The Pope meets Hitler

This is from a book by David A. Plaisted called, “Estimates of the Number Killed by the Papacy in the Middle Ages and later” You can download the entire document here.

Some of the text from that document:

Here are some of the places where figures about religious persecutions are given. Dowling in his History of Romanism says

“From the birth of Popery in 606 to the present time, it is estimated by careful and credible historians, that more than fifty millions of the human family, have been slaughtered for the crime of heresy by popish persecutors, an average of more than forty thousand religious murders for every year of the existence of popery.”

— “History of Romanism,” pp. 541, 542. New York: 1871.

Commenting on this quote, a fundamental Baptist web site says the following:

Concerning the figure of two million killed, Bourne writes

Bertrand, the Papal Legate, wrote a letter to Pope Honorius, desiring to be recalled from the croisade against the primitive witnesses and contenders for the faith. In that authentic document, he stated, that within fifteen years, 300,000 of those crossed soldiers had become victims to their own fanatical and blind fury. Their unrelenting and insatiable thirst for Christian and human blood spared none within the reach of their impetuous despotism and unrestricted usurpations. On the river Garonne, a conflict occurred between the croisaders, with their ecclesiastical leaders, the Prelates of Thoulouse and Comminges; who solemnly promised to all their vassals the full pardon of sin, and the possession of heaven immediately, if they were slain in the battle. The Spanish monarch and his confederates acknowledged that they must have lost 400,000 men, in that tremendous conflict, and immediately after it-but the Papists boasted, that including the women and children, they had massacred more than two millions of the human family, in that solitary croisade against the southwest part of France.

— Bourne, George, The American Textbook of Popery, Griffith & Simon, Philadelphia, 1846, pp. 402-403.

In only one crusade, two million Albigenses were killed. How many must there have been altogether, and how many millions more must have been killed during the entire Middle Ages! Another source writes

The Catholic crusade against the Albigenses in Southern France (from 1209-1229), under Popes Innocent III., Honorius III. and Gregory IX., was one of the bloodiest tragedies in human history. … The number of Albigenses that perished in the twenty years’ war is estimated at from one to two millions.

— Cushing B. Hassell, History of the Church of God, Chapter XIV.

W. E. H. Lecky says:

“That the Church of Rome has shed more innocent blood than any other institution that has ever existed among mankind, will be questioned by no Protestant who has a competent knowledge of history. The memorials, indeed, of many of her persecutions are now so scanty, that it is impossible to form a complete conception of the multitude of her victims, and it is quite certain that no power of imagination can adequately realize their sufferings.” — “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe,” Vol. II, p. 32. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910.

The following quotation is from The Glorious Reformation by S. S. SCHMUCKER, D. D., Discourse in Commemoration of the Glorious Reformation of the Sixteenth Century; delivered before the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of West Pennsylvania, by the Rev. S. S. Schmucker, D.D., Professor of Theology in the Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. Published by Gould and Newman. 1838.

Need I speak to you of the thirty years’ war in Germany, which was mainly instigated by the Jesuits, in order to deprive the Protestants of the right of free religious worship, secured to them by the treaty of Augsburg? Or of the Irish rebellion, of the inhuman butchery of about fifteen millions of Indians in South America, Mexico and Cuba, by the Spanish papists? In short, it is calculated by authentic historians, that papal Rome has shed the blood of sixty-eight millions of the human race in order to establish her unfounded claims to religious dominion (citing Dr. Brownlee’s “Popery an enemy to civil liberty”, p. 105).

Estimates range up to 7 to 12 million for the number who died in the thirty years’ war, and higher:

This was the century of the last religious wars in “Christendom,” the Thirty Years’ War in Germany, fomented by the Jesuits, reducing the people to cannibalism, and the population of Bohemia from 4,000,000 to 780,000, and of Germany from 20,000,000 to 7,000,000, and making Southern Germany almost a desert, …

— Cushing B. Hassell, History of the Church of God, Chapter XVII.

Concerning the Irish rebellion, John Temple’s True Impartial History of the Irish Rebellion of 1641, written in 1644, puts the number of victims at 300,000, but other estimates are much smaller. Some estimates are larger:

In addition to the Jesuit or Catholic atrocities of this century already enumerated with some particulars, they massacred 400 Protestants at Grossoto, in Lombardy, July 19th, 1620; are said to have destroyed 400,000 Protestants in Ireland, in 1641, by outright murder, and cold, and hunger, and drowning; …

— Cushing B. Hassell, History of the Church of God, Chapter XVII.

In fact, the population of Ireland is estimated to have decreased from 2 million in 1640 to 1.7 million in 1672, according to R.F. Foster, Modern Ireland 1600-1972 (1988). However, this could have resulted from British reprisals to some extent and from emigration, forced or voluntary. The population should have increased by about 200,000 during this period, assuming a 30 percent growth rate per century. This implies that 500,000 people in excess of normal either died or left Ireland during this time, and is consistent with 300,000 or more Protestants being killed in 1641.

The figure of 68 million appeared in Schmucker’s talk in 1838, in Brownlee’s book of 1836, and also in a book “Plea for the West” by Lyman Beecher (Cincinnati, Truman and Smith, 1835), pp. 130-131:

And let me ask again, whether the Catholic religion, in its union with the state, has proved itself so unambitious, meek, and unaspiring so feeble, and easy to be entreated, as to justify-a proud, contempt of its avowed purpose and systematic movements to secure an ascendancy in this nation? It is accidental that in alliance with despotic governments, it has swayed a sceptre of iron, for ten centuries over nearly one-third of; the population of, the globe, and by a death of violence is estimated to have swept from ‘the’ earth about sixty-eight millions of its inhabitants, and holds now in darkness and bondage nearly half the civilized world?

The exact quote of Brownlee referenced above is as follows:

In one word, the church of Rome has spent immense treasures and shed, in murder, the blood of sixty eight millions and five hundred thousand of the human race, to establish before the astonished and disgusted world, her fixed determination to annihilate every claim set up by the human family to liberty, and the right of unbounded freedom of conscience.

— Popery an enemy to civil liberty, 1836, pp. 104-105.

Also, in another work Brownlee states

Papal Rome has shed the blood of fifty millions of Christians in Europe!

— The Roman Catholic Religion viewed in the light of Prophecy and History, New York, Charles K. Moore, 1843, page 60.

And later in the same work,

The best writers enumerate fifty millions of Christians destroyed by fire, and the sword, and the inquisition; and fifteen millions of natives of the American continent and islands; and three millions of Moors in Europe, and one million and a half of Jews. Now, here are sixty-nine millions and five hundred thousands of human beings, murdered by “the woman of the Roman hills, who was drunk with the blood of the saints.” And this horrid list does not include those of her own subjects, who fell in the crusades in Asia, and in her wars against European Christians, and in South America!

— page 97.

These quotations make it clear that the figure of 50 million refers only to Christians in Europe, and does not include Christians killed elsewhere. It is also clear that Brownlee is taking these figures not from just one person, but from at least two, “the best writers,” and ignoring others that he feels are less qualified. Many others must have been convinced of the reputation of these individuals as well, judging from the frequency with which the figure of 50 million is quoted.

Brownlee further comments on the number killed by the Papacy in another work as follows:

When Laguedoc was invaded by these monsters, one hundred thousand Albigensees fell in one day! See Bruys vol. iii. 139.

— page 346

There perished under pope Julian 200,000 Christians: and by the French massacre, on a moderate calculation, in 3 months, 100,000. Of the Waldenses there perished 150,000; of the Albigenses, 150,000. There perished by the Jesuits in 30 years only 900,000. The Duke of Alva destroyed by the common hangman alone, 36,000 persons; the amount murdered by him is set down by Grotius at 100,000! There perished by the fire, and tortures of the Inquisition in Spain, Italy, and France 150,000. … In the Irish massacres there perished 150,000 Protestants!

To sum up the whole, the Roman Catholic church has caused the ruin, and destruction of a million and a half of Moors in Spain; nearly two millions of Jews South America in Europe. In Mexico, and , including the islands of Cuba and St. Domingo, fifteen millions of Indians, in 40 years, fell victims to popery. And in Europe, and the East Indies, and in America, 50 millions of Protestants, at least, have been murdered by it!

Thus the church of Rome stands before the world, “the woman in scarlet, on the scarlet colored Beast.” A church claiming to be Christian, drenched in the blood of sixty-eight millions, and five hundred thousand human beings!

— W. C. Brownlee, Letters in the Roman Catholic controversy, 1834, pp. 347-348.

Brownlee apparently revised the 69 million figure downwards to 68 million. So the figure of 68 million has several sources in the early 1800’s. The source for some of Brownlee’s figures appears in the following quotation:

These forced baptisms, and the consequent claims which the pope set up over “his slaves,” caused the death of one million five hundred thousand Moors, and on the most moderate calculation, that of two millions of Jews! See Dr. M. Geddes’s Tracts on Popery, vol. i.

— W. C. Brownlee, Popery the Enemy of Civil and Religious Liberty, J. S. Taylor, New York, 1836, p. 88.

The work of Michael Geddes referred to may have been Miscellaneous Tracts …, 3^rd ed., London, 1730, 3 volumes. In 1678 Geddes went to Lisbon, and returned to England in 1688. During his stay in Lisbon, he collected many documents concerning Spanish and Portuguese history, and in 1714 published his “Tracts on Divers Subjects” in three volumes, a translation of the most interesting documents he obtained. In 1715 a posthumous volume of tracts against the Roman Catholic Church appeared. In addition to those killed, many were exiled:

It has been calculated that, from the time of the conquest of Granada until 1609, three millions of Arabs were exiled from Spanish soil; and never have the plains of Valencia, Murcia and Granada recovered the flourishing aspect that they wore when cultivated by their former masters. The decree of 1609 was as fatal to Spain as the revocation of the Edict of Nantes was to France nearly a hundred years later.

— Williams, Henry Smith, The Historian’s History of the World, vol. 8, p. 259.

In 1492, persecution was begun against the Jews, of whom 500,000 were expelled from Spain and their wealth confiscated. In seventy years the population of Spain was reduced from 10,000,000 to 6,000,000 by the banishment of Jews, Moors and Morescoes (“Christianized” Moors), the most wealthy and intelligent of the inhabitants of that country.

— Cushing B. Hassell, History of the Church of God, Chapter XV.

In fact, the population of Spain had at one time been twenty million higher:

It is estimated that the total population in the middle of the tenth century was about thirty millions: a phenomenal increase of population, betokening of itself a very high degree of civilization. A population normally, with fair sanitation and hygienic conditions, doubles in a quarter of a century. It will tell you in a word what the Moors had done, and what the Spaniards afterwards undid, if you reflect that this Spanish population, which was thirty millions in the tenth century, is now only twenty- two millions. The figure of thirty millions in the tenth century is an extraordinary tribute to the science and wisdom of the Moors. England, for instance, had then a population of about two or three million people.

— Joseph McCabe, The Story of Religious Controversy, Chapter XXV.

This suggests that the Christian reconquest of Spain cost this country alone over 20 million lives. This loss could not have resulted from the Plague, because the loss from the Plague was recovered by 1500.

The figure of 68 million appears again in a later work:

Alexander Campbell, well known religions leader of the nineteenth century, stated in debate with John B. Purcell, Bishop of Cincinnati, in 1837 that the records of historians and martyrologists show that it may be reasonable to estimate that from fifty to sixty-eight millions of human beings died, suffered torture, lost their possessions, or were otherwise devoured by the Roman Catholic Church during the awful years of the Inquisition. Bishop Purcell made little effort to refute these figures. (Citing A Debate on the Roman Catholic Religion, Christian Publishing Co., 1837, p. 327.)

Walter M. Montano, a former Catholic priest, asserts in his book, Behind the Purple Curtain that it has been estimated that fifty million people died for their faith during the twelve hundred years of the Dark Ages. (Citing Walter M. Montano, Behind the Purple Curtain, Cowman Publications, 1950, page 91.)

— The Shadow of Rome, by John B. Wilder; Zondervan Publishing Co., 1960, page 87.

Campbell may be referring to the martyrology of Samuel Clarke, written in 1651. Perhaps this figure of 68 million came from Brownlee or somewhere else, possibly the writings of Llorente or Clark’s Martyrology, cited above.

Such figures sometimes appear in recent books, such as Wilder’s, but in general, all the figures about the number killed by the Papacy go back many years and have reputable sources. It is interesting that Campbell implies that the figure of 68 million includes many who were not killed, but just persecuted, while the three earlier references, including Brownlee, state that this number were killed. Campbell may have taken the earlier figure and misread it as including those who were persecuted but not killed. Here are more quotations about the number killed by the Papacy:

For professing faith contrary to the teachings of the Church of Rome, history records the martyrdom of more then one hundred million people. A million Waldenses and Albigenses [Swiss and French Christians who renounced papal authority] perished during a crusade proclaimed by Pope Innocent III in 1208. Beginning from the establishment of the Jesuits in 1540 to 1580, nine hundred thousand were destroyed. One hundred and fifty thousand perished by the Inquisition in thirty years. Within the space of thirty-eight years after the edict of Charles V against the Protestants, fifty thousand persons were hanged, beheaded, or burned alive for heresy. Eighteen thousand more perished during the administration of the Duke of Alva in five and a half years.

— Brief Bible Readings, p. 16.

This great antichristian power robbed the church of its gospel light and plunged the world into the Dark Ages. It put to death and thus took away the lives of from fifty to one hundred millions of the saints of the Most High.

— Bunch, Taylor, The Book of Daniel, 1950, p. 170.

One thousand years covers the crest of the persecutions when from 50,000,000 to 150,000,000 martyrs died of the sword, at the stake, in dungeons, and of starvation because of the confiscation of their earthly possessions.

— Bunch, Taylor, The Book of Daniel, 1950, p. 185.

In like manner the blood of a hundred million martyrs cries for justice to the One who says, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay saith the Lord.” Rom 12:19.

— Bunch, Taylor, Studies in the Revelation, 1933?, p. 105.

Let us keep a sense of proportion. The record of Christianity from the days when it first obtained the power to persecute is one of the most ghastly in history. The total number of Manichaeans, Arians, Priscillianists, Paulicians, Bogomiles, Cathari, Waldensians, Albigensians, witches, Lollards, Hussites, Jews and Protestants killed because of their rebellion against Rome clearly runs to many millions; and beyond these actual executions or massacres is the enormously larger number of those who were tortured, imprisoned, or beggared. I am concerned rather with the positive historical aspect of this. In almost every century a large part of the race has endeavored to reject the Christian religion, and, if in those centuries there had been the same freedom as we enjoy, Roman Catholicism would, in spite of the universal ignorance, have shrunk long ago into a sect. The religious history of Europe has never yet been written.

— The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter XXIII by Joseph McCabe (an atheist) who lived from 1867 to 1955.

‘The church,’ says [Martin] Luther, has never burned a heretic.’ . . I reply that this argument proves not the opinion, but the ignorance or impudence of Luther. Since almost infinite” numbers were either burned or otherwise killed,’ Luther either did not know it, and was therefore ignorant, or if he was not ignorant, he is convicted of impudence and falsehood, —for that heretics were often burned by the [Catholic] Church may be proved from many examples.

— Robert Bellarmine, Disputationes de Controversiis, Tom. ii, Lib. III, cap. XXII, “Objections Answered,” 1682 edition. (Bellarmine was a Roman Catholic.)

Some have computed, that, from the year 1518 to1548, fifteen million of Protestants have perished by war and the Inquisition. This may be overcharged, but certainly the number of them in these thirty years, as well as since is almost incredible. To these we may add innumerable martyrs, in ancient, middle, and late ages, in Bohemia, Germany, Holland, France, England, Ireland, and many other parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia.

(from the commentary on the book of Revelation in Wesley’s “Explanatory Notes on the New Testament,” fifth edition, 1788), in which the comments on the book of Revelation are translated from the work of the German scholar John Bengel, and Wesley stated that he did not necessarily defend all of Bengel’s statements.)

Writing about the Jesuits, Lord states

They are accused of securing the revocation of the Edict of Nantes,– one of the greatest crimes in the history of modern times, which led to the expulsion of four hundred thousand Protestants from France, and the execution of four hundred thousand more.

— John Lord, Beacon Lights of History, volume VI, p. 325.

Some estimate that a million or even two million Huguenots fled France as a result, and a million and half converted, willingly or otherwise, to Catholicism. In fact, even before the Edict of Nantes, the Huguenot wars took place in France, and many perished as well:

Some two millions of lives had perished since the breaking out of the civil wars.

— James A. Wylie, The History of Protestantism, Vol. 2, Book 17, Chapter 19.

One estimate (Mariejol) is as high as four million. In 1660 there were about 1,200,000 Huguenots (Protestants) in France, according to one source. In 1562, 10 to 20 percent of France’s population of 16 million were Huguenots. At one point, the (Catholic) Cardinal of Sainte-croix estimated that more than half of the French population were Huguenots. It is estimated that more than one million Huguenots were slain trying to escape or became slaves in the galleys of the King of France.

A final figure:

Mede has calculated from good authorities “that in the war with the Albigenses and Waldenses there perished of these people, in France alone, 1,000,000.”

— Christ and Antichrist, by Samuel J. Cassels, 1846, page 257.

And many similar figures could be given.

Chapter 2. The plausibility of massive persecution

The following quotation shows the attitude of the Papacy towards heretics, which lends ample credibility to a large figure for the number persecuted and killed in the Middle Ages:

Treason. The following paragraph from the “Review of the principles and history of Popery” contains an accurate summary of Romanism, as it involves the interest and safety of Protestant governments and nations. “Refractory princes who have not been disposed to glut Rome’s insatiable thirst with enough of Christian blood, or who have not assented to all the Papistical usurpations and arrogant claims, have experienced no mercy. The right of succession has been denied and subverted, for the smallest personal taint of Anti-Romanism, or for the toleration of it in others; and indescribable difficulties always were interposed against the rebellious ruler’s restoration to power, even after he had made every possible renunciation, and degraded himself to the most humiliating penances, and received the amplest pontifical absolutions. For suspected and actual heresy, sentence of excommunication and deposition was fulminated against governors, more than for any other causes. Treasonable plots, conspiracies, insurrections, and rebellions, were formed, promoted, executed, and by pretended pleas of religion were justified, delighted in, and eulogized. Those infernal proceedings were blasphemously ascribed to the inspiration of God, and when any success attended the scheme, it was imputed to the divine approval, and unquestionable miraculous interposition. To execute those traitorous machinations, or to die in the attempt, was pronounced to be infallible proof of the most exalted piety, and the certain path to eternal felicity; entitling the actor to the honour of saintship, and the glorious crown of martyrdom. On the contrary, obedience and loyalty on the part of Papists to Protestant governments, are declared damnable sins, for which there is no pardon either in this world, or in eternity. To convince the bigoted adherents of the Papacy, that all such treasons are works of pre-eminent piety, pretended prayers, discourses, sacraments, ecclesiastical censures, absolutions, oaths, and covenants, with all that is apparently sacred and imposing in religion, have been prostituted; and all that is exciting and fascinating in superstition has been effectually employed among the votaries of the Romish Priesthood, who are divested of every sentiment of religion, virtue, or humanity. The absolute duty of assassinating Protestant rulers, especially after sentence has been pronounced against them by the Pope, is constantly taught and vehemently proclaimed; with the most deliberate resolution, and after the most solemn preparations, that nefarious criminality has frequently been perpetrated; although it has more often been unsuccessfully attempted: but in all cases the remorseless murderers have been exalted in Popish estimation to the very highest honours: and some of them were worshipped with the same adoration which is performed to the Romish canonized saints.”

— Bourne, George, The American Textbook of Popery, Griffith & Simon, Philadelphia, 1846, pp. 410-412.

The following statement concerning England in about the year 1400 gives more insight into the extent of the persecutions.

By this it was enacted that any one whom an ecclesiastical court should have declared to be guilty, or strongly suspected, of heresy, should, on being made over to the sheriff with a certificate to that effect, be publicly burnt.

[footnote, page 298] It is remarked that England was the only country where such a statute was needed, as elsewhere the secular powers at once carried out the sentence.

— James C. Robertson, History of the Christian Church, The Young Churchman Co., 1904, p. 297.

These persecutions were not necessarily directed by the hierarchy of the church, but for the most part probably originated at a much lower level, from the “ecclesiastical feudalism” of the Middle Ages, as described by Williams:

Abbes and bishops in consequence became suzerains, temporal lords, having numerous vassals ready to take up arms for their cause, counts of justice – in fact all the prerogatives exercised by the great landlords. … This ecclesiastical feudalism was so extensive, so powerful, that in France and England it possessed during the Middle Ages more than a fifth of all the land; in Germany nearly a third.

— Williams, Henry Smith, The Historian’s History of the World, vol. 8, p. 487.

Probably the greatest number of those who perished by the Papacy in Europe did so at the hands of these local authorities, on the grounds of suspected heresy or opposition to the church, and not necessarily at the direction of the Pope, preceded by a trial, nor mentioned in records. Who would there have been to interfere with the actions of the local abbes and bishops? The constant elimination of a few heretics here and there, in many locations, continued for many years, could easily have added up to a total of millions without making much of an impression on recorded history. Throughout the Middle Ages as the possessions of the church increased, so would the number and power of these officials have increased, together with the number of their victims. During the Crusades, their attention may have been externally directed, but with these ending in about 1272, the number of martyrs within Europe could have greatly increased.

The persecutions were not at all limited to the Inquisition, but took many forms. Many of the victims were killed secretly and never brought to trial or sentenced. These deaths would never have appeared in the official records of the Inquisition. Such persecutions even continued until very recent times, as illustrated by the following quotation from W. C. Brownlee, Popery the Enemy of Civil and Religious Liberty, J. S. Taylor, New York, 1836, page 124:

I beg to direct you to the history of Spain, which, at length, is beginning to raise her head from the dust; and of Austria, Italy, and Naples. There everything is exclusive and sanguinary. Utter a word against the priest, or his senseless mummery, or refuse to fall down before the wafer god, and the dagger is plunged into your heart!

Note that it was common knowledge in Brownlee’s day that such executions of dissenters from Catholicism took place. Another quotation from Brownlee, p. 115 gives further support to this fact:

Listen, I beseech you, to your fellow-citizens, who have returned from their travels in Italy, Austria, and Naples, or South America. In these lands the drawn sword of papal myrmidons is put to the throats of every public speaker, and editor, and author! One unpopish idea,–one single charge against despotism,–one word in praise of liberty,-one innuendo against priestcraft, even although you say no more than that you have seen them in their priestly robes, at the cockpit; and deeply engaged, publicly, in gambling, with their mistresses, and licentious companions: one appeal, even though feebly uttered, for a free press,-for pure Christianity, and the rights of human conscience, will cost a man his liberty, or life, in one brief hour! Men may be as wicked as any of the ghostly leaders of the fashion that way; men may blaspheme God, and set heaven and hell at defiance, providing they do it with all due courtesy to the priests: they may, be consummate profligates, but it must be according to canonical rule. Crimes and vices contravene no law, providing the church be respected, and her dues be paid! But woe to the patriot who shall whisper an insinuation, or print an effusion of a noble spirit, bursting with holy indignation against the hypocrisy, the priestly espionage, and despotism of popery! This is the only unpardonable sin at Rome. It can never be forgiven him, either in this world, or in purgatory! The dungeon cells, placed by papal care, at the bishop’s service, in each cathedral; and the cells of the inquisition, and the agonies, and moanings, and shrieks of the oppressed, breathed only on the ear of heaven -these-these are the overwhelming proofs of popery’s deadly hostility to the freedom of speech, and the press!

This description of persecution derives from the testimony of many travelers to Catholic countries at that time. If such persecution took place in the early nineteenth century, how much more must it have occurred in the Middle Ages when the Papacy was at the height of its power! For example, M’Crie relates (The Reformation in Spain, pp. 181-188) how a Spaniard in the year 1546 converted to Protestantism and was in consequence killed by his brother, who never was punished for his deed. There must have been many such assassinations in the Middle Ages by loyal Catholics who were jealous for the reputation of the Virgin Mary. In fact, threats and persecution even took place in the United States, according to Brownlee, pp. 210-211:

Who have their dungeon cells under their cathedrals, in which they claim, as inquisitors of their own diocese, to imprison free men in our republic? Foreign popish bishops! And the facts respecting a man being so confined and scourged, in the cells at Baltimore, until he recanted, have been published, and not to this day contradicted! … Who are in the habit of uttering ferocious threats “to assassinate and burn up” those Protestants who successfully oppose Romanism? The foreign papists! I have in my possession the evidence of no less than six such inhuman threatenings against myself.

Persecution also took the form of murders by corrupt authorities, as described in the following passage from Peter’s Tomb Recently Discovered in Jerusalem, by F. Paul Peterson, 1960, p. 45:

At length a Sclavonian waterman came to the palace with a startling story. He said that on the night when the prince disappeared, while he was watching some timber on the river, he saw two men approach the bank, and look cautiously around to see if they were observed. Seeing no one, they made a signal to two others, one of whom was on horseback, and who carried a dead body swung carelessly across his horse. He advanced to the river, flung the corpse far into the water, and then rode away. Upon being asked why he had not mentioned this before, the waterman replied that it was a common occurrence, and that he had seen more than a hundred bodies thrown into the Tiber in a similar manner.

Even as recently as the mid twentieth century, dissenters from Catholicism were in danger, according to the following quotations:

But to even bring things closer home; an acquaintance told me of a recent conversation between a Protestant relative of hers and a Roman Catholic. The Catholic said, “I would like to see the blood of Protestants flow down the streets of this city.” The Protestant was rightly surprised and said, “How can you say that, we are friends and you know that I am a Protestant?” The Catholic responded, “Yes, I know, but the greater the sacrifice, the greater the reward.” Since they teach Catholics from childhood on, that to kill a Protestant is to do God a service, we had better be careful how we put Catholics in public office [but note that such teaching does not appear to be continued today, and also other quotations show that many Catholics oppose such persecution].

While I was in Ohio recently, I was told the same story by two people at different times, of a pastor who has a Christian broadcast. Through the preaching of the Gospel, this pastor at times would have Roman Catholics tell him of their difficulties and ask for advice. One case was of a lady who implicated a priest in a scandal. The pastor would always advise all those who came to him, according to the Scripture, and would urge all to trust only in Jesus Christ for their salvation. Several times, this pastor received strange telephone calls. Once a woman called and advised the pastor never to have communications with Catholics who call or write in to him. He responded that it was his God-given duty to help in any way possible, all those who came to him, and that he could not comply with her request. She then said that bodily harm could come to him or those Catholics who communicated with him. The pastor responded that surely the Catholic Church would not be guilty of such an unchristian act. The answer came that the Catholic Church was too “holy” to shed blood, but they had their agents who would. Mark you, what an outrage on human intelligence, to leave the impression that the instigators of bloodshed are innocent. This is a perfect example how they do their nefarious acts, whether to individuals or nations, and manage to keep hidden from the public.

— Peterson, 1960, pp. 50-51.

While travelling on a train in Spain I talked with quite a number of Spanish Catholics, and some of them in hushed voices said, while armed soldiers were passing to and fro outside our compartment door, “I am a Catholic, but I do not agree with the way the priests are persecuting the Protestants.” You hear such statements in all Catholic countries. Six months ago, in Brazil, a fanatical mob led by a priest destroyed a Baptist and a Presbyterian Church. It got out into the papers there, and honest Catholics all over the land raised their voices against such barbarity. The same is true of the priestly murders of Christians in Colombia. But Rome does not mind, nor is she checked by mere protests.

— “The Rise and Fall of the Roman Catholic Church” by F. Paul Peterson, published privately, 1959, page 21.

A pastor in Britain, who had been a missionary in Lebanon, told me the following story: A young man had visited America when World War II had broken out, and remained there until the war was over. He then returned to Lebanon enquiring about his relatives. He was told that only a cousin remained and she had entered a Convent. He went there and saw her and they decided to be married, which is lawful in Lebanon. They spoke to the Superior about it and it was agreed that he should come back the next day to take her away. When he came back the Superior said that she had already given him the girl. He responded, “Why no, you did not give me the girl.” The Superior insisted and called two nuns and asked them if it was not true that they had given him the girl, and they bore testimony to the statement. His first thought was to notify the police, but then he realised that he would have to give an account as to what had been done with the girl, since there were testimonies against him. But murder will out. Next door to the Convent lived an old couple. The man was not feeling well, and he asked his wife to make him some tea from the lemon blossoms of a tree which they had in their back yard. The wife climbed the tree, picked the blossoms, when she noticed that over the high wall the nuns were digging a large hole in the ground. She told her husband of the strange incident, who accused her of being mad to say that at night the nuns were digging a large hole in the ground. But he went out and verified the fact. They reported the incident to the police, who were directed to the spot, and excavation was made and the girl was found. She had been poisoned. The Convent was made into a Government institution, and the nuns were judged according to the law. A large book could be written over modern occurrences of this type. Rome never changes.

— Peterson, 1959, pp. 44-45.

A British Consul in Yugoslavia told the following incident to a good friend of mine, which happened in the early days of Marshall Tito. There was a boys’ school run by priests and, not far away, was a small village made up of Protestants. One day the priests told the boys that the Protestants should be killed and, together with the priests, the horrible massacre was carried out. Tito, hearing of this, sent his troops and killed every priest and boy in the school.

— Peterson, 1959, p 50.

Just recently I was in various cities in Eire (Southern Ireland), and while travelling there I spoke to over 15 priests about salvation through Christ. I realized I was treading on dangerous ground, but one Irishman seemed to realize it more than I did. I was in a compartment in a train with about sixteen people, one of whom was a priest. I gave him a good testimony, telling him of my experience of conversion. I had just asked him about his own experiences with God (which is quite an embarrassing question), when the Irishman next to him entered into the talk, but quickly steered the conversation to other matters. Later, when we had to change trains, this Irishman came to me and apologized for the way he had changed the subject. But he asked me, “Didn’t you know that man was a priest ? “I replied that I knew that. He then said, “You were in danger, for this is Southern Ireland.”

— Peterson, 1959, p. 111.

During its rise to power, the Papacy also essentially exterminated the Heruli shortly after 493 A.D., the Vandals soon after 533 A.D., and the Ostrogoths in 554 A.D, all of whom were asserted to hold to the Arian belief. However, Limborch (The History of the Inquisition, p. 95) doubts that Arius held the views attributed to him. Concerning the Vandals, Bunch writes

“It is reckoned that during the reign of Justinian, Africa lost five millions of inhabitants; thus Arianism was extinguished in that region, not by any enforcement of conformity, but by the extermination of the race which had introduced and professed it.” – History of the Christian Church, J.C. Robertson, Vol. 1, p. 521.

— Bunch, Taylor, The Book of Daniel, p. 101.

Of course, the Heruli and the Ostrogoths also undoubtedly numbered in the millions, and were exterminated. Everywhere one looks there is evidence of millions and millions of people who were killed by the Papacy in various stages of its history. The Hussites were also nearly exterminated:

[footnote, speaking of Innocent VIII] Yet on the papal throne he played the zealot against the Germans, whom he accused of magic, in his bull Summis desiderantes affectibus, etc., and also against the Hussites, whom he well nigh exterminated.

— Williams, Henry Smith, The Historian’s History of the World, vol. 8, p. 643.

Furthermore, in a footnote speaking of the thirty years’ war which started in Bohemia where the Hussites originated, Krus and Webb write

The intensity of that conflict surpassed that of other types of armed confrontations. In Bohemia, for instance, there were whole sections of the country in which nobody was left to bury the dead. The total population of Bohemia decreased in the 17th century from about 3 million to 500,000. These population changes are representative of other areas of Central Europe afflicted by the Thirty Years War.

— Krus, D.J., & Webb, J.M. (1993) Quantification of Santayana’s cultural schism theory. Psychological Reports, 72, 319-325.

In fact, many sects had been exterminated throughout the history of Rome:

The inquisitor Reinerius, who died in 1259, has left it on record: “Concerning the sects of ancient heretics, observe, that there have been more than seventy: all of which, except the sects of the Manichaeans and the Arians and the Runcarians and the Leonists which have infected Germany, have through the favour of God, been destroyed.

— Broadbent, E.H., The Pilgrim Church, Gospel Folio Press, 2002, p. 90 (originally published in 1931).

One of these sects lost a hundred thousand to persecution:

An edict was issued under the regency of Theodora, which decreed that the Paulicians should be exterminated by fire and sword, or brought back to the Greek church. … It is affirmed by civil and ecclesiastical historians, that, in a short reign, one hundred thousand Paulicians were put to death.

, Chapter 16.

Truck that took me to Aomori City from Murakami in Niigata.

I wore my warmest coat, hat and gloves for another adventure to Aomori on a cold rainy day. I stood again for more than an hour showing passing drivers my A4 paper sign that says “Tsuruoka”. The place was on Route 345 which runs along the now turbulent Sea of Japan. For some reason there was a lot of trash on the road and sidewalk where I stood. Workers arrived to clean it up. They got closer and closer to me which caused me to walk further up the road to get out of their way.

Finally a driver stopped for me but he took me only 2 or 3 kilometers down the road. Now I was in a windy area. I used my umbrella to shield myself from the wind and intermittent rain.

About 15 minutes later I prayed, “Oh God, please send a car to take me at least to Route 7!” Immediately a car with a man and woman stopped for me. They were headed in the opposite direction, the direction I had just come from. “You’re not going to catch a ride to Tsuruoka standing on this road!”, the lady said. “Come with us and we will take you to Route 7 which has more traffic!”

I knew she was right. Route 7 runs parallel to Route 345. It connects to Route 345 about 25 kilometers from where I was standing. However the man and woman wanted to take me to a point on Route 7 which was closer, and to get there they had to go the opposite direction from my destination. There was a mountain range seperating Route 7 from Route 345, and to cross it, they had to go backwards from the direction I was heading. Nevertheless, I agreed to go with them.

About 30 minutes later we arrived at a convenience store on Route 7 in the area called Asahi. I have stood there before several times. “Look, that truck has Sapporo license plates!”, said the lady. “Ask the driver to take you.” And so I did. Sapporo is the largest city in the northern island of Hokkaido. I knew the driver would be going to Aomori Prefecture, and maybe even to Aomori City where I could stay even cheaper than I could if I only went as far as Hirosaki. Aomori City is a port town in the northern part of the main island of Honshu, some 400 kilometers from where I was in Asahi Town, Murakami City. Ferry boats run from Aomori City to Hakodate in Hokkaido.

The truck driver seemed surprised at my request but he graciously agreed to take me.

It is not common for a truck driver to stop for me or agree to give me a ride. Most truck companies have rules that forbid taking on passengers. They don’t want to be liable to a passenger in case of an accident.

The driver’s name is Hideki Watanabe. Mr. Watanabe had been driving all the way from Okayama Prefecture, an area the other side of Osaka, some 800 kilometers away. He says he makes the Okayama – Sapporo trip every week! This means if the timing is right, I can meet him in a parkimg area in Niigata, perhaps even as early as next week when I need to travel again.

Mr. Watanabe said there was an accident on the Expressway in Toyama which closed the road and delayed his trip. If it were not for that, I would not have met him!

Mr. Watanabe was impressed with the music I played him from my tablet PC. When I return back home to Niigata I hope to post it on this site.

I’m using the tablet now to write this post. If I don’t write up an adventure as soon as it happens, I often lose interest to write it later when home. Who reads this stuff anyway? If you do, please write me some encouragement in the comments below and perhaps I’ll be inspired to write more often and even the past adventures.

It’s been my observation that most people who have never been to Japan seem to think of Fukushima as an uninhabitable nuclear wasteland. My Facebook friends are surprised when on some of my posts I wrote that I traveled through Fukushima on my way back home to Niigata. “Why did you go there?” they ask.

Mass media reporters have abbreviated the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant to a single word, “Fukushima.” Therefore when non-Japanese people hear this word, they automatically think of the nuclear catastrophe in Japan. This is not how Japanese think when they hear the name of Fukushima.

Japan divided into Prefectures.

Japan is divided into 47 administrative areas which are called prefectures.

Fukushima Prefecture is the area of #7. I live right next to it in area #15, Niigata Prefecture. Because I often travel to Aomori Prefecture, (#2 on the map), if I take the Tohoku Expressway, the route back home to Niigata runs through Fukushima Prefecture. Nobody hesitates for fear of radiation to drive through Fukushima Prefecture.

Here we can see an enlarged map of area #7 that shows Fukushima Prefecture. The damaged nuclear reactor is in a town called Futaba, the area with the red circle drawn around it. The nuclear reactor is right on the Pacific coast. It is mainly the area of Futaba and parts of the areas immediately next to it which are in the no-go zone! People are living everywhere else in Fukushima Prefecture. Rice is again being planted and harvested in areas not close to the damaged nuclear power plant. You can see that Fukushima Prefecture is a large area and the area infected with radiation is relatively small in comparison.

There is also Fukushima City, the largest city in Fukushima Prefecture. So when I tell a Japanese person I passed through Fukushima, he or she understands that I passed through Fukushima Prefecture unless I specified it was Fukushima City. Nobody, I mean nobody would think I meant the Futaba area, the town of the nuclear power plant!

The word prefecture is defined on http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/prefecture as

noun
1.
the office, jurisdiction, territory, or official residence of a prefect.

The only other countries that use the word prefecture to divide their country into administrative areas are Roman Catholic nations such as France and Italy!

Japan was divided into 47 prefectures by the Meiji government in July 1871. The Japanese period of Meiji (September 8, 1868 through July 30, 1912) was when Japan was forced to open itself to the West. Interestingly, the Japanese word “Meiji” is composed of two Chinese ideographs meaning “enlightened rule”. Was it because of the influence of the Illuminati (AKA Jesuit order)?

Why did Japan close itself off in the first place? To protect itself from Jesuit influence! The Tokugawa government (the period between 1603 and 1868) in the 17th century with the advice of English Protestant William Adams kicked out all the Roman Catholic JESUIT missionaries from Japan. William Adams warned the leader of the government, Tokugawa Ieyasu, that the real purpose of the Jesuit missionaries was not to spread the true faith of Christ to the Japanese, but to colonize Japan for Rome! During the period Japan isolated itself from the West, it’s interesting to note there was still some trade with England and the Netherlands — both Protestant countries. You see it was really only Roman Catholic countries, and specifically Portugal, Spain, France and Italy that the Tokugawa government feared. It was the USA which forced Japan to open itself up again to the West. America has been under the influence of the Roman Catholic Church from its very beginning! See Washington in the Lap of Rome.

The Jesuits and Roman Catholic missionaries were expelled from Japan in the 17th century, but they returned in the 19th century during the time of Meiji (Illuminati / Jesuit rule). It’s my conclusion, therefore, dividing Japan into administrative areas called “prefecture” may denote Japan returning back under the control of Rome! And by “Rome” I am referring to the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church. The word prefecture comes from Latin, the language of the Roman Empire!

By the way, here is Fukushima in Chinese ideographs.

It literally means “fortune island”

The pictures say it all.

A photo of the October 2014 model of Asus Memo Pad 7 taken with its front camera - a selfie of itself that shows the selfie of itself!

I gave my Google Nexus 7 (2012) Tablet to my wife so she could use it while in America for our daily Skype visits. I searched for a new tablet that had all the same features as the Nexus 7 2013 model and was yet an improvement on it. I found exactly what I was looking for totally by surprise at the Kojima Electric Store in Niigata City — the Fall 2014 version of Asus Memo Pad 7 which I was told just came out for sale this month, October 2014! The model number is ME572C. It’s not the same model as the one talked about on http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/01/asus-memo-pad-7-and-8-review/ which was given a so so rating. The photo on that page shows rounded corners on the tablet. The one I bought has square corners as you can see from the photo. It’s so new at the time of this post, I can’t even find a case that fits it! I may have to wait a few more weeks.

ASUS Memo Pad 7 2014 Autumn

What I was looking for in a new tablet and what I got:

• A high definition screen of 1200 x 1920 pixels
• Good stereo speakers. The Asus Memo Pad 7 2014 has speakers on the top and bottom of the tablet
• MicroSD support — something the Google Nexus series does not provide. More storage for low cost!
• Fast CPU. This one has an Intel Atom 1.8 Ghz processor
• Thin and lightweight
• At least 2 gigabytes of RAM
• Good cameras. The front-facing is 2 megapixels and the rear 5 megapixels

I think the ASUS Memo Pad 7 2014 is an improvement over the Nexus 7 2013 in every way. Moreover, it has a feature Nexus does not provide – expandable storage! Nexus 7 2013 was rated the best Android tablet by CNET.com! If they rated Nexus 7 the best, the ASUS Memo Pad 7 2014 must therefore be the very best tablet PC with the most bang per buck available at the time of this post, Oct. 27, 2014. When you figure that the Google Nexus 7 models, and the ASUS Memo pad were all built by the same company, if the first two were good, the last must be even better! I think Google missed the boat by not sticking with the 7 inch model this year.

The price with tax was 28,000 yen or about $280 US – not much higher than what I hoped to pay. I bought a 32-gigabyte micro SD card to expand its storage for only 2000 yen or $20 US more at another store. I was thrilled with the overall price considering the Nexus 9 would have cost me a great deal more at 48,000 yen with only 16-gigabyte storage and probably only half of that usable. And I really didn’t want to carry around a big tablet anyway.

The buttons are easy to push.

Google Earth loads without jerking motion.

The photos I took with it and posted on Facebook the last two days have been very good in my opinion.

The bottom line: I am very pleased with its performance and quality for the price I paid. I’m using it right now in editing this post.

I was also interested in the Nvidia Shield with the fast Tegra K1 CPU, but it turned out to be too expensive in Japan and available only by special order. And I was interested in the Samsung Galaxy S Tab. Though it has a lovely display, the price was more than I was willing to pay. With tax it would have been about the same as the soon to come Nexus 9, and I would have gone with the Nexus 9 had I not found the ASUS Memo Pad 7.

I’m writing this post not because I want you to buy the ASUS Memo Pad 7, but to attract your attention to this website. 🙂 I have far more important things to say on it than just talking about my new tool (or toy if you want to call it that). I want you to know about who is really running the world and how to be free of the bondage they have placed on us the people.

Mr. and Mrs. Suehiro who who took me from Niigata Murakami City to Kisagata in Yamagata, a distance of 150 some kilometers

October 13, 2014: Today is the first day of a major change in my life. I returned home from my trip to Aomori prefecture to an empty house. My beloved spouse has gone to America to help her daughter’s large family of 7 children. Our dog, Lady, was also not in the house but I retrieved her from the lady who is caring for her when I am not home, Yoneko san, whose business is to care for dogs when their master is out of town.

Now that I find myself with more time on my hands, I hope to be more regular in writing about my experiences hitchhiking in Japan. I need to travel nearly every weekend some 400 kilometers up north.

October 10, 2014: It’s was a cool Autumn day with a cloudy sky when I arrived at Majima Station on the Ouetsu Line at 7:40 a.m. The station is just 100 meters from Route 345, the road that runs along the Sea of Japan in Niigata Prefecture. The traffic is sparse. The drivers see the paper A4 size sign I am holding and drive on by. The sign says, TSURUOKA, nearly 100 kilometers further up the road, the next major city in Yamagata prefecture which is the neighboring prefecture just to the north of Niigata. Fukushima prefecture happens to be Niigata prefecture’s neighbor to the east! FYI most of Fukushima is NOT the nuclear wasteland some people portray it to be. I have passed many times pass through Fukushima prefecture since the March 11, 2011, tsumami and nuclear power plant disaster. It’s interesting that suddenly a large area of Japan named Fukushima gets the stigma of being a nuclear catastrophe like Chernobyl. Some people, even from the alternative media have called it, “worse that Chernobyl.” How can the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster be worse than Chernobyl when you consider only one person that worked at the Fukushima power plant after the disaster has died? And whether or not that person died as a result of nuclear radiation has not been validated!

I know without doubt the drivers of the vehicles passing by me take notice of both me and the paper sign I am holding. They all veer toward the middle of the road as if avoiding to hit me. Even if they didn’t veer they wouldn’t hit me because I am standing far enough away out of their path. The Japanese are taught to veer away from pedestrians when attending course in driver’s school. The Japanese law has zero tolerance for drivers hitting pedestrians. That means even if a pedestrian purposely jumps in front of a vehicle, the driver is still at fault! You can now understand why a driver would take no chances. I wish they would implement such a law in Russia. The most dangerous thing to do in Russia is to walk across a road. The drivers won’t even slow down and actually expect you to jump out of their way! I lived in Russia from March 1994 to October1997 and know what I’m talking about.

It’s sometimes a long wait to catch the first ride on Route 345. I have a beautiful view of the ocean which is on my right when turned around facing traffic. Seagulls often fly over my head to keep me entertained. The waves are sometimes choppy and water splashes from time to time all the way to the road where I stand. There is no traffic light to stop the cars but because the road is a lonely one I know from experience that drivers from other areas of Japan will stop for me when they see they are going as far as the sign says I want to go.

Today was such a case. After only a short 10 minute wait, Mr. & Mrs. Suehiro from Kanagawa Prefecture (the prefecture just southwest of Tokyo) stopped for me. They were going all the way to Akita Prefecture! This meant that they would be going past Tsuruoka in Yamagata prefecture and I would be able to skip Yamagata Prefecture entirely! They took me to the Kisagata road station in Akita.

After waiting 20 some minutes at Kisagata, Mr. Saitoh stopped for me. He said he would go to Akita City, a good distance up the road of at least 60 kilometers. Unfortunately he let me off right is the middle of town, a place not well suited for hitchhiking. The traffic was heavy but most of the drivers are not going very far. I have experienced hitchhiking there before and knew I might not catch a ride at such a place, and so I walked backwards pulling my suitcase with wheels and held out the sign of my next destination, NOSHIRO, some 60 kilometer further up the road.

The time was now 12:30 p.m. There was a train leaving at 1:43 from from a train station, Tsuchizaki, which was few kilometers away. I thought I might have time to catch that train if I started walking to the station immediately, but after an hour walk I realized I wouldn’t make it. I often walked backward with my thumb out hoping to catch a car, but it was fruitless. The traffic was going by too fast with not much room on the shoulder of the road for them to stop.

At 1:40 p.m. I arrived at the closest point to Tsuchizaki station though still standing next to Route 7. A teenage boy approched me asking if I have a problem.

“No problem,” I replied, “I’m hitchhiking on my way to Aomori City.”

“You don’t have any money?” he inquired.

“I do.”

I reached into my bag and handed him a Gospel tract which he received, and I shook his hand. Handshaking was not part of Japanese custom until fairly recently, say within the last 20 or so years. When I first came to Japan in 1972, I didn’t like to shake hands with a Japanese person because they just didn’t know how to do a good firm handshake. They do better now.

Though I missed the 1:43 p.m. train, I knew there would be another one around 2:30. I had plenty of time to catch it because the train station was now only a 10 minute walk. Around 2:00 a lady stopped for me and saved me the trouble of walking any further.

Mrs. Hanga

Her name is Mrs. Hanga. She is now the president of a construction company since her husband passed away a few years ago. Mrs. Hanga saw my sign that said NOSHIRO and told me she was going only part way, but it turned out that because she was going all the way to Takanosu which is past Noshiro by a different route, I told her I would be delighted if she would take me to Takenosu! It’s much further down the road than I had hoped for.

As we approach Takenosu Mrs. Hanga pointed out the buildings that her company made. That included large stores.

Albert Pike

I believe the Islamic State and all the terror involved is just another step toward Antichrist one world dominion. It was planned long ago. Albert Pike, the head of Freemasonry wrote in a letter dated August 15, 1871 to fellow Freemason Giuseppe Mazzini the following:

The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the “agentur” of the “Illuminati” between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion …We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time. “

Ref: http://www.threeworldwars.com/albert-pike2.htm

Can you see the ISIS in that statement? I sure can!

meme
mēm/
noun: meme; plural noun: memes

a humorous image, video, piece of text, etc. that is copied (often with slight variations) and spread rapidly by Internet users.

I later learned the famous atheist Richard Dawkins coined this word meme which is why it rhymes with gene. Wikipedia describes a meme as “”an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture”. But this notion of meme is NOT supported by everyone in the scientific community. It was the Internet that introduced a valid concept of a meme.

These are some recent memes I collected from Facebook. Many of them I made myself! The easiest way to make a meme is to use an on-line service from https://imgflip.com/memegenerator

In 1971 I became a born again Christian while serving in the USAF in Sacramento California. The same year my Christian friends took me to see an evangelical crusade in the city of Oakland led by Billy Graham. I greatly admired Dr. Graham’s faith, fire and conviction for God. You can imagine my shock when I heard that Billy Graham became an apostate. Some people have even accused him of being a Luciferian, a 33rd degree Freemason, and an victim of MK-ULTRA mind control programming. You can count that as conspiracy theory and speculation if you want, but I think the YouTube video below presents provable facts of Billy Graham’s apostasy and denial of all the fundamental biblical doctrines Christians have heard him teach in his early years.

The Bible teaches in 2 Timothy 3:12:  Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

When is the last time you heard of Billy Graham receiving any opposition at all? The only people who opposed his message were other evangelical Christians whose ministries suffered after a Billy Graham Crusade swept like a spiritual tornado through their area! The mainstream media which supports lots of antichrist programs has never opposed him or badmouthed him as far as I know. If you have any word on this, you are welcome to share it in the comments section below.

I know this will never happen, but it’s an interesting idea!

Robert Stone

By Robert Stone.

As a primary brain washing strategist-writer Edward Bernays wrote in his textbook for mind manipulation-Propaganda, PROPAGANDA IS THE EXECUTIVE ARM OF THE INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT.

What he meant was that complete media control and manipulation by the minority that really control the government was necessary in controlling the public in their thinking, shopping, voting.

Today we see the atrocities of whole nations because of this mind manipulation of a controlled news media. We are told of (false) dangers of a country’s leader, Saddam, Goddafi, Assad, Putin, and we are brainwashed into actually supporting war against these leader’s countries, totally destroying them.

That is the power of the mind control by the minority of which Bernay taught and of which he called “public relations” as in the 1920’s and 30’s the word propaganda became a negative word.

Those who control the media control the thinking of a nation and this is why all TV channels and newspapers always say the same thing, with the same pictures and words…. over and over to brainwash and control us to think, act and allow the government to do what it wants.

So do you really think governments want you to look at the Bible as it really is? Or would they like you to think of the Bible as a dead, old book that is so boring like the religions that supposedly read it, and that it is too difficult for you to understand it, so let the state-controlled ministers tell you what it means. (Rockefeller was given the job of destroying the Christian churches and faith of youth by planting pastors and teachers who denied subtly faith and belief in miracles and the divinity of Jesus Christ.)

The result was a generation of people have been brainwashed against the most important book you will ever have the chance to read.

The MEDIA is at war with the truths of the Bible everyday in every way. WHY?
BECAUSE IT IS SO POWERFUL!!

Why would every communist dictatorship BAN the Bible; ban it from being read, taught or even owning one?
BECAUSE THEY FEAR IT S POWER!

Dictatorships like the communist regimes are overtly against the Bible and openly ban it, jail its followers and prohibit it from being taught in schools. WHY!

BECAUSE THEY KNOW IT FREES PEOPLE MINDS AND ENLIGHTENS THEM.

Why did Cambodia’s red terror Pol Pot kill those who could read, think, create first?
BECAUSE THEY PRESENTED THE MOST DANGER TO HIS CONTROL!

Why is it against the law to read, teach or even for a teacher to have a Bible on his desk in schools in the USA when any other book is okay to have or teach?

BECAUSE IT IS DANGEROUS TO THE SECRET GOVERNMENT S CONTROL. THE BIBLE IS JUST THAT POWERFUL.

So we have been robbed of power; enlightenment, truth, freedom, inspiration, creativity, faith and every good thing, by those who do not want to lose control.

If you look at the Bible not as some old, boring, fairy tale religious book, but as A TREASURE OF RICHES AND POWER then you can begin to tap into these treasures as you read and study it.

True at first it is not easy, but even if you do not understand it, you will still feel its power and will receive its treasures into your heart mind and life.

George Orwell who wrote 1984 put it very well. The manipulation of the mind through the ministry of ‘truth’ (propaganda) incrementally conditions the mind to accept lies as truth, war as peace, and hate as love.

How well this idea is now fulfilled in our own media that says we must go to war to have peace; hate some people to love our government and lies have now become so called reality.

For centuries only the priests or upper clergy of the Catholics could read the Bible and even of them several did as it was in Latin. Obeying the Pope and the church became more important than obeying God and His Words.

This stranglehold of control on their own people was finally exposed with the Reformation with the likes of Martin Luther actually discovering what the Bible actually says…he that BELIEVES on the Son of God has ever lasting life’, not those who go to church, give money and do what the priests tell you.

‘If you continue in MY WORD you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you FREE.’ (John 8:47)

We have been ROBBED of the truth and only those brave souls who endure to ask and seek for it, will find its treasures. Have you?

We and our families would do so much better if we would just turn off the TV, video games, and media, and spend some time each day rediscovering the treasures of the Words of God.

THEN we will be filled with faith, power and the intimate love of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

I was profoundly touched by this testimony of how a young man rose above Job like afflictions to become a wonderful witness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. At 23 years old he was afflicted with a flesh eating disease which led to his right arm being amputated, was blinded in one eye with low vision in the other, intense damage to his legs and organ failure. Ten months later the love of his life died in a car accident on Christmas Eve. Think you have problems? Listen to how he overcame bitterness due to his faith in God!

This website and 8 other websites on the server were going off line from time to time. Upon investigation I found all the PHP files of the WordPress installation were deleted! At first I thought a hacker deleted the files. I re-installed the WordPress installation, the theme and all the plugins (a whole day’s work for 9 websites!) but a few weeks later the sites went down again. All the PHP files were again deleted.

I wrote the server company (Avahost) and told them of the problem. They informed me that its was their anti-virus software that deleted the files because all PHP files were infected with malicious code!

I didn’t believe ALL the files could have been infected and so I bought new hosting with Bluehost and transferred 4 of the websites to it. Lo and behold after a week or so the websites on Bluehost (including this one) started to have trouble. The security plugin Wordfence reported the WordPress installation, theme and plugins were all infected with malicious code! But in this case, there was no antivirus software on the server to delete them. Avahost was telling me the truth!

I did a Google search to learn more about WordPress security. At last I found the culprit! A hacker installed a backdoor in the database. In the list of users I found a user with no name or email but with administrator privileges!! See the image below:

What you see just above the red line should NOT BE in ANY WordPress list of Users! A valid user has a name, a username and an email address, but this one does not. If you are a WordPress administrator, my suggestion is for you to check out your list of users and see if anything like the above is in that list. If it is, just delete it. I chose delete the user with all content.

Written by William Dean A. Garner. I found this article on http://projectcamelotportal.com/blog/80-william-dean-garner/1923-1850s-switzerland-was-the-jesuits-proving-ground-for-the-establishment-of-today-s-america and wanted to re-post it for the readers of this website.

Before the Jesuits invaded any one country and destroyed it from within, they rehearsed their machinations, often practicing on smaller countries and her population of We The People, adjusting their tactics as necessary, then refining them over the years. Often, the Jesuits would take 10 or more years, sometimes 50, to produce their desired outcome.

The Jesuits had planned for total control of America soon after they had sent Jesuits to American shores in the 1490s and early 1500s, more than a hundred years after Chinese explorers first discovered the Americas (Mexico first, then America), in the 1400s, as documented by Chinese Buddhist explorers. Interestingly, the Jesuits had not yet invaded China when its explorers discovered America. If they had, America may have been a quite different landscape from the very beginning.

Those intrepid Jesuit explorers to America reported back to Rome about the newly discovered rich lands, mineral resources, controllable population of ignorant and malleable people, the promise of untold riches on all levels. Rome then began planning the invasion, the slow takeover, and the final control of the New World.

Before the Jesuits would invade America and carry out their multi-decades plan, they needed a proving ground on which to practice the various stages of the plan. All other countries in the world had already been beaten down, the rights of each country’s We The People subjugated to the point of near starvation. In short, each country’s population was worthless and thus would be ineffective to experiment with, let alone try to shape into willing subjects under the Jesuits’ leaky umbrella of false freedom and liberty.

The Jesuits needed a fresh population of willing subjects who would bend at the idea of unlimited freedom and liberty being handed out like candy, with the promise of safety and security in the near background.

Who could ask for anything more?

In the early 1800s, the Jesuits formulated a plan to create civil war in Switzerland, to divide the population, then bring each side together cohesively. It took decades of planning, infiltrating, overtaking, and finally controlling the ruling powers of Switzerland, but it was done to completion.

The Jesuits’ plan was to create a ruse that would corral We The People of Switzerland and make them easier to control and manipulate: a new republic; new freedoms and liberties; with a free press; liberal schools, colleges, universities and secret places of higher learning; large, stable economic system that encouraged free trade within her borders and among neighboring countries; and the establishment of individual provinces or states that would further divide We The People.

Please consider the following list of similarities between Switzerland in the 1850s and the United States of America today. The Jesuits morphed Switzerland into a near-perfect model of what future America would become.

The results are striking and heartbreaking, and very difficult for any reasonable member of We The People to ignore or dismiss:

Switzerland was molded into a Republic; so was the United States.

In the 1850s, Switzerland was a Federal Republic; so is the United States (actually, today we are in the throes of a quickly evolving fascist regime).

Switzerland was divided into 22 Cantons independent of each other; the Republic of the United States consists of 50 states independent of each other.

The Cantons of Switzerland were united for “national security” and governed by a general Diet; the states of America are united for general security and governed by a general Diet of sorts: a Congress, composed of representatives of each state.

Switzerland enjoyed liberal institutions; the United States has them in abundance.

In Switzerland, all religions were free; in the United States, even more so.

In Switzerland, the Protestants were the majority; in the United States, the same.

In Switzerland, the Protestants were not suspicious of the Jesuits. They were even friendly with all Romish societies; in the United States, this is true today.

In Switzerland, these Jesuit societies were many, and held public schools, colleges and universities; in the United States, they are even more numerous and they hold a greater number of public and private schools, colleges, universities and secret societies and groups that further spread their word and control We The People on many levels.

In Switzerland, the Jesuits subjected the Catholics to the abject ignorance, superstition, fanaticism, and blind obedience. They taught these not from the pulpit but in catechism and mostly at the confessional, where they gathered valuable intel on each citizen, regardless of their professional or social position. They were taught to obey the Jesuits under the cloak of the word of God. In America, all the above are even more true, with the Jesuits controlling all aspects of government, economy and society.

Is the information presented here mere coincidence, as the Jesuits would have us all believe?

Or has it been a planned coordinated attack against the liberties against We The People of the United States of America, something that began in earnest nearly 200 years ago, if not longer?

There are no coincidences in life. . . .

Fritz Springmeier during his talk at the Prophecy Club in the 1990s, and a recent photo. Are these photos really of the same person?

“Fritz Artz Springmeier is regarded as one of the foremost authorities on the Illuminati and mind control. He has been on numerous radio shows and spoken at several conferences. A prolific writer, Springmeier has published several books, most notably, Be Wise As Serpents, The Watchtower and the Masons, The Top 13 Illuminati Bloodlines, The Illuminati Formula Used to Create an Undetectable Total Mind Controlled Slave and Deeper Insights.” (Quoted from http://www.eaec.org/expose/fritzspringmeier1.htm)

I read parts of Fritz Springmeier’s works and considered them to be very good. And I appreciated his support of John Todd, a man from a trans-generational witchcraft family who first told me about the Illuminati. When I heard that Springmeier was convicted of armed bank robbery, my immediate thought was that he was framed and put into prison to shut him up. Now I wonder if there wasn’t another agenda in place.

Years ago I read the first part of what a Christian pastor by the name of John S. Torell had to say about him, but I rejected it because Pastor Torell also discredits John Todd’s testimonial. However in recent days I’ve come to seriously wonder if Fritz Springmeier may not be who he claims to be.

I began to think Springmeier may be part of the controlled opposition because Alex Jones supports him and he supports Alex Jones, a definite disinfo agent! Another disinfo agent, David Icke, also supports Springmeier.

All of these these guys point the finger mainly at the international bankers as the main culprits of the Illuninati anti-Christ conspiracy. They are “gatekeepers.” They never go any higher than the Rothschild family and their associates.

I now think a family only 200 some years old could not possibly have acquired as much wealth as an institution that’s been around over 2000 years, the Roman Empire, its Church, and the families that control it.

Though Springmeier claims to be a Christian who has “committed his life to Christ,” he has yet to use the Name of Jesus on his website. On Springmeier’s www.pentracks.com blog, it says,

“Fritz Springmeier is foremost a follower of Yahshua the Messiah.”

The word “Yahshua” is not found anywhere in the Bible!

The spelling Yahshua (יהשע) is not found in Hebrew texts. The Hebrew Bible uses Yehoshua (יהושע), and later Aramaic form Yeshua (ישוע), for Joshua, which means “Yah is Salvation.” Christians, historians, and linguists outside the sacred name movement for the most part reject the term Yahshua (יהשע) in favor of Yeshua (ישוע) as the original pronunciation.– From Wikipedia article

And lastly,

Although Mr. Springmeier has disseminated a plethora of intriguing information, a veil of mystery surrounds this renowned researcher. Born in Garden City, Kansas on Sept. 24, 1955, Fritz’ previous name was Victor Earl Schoof, which he legally changed in 1987. The most recent name he uses may, in fact, be likened to a puzzle. Several survivors of ritual abuse and mind control have indicated being profoundly triggered after seeing or hearing his pseudonym. Fritz was the name Josef Mengele used while hiding out in South America. “Spring” in occult lingo means new. Meier may be a derivative of the German word meister, which means master. Hence; the new master in the likeness of Josef Mengele.” (Quoted from http://www.eaec.org/expose/fritzspringmeier1.htm)

July 16, 2013 update:

I just heard from a person who I consider to be a very reliable source that Fritz Springmeier got most of his information from “ex” CIA agent, Mark Phillips!!! Check out what Ken Adachi says about Phillips. I don’t fully trust Adachi either, but what he has to say gives some food for thought.

July 1, 2014 update:

I first posted this article sometime in 2013. It was up for a while and then I took it off line. I do not want to be guilty of posting erroneous information about a Christian brother. But yesterday, June 30, 2014, a lady sent me an article written by Mr. Springmeier in which he seems to be supporting working with the Illuminati!

The Illuminati agenda was revised, & this new world leader, William Cornelius Van Duyn, became a force for good, further fulfilling the Scripture: “For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil…for he is the minister of God to thee for good.” ROM 13:3,4 Lord willing, if you shall read my report on Mr. Van Duyn, you will see this man is no anti-Christ. Of course, he is also not a Christian. His philosophy fits in perfectly w/ historical theistic Gnosticism, & is appropriate for the Illuminati goal to have the Masonic religion become the world’s religion. Meanwhile, the large religious bodies of the World, as I have previously exposed, are directed from orders coming from the United Grand Lodge in England. What is exciting is that he has been dismantling the old satanic power structure & replacing it with a much more benign power structure. We can continue to pray that this process continue. As you can imagine, he is taking a lot of heat as he melts down this old satanic power structure.

My opinion: Anyone who writes such nonsense doesn’t have a clue what the elite power structure is all about! Mr. Springmeier is either deceived, or possibly not even the real Fritz Spingmeier who first appeared on the Prophecy Club back in the 1990s.

Further reading about Fritz Springmeier: Is this “Fritz Springmeier” a dupe, fraud or imposter? Has he fallen for another scam? Or is this a psy-op designed to discredit the real Fritz Springmeier?

The world has changed considerably in just my own lifetime of 64 years years. The media — radio, television, Hollywood films, magazines and newspapers have slowly and subtly changed the viewpoints and mindsets of an entire generation of Americans, and America has influenced the entire world. TV personality Bill Maher mocks Christians and their faith, and makes all sorts of statements of blasphemy against God and Jesus Christ and gets away with it. But what do you think would happen if Maher made a single remark even hinting that he was against gays and or their lifestyle? He would be fired from his job in no time.

The Bible predictions a great apostasy in the last days.

In Matthew chapter 24 verse 12 it says,

“And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.”

Love for what and whom? Love for God, His Son Jesus Christ, and love for His written Word in the Holy Scriptures, the Bible.

The Jesuit / Roman Catholic tactic to fight the Protestant Reformation was “learning against learning.” The invention and popularization of the printing press broke Rome’s monopoly allowing Protestantism to flourish by putting inexpensive Bibles in the believer’s hands. In order to counteract it, Rome fought back with pagan Gnostic doctrines of Humanism. Humanism appears to the pride of man because it teaches that the people can be their own god and create their own destiny.

Many Christians today just do not know or read their own Bibles! They are ignorant of what the Word of God says.

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” — Hosea 4:6

If we do not know what the Bible says, we fall into error.

Mathew 22:29 Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures…

Believers ignorant of what the Bible really says can be easily led astray by false teachers:

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ – Galatians 1:6,7.

The Pharisees, the Roman Catholic Church, the Russian / Greek Orthodox Church, and some Protestant churches give more prominence to their traditions and church doctrines over what the Bible has to say.

Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: — Isaiah 29:13

But he (Jesus) answered and said unto them (the Jewish religious leaders) , “Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?” — Matthew 15:3

Some preachers have twisted what the Bible says to pursue their own doctrines.

More Bible teaching why Christianity is in crisis