Kali yuga report 20902 Domestic terrorism American style

by Edward Hendrie
(henrymakow.com) 


Tony Blizzard's article, Catholic Church Was Bulwark Against Cabalists, begins with a disputable premise. Blizzard claims that "England which, before Protestantism, was known as Merrie ol' England and was about the most contented, happiest land on Earth." 

Blizzard's opinion, however, seems to be based to a large extent on mythology. Roy Judge, an expert on English folklore, has stated that Merrie ol' England is a mythical world that never actually existed. Not all agree with Judge. Why is there disagreement? Because, one's view of history is completely based upon the point of perception.

I am sure that the priests, bishops, and cardinals, from their point of view, had fond memories of their stay at the Vatican in the pre-Reformation period. There were 6,800 registered prostitutes in Rome in 1490 to service, for the most part, the clerics of Rome. Keep in mind, that was in a city with a population of only 90,000, and the figure does not include clandestine prostitutes.

If, however, you looked at the Vatican from the perspective of the prostitutes or their illegitimate offspring, you would get a less favorable view of the Vatican.

While some illegitimate children actually became future popes, others were not so lucky. In 655, the Ninth Council of Toledo decreed that the children of priests who had remained neither celibate nor chaste would become permanent slaves of the Catholic Church. 

In 1548, Pope Paul III issued the address, motu proprio, which stated that anyone in Rome "may freely and lawfully buy and sell publicly any slaves whatsoever of either sex." It is, therefore, not surprising to find that during the U.S. Civil War, the Vatican was the only nation to recognize the sovereignty of the Southern Confederate States.

I am sure that the former plantation owners in the antebellum southern states would remember fondly their experience on their plantations. The former slaves, however, would have a different, less-fond, memory of the plantations.

Getting back to the topic of feudal England, certainly the aristocracy and the Roman clerics viewed that period as idyllic and may even describe it as "Merrie ol' England." 

What about the Christians who wanted to follow biblical Christianity? Was England merry for them? The answer is unequivocally no. How could it be merry, when there was no true freedom of conscience? England before the so-called Reformation period was a superstitious time, with those who objected to the heathen practices of the Roman Catholic Church subjected to all manner of persecution.

I would refer readers to Acts and Monuments by John Foxe, which gives an authoritative account of the oppressive Roman Catholic reign in England before the Protestant Reformation. The massive work is available online at http://www.johnfoxe.org/ . Any disagreement with the Roman Catholic theology at that time was met with swift and sure punishment.

The persecution of biblical Christians by the Roman Church in "Merrie ol' England" did not stop at the grave. For example, in 1415 Englishman John Wycliffe (1328-1384), was deemed a "heretic" 30 years after his death by the Catholic Council of Constance. Pope Martin V ordered that Wycliffe's body to be exhumed, burned, and his ashes thrown in a river. It was done as ordered in "Merrie ol' England." The pope also ordered that Wycliffe's books be burned.