Sex, kids, Republican "anti-party"? (comic)

Pat Macpherson, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; Tom Tomorrow (thismodernworld.com)

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Why do British royals, holy rollers like cardinals, and Western political elites crave pedophilia so very much? Controversial David Icke explains; the may be too disturbing to countenance or accept.

Icke has been reporting on deceased Jimmy Savile's pedophilia, child trafficking, and procurement of hapless kids for years. Yet only now with the enormous BBC scandal is Icke being taken seriously. 

An episode of the "Liberty Tactics" show features Icke (davidicke.com) where he discloses not only royal pedophilia that involved Princess Diana, but child abductions from orphanages and care homes, necrophilia, and abuse of mentally and physically handicapped individuals.

The BBC's Savile is notorious in England for his horrific sex abuses

 

"My Body My Rights" art

The accusations are so shocking that no right thinking person can take them seriously at first. But Icke goes deeper to implicate unseen forces inspiring this aberrant behavior that even involves killing children in rich, influential circles. These forces first inspire then enter or "possess" a person and thereby engage in the activity by proxy, ruining various lives along the way.

Did the rich and powerful not invite them in to gain such power? So is it not, in that sense and to that extent, also their karma for which they will also meet with the consequences? And when Hollywood starlets say an "Illuminati" group

Googoo-gaga. Mmmph, you smell so good, baby. You want to see GOD tonight?

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Hypocritical homosexual haven the Vatican, corporate Capital of Catholicism, moves "age of consent" up from 12

I surrender. I didn't know he was 11.

(GSN) Pope Francis has announced an overhaul of the Vatican City [State] criminal code, with the age of consent raised and stiffer punishments for pedophiles within the city state. The Holy See also known as Vatican City’s equal age of consent is being raised from 12 to 18 following the announcement of an overhaul of the Catholic Church’s criminal code by Pope Francis. [Bishops, cardinals, and visiting priests have to have some limits. They can consort in nearby Rome if they don't like it.] More
 

[Zen Buddhist] Japan finally bans child porn

AFP (via Telegraph.co.uk)

Kabuki, bukak', Kabukicho Red Light district, Tokyo: little Japan's huge sex industry (Alamy)

 

Hey, kids, want to see some anime?

Possession of child pornography has finally been made illegal in Japan, but paedophilic images in manga comic books remain legal.

Japan on Wednesday finally fell into line with other major developed countries and made the possession of child pornography illegal. But the sometimes graphic images of pedophilia in manga comic books remain legal.
 
The upper house of parliament voted overwhelmingly for a bill revising laws under which only the production and distribution of child pornography had been banned.
 

"Spornosexuality": men's devolution

The legislation cleared the lower house earlier this month.
 

Campaigners had long urged Japan to toughen its stance on child pornography, complaining it was a major source of the material for global markets.
 

The new legislation bans possession of photographs and videos depicting real children aged below 18, but it does not include drawings or digitally-created imagery. More

How Christianity SPREAD so far (film)

Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly; Americans United for Separation of Church and State, O.C. Chapter (AU-OC.org) JUDEO-CHRISTIAN IMPERIALISM

 

Garuda and Naga on Mex flag and his palace

(History) Using war to create one world-religion: Saint, Roman Emperor "Constantine the Great" (Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus, 272-337 AD) converted many to Christianity by killing those who refused. Co-Emperor Licinius issued the Edict of Milan in 313, proclaiming religious tolerance for the empire. Constantine vanquished Licinius during a civil war and went on killing. He replaced the capital of Byzantium with Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey), later the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire for over 1,000 years.

 

SEE IT: Sat., April 12, 2014 1:30 pm, Irvine: AU-OC.org: Constantine's Sword (@ IRWD Community Mtg Rm, 15500 Sand Canyon Ave.) uncovers the roots of war and uncovers the ongoing evangelical infiltration of the U.S. military.
 

Nazi insignia embraced by Catholic Church

The story revealed in "Constantine's Sword" is shocking. It reveals the Holy Roman Catholic Church's involvement in Germany's attempted take over of the world.

Within two weeks of Adolf Hitler coming to full power in March 1933, the Vatican's Foreign Minister Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (Vatican Secretary of State, who went on to become Pope Pious XII) sent the new Fuhrer warm greetings.

 

Bringing Catastrophe to Palestinians like...

Treaty negotiations began between the Church's Pacelli, Secretary of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs Giuseppe Pizzardo, Cardinal Eugenio, and Germany 's Vice Chancellor under Hitler Franz von Papen.

By July they signed the Reichskonkordat (Vatican-Nazi treaty), and the Vatican became the first foreign power to enter into a bilateral treaty with Hitler. 

Was the murderer "Saint Constantine" really a saint?

The accord included a secret provision that the Church defend Jews who converted to Catholicism, but it indicated that it would have nothing to say about Nazi assaults against Jews who remained Jews.
 

Jesus' robe, the Messiah's Magic Tunic, in Trier

A few days after signing the treaty for Hitler, former German Chancellor and Hitler's Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen represented the Fuhrer at the unveiling of Jesus's seamless tunic, the Holy Robe of Trier, which would not be shown again until 25 years later. The same robe that had come into the Gospels as proof that the Messiah had come. That robe had become the centre of the celebration of the church's treaty with Hitler.

Over the next three weeks more than two million pilgrims poured into Trier to see the robe, now the symbol of the Nazi alliance of church and state. Cardinal Pacelli went on to become Pope Pious the 12th. Whereas it may be unfair to call him "Hitler's Pope," it is fair to call him "Hitler's Cardinal (who became a pope)."

Vatican documents reveal Hitler's Pope: Pius XII (John Cornwell)

"NO WAR IS HOLY"

"Constantine's Sword" is a historical documentary on the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Jews. Directed and produced by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Oren Jacoby, the film was inspired by former priest James P. Carroll's 2001 book Constantine's Sword.

It is the story of author and former Catholic priest James P. Carroll's journey to uncover the roots of war. Carroll, whose father Joseph Carroll was a famous U.S. Air Force general, implies that there has been a relationship between religiously-inspired violence and war.

This has been taking place beginning with the adoption of Christianity by the genocidal Holy Roman Emperor Constantine I in 312 AD.

Constantine was convinced that he had won a battle because he had followed the instructions of a vision to inscribe a sign of the cross (labarum) on the shields of his imperial Christian soldiers. In Carroll's view, this event marked the beginning of an unholy alliance between the military and the Church.

Carroll focuses on Catholic and evangelical anti-Judaism and invokes the cross as a symbol of the long history of xenophobic Christian violence against Jews and non-Christians, from the Crusades through the Roman Inquisition and the creation of the Jewish ghettoes, to the Holocaust (the "whole burnt," which some deny, not to be confused with the Israeli Catastrophe, which no one denies).

Carroll also charges that there is an ongoing evangelical infiltration of the U.S. military (Church supported military-industrial complex) and that this has had negative consequences for U.S. foreign policy.

 

The film's final chapter, "No War is Holy," concludes with views of military cemeteries as Aaron Neville sings "With God On Our Side." [Perhaps the film budget did not allow for "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition."]

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F**K: Pope drops F-bomb before Lent (video)

Editors, Wisdom Quarterly; Morgan Lee, Global.ChristianPost.com, March 4, 2014

For cazzo, I mean, for example, I love young boys. - BOY: Help! He's touching me, he's touching me! - Maybe I should give this up for Lent, the cussing I mean (L'Osservatore Romano/AP).

 
Pope Francis lets loose Italian F-word  

Loves boys' heads (Time)

While delivering his weekly Sunday homily, the leader of the [Holy] Roman Catholic [Empire] accidentally uttered the Italian equivalent of the F-word.
 

The pope inadvertently confused the Italian word caso, which can mean a "case" or "example," with the vile swear word cazzo, though he hardly let it rattle him as he made his way through his prepared sermon.

The pope was in the middle of identifying the characteristics of Christians looking out for the less fortunate when he made his error.
 

Pretty in pink (msnbcmedia.msn.com)

"He [a Christian] doesn't accumulate wealth for himself but shares it to benefit other people. In this [fuck], in this case the providence of God will become visible through this gesture of solidarity," he said.
 
[The "gesture of solidarity" was presumably not a middle finger to the sky uniting humankind under one grand gesture.]
  

Pope Francis also reminded Christians, "Jesus has repeatedly warned the rich: a heart possessed by riches leaves little room for f..." More
   

(MAR) "F**K - the Documentary" by Steve Anderson (see details below)

In defense of the Holy Father, CEO Francis

Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY)

Don't judge. This pope doesn't. Maybe, maybe, maybe what His Holiness, this Servant of God, Boss of the Vatican Corporation, the New and Improved Pope was alluding to was not a "case" (caso) but "F*CK" (Cazzo) the movie? 

F*CK is an American documentary by Steve Anderson that argues the title word is key to discussions on freedom of speech and censorship.

Sexual misconduct (patrickrothfuss/WQ)

It provides perspectives from art, linguistics, and society. Oxford English Dictionary editor Jesse Sheidlower, journalism analyst David Shaw, and linguists Reinhold Aman and Geoffrey Nunberg explain the word's evolution.

Comedian Billy Connolly states it can be understood regardless of one's background, and musician Alanis Morissette says its taboo nature gives it power. The film contains the last interview of author Hunter S. Thompson before his suicide. It features animated sequences by Bill Plympton.

Hollywood agrees (celebrityjuicer)

The documentary was first screened at the AFI Film Festival at ArcLight Hollywood. New York Times critic A.O. Scott called the film a battle between advocates of morality and supporters of freedom of expression; a review by the AFI said this freedom "must extend to words that offend." Other reviewers criticized the film's length and repetitiveness. Its DVD was released in the US and the UK and used in university courses. More

 

(Dogwoof) The F**k For Forest the Movie trailer

 

I love the, uh, the forest.

Or maybe what the Pontiff was referring to was the world's most emphatic environmental charity F**k for Forest, which goes by the motto: "Have Sex. Save the World."

Berlin’s F**k For Forest is at least one of the world’s most bizarre charities. Based on the idea that sex can save the world, the NGO raises money for their environmental cause by selling home-made erotic films on the Internet. And now a movie has been made about their efforts. More

The Real and Fairytale "Jesus" (video)

Wisdom Quarterly; Mitch Jeserich ("Letters & Politics," Dec. 24, 2013, KPFA.org, Berkeley), Dr. Reza Aslan (rezaaslan.com, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth)
Fox News' Lauren Green attacks historian Prof. Reza Aslan, Ph.D., why a former Christian and current Muslim would write about Jesus. It's reactionary, Islamophobic FOX "News" at its best.

BESTSELLER: Zealot (amazon.com)

Religious scholar Dr. Reza Aslan has discusses his fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography about the historical Jesus [Yah'shua].

It calls into question everything Westerners in Judeo-Christian societies thought we knew about Jesus of Nazareth.

 

Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher (rabbi) and miracle worker [siddha] walked across the Galilee, gathering followers [as an anti-imperial rebel like many modern Palestinians] to establish what he called the “Kingdom of God.” 

Good St. Issa as a bodhisattva

The revolutionary movement he launched was so threatening to the established order that he was captured, tortured, and executed as a state criminal.

 

Two decades after his shameful death, his followers would call him God. 

 

Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Dr. Aslan sheds new light on one of history’s most influential and enigmatic characters by examining Jesus through the lens of the tumultuous era in which he lived: first century Palestine, an age awash in apocalyptic fervor. 

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Jesus became a Pagan Roman god

Scores of Jewish prophets, preachers, and would-be messiahs [which always simply meant someone aiming to save Jews from Roman rule] traipsed through the Holy Land, bearing messages from God. 

 

This is the age of zealotry -- a fervent nationalism that made resistance to the Roman occupation a sacred duty incumbent on all Jews. And few figures better exemplified this principle than the charismatic Galilean who defied both the imperial authorities and their allies in the Jewish religious hierarchy.

 

Fairytale: white savior like Thor

Balancing the Jesus of the Gospels against the historical sources, Dr. Aslan explores this diverse and turbulent age and, in doing so, challenges the conventional portraits of Jesus of Nazareth. He describes a man full of conviction and passion, yet rife with contradiction:

• a man of peace who exhorted his followers to arm themselves with swords;
• an exorcist and faith healer who urged his disciples to keep his identity a secret;
• and ultimately, the seditious “King of the Jews” whose promise of liberation from Rome went unfulfilled in his brief lifetime.

Aslan explores the reasons why the early Christian church preferred to promulgate an image of Jesus as a peaceful spiritual teacher rather than a politically conscious revolutionary.

• [Biblical scholar Allegro points out that the Jesus cover-story came from an entheogen-using Jewish cult, possibly the Essenes, whose sacrament and "cross" was the magic mushroom. It provided them direct mystical experiences. The BBC documents that Jesus was a Buddhist monk. He returned from 18 lost years in India with long hair to continue his rebel and messianic activities to free the Jews.]

Vishnu, I'm going back to Palestine. - Good luck.

And he grapples with the riddle of how Jesus understood himself (as a Jew, a "messiah," a "god," and a man), the mystery that is at the heart of all subsequent claims about his divinity.

Zealot questions what we thought we knew about Jesus of Nazareth -- even as it affirms the radical and transformative nature of his life and mission. The result is a thought-provoking, elegantly written biography with the pulse of a fast-paced novel: a singularly brilliant portrait of a man, a time, and the birth of a religion.

 

“Riveting...Aslan synthesizes Scripture and scholarship to create an original account.”

—The  New Yorker

“A lucid, intelligent page-turner.”

—Los Angeles Times

“Fascinatingly and convincingly drawn.”

—The Seattle Times

“[Aslan’s] literary talent is as essential to the effect of Zealot as are his scholarly and journalistic chops. . . . A vivid, persuasive portrait.”

—Salon
“This tough-minded, deeply political book does full justice to the real Jesus, and honors him in the process.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

The stories banned from the Bible (video)

Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly

(ReligionHistory) "Banned from the Bible" examines the forbidden stories in ancient gospels, how they were rediscovered, and what they might mean to the world today.
 

The new Republican Jesus

When Jesus was a boy, did he kill another child? Was Mary Magdalene a "prostitute" -- or an apostle? Did Cain commit incest? Will there be an apocalypse, or is this the JudeoChristian God's trick to scare us?

The answers to these questions aren't found in the Bible as we know it, but they exist in scriptures banned when powerful leaders deemed them unacceptable for reasons more political than religious. "Banned From the Bible" reveals some of these alternative tales and examines why they were "too hot for Christianity."

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Married rabbi with wife Mary

The Life of Adam and Eve, The Book of Enoch, The Book of Jubilees, The Infancy Gospel of Thomas, The Gospel of Mary, The Apocalypse of Peter... these are just a few of the books that were intentionally left out of the official Christian Bible. 

 

The reasons for their exclusion provide astonishing insight into the concerns of Church leaders and scholars responsible for spreading the Christian faith (and the hegemony of Greco-Roman "Western" empires) around the world. It is an illuminating look at early Christian religious history.

 

(BBC) The truth is stranger than fiction. Inconvenient facts make

sense to solve a great mystery. Was Jesus once a Buddhist monk?

When Jesus was African/Middle Easterner (W)

One hundred and fifty years after the birth of St. Issa (Jesus), a man named Marcion (of Sinope) decided that a Greek or Christian Bible was needed to replace the Jewish or Hebrew Bible. Church leaders opposed Marcion's banning of the Hebrew books, but they did agree that Christianity would benefit from having a "Bible" of its own, a New Testament.

 

Jewish rebel deified as Greek god, son of Zeus

After Emperor Constantine the Great converted to Christianity in the 4th century, a serious effort was made to compile a Christian Bible, one that included both the Hebrew scriptures (Old Testament) and emerging Christian manuscripts (New Testament). It took another 40 years before a final list of New Testament books was officially canonized by the church. Many of the most popular were excluded. Upon examination today, many of these writings attempt to resolve inconsistencies and questions raised from reading the Bible.

American Hegemony and Power

Growing by invasion and force

The Monroe Doctrine is a policy of the United States introduced in1823 that stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention. At the same time, the doctrine noted that the USA would neither interfere with existing European colonies nor meddle in the internal concerns of European countries. The doctrine was issued at a time when nearly all Latin American colonies of Spain and Portugal had achieved or were at the point of gaining independence from the Portuguese Empire and Spanish Empire. Peru consolidated their independence in 1824, and Bolivia would become independent in 1825, leaving only Cuba and Puerto Rico [now under de facto American control with Guantanamo and semi-statehood] under Spanish rule. The US, working in agreement with Britain, wanted to guarantee that no European power would move in. It was the USA's time to colonize the world (beginning, it seems, with Mexico and the Philippines).

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Occupy Movements live on (occupytogether.org)

Christianity was invented as Roman psy ops

Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; Travis Gettys (RawStory.com, Oct. 10, 2013); Slate.com

The Holy Roman Empire still rules but now as a religion (Observatore Romano/Reuters)

Bust of Julius Caesar found at the bottom of the River Rhone in Arles in2008 (AFP)

   

Christian scholar claims Christianity invented as part of ancient Roman psy-ops campaign

The make believe Jesus Christ

The Christian faith is the result of the most successful psy-ops program in history, according to a self-professed American Bible scholar.

 

Joseph Atwill will present his controversial theory Oct. 19 in London: the New Testament was written by first-century Roman aristocrats as part of a sophisticated government project to help pacify Jews in occupied territories.

 

Atwill, author of Caesar’s Messiah, claims he’s found ancient confessions by the scriptures’ authors that they invented Jesus Christ and his story as basically a form of propaganda.

 

Women pray at Western Wall with armed guards (Gali Tibbon/Getty Images/Huff Post/AFP)

 
“Jewish sects in Palestine at the time, who were waiting for a prophesied warrior Messiah [kshtriya Maitreya], were a constant source of violent insurrection during the first century,” Atwill said.

 

“When the Romans had exhausted conventional means of quashing rebellion, they switched to psychological warfare ["psy ops," psychological operations]. They surmised that the way to stop the spread of zealous Jewish missionary activity was to create a competing belief system. That’s when the ‘peaceful’ Messiah story was invented.
 

Priests molesting kids? Sure, why not?

[In fact, it was borrowed wholesale from ancient Eastern lore, the expectation talked about by the Buddha about the arising of the next world teacher, the Buddha Maitreya, far in the future. And most catholic or "universal" teachings are borrowed piecemeal from Buddhist, Vedic, European Pagan, Egyptian, and Sumerian sources. Since the leadership does not really believe what it teaches, why not molest children, embezzle Church funds, and live like Roman royalty?]

“Instead of inspiring warfare, this Messiah urged turn-the-other-cheek pacifism and encouraged Jews to ‘give onto Caesar’ and pay their taxes to Rome.”

 

He says that Jesus was not based on an actual historical figure, but Atwill argues that the events of his life were overlaid on top of actual events from the First Jewish-Roman War, waged by Emperor Titus Flavius in Palestinian territories.

 

A history of suffering that will not end

“The biography of Jesus is actually constructed, tip to stern, on prior stories, but especially on the biography of a Roman Caesar,” he says.

 

Atwill said he understands that his theory is bound to upset Christians, and he’s hoping skeptics will come to challenge him after his lecture as part of a symposium, “Covert Messiah,” along with Kenneth Humphreys, author of Jesus Never Existed.
 

“Although Christianity can be a comfort to some, it can also be very damaging and repressive, an insidious form of mind control that has led to blind acceptance of serfdom, poverty, and war throughout history,” Atwill says. “To this day, especially in the United States, it is used to create support for war in the Middle East.”

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