Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
"Colonization was a good thing. It saved people from their barbaric religions by bringing peace in the form of Christianity."
Another edition of Quotes By Popes
Quote:May 23, 2007 Pope’s remarks called revisionism
Pope Benedict XVI’s declaration in Brazil that colonial-era evangelization in the New World did not represent “the imposition of a foreign culture” has ignited criticism from indigenous representatives and the governments of Venezuela and Bolivia.
Indigenous groups from Chile to Mexico have condemned the remarks as a revision of a history marked by massacres, enslavement and destruction of native cultures.
“The proclamation of Jesus and of his Gospel did not at any point involve an alienation of the pre-Columbus cultures, nor was it the imposition of a foreign culture,” Benedict said.
The people of the Americas, the pope said, had been “silently longing” for Christ “without realizing it,” and willingly received a Holy Spirit “who came to make their cultures fruitful, purifying them.”
The pope’s analysis didn’t mention the widely acknowledged violent side of the conquest, a theme that is at the heart of a resurgent indigenous movement in Latin America.
Credible modern accounts of the conquest include reference to the often barbarous treatment Spanish and Portuguese overseers inflicted on native populations.
“Surely the pope doesn’t realize that the representatives of the Catholic Church of that era, with honorable exceptions, were complicit, accessories and beneficiaries of one of the more horrible genocides that humanity has seen,” said an Ecuadorean-based association of Quechua Indians, one of South America’s largest indigenous groups.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez called publicly on the pope to apologize.
“How can he say that the evangelization wasn’t imposed, if they arrived here with arms and entered with blood, lead and fire?” Chavez asked a radio and television audience recently.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
(February 10, 2026 at 12:04 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: "Colonization was a good thing. It saved people from their barbaric religions by bringing peace in the form of Christianity."
Another edition of Quotes By Popes
Quote:May 23, 2007 Pope’s remarks called revisionism
Pope Benedict XVI’s declaration in Brazil that colonial-era evangelization in the New World did not represent “the imposition of a foreign culture” has ignited criticism from indigenous representatives and the governments of Venezuela and Bolivia.
Indigenous groups from Chile to Mexico have condemned the remarks as a revision of a history marked by massacres, enslavement and destruction of native cultures.
“The proclamation of Jesus and of his Gospel did not at any point involve an alienation of the pre-Columbus cultures, nor was it the imposition of a foreign culture,” Benedict said.
The people of the Americas, the pope said, had been “silently longing” for Christ “without realizing it,” and willingly received a Holy Spirit “who came to make their cultures fruitful, purifying them.”
The pope’s analysis didn’t mention the widely acknowledged violent side of the conquest, a theme that is at the heart of a resurgent indigenous movement in Latin America.
Credible modern accounts of the conquest include reference to the often barbarous treatment Spanish and Portuguese overseers inflicted on native populations.
“Surely the pope doesn’t realize that the representatives of the Catholic Church of that era, with honorable exceptions, were complicit, accessories and beneficiaries of one of the more horrible genocides that humanity has seen,” said an Ecuadorean-based association of Quechua Indians, one of South America’s largest indigenous groups.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez called publicly on the pope to apologize.
“How can he say that the evangelization wasn’t imposed, if they arrived here with arms and entered with blood, lead and fire?” Chavez asked a radio and television audience recently.
Talk about the witch hunt.
Christians got scared that someone would throw a curse on them. But then again, won't amulets like crucifixes around their necks protect them from curses, or are some curses even stronger than the crucifix?
Quote:Etsy Witches Say Spell Casting Is No Longer Welcome on the Platform
For years, you could hire someone on Etsy to curse an evil ex, protect your home, or manifest better luck. Now, sellers who built real businesses offering spellcasting services say the platform has finally decided they’ve crossed a line, removing their shops after years of operating in plain sight.
A wave of Etsy sellers who offered paid spellwork say they’ve recently been banned or had listings pulled, despite Etsy prohibiting supernatural services since 2015. The policy isn’t new. But the enforcement, sellers argue, feels abrupt.
The offerings covered plenty of ground. Love spells. Protection rituals. Money manifestations. Clairvoyant readings. Even curses aimed at exes and enemies. Many listings had thousands of reviews and loyal customers, with sellers surfaced through Etsy’s own search tools and paid ads.
One seller, Beatrix, who ran Celestial Craft Spells, told the New York Post the removal felt personal. “On Etsy, witches had a place where we could complete our work without discrimination,” she said, noting that Etsy previously promoted her shop. “Suddenly, and quietly, they have removed us with no real explanations. For some of us, this was our livelihood.”
Some sellers have moved to personal websites or niche platforms like Witchly. Their customers are following, though not without complaints. As Jay put it, “Website Witch just doesn’t hit the same.”
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
February 12, 2026 at 11:16 am (This post was last modified: February 12, 2026 at 11:17 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(February 6, 2026 at 6:09 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: In any case, misogyny in Christianity is something to behold, so if one church tones it down, others will see it as betrayal.
Here are a few snippets from an anti feminist article based on the writings by Carrie Gress "a scholar with the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America". And beside giving a fictional representation of the subject, they are using the usual Catholic and Christian sound bites like the devil, occult, communism, and etc. to scare the sheep from being affiliated with it.
As you read the article, you see that the ignorance of the Catholic Church is infinite, and is only matched by its paranoia.
"Women must obey, and everything else is a betrayal of church, morality, civilization, God, and whatnot. The church knows what is best for women, and treating women as mindless slaves is love." But, of course, women are just stand-in. Men don't fare any better since these sick fucks still can't get over the French Revolution and they still dream of the totalitarian "glory" they once had over peasants in medieval Europe.
Ok, I'll put the article in hide tags since it's a bit long.
Quote:The Anti-Christian Core of Feminism
Gress sees feminism as an “anti-Marian” movement. But she said that this judgment is not exclusively directed at twentieth century or contemporary feminism, but at all feminism as we have known it in the Western world, starting with English writer and philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft, the mother of feminism.
Gress said that the Virgin Mary “is the most powerful woman in the world … No one has been photographed more” no one has had “the role and influence that she’s had” on the world. Feminism, she said, “is directly opposed to who our lady is.” It is “diametrically opposed” to Christianity.
Gress then asked whether or not such a thing as “Christian feminism” is possible. She believes it is not possible. Feminism, she found, is concerned with “control and power,” whereas Christianity focuses on charity and humility.
In feminism, it is autonomy. The feminist ideal for women is to be independent of men and children, and generally “live their lives independently of the family.” The early feminists indeed wanted “to help women in very bad situations.” Thus there was a natural sympathy for their cause. But their solution was not to convert abusers to Christ and a more righteous life, to make women “more like men.”
The early feminists were influenced by the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, the son-in-law of Wolstencraft and her husband, William Godwin (a bitter opponent of Christian sexual morality). Shelley held that women should be free, at least in terms of the real choices available to them, from men and from children, and full and equal participants in the world of work. The first wave included the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and involved the work of Margaret Sanger, and the appearance of leftist political movements (socialist or communist). Feminism, like these movements, had roots in the French Revolution. Additional features included the belief “that hierarchies were bad,” that organizational structures set up by men are “intrinsically and inherently bad,” and that men are “intrinsically bad.”
Shelley also encouraged the early feminists to be “deeply involved in the occult.” He spent a night in a coffin trying to contact the devil. Taking the lead of his father-in-law, William Godwin, Shelley held “that marriage is a kind of slavery.” Women “like everyone else” should be able to enjoy non-marital sex, which was “called at that time ‘free love’” with no moral restraints. Gress found his ideas similar to those of the Marquis de Sade, although not as cruel as de Sade.
The Commandments of the Feminist Church
From these origins, Gress found the “three commandments” that informed first wave and subsequent feminisms: 1) involvement in the occult, 2) promiscuity, and 3) contempt for men. This “trinity” characterizes many young women today committed to feminism but was created generations ago in the age of the American and French revolutions. She observed said that one can easily see from these commandments that feminism is incompatible with Christianity.
“Contempt for men … makes it very difficult for a woman to have a relationship with God the Father. The occult makes it very difficult to have a relationship with Christ, and promiscuity of course makes it incredibly difficult for a woman … to be able to” be moved by the Holy Spirit.
Not surprisingly, feminism is contrary to the Christian theological virtues (faith, hope, and love). Against these, feminism advances “rage, envy, and contempt.” These three hostile characteristics are “a fundamental way feminism has taken hold of the culture.” She said that “every kind of women’s march has got these characteristics to it.” But many people would be surprised to learn that this way of thinking comes from the 1800s. Socialists and communists realized then, she said, that their goals would be much easier to accomplish if women were angry than if they were happy.
In this connection, they developed sessions of “consciousness raising,” in which women would talk about everything “that they were upset about and mad about.” Remarkably, consciousness raising moved from the United States to China, and from there back to the United States in the 1970s and 1980s. American women involved in consciousness raising at this time thought that it “was this exotic thing from China,” whereas it was simply a socialist tool that moved “from country to country.”
The next element in the “shadow church is the sacred rite of work.” This is important for women’s autonomy. This in turn leads to “the sacrament” of abortion. Instead of Christ saying, “this is my body for you” in the sacrament of communion, in the sacrament of abortion the individual says, “this is my body for me.” Moral autonomy, the sacredness of work, and the belief that women should “become like men” are the driving forces of abortion, she said. Feminism, not Roe v. Wade, has fueled the abortion culture.
Gress said that the goal of feminism, including first-wave feminism, has always been to destroy the church, destroy the Christian faith, and destroy the family. Many first-generation feminists were unitarians or atheists, Gress observed. She noted that among these was Matilda Gage, who was a witch. She influenced her daughter and son-in-law, Frank Baum, to become involved in witchcraft. After her death, he wrote, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, (later The Wizard of Oz). Gress believes that the wizard character is representative of patriarchy. Real power in the story, however, rests with the female witches, and with the stranded Dorothy, if only she knows to use the powers within her.
(February 12, 2026 at 10:43 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Talk about the witch hunt.
Christians got scared that someone would throw a curse on them. But then again, won't amulets like crucifixes around their necks protect them from curses, or are some curses even stronger than the crucifix?
Quote:Etsy Witches Say Spell Casting Is No Longer Welcome on the Platform
For years, you could hire someone on Etsy to curse an evil ex, protect your home, or manifest better luck. Now, sellers who built real businesses offering spellcasting services say the platform has finally decided they’ve crossed a line, removing their shops after years of operating in plain sight.
A wave of Etsy sellers who offered paid spellwork say they’ve recently been banned or had listings pulled, despite Etsy prohibiting supernatural services since 2015. The policy isn’t new. But the enforcement, sellers argue, feels abrupt.
The offerings covered plenty of ground. Love spells. Protection rituals. Money manifestations. Clairvoyant readings. Even curses aimed at exes and enemies. Many listings had thousands of reviews and loyal customers, with sellers surfaced through Etsy’s own search tools and paid ads.
One seller, Beatrix, who ran Celestial Craft Spells, told the New York Post the removal felt personal. “On Etsy, witches had a place where we could complete our work without discrimination,” she said, noting that Etsy previously promoted her shop. “Suddenly, and quietly, they have removed us with no real explanations. For some of us, this was our livelihood.”
Some sellers have moved to personal websites or niche platforms like Witchly. Their customers are following, though not without complaints. As Jay put it, “Website Witch just doesn’t hit the same.”
^As long as Etsy witches protect themselves with proper disclaimers (‘The spells/curses/potions/crystals sold here are for entertainment purposes only. No guarantees are express or implied as to efficacy’ or ‘We’re happy to sell you a love potion, but you’d have better luck joining a gym and brushing your teeth once in a while. Just saying.’) I don’t see a problem.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
(February 10, 2026 at 12:04 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: "Colonization was a good thing. It saved people from their barbaric religions by bringing peace in the form of Christianity."
Another edition of Quotes By Popes
Quote:May 23, 2007 Pope’s remarks called revisionism
Pope Benedict XVI’s declaration in Brazil that colonial-era evangelization in the New World did not represent “the imposition of a foreign culture” has ignited criticism from indigenous representatives and the governments of Venezuela and Bolivia.
Indigenous groups from Chile to Mexico have condemned the remarks as a revision of a history marked by massacres, enslavement and destruction of native cultures.
“The proclamation of Jesus and of his Gospel did not at any point involve an alienation of the pre-Columbus cultures, nor was it the imposition of a foreign culture,” Benedict said.
The people of the Americas, the pope said, had been “silently longing” for Christ “without realizing it,” and willingly received a Holy Spirit “who came to make their cultures fruitful, purifying them.”
The pope’s analysis didn’t mention the widely acknowledged violent side of the conquest, a theme that is at the heart of a resurgent indigenous movement in Latin America.
Credible modern accounts of the conquest include reference to the often barbarous treatment Spanish and Portuguese overseers inflicted on native populations.
“Surely the pope doesn’t realize that the representatives of the Catholic Church of that era, with honorable exceptions, were complicit, accessories and beneficiaries of one of the more horrible genocides that humanity has seen,” said an Ecuadorean-based association of Quechua Indians, one of South America’s largest indigenous groups.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez called publicly on the pope to apologize.
“How can he say that the evangelization wasn’t imposed, if they arrived here with arms and entered with blood, lead and fire?” Chavez asked a radio and television audience recently.
(February 12, 2026 at 11:16 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(February 6, 2026 at 6:09 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: In any case, misogyny in Christianity is something to behold, so if one church tones it down, others will see it as betrayal.
Here are a few snippets from an anti feminist article based on the writings by Carrie Gress "a scholar with the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America". And beside giving a fictional representation of the subject, they are using the usual Catholic and Christian sound bites like the devil, occult, communism, and etc. to scare the sheep from being affiliated with it.
As you read the article, you see that the ignorance of the Catholic Church is infinite, and is only matched by its paranoia.
"Women must obey, and everything else is a betrayal of church, morality, civilization, God, and whatnot. The church knows what is best for women, and treating women as mindless slaves is love." But, of course, women are just stand-in. Men don't fare any better since these sick fucks still can't get over the French Revolution and they still dream of the totalitarian "glory" they once had over peasants in medieval Europe.
Ok, I'll put the article in hide tags since it's a bit long.
But seriously, have you read the article? It laid out the definition of feminism according to the Catholic Church, which is:
Feminism is actually an occult religion of devil worship that teaches women to hate men and thus society (because "society is patriarchal") and not to marry but to have sexual relations with men with the aim of getting pregnant and thus participating in the occult sacrament of aborting the fetus to please the devil. All this has been recognized by communists who manipulate women in this way because feminists are angry and not happy like Catholics. Women do all this unconsciously under the influence of a secular culture that manipulates them and is controlled by Satanists, and one example is the novel "The Wizard of Oz."
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
Bergoglio in 2014 on pedophilia: "The Catholic Church is perhaps the only public institution to have acted with transparency and responsibility. No-one else has done more. Yet the Church is the only one to have been attacked."
Quote:The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) said the Holy See should open its files on members of the clergy who had "concealed their crimes" so that they could be held accountable by the authorities.
Pope Francis has set up a commission to investigate sex crimes committed by priests and to care for victims, but so far he has made very few public comments about the scandals that have rocked the Church in recent years.
The leader of an Italian group representing victims of clerical sex abuse claimed there had been little action from the Vatican and said there had been no "big changes" under Pope Francis.
Francesco Zanardi of Rete L'Abuso, told the BBC: "The cases of child abuse by priests continue to happen, all around Italy, and of the cases that we've denounced we have seen no results."
"The Pope may make this statement, but then the Vatican doesn't reply to the UN or impose the obligation that bishops should denounce accused priests in the courts and not deal with the cases internally."
The founder of the US-based website, BishopAccountability.org, Terence McKiernan, was more direct in his criticism, complaining that the Pope had not merely failed to apologise to the children who had been abused but had not even expressed sorrow.
"It is astonishing, at this late date, that Pope Francis would recycle such tired and defensive rhetoric," he said.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
