8/12    EXAMPLES

Here are some examples of old or present behaviors, as well as of dogmas and creeds that the church refuses to adapt to our time :

=> During the teaching of the Catholic catechism, one learns that the pope cannot be mistaken.

He is infallible in his judgments because he is directly inspired by God.

     *) History learns us that a pope, of whom I forgot the name, under threat of capital punishment, asked a scientist to abandon his theory saying that the earth was not flat but round, this scientist being supposed to misinterpret what God had inspired directly to this pope.

     *) History, always her, learns us that another pope (inspired by God) asked to a gentleman called Galileo, under threat of going to the stake,  that he abandon his theory which was explaining and was demonstrating that, in reality, the planet earth was turning around the sun, and not the reverse.

The behavior of these popes was only the consequence of their weak levels of conscience and  of kscientific nowledge, that was inducing automatically in their mind the sin of pride, under the effect of the superstition.

Their intellect was persuaded that the man was the most elaborate demonstration of the divine creation, that everything was due to him, and therefore that the earth, support of the man's life, was necessarily the center of the universe. All this ensuing exclusively from a reading literal of the Bible.

The Catholicism teaches that God decomposes himself in three beings who are : the Father (God), the Son (Jesus Christ) and the SHoly Spirit.  God would have sent his Son on earth so that he lavishes us His teaching.

The declaration of Vatican (1870) according to which the Pope is infallible, because directly  inspired by God, seems to be a nonsense.

It would mean that the Pope is a human being having the same knowledge as the one of Jesus Christ and that it is no more necessary to follow Jesus' teachings (desribed only in the New Testament) as those of the Pope are valid as well.

It would mean also that the teachings of Jesus Christ are incomplete, and that "God" asks the Pope to improves them !

Thus the Pope would take the place of Jesus Christ !

If the popes are infallible, then how to explain the recent "repentance of the church" that was uttered by Jean-Paul II and concerning the "errors" of behavior of some Catholic prelates in the past ?

=> We have had to wait for the result of the works of a council held at Nicée so that the Catholic church recognizes that the woman is also endowed a soul.

Also, concerning the soul, to see the excellent movie "The controversy of Valladolid."

=> The practice of the "indulgences" or, in return for money from the followers, the church distributed passports to them that were allowing the direct access at the paradise.

=> The Dominican Torquémada, one of the heads of the Very Holy Inquisition, was persuaded to be a purifier acting for a divine reason.

He made to torture and to slaughter some poor wretches without education, often for futile motives generated by his superstitious beliefs due to his lack of conscience and of knowledge.

This is how some owners of black cats were arrested and were condemned to be burned at the stake because the inquisitor, having recognized Satan disguised in black cat, deducted that the owner of the cat made in fact a satanic activity with Satan.

This behavior clearly shows the power of the superstition in all its intensity, as well as its disastrous consequences.

=> The mass has been said a long time in Latin, incomprehensible language for 99 % of the attendees.

    But what the followers could learn from hearing nothing but gibberish ? Nothing !

=> In its new catechism, the Catholic church continues to present the man as a superior creature reporting directly to God, this God having created the elements, the plants and the animals for the man's good pleasure, so that this one can use them to his will :

"One is in right to use the flesh of the animals as food. "

"One is in right to use the animals to make clothes. "

"One is in right to resort to the animals in the organization of leisure. "

"The medical and scientific experimentation on the animals is morally admissible. "

"We must not dedicate to the animals the love that is only dedicated to the humans. "

"It is disgraceful to spend money for the animals. "

Who is "one" in   "one is in right..." ?

Certainly not Jesus Christ because all these affirmations are not not at all present in the New Testament.

Obviously, the prelates who wrote these laws have never possessed animals of company.

If the prelats who wrote these parts of the new catechism did go to consult physicians and psychologists, these would have explained to them that the possession of a house pet, by aged people or persons living alone, brings an occupation, responsibility and a company permitting to fight against the solitude, etc...

The animal, on his side, brings the sincere love and the fidelity.

The stance of the Catholic church on the animals discredits her.

To consider that the animals are not sensitive living beings, and that their fate must be ignored, is of a distressing arrogance, of a hypocritical pride.

The environmentalists and the defenders of the animals therefore are not worthy to be Catholic ?

On the other hand the polluters of the planet, the polluters covering the sea with oil, indirectly killing then many birds, the slaughterers of animals in the purpose of sadistic pleasure, can be of excellent Catholics ?

When the arrogance allies itself with such an obscurantism, the prelates start uttering such absurdities.

Decidedly Saint François d'Assise would have made a very bad Catholic nowadays !

For when the sacrifices of animals on the altar during the mass ?

Lamartine: "One doesn't have a heart for the humans and another for the animals. One has a heart or one doesn't have any. "

Besides, the French law considers the animals, all animals, as objects and no as living beings.

The life of a dog is not worth more, legally, that an old chair that you get rid of !

The animals cannot express themselves and can only undergo passively the madness of some masters or breeders, or then the cruelty of supposedly researchers who don't hesitate to use the vivisection "in order to see what happens !"

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Professor Theodore Monod : extracted of his book "And if the human adventure had to fail"

In search of a morality... p 128

...To new times, new moral

When the archbishop of Montreal, Mgr Paul Grégoire, writes (1): "The problem of the environment crosses the man's heart ", he joins, by an absolutely natural and meaningful convergence Paul B.Sears, the famous American environmentalist that had in 1969 (2) the courage to agree this point of view:

"The protection of our resources in order to pull the biggest profit of them, in the present time as well as in the future, and the health of

the ecosystem that we belong to, won't only depend on our number, but of what we know, we believe, we think or we feel. The result will be determined by the values that give its shape to our culture. "

     1. Ecologie.Québec, J, 1, 1971, p. 8.                   2. The Ohio Newspaper of Science, January 1969, p. 14.

The animal facing the thought... p 193

 13 - the conference pronounced by Professor Lynn White December 26, 1966 (I want to specify the date) in Washington in front of the American Association for the Advancement of Science should become one of the texts of the ecological revolution, titled "the historical roots of our ecological crisis " ; it appears the 10mars 1967 in Science (vol. 155, n0 3747: 1203-1207).

Lynn White doesn't chew its words :

« Christianity is "the most anthropocentric religion that the world has known", its attitude towards the nature is absolutely "arrogant." »

« The message of Saint François d'Assise, "the biggest spiritual revolutionary of the west" could have reoriented the thought and the Christian religious observance, by substituting the dogma of the unlimited domination of the man on God's creation by the one of the equality of all creatures in front of God. But Saint François failed. We must now repair this failure and  come back to the message of the one that became the patron saint of the environmentalists. »

The animal in front of the thought and to the Christian moral...

 "How come that the institutional, official Christianity, the one of the councils, of the confessions of faith or dogmas, the one of the theology could have ignored during two thousand years the dramatic and pathetic problem of the animal condition without condemning the executioners, without making its place in his teaching, in his treaties, his manuals and his catechisms to the suffering of the beasts, eternal victims of the cruelty of the men ? "

"Why a silence at a time so cumbersome and so lasting that one could wonder if the question was, in fact, already solved, then preventing a debate actually without object ? "

"How a religion of love, of  pity, of mercy, having placed at the center of his faith the Sermon on the mountain, with the Beatitudes and the hymn to the charity of I Corinthians 13, could appear to accept to take into account only a single creature, to the exclusion of all the others ? "

"Why the Churches - and mine as well as all others surely - cannot teach the mercy again for all creatures and also don't intercede - or so little and so rarely - for the innumerable victims of the stupidity and the cruelty of the men ? "

=> In the year 2000 the Pope Jean-Paul II made two statements :

1) closeness of the Catholic and Roman church with the other Christian Churches.

2) papal approval to an official declaration of the Roman Catholic church, that has been made by the Community of the Faith, and that was declaring : « There is only one valid religion in the world and it is the one of the Roman Catholic church.»

Coming from a person supposedly infallible because being directly inspired by God, how to interpret and to explain this contradiction ?

The two stands seem contradictory !

The Pope is the chief of a Church having different currents of thought internally, this bringing differences of interpretation concerning the teachings of the New Testament. (Opus Dei, Jesuits, Benedictines, Dominicans, Cistercian, Franciscan, etc...)

One can classify these different components in three categories: the falcons, the moderates and the doves.

It is reasonable to think that Jean-Paul II belonged to the party of the doves. However, as he was the chief of all theses different parties, he wanted also to take into account and to satisfy the requirements of the clan of the fanatic falcons.

This difference in these two stands is therefore only an internal politics problem inside the Vatican. However this doesn't contribute to show the Catholic church as a model of holiness and of humility.

=> Catholic teaching concerning the resurrection and the eternal life :

     "One day, known of only God, will occur the eternal resurrection of all deads, it will be the Last Judgment. All the righteous persons will be reincarnated and will live eternally on this earth. But for the sinners, they will burn eternally in the hell. "

This statement was surely impressing the uncultivated people of the Middle Ages and of before. But henceforth a lot of individuals are capable to analyze these predictions and say to themselves, for example :

-) While waiting for the Last Judgment, the souls of the deaths are not therefore on earth, nor to the paradise, nor to the purgatory, nor in hell. So where are they ?

-) Will the non-Catholics be deprived of the eternal life ?

-) Those that lived before the Christ, will they be deprived of the eternal life ?

-) Will the childhood, the youth, the maturity and the old age be suppressed ?

-) For those that died aged : will they have the possibility to choose a younger age in their eternal resurrection ?

-) For those that died mad : will they remain mad eternally ?

-) For those that died bedridden : will they remain bedridden eternally ?

-) the cavemen living close to the very educated people : will they cohabit ?

-) Will these eternal human beings continue to procreate, therefore  creating an explosion of the population of the earth ?

   ( This one already explodes and more and more create some insoluble problems.)

-) Is it possible, for an immaterial soul, to burn (material world) eternally in a place named hell ?

-) Where is the hell situated ? ( The scientists didn't localize it again.)

-) What type of eternal fuel is used by the Devil in hell to feed his fire ?

-) Is this Devil God's creation ? If yes it means that God was mistaken by creating it ?

So God therefore is capable to be mistaken, he is therefore not perfect ? Otherwise the Devil is God's equal ?

 If God is the unique source of all the creation : then why the Devil exists ?

-) etc...

=> Victims of the celibacy, the sexual instinct of some high Catholic dignitaries brought them to favor and to adore the Virgin Mary instead of Jesus Christ.

However and according to my knowledge, the Virgin Marie has never taught.

Jesus Christ never asked that somebody adore and  return a cult to his mother or to himself.

He only wished that the human beings put in application his teaching in their everyday life.

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Are you skeptical ? Compare these facts then with the content of the New Testament.

Are you of a natural superstitious and suggestible ? Then, of course, you will take for beneficial truth, and as consequence of the divine will, everything that has been described above.

Matthew 7 - 15 to 20 :

« Watch out for false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are voracious wolves. »

« You will recognize them by their fruit. »

« Grapes are not gathered from thorns or figs from thistles, are they ? »

« In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. »

« A good tree is not able to bear bad fruit, nor a bad tree to bear good fruit. »

« Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. »

« So then, you will recognize them by their fruit.»

Henri de Lubac: « The professors of religion are always exposed to transform Christianity in religion of professors. »

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The persons who distort the religion, who depreciate the science (the true science endowed with conscience), and who are living in the utopia, the credulity and the superstition, or who are reading the Bible literally without trying to objectively decipher the hidden sense of the passages seeming not realistic, then these persons cannot discern that evil is only the ignorance of the good, the reason behind this being the instinctive demand for action of the instincts (that should be prohibited by the moral), favored by a weak level of Conscience.

They are not able to understand that the persons at fault are unable to control their instincts of survival, that their intellect is manipulated by their instincts, making them believe that their thoughts and their acts are appropriate, in the norms, and that an action considered by the Justice or the True Religions as bad, is actually a good action, normal, "natural".

Examples :

- Racism is the consequence of the self-centeredness of some individuals, however, what matters is the content of the brain and not the color of the skin.

- A person to the cruel behavior doesn't know that he is cruel. He is incapable to understand the point of view of more conscious people than him. He believes to be merely in the norms because he met other people behaving and reasoning as him.

The hell is on this earth, it is the result of the acts insane of individuals without conscience.

( Read the newspapers and try to go upstream of an event in order to find the reasons that provoked such an act.)

Consequently the Satanism established itself among some religious leaders of different religions.

Concerning the Catholic church, for example, the Council of the Bishops of France designated in 1999 the R.P. Bruguès as official representative of the Catholic church to the National Consultative Committee of ethics for the Sciences of Life.

In April 2000, Vatican names this former preacher to Notre Dame of Paris to the title of bishop of the town of Angers.

However this Dominican of Spanish origin, in good successor of Torquémada, is a convinced adept of the cruelty that doesn't hesitate to declare: "The bullfight improves one's mind and purify the one that attends this spectacle, by effect of catharsis. "

In this religious institution the church should have designated someone capable to bring an enormous dose of moral sense, in other words to bring the message of Universal love of the Christ Jésus. But on the contrary, this Church has designated a representative who justify the barbarism.

Satanism triumphs once more, the Golden Calf is always standing.

II Corinthians 11-12/15 : « And what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may eliminate any opportunity for those who want a chance to be regarded as our equals in the things they boast about. For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Therefore it is not surprising his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will correspond to their actions.»

This brings two reflections :

- Henceforth Your Lordship the bishop of Angers is going to be able to incite, to convince his followers that they have to attend bullfights ending by killing the bull, as often as possible, if they want to save their soul of the sin and to deserve the Paradise.

- Within the Catholic church, the praise of the cruelty doesn't prevent to make a career.

Contacted, the Master of the Dominicans' order responded that «in the church and in our Order, this question (of the bullfight) is always opened to the debate. There is place for the expression of points of different views, in a common research of the truth. »

Two thousand years after the message of the Christ Jésus this religious prelates didn't yet seize its significance.

They still are unable to make the difference between a good action and a cruel and sadistic action, or do they take refuge in an evasive attitude in order to avoid to take a position unfavorable to the practice of the cruelty, what would dissatisfy the essential of their "followers" of the worlds Mediterranean and of South America?

Would the behavior of the church therefore have deviated, while moving from the religious and sacred world to the materialistic and despicable world of the politicians ?

By the way, do you know what the mission of the Dominicans is ?

It is" the «predication of the holy word of God ! »

Does this Catholic religion educates the followers for their salute or drive them in the ignorance and the stupidity ?

Contacted on the official position of the Catholic church concerning the bullfight, His Eminence the Cardinal Lustiger asked to His Grace the bishop Derumeaux to respond to the question :

"To civilize these customs, the effort (of the church) was about the observance of a ritual that aims to transform barbaric traditions in one popular feast. This attempt - that appears crowned of success - seems more realistic than the hope to eradicate by decree of the traditions more than centennial, written down in the memory of some Mediterranean peoples. "

Let's try to understand this official position : the church detects a barbaric tradition, therefore satanic, based on the cruelty towards the animals (ex : the bullfights), she renames it "popular feast" and so the barbaric tradition disappears because it has been replaced by a beneficent Catholic jubilation !

Who are the winners in this story ?

Is it these sadistic individuals, enjoying the suffering of the animals, or the people who oppose the cruelty in the name of the Christian moral ?

Is the bull suffering and then dying in a barbarian bullfight and not in a bullfight in relation to a "popular feast" having the approval of the Catholic church ?   Of course no !

Because of such a laxity coming from an institution which is supposed to teach the moral, it is therefore normal that the quantity of bullfights is increasing in France.

Is this that who is called by the church " an attempt that appears crowned of success ? "

Understand who will be able to !

November first, 1567, the Pope Saint Pie V published the papal bull "DE SALUTE GREGIS DOMINICI" forbidding strickly and forever the bullfights of toros, and ordering the immediate excommunication sentence against all Catholics that allows them to occur and that are involved in this activity.

Also ordering the refusal of a religious burial to the Catholics who could die, following of an involvement to some bullfighting show whatever it is.

What does it remain of it nowadays?

This papal bull is ignored, put away in a cupboard of the Vatican.

Everything fades with time and the business of the Jesus-dollars defeated the moral.

Would history repeat itself  ?

Matthew 23-2 to 39: (the following text applies also to a lot of other religions.)

« The experts in the law and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat. Therefore pay attention to what they tell you and do it. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they teach. They tie up heavy loads, hard to carry, and put them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing even to lift a finger to move them. They do all their deeds to be seen by people, for they make their phylacteries wide and their tassels long. They love the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues and elaborate greetings in the marketplaces, and to have people call them ‘Rabbi.’ But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher and you are all brothers. And call no one your ‘father’ on earth, for you have one ather, who is in heaven. Nor are you to be called ‘teacher,’ for you have one teacher, the Christ. The greatest among you will be your servant. And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.7

« But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites ! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven ! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.»

« Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, and when you get one, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves ! »

« Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple is bound by nothing. But whoever swears by the gold of the temple is bound by the oath.’ Blind fools ! Which is greater, the gold or the temple that makes the gold sacred ? And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar is bound by nothing. But if anyone swears by the gift on it he is bound by the oath.’ You are blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred ? So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and the one who dwells in it. And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and the one who sits on it.»

« Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites ! You give a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you neglect what is more important in the law – justice, mercy, and faithfulness ! You should have done these things without neglecting the others. Blind guides ! You strain out a gnat yet swallow a camel ! »

« Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites !   You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee ! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may become clean too ! »

« Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites ! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.»

« Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites ! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have participated with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ By saying this you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up then the measure of your ancestors ! You snakes, you offspring of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell ? »

« For this reason I am sending you prophets and wise men and experts in the law, some of whom you will kill and crucify,  and some you will flog  in your synagogues and pursue from town to town, so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. I tell you the truth, this generation will be held responsible for all these things ! »

Judgment on Israel

« O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you ! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it ! Look, your house is left to you desolate ! For I tell you, you will not see me from now until you say, ‘Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord ! »

Scribe: "In the Jewish world, doctor of the law who taught this one to the people. "

Pharisee: "Member of a Jewish sect that, under an obvious rigorism, hid dissolute customs. "

"Their teaching set in the Talmud. "

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Now we have to relativize as all this is not entirely negative.

The religious Catholics are as the other groups of individuals. We can find in each of these groups of the mediocre, of the tolerable, but also of the excellent.

Concerning the honest Catholic dignitaries, their mind is good but the rules they follow could be improved.

Their Church didn't always propagate well nor well respected the teachings of the Christ Jésus but, fortunately, it always existed, especially in the low echelons of his hierarchy, a lot of humble, devoted, discreet, efficient people, capable to make the good while adopting a conduct a lot more Christian than Catholic.

This religious deserve to be helped and to be supported.

This permitted to compensate for the stands and the superstitious practices of some high dignitaries, that were considered previously as words of gospel and that, nowadays, according to the present scientific knowledge, are watched like an aberrant, unrealistic and utopian behavior.

Among the different religions issued from Jesus' teachings, some individuals honest and practicing the real Christianity , have succeeded in attenuating all these upsurges of instinctive aggressiveness that are present inside the man. This happened during the last two millenniums.

It is mainly their actions that permitted the advancement of the civilization in our western world.

It is true that only the real religions and the serious philosophical confraternities have for mission to transcend the material world, allowing thus the conscience to progress, this being impossible for a lot of politicians and some religious superstitious and credulous who don't know how to make it.