The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-05-17
Thursday, May II, 1917.
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and goddesses took part in battles and where
the credulous heather were taught, that floods,
famines, pestilences and other dire calamities
were punitive measures adopted on high by
displeased divinities
The early bishops, elders, priests, and doa-
cons Of the Christian church of Rome, be-
zomged to this Latin race; and it came natural
to them to gradually tolerate more and more
of the fabulous, Inherited super&titions Of
their race!
How many American Catholics ever
thought of that?
Just as in Japan and China the Catholic
missionaries adapted their religion to local,
racial, and ancestral beliefs qcAich 2oere too
deeply 5ngr0ined to be eradic0t3d, so in Italy,
the Christian bishops, being IF the Latin race
themselves, adapted the church to the in
herited, lngralned, ineradicaOle Latin super
sttions
Thus it came to pass, that Italian Christians
gave their chief-priest the Pagan title of Pom
tifex Maximus; elevated the Jewess, Mary,
to the place once held by Cybele, ''the Mother
of the Gods and the Queen of the Heavens"
created number of Saints, to take the va
cant inches once occupied by the demi- gods;
lit candles before shrines, burnt incense in
the temples, and crowned with flowers the
marble statue of the goddess, Mary; created
purgatory, and peopled it with prisoners who
could be released and made happy ever after
wards by paying the priests; and changed the
reverentially beautiful c0noneeno r0ti0e Sup
per of the Lord, into disgusting pagan sacr;-
fee, in which the priest pretends to again
offer up Christ to the offended Father, as q
vicarious atonement, millions and millions Of
times, IN as many different places; and to eat
and drink the sacrifice, JUST AS THE PAGAN
PRIESTS FORMERLY DID.
(5.) That after the Latin Christians had
created their revival of Pagansm at Rome,
the bishops took advantage of the absence of
the Emperors-who had removed to Con-
stantinople- and began to claim municipal
control of the City, and royal dominion over
the kingdom.
After generations of bloody contest, this
secular ambition of the Roman bishops was
gratifed, and they become kings of Italy.
This was the "Temporal Power" which
after so many wars and vicissitudes, was
finally overthrow by italian patriots in 1870.
The italian priesthood is moqc hoping for
its restoration, as one of the outcomes of the
Great War
(6.) That the Church at Rome became SO
grasping in it's ambition to rule the whole
world, that great division (schism) took
place in the Middle Ages; one-half of the
Christian churches being forced by arms to
obey the Roman pope, and the other half re-
fusng to do so.
The half that defed the Entertainments Of
Rome was composed of Waldenes, Albgenses,
Greeks, HISTORIANS, Armenians Syrians, and
Jacobites
a. That the popes Infatuated at opposi-
ton in Europe, waged relentless war upon
the Waldenses butchering them by thous-
ands, and driving the remainder into noun
tain retreats; and preached a terrible crusade
against the Albigenses, desolating the fairest
province of France with fire and sword, and
sweeping into one hideous carnage men,