Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani school girl who was shot last October by Taliban only wanted to get an education. The world has rightly been outraged by the attempt on her life. One of the most effective ways to control people is to keep them ignorant. Muhammad was born in 570 AD and added the perversion of his religion, Islam, to the dark ages. While Islam is an evil religion that used/ uses terrorist tactics to convert and/or keep people in the grip of Islam, much the same could be said about the Roman Catholic Church during the dark ages.
The years between 590 and 1517 AD are called “The Dark Ages” and indeed it was a time of suppression of Biblical Truth as the simple message of Jesus was degraded into legalism practiced to this day in some churches.
The story of Martin Luther's introduction to the book of Habakkuk is well known. This passage changed his life. Habakkuk 2:4, “Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.” The 1517 posting of Luther's Ninety-Five Theses is credited as being the beginning of the Reformation.
In his book, “Petrus Romanus: The Final Pope Is Here” Tom Horn quotes Chuck Missler. “Innocent III murdered far more Christians in one afternoon than any Roman emperor did during his entire reign. In Spain alone over 3 million are recorded in Canon Llorente’s History of the Inquisition. These horrors remain as memorials to the dogmas which remain in force today. Millions over the centuries who simply refused to align themselves with the Roman Catholic heresies, dogmas, and practices were martyred for their faith.[314] Furthermore, in France on St. Bartholomew’s Day, Sunday, August 24, 1572, and for days afterward, up to seventy thousand Bible-believing Christians were brutally murdered.”
The Inquisition, called “The Holy Office,” was " instituted by Pope Innocent III and perfected by Pope Gregory IX." Hundreds of thousands were tortured and murdered during the Inquisition. Often the victim's crime was reading the Bible. As an aside, in 1981 the current pope, Pope Benedict XVI, became the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Some claim this is code name for the Office of Inquisition.
Purgatory was dreamt up by Pope Gregory the Great in 593 and made an official Catholic dogma at the Council of Florence in 1439. The Catholic Church holds a person's soul for ransom adding much to its coffers. Catholicism teaches that Jesus’ death only made it possible for one’s sins to be forgiven; however, the sinner must suffer in purgatory to be fit for heaven. And then there are indulgences still practiced today.
A Joint Declaration of Justification (JD) was signed on October 31, 1999, the same date as the 1517 posting of Luther's Ninety-Five Theses. The JD was a disclaimer of previous differences between the Lutheran World Federation and of the Roman Catholic Church. The coming One World Religion you think?
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