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‘How it can be justified and opportune to employ lies as medicine and as a cure for those who want to be misled.’
Church historian Eusebius, bishop of Ceasarea, Palestine, in his Preaparatio Evangelica, book 12, chapter 32.
So, lying for the church appears to be a christian virtue, and this working of the christian mind was demonstrated once again very convincingly in an article in leading Dutch newspaper "NRC Handelsblad" on December 24th, 2005.
The reporter had recently visited an exposition on Christian art, and apparently still being inspired by the Holy Spirit in this Christmas season, he saw fit to end his article with this remarkable and wholly out-of-context burp:
‘The most murderous movements of the twentieth century, communism and nazism, were atheistic and that should bring about a sense of modesty.’
Now, when simple Christians, not versed in historical facts or having had the benefit of a broader education should commit a blunder like this, it might be understandable, and we might forgive them for it. For in their Bible they read:
‘However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: The LORD will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are enteringto possess. The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish.’
Deuteronomy 28:15, 21, 22
For if the loving God wishes all these things upon atheists, atheists must be very bad people indeed, and by reverse reasoning (‘Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven’) all bad people could be nothing but atheists. However, when an editor of a leading national newspaper, of whom we might expect a certain minimum level of education, is allowed to disgrace both himself and his paper with a text like this, we have to assume that we are dealing here with the spirit of Eusebius. Do we now also have to show compassion here? Should we allow every Christian to earn his promised place in heaven by any devious means? Even by fraud and libel?
Denying the Holocaust earned a British historian his place in an Austrian prison a few years ago, but is denial of the fact that Hitler – the architect of this crime - was a devout Christian not also a serious crime with the same evil intent?
After a letter of protest to the editors about this misleading text (which of course was neither placed nor answered), said article was at least removed from the digital archive of this paper, and rightly so.
With the following pictures we will present some examples of the ever-present close co-operation between the Vatican and Nazism, and with various other dictators all over the world. This is not surprising. Both institutions have much in common; both religion and other dictatorships derive their power over the masses from propaganda and intimidation. And since in our modern society secular laws have greatly restricted the previous absolute power of medieval popes and their successors, the church stands much to gain from synergy with newly emerging dark powers.
To combat deceptive religious propaganda like the above, which even a ‘liberal’ newspaper in the twenty-first century still employs, hereby a number of historic pictures, because one picture says more than thousand words.
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VATICAN AND HITLER
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Quote: "I am convinced to act as representative of our Creator. By the combatting of Jews, I am doing the work of Our Lord."
From: Adolf Hitler: 'Mein Kampf' - 1925
The moving closing moment of a Nazi
party in Vienna: ‘Let us pray .....’
Hitler poses in front of the Church of Our
Lady in Nürnberg. September, 1934
Pacelli, the later Pope Pius XII, Secretary of State for the Vatican, signs the Concordate between Nazi Germany and the Vatican on July 20th, 1933. Nazi Vice-Chancellor von Papen is sitting on the left. The Concordate legitimized Hitler convincingly in the eyes of the Roman-catholic church.
Hitler welcomes the ambassador for the Vatican at a propaganda rally of the Nazi party.
Hitler is leaving the church of the Navy at Wilhelmshafen. Note the carefully selected position under the cross, to illustrate Hitlers “Divine Calling”.
Archbishop Orsenigo congratulates Hitler on the occasion of his birthday on April 20th, 1939. This tradition was established in 1935 by Pacelli, the later pope Pius XII.
Catholic bisshops bringing the Hitler salute
Roman-catholic bishops bringing the Hitler salute. On the far right Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister of Propaganda.
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VATICAN AND FRANCO
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The papal nuntius Gaetano Cicognani receives Generalissimo Franco.
Franco with Roman-Catholic prelates.
Franco with cardinal Seguray Saiez.
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VATICAN AND MUSSOLINI
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Februari 11th, 1929 – Mussolini and cardinal Gasparri sign the Lateran Treaty, in which the independency of Vatican City was established, and her sovereignty officially proclaimed.
Pius XII (Pacelli, by historians often called ‘Hitlers Pope’) together with Mussolini in ceremonial dress.
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VATICAN AND VIDELA
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Videla was dictator of Argentina between 1976 and 1983. The regime became notorious because of the 30.000 people ‘disappearing’, the kidnapping of babies and the horrible tortures of its opponents in what came to be called ‘the dirty war’. Here Videla receives the ambassador of the pope.
The weekly protest demonstration of the ‘Foolish Mothers’.
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VATICAN AND PINOCHET
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Pope John Paul II on a state visit to Chile. During Pinochet’s regime approximately 3.000 political opponents were murdered.
Contrary to diplomatic usance, this pope preferred to stay in his friend’s palace.
The warm friendship between both dictators is obvious.
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