reality, Jesus despised religion in all its forms and proclaimed an attitude of ‘love’ as the only means to happiness and to God— that proclamation got him crucified. Oddly enough, that rallying cry of ‘love’ was Paul’s also but seems to be ignored by the ‘sacrificial’ Christians.
Had he been teaching a philosophy supportive of Judaism; he would have been welcomed with open arms. But Jesus could clearly see the oppressive aspect of Judaism which had been connivingly usurped by the king and High Priest, all for their own personal monetary gain. There is no doubt in my mind that Jesus’ purpose was not be our redeemer by dying for us as appeasement of a Vengeful God for our sins but, rather his only purpose was to be our liberator from the terrible persecuting blanket of guilt which had been thrown over us by Moses so he could exercise control over us through using God’s name as his power source. Jesus recognized God as Perfect with Perfect Love. Jesus knew that a Perfect God could not possibly be offended or changed in anyway. He saw God as Perfect Love which means God could not possibly hate or be offended by anything he had created. That philosophy was a total contradiction of Judaism –its promulgation and acceptance by the Jewish community would have completely supplanted the oppressive sacrificial religion of Judaism. Furthermore, and more importantly, it would have completely destroyed the money-making machine of the king and High Priest — they would have no part of that. So, they conjured up false claims against him and incited the crowd to demand his crucifixion — that was done to their delight.
The framers of the Holy Roman Catholic Church at Emperor Constantine’s behest could clearly see how this new religion must be a new, watered-down version of Judaism with themselves as the chief benefactors. So, they set up this new model which eventuated through the years with an elaborate cascading hierarchy from Pope at the top through Cardinals, Archbishops, auxiliary bishops, diocesan bishops, monsignors, priests and finally deacons — all backed at the time by the Roman Army — what a glorious arrangement!!!
That arrangement lasted through Constantine and his son’s reigns. Then the Roman Empire support became gradually weaker until total collapse with the fall of the Empire in 476 and literally all-hell broke loose. I suppose one could say there was a legitimate attempt to hold the church together through the next parade of popes, but the corruption of both hierarchy and priests alike is well documented and the disarray became rampant, culminating in a parade of bad popes beginning with pope Stephen V1 in 896 and ending somewhat with Paul 1V 1559. At that point in time, 1524, Martin Luther and others had seen, heard, and had enough of the overt corruption in the Church and rebelled starting the Protestant Reformation. Ultimately, Luther and his cohorts are reported as not being the ‘purest of heart’, but, at that time, it was very difficult for anyone to comprehend and discover what exactly was correct, coherent Catholic doctrine. Luther and others developed a doctrine of their understanding and liking, and the rest is well-documented history. The Catholic Church persists but has never recovered from those many years of scandal — likely, never will. Chaos has existed in the Christian world ever since.
In the years prior to Vatican 2, Catholics were shackled with the vilest of anti-animalistic controls the world could imagine. The Church totally failed to recognize that humans are only one species in a train of thousands of animal species with the identical, built-in, urges as all other species — reproduction at any cost, and food at any cost. On second thought, I am convinced that the Church did, in fact recognize those traits, but chose to, rather than admit and honor them, decided to use them for absolute control — such was my personal upbringing —I was 90 y/o yesterday. When Vatican 2 started, I was 23 y/o, penniless, in med school, one child and a pregnant wife — life was a torture chamber — no humans need suffer that torture because of senseless controlling religion — it created chaos in my life and the lives of many.
A litany of fearmongering controls, most of which centered around sex, were spewed from every Catholic pulpit in the world— artificial birth control of any kind was a mortal sin and strictly prohibited—likewise, premarital sex and masturbation. The prohibition against masturbation stemmed from the ignorant proclamation by Thomas Aquinas that all the babies were in the male semen and would be spilled on the ground to their death — a male chauvinistic, patristic attitude of male superiority which had been in existence for centuries — it would be unthinkable for a female to house the unignited babies —she was only an incubator. In addition, there were absolute rules prohibiting consumption of meat on Fridays and Ash Wednesday. Purgatory, hell, and Limbo were in full vogue. My Daily Mass Missel contained page after page of ‘indulgence bearing prayers’. For those of you who do not know, an indulgence is a time reducing ticket in Purgatory. As a side note, the selling of indulgences by the pope was one of the major grievances of Martin Luther which prompted him to bolt the Church. Infant baptism was mandatory — all Catholic doctors, nurses and ancillary medical personal were counseled strictly to immediately baptize any new-born who appeared to be dying or in danger of death to avoid that child’s exclusion from heaven and thereby, be condemned to spend eternity in Limbo, a state of happiness, but never experiencing the beauty of God. Mixed marriages were strictly discouraged and were not allowed inside the Church building, but rather, were performed in the rectory (priest’s residence).
One of the most ludicrous mandates in my Diocese of Owensboro, Kentucky was that all Catholics must attend Catholic schools including colleges and universities. That mandate hit home when in 1951 my third oldest brother, Louis moved back with my parents to Fancy Farm, Kentucky with the intention of attending Murray State University. When my parish priest learned of that, he promptly informed my parents that they would be excommunicated if they allowed him to live in their house while attending a non-Catholic institution. Rather than cause our parents such consternation, Louis promptly moved in with our older brother, George who lived in Scottsdale, Arizona and attended Arizona State University where he obtained his degree in education. Of course, we know the history — with the advent of Vatican 2, the sisters, who had been the ‘free’ teachers in those Catholic schools nationwide, came out of the convent — catholic schools closed immediately — the Catholic Church was not about to spend the money to hire lay teachers. Suddenly it was no longer a mortal sin to attend a non-Catholic school —what a sham.
I mention all the above to show conclusively how the Catholic Church has used ‘sex’ as a ‘weapon of control’ in what seems to me an obvious attempt at, not only retaining but also increasing the number of Catholics in the world— the more Catholics, the more money for their coffer used mainly for ‘empire building’. I haven’t heard birth control (not even abortion) Purgatory, Indulgences, Limbo, mixed marriages, or divorce mentioned from a Catholic pulpit in over forty years — I wonder why. I think I know — religion has become less relevant in young people’s minds — they simply ignore Church rules and act according to their common sense. Consequently, they are dropping from the Church rolls. In response, the Church has quit talking about those oppressive rules and pretend they never existed. As I recall, when Pope Francis was elected and the conservatives of the Church asked him about that, he said in response, ‘None of the rules have changed. We’ve just got to stop talking about them (paraphrased). Those decreased rolls mean too much revenue lost — to hell with the souls. —I’ve always said that when the ‘money well’ dries up preachers of all kinds will vanish like ‘ghosts in the night’. That similar ruse has been used by the Church forever. They know that the older folks like me will soon be gone, and the young people have no interest in research and history. So, the Church pretends it never happened and it gets conveniently ‘swept under the carpet’ never to be seen again.
Let me get this straight for you. The Church has set itself up as the absolute voice of God here on earth. Any organization has the right to establish its own set of rules which members must obey to be members. However, the Church has set itself up as the absolute authority. So, it must pretend that God keeps changing his mind — I know better. God is ‘A Perfect Rational Being’, incapable of change of any kind.
Therefore, with this knowledge and understanding, I feel compelled to share it with you so that anyone who cares to listen will have a clear understanding of where they came from and where they may be headed. It saddens me to no end that these conclusions seem correct. However, if you have been following my writings, including my books, Wilderness Cry, Peace in Spirituality, and Provocative Catholic, in addition to my four hundred blog posts, you are aware that I began noticing discrepancies in what I was told by the Church and what I could observe in real life at age twelve to thirteen. Those discrepancies triggered in me a compelling determination to embark on ‘a journey of understanding, which culminated some sixty-five years later in my ability to do something heretofore never done — define the essence of God. That understanding of who God is instantly nullified all religion of any kind because all are based on a false understanding of God — all may be likened to a coon dog ‘barking up the wrong tree’.
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