Prime Minister David Cameron has offered Pope Benedict XVI a very warm welcome to Britain ahead of his incredibly important and historic visit. Pope Benedict XVI starts his four day official visit to the UK on Thursday 16 September. This is the first ever official Papal visit to the UK. The Pope will be visiting Edinburgh, Glasgow, London and Birmingham. All popes are infamous for promoting pseudomiracles, such as the Shroud of Turin, Padre Pio's stigmata, Marian apparitions, and the Holy Grail.
The PM said: This is the first ever Official Papal Visit to these shores. And it's a great honour for our country. These will be a very special four days not just for our six million Catholics but for many people of faith right across Britain, and millions more watching around the world. Pope Benedict XVI will visit the UK as Head of State of the Holy See and as the leader of a major denomination.
Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens plan a legal ambush to have Pope, the Unholy Father, the Grand Inquisitor, arrested for crimes against humanity. They have asked a distinguished group of human rights lawyers headed by Geoffrey Robertson to produce a case for charging Pope Benedict XVI over the cover up of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. The Pope does not enjoy diplomatic immunity, because the Unholy See is recognized by the United Nations only as an observer State, not a regular State. Church's Augean stables need to be comprehensively cleaned up now.
Basil Venitis, an Athenian orator, points out the Shroud of Turin had first appeared in about 1355 at a small church in Lirey, France. According to a bishop's report written in 1389 to the Avignon pope, Clement VII, an artist admitted he had cunningly painted the image of the crucified Christ on the cloth. Stylistic and iconographic elements corroborate a medieval artistic origin. So do modern carbon-14 tests, which yielded a date range of circa 1260—1390, consistent with the time of the reported forger's confession. Famed microanalyst Walter C. McCrone had previously determined that the image had been rendered by an artist using red ocher and vermilion tempera paint.
Venitis notes Charlatan Saint Padre Pio's stigmata started with carbolic-acid misuse! Pio and some of the other friars at San Giovanni Rotondo were administering injections to boys who were ill with influenza. Alcohol not being available, an exhausted doctor left carbolic acid to be used for sterilizing needles and injection sites, while neglecteing to tell the friars it had to be diluted. As a result, Pio and another friar were left with angry red spots on their hands. Not only Padre Pio continued inducing his stigmata with acid, he also misused funds and had sex with female parishioners in the confessional. The founder of the Catholic university hospital in Rome branded Pio an ignorant and self-mutilating psychopath who exploited people's credulity.
Marian apparitions are hallucinations of Mary Nazarene, encouraged by superstition and deliberate hoaxes to attract attention. Many such apparitions are reported in economically depressed areas, attracting many pilgrims who bring trade and money into the region.
Our Lady of Lourdes is a hallucination of Mary Nazarene that appeared on 11 February 1858, when Bernadette Soubirus, a 14-year-old peasant girl from Lourdes claimed that she had seen a lady in the cave of Massabielle, about a mile from the town, while she was gathering firewood with her sister and a friend. When Carl Sagan studied the cancer cures resulting from a visit to Lourdes, he found that the cure rate was lower than the one for spontaneous remission. It was lower than the average for those who didn't go to Lourdes at all!
Basil Venitis, twitter.com/Venitis, points out three brats at Fatima of Portugal hoodwinked about conversations with Mary Nazarene! The Fatima pseudomiracle has been described in many very different ways. Some claimed that the sun spun pinwheel-like with colored streamers, while others maintained that it danced.
Most likely, there was a combination of factors at Fatima, including optical effects and meteorological phenomena, such as the sun being seen through thin clouds, causing it to appear as a silver disc. Other possibilities include an alteration in the density of the passing clouds, causing the sun's image to alternately brighten and dim and so seem to advance and recede, and dust or moisture droplets in the atmosphere refracting the sunlight and thus imparting a variety of colors.
The effects of suggestion were also likely involved, since devout spectators had come to the Fatima site fully expecting some miraculous event, had their gaze dramatically directed at the sun by Lucia, and excitedly discussed and compared their perceptions in a way almost certain to foster psychological contagion. Even Lucia's own mother declared that her precocious daughter was nothing but a fake who was leading half the world astray with pseudomiracles and pseudoapparitions of Mary Nazarene!
Venitis muses the Holy Grail is an imaginary cup used by Jesus Nazarene at the Last Supper, which clergy hoodwink to possess miraculous powers. Some Britons claim Joseph of Arimathea received the Grail from an apparition of Jesus Nazarene and sent it with his followers to Great Britain. Some Spaniards created an unholy myth that Joseph used the Grail to catch Christ's blood while interring him, and he sent it to Spain.
The unholy quest for the Holy Grail makes up an important segment of Arthurian myths. The myth combines Christian lore with a Celtic myth of a cauldron endowed with special powers. Hundred unholy cathedrals all over Europe hoodwink the faithful, displaying hundred variations of the Holy Grail! These fake grails do not belong to cathedrals, but to museums of hoaxes. Holy Grail hoax is the perfect unholy tool for fleecing Christians, writing fiction, and producing movies.
Venitis asserts clergy are abusing the faithful on a consistent basis. In various dioceses across the world, church leaders are going great lengths to avoid making amends with the same victims of abuse they claimed to be trying to make peace with. Facing waves of lawsuits by now-adult victims, churches react more like a big business than a sacred institution. Wealthy dioceses have claimed to be broke and taken the drastic act of filing for bankruptcy. Only when forced to open their ledgers in bankruptcy proceedings does it become clear that several of these dioceses were actually flush with assets that it could have made available to victims seeking restitution.
Venitis asserts that Magdalene, Jesus Nazarene's wife, is the most important person of Christianity. She was the smartest and best apostle. She was the only apostle who could understand Jesus Nazarene completely, and that's why all other twelve apostles were jealous of her. Magdalene is the first bishop of Christianity. Nevertheless, misogynist gay bishops of the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church defamed Magdalene in order to restrict hierarchs to males, transforming church leadership to a gay club. The Unholy See declared that attempting to ordain a woman as a priest would be treated as a serious offence!
Churches already struggling to cope with myriad sex abuse scandals, have been hit by revelations of billion-euro thefts, opaque accounting, and Byzantine extravagance. While the grassroots faithful are being forced to make cutbacks, most bishops enjoy the trappings of the church huge wealth.
Senior officials within the British government, the police and the Catholic Church conspired to cover up the involvement of a Catholic priest in a 1972 bombing. Terrorist father James Chesney engineered the blast which killed nine people in the village of Claudy, near Londonderry. He was moved to the Republic of Ireland late in 1973, amid fears that his arrest would further inflame sectarian tensions at the time.
In many places, this blatant disparity, along with reports of mismanagement, misappropriation and pomposity have prompted the faithful to challenge church officials. They are accusing many bishops of just covering up the problem, as they did in the sex abuse scandal. Bishops are determined not to allow anyone to see behind the curtain into their parallel world of bulging bank accounts and hidden assets, which, in some cases, have buttressed their power for centuries. The church true assets, like cockroaches, remain in the shadows.
Stung by myriad charges of clergy sexual abuse, corruption, robberies, orgies, and coverup that reach the pope, patriarchs, and archbishops, churches face a crisis of empty pews and empty coffers. Churches need to address their own failures, acknowledge their own guilt, ask for forgiveness, and heal as a family. Those leaving Christianity outnumber converts by four-to-one.
In 1966, John Lennon claimed the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Nazarene. Lennon said: Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock and roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
Lennon uttered those wise words at the height of Beatlemania. The British Invasion happened to also coincide with the decline of Christianity, especially in England, and especially amongst the younger generations. The mass hysteria of Beatlemania was analogous to religious ecstasy. Many fans truly saw the Beatles as musical messiahs. John, Paul, George, and Ringo reported that fans would bring sick people to their concerts, in the belief that the band had a divine healing presence.
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