Today, almost all the major Christian sects tell their followers
what they can or cannot read. The truth could be disastrous to
their faith. In 1562, the Vatican established a special censoring
office called Index Expurgatorius, whose sole purpose was to
prohibit the publication of "Erroneous Passages of the Early Church
Fathers," which carried statements opposing their modern-day dogma.
The Word is whatever the Christian Church says it is and when
Vatican archivists came across "genuine copies of the Church
Fathers, they corrected edited, added, abridged, condensed, and
supplemented] them according to the Expurgatory Index" (Index
Expurgatorius Vaticanus, R. Gibbings, ed., Dublin, 1837; The
Literary Policy of the Church of Rome, Joseph Mendham, J. Duncan,
London, 1830, 2nd ed., 1840; The Vatican Censors, op. cit., p.
328). But throughout history, few but the great thinkers of society
understood this symbiotic relationship of politics and religion,
and those who spoke out became stigmatized by both the powerful
priesthood and the ruling oligarchy. "You sniveling priest, you are
imposing delusions upon society for your own aggrandizement"
(Voltaire, French philosopher, rationalist, free thinker).
________________________________________ All developed societies
are but an extension of the political views of the ruling oligarchy
upon the many, the suffering poor. "If every criminal and inhumane
act ever committed were traced to its root cause, that root would
be buried deep in religion" (Sherry Matulis, activist, 1931).
________________________________________ The most infamous Catholic
of the all time, one of history's great mass murderers, Hitler,
realizes the symbiotic relationship between children and religion
and puts it succinctly in the twentieth century: "The state must
declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people.
As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit
of the children, the people will happily endure almost any
curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation" (Adolf Hitler,
Mein Kampf).
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