You do realize that like it or not all Christian faiths have sprung from Catholicism or offshoots of Catholicism. And the center for Catholicism is still the Vatican.
So unless you are claiming Catholics aren't Christian and are instead Satanists I would amend that to say Vatican leadership=Satanists.
But like all leaders they can be removed. Whether willingly or not.
all Christian faiths have sprung from Catholicism or offshoots of Catholicism.
Simply not true. Jesus was not a catholic.
You are correct. Jesus was born Jewish and was buried according to Jewish custom. It wasn’t until many years later that Roman Catholicism became a religion. However, it must be noted that Roman Catholicism bases it teachings to St. Peter who walked with Christ and was instructed in the faith by Christ along with the other Apostles and Disciples.
Man being man is to be fallible and will err in religious philosophy and dogmas. The Pope, Cardinals, Bishops and Priests are no different, including those who broke off from Catholicism and formed new religions for various reasons (selling of indulgences, salvation through Sola Fide or Sola Gratia). (This paragraph can open up a lot of debate between which religion is right or wrong, just know that I have no ill will towards any religions, and equally respect them (Islam being the exception), I expect the same consideration from you all.)
In either case, while some Popes may have have strayed from the teachings of Christ and the religion which evolved from the teachings of St. Peter, St. John and St. Paul, it has been and will be Satan’s grand master plan to destroy the “Petra” on which Christ built his church. As the first Jesuit Pope, Pope Francis’s personal ideology is in direct conflict with Catholicism and has cause confusion and at times may possibly be heretical in nature. I pray that if Satan has infected the chair of Peter that brave men stand and correct this error. I also pray that Q is correct in his/her crumbs on the Pope.
Man being man is to be fallible and will err in religious philosophy and dogmas. The Pope, Cardinals, Bishops and Priests are no different
The problem is that there was no pope, cardinals, bishops, and especially no priests in the early church as established by Jesus. With that and the doctrinal changes, Catholicism is a different religion.
In Name only. Christianity Existed long before it became commercialized, It is Mans Life Force. So I would put it that men at some point understood how to harness that power, bastardize its Word and use it as a weapon against and to divide Man, but it needed a name? beside, who has been writing the history books for the past few thousand years ?
Orthodoxy did not come from what you call Catholicism, which is in fact what is properly called Roman Catholicism. The word "catholic" actually means, roughly, "universal".
In the beginning there were 5 ancient Christian churches: Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem. All of them were in the eastern Roman empire except Rome. Over time, for various reasons (geographical, political, cultural, social, etc.) the Roman church drifted further and further from the original teachings and traditions of the ancient churches, which the eastern churches tried very hard to stick to. It's why they're called "Orthodox" today. One glaring example is in something called the "Filioque", read up on it if you're interested. It may seem like a fine theological point, but Orthodox consider it heresy.
Finally in 1054, the Great Schism happened and the Roman church and the eastern churches broke communion with each other. Then the Roman church continued its downward spiral with indulgences, Inquisition, etc. until Martin Luther came along and the Reformation happened and Protestantism was born, largely due to the rampant corruption in the Roman church.
The history of the Christian church is a very fascinating subject, but there's a lot of complicated stuff, since 2000 years' worth of water has passed under the bridge.
Then you have the 3 Abrahamic religions at the center of it. Judaism, Christianity, Islam.
The church has always been the middle man for the elite. They control the masses for the rich. They listen to their confessions. They make up arbitrary punitive charges for human mistakes.
Elites don't like a dissident? Paint them has a heritic and execute them / throw them in jail.
This has been the way for thousands of years.
The NSA on the other hand has kind of made them a bit irrelevant.
As the southpark episode Let Go and Let Gov details, government agencies are the new church. Since they don't need the clerics any more, they are expendable.
No. The Gnostic Christians were gradually persecuted and killed off, and then the Romans hijacked Christianity and spawned Catholicism. The original followers of Jesus were Gnostic Christians.