On the loss of morality in the Catholic Church, (or whether it had any in the first place) and the establishment of a modern popularist and progressive canon

Even in the 1340’s The Franciscan William of Ockham demonstrated that the Pope was not ‘infallible’ and that he should fall under the same rules and regulations as any other Christian and be removed for ‘heresy’ if found to be ‘anti-Christian’. Any MAN, including a Pope, who makes a ‘career of religion’ is subject to many ‘conflicts of interest’ between the material and spiritual, political and personal, corporate and individual.

Unless of a ‘saintly’ disposition, the result of such intricate complexities often results in infinite hypocricies that invert or erroneously add to the canon of Christianity. The Pope becomes yet another ‘waterless canal’ in a whole list of endless Popes that were also waterless. No more could he lead me or the ‘Church’ to God than a blind man would lead me into a hole in the ground.

Unfortunately, unless one works through the corporatised system to get into a position of authority from which to even have a platform, be heard, and effect change, commenting like this is simply pointless, like a madman shouting at the wind to “stop”! The good news though is that no man needs to pay another man for God’s mercy (confession) or salvation (Indulgences) whether in coin, or kind, or even inform him or anyone of this fact!

The original radical nature of Christianity, as a democratic brotherhood (developed from the Essene culture) taking no payment other than food and lodgings for their ‘miracle working’ and gospel spreading, got lost and then perverted in the re-envisioning of power and control structures during the slow collapse of the Roman Empire, starting around 330 AD with Constantine.

As a case in point, the authority of the Pope and the Vataican stems solely from (St.) Peter being the first Bishop of Rome. This is frankly nonsense as Peter was, according to Paul (who himself was a Roman citizen) never in Rome.

On the authenticity of the Vatican

Now if Peter had been in Rome it could only have been after Paul’s death, from say AD 66 onwards, or before the Council of Jerusalem in AD 50. Either way, at that time Rome was utterly hostile to the Christian philosophy and would not even entertain a non-citizen Jew like Peter stirring up trouble. As it was, Paul was summarily executed for just this offence, organising and rallying the Christian community of Gentiles in Rome. Paul was a man of letters and well educated, Peter was not – hence most of the New Testament being written by Paul and his ‘community’ and not a jot by Peter ( who even though chosen as the ‘foundation’ of the Church, denied his master 3 times!)

There is simply no way Peter would have jeopardised his ‘Christian Jew’ mission in Palestine by going to Rome, or even have the ability to do such a job as a non-citizen of Rome. That was Paul’s job. Even the Stoic Emperor Marcus Aurelius mentions in his Meditations (180 AD) of despising the ‘insufferable Christians’, who even at that late stage 100 years after the death Peter were a threat to the ‘Genius of the Emperor’ and the foundation of Roman society. This Roman attitude (attested to by Marcus Aurelius) prevailed for 250+ years after Peter’s death until the official Christianising of Rome by Emperor Constantine.

So in order for the power and control of Rome to transition from a pagan Roman pantheon to a Christian monad, from 330 AD onwards,there needed to be a certain amount of creative accounting or barefaced lying to attach Peter to the Vatican as the first Bishop and thereby give the Vatican and the Pope authority. This is regardless of the fact that it was Paul who actually did all of the work evangelising, theologising and constructing the Christian canon for the Gentiles in Rome. The fate of Christianity in Peter’s Palestine was self evident. It went nowhere and fizzled out.

The ‘official version’ of early Christian history doesn’t add up – much like that of the inquisition of the Gnostics. History is written and re-written by the winners a long time after the real events have faded away, and, much like computer software it has to be ‘backwardly compatible’ to justify, validate and authenticate those rewriting it!