In the preceding chapters we have
established that the Catholic Church and its teachings are not based on the
"Word" of Jesus Christ as recorded in the Four Gospels, but primarily
on the Epistles of St. Paul. Comparing Pauls' self-made theology and the
simple, albeit revolutionary teachings of Jesus will see that Pauline
"gospel" is a direct reversal to
the teachings of the Nazarene. We will discuss in a later chapter how, when and
who authorized Pauls' new theology, to become the foundation of all further
doctrines for the Church.
We have also mentioned that modern
psychology has warned us that insanity is contagious. Psychosis like the common
cold is catching: infecting all in its vicinity. A pathological mind can
imbue healthy minds, causing severe abnormal behaviours over time. Indeed
following Church history and certain individuals’ will observe a pathological misogyny spreading through the Church
like a terminal cancer. We can see this unholy infection passing from one
generation to the next.
Beginning with Simon Peter and the
Epistles of St. Paul, an insidious form of misogyny infiltrated the Church. This particular type of misogyny was not
merely a cultural pose; chauvinism,
but manifested as a deep seated hatred, a maniacal hatred, ironically based on
a clever yet wholly absurd creation of the doctrine of Original Sin.
In an effort to explain evil in us and
around us, St. Paul and the Church Fathers’ read Genesis of the Old Testament,
deducing that the Fall of Man occurred not because both Adam and Eve disobeyed God, but Eve tempted Adam to eat of the Tree of Knowledge - therefore, women are
the root of all evil. The First Sin, committed in ancient times against God,
has cursed every human soul born into the world. This nonsensical doctrine had
a two pronged effect on the followers of Christ: it irrevocably impacted the
sex lives of millions of people, creating recurrent
guilt for both men and women. The Church then deemed that the only way to
rid Christians of Original Sin was
through Infant Baptism. Good parents could not let their children be dammed in
hell for an eternity; thus these good parents made a run on their respective
churches in droves to save their children through the simple ritual of baptism
– this ensured the laity would
remain.
The second affect this insane doctrine
spawned was a deep seated hate for
all women. To call the early Church Fathers’ misogynistic, is an misnomer,,
because their writings presents as pathological, sick dogs; insanity spread
over the centuries. These intelligent men, whose writings, it is claimed, are divinely inspired; reveal symptoms of a
severe mental illness.
As said, a dangerously insane mind can
imbue a healthy one. Indeed, following Church history and the writings from
those feeding the theological church machine, can observe this terrible mental
illness passing from one Vatican generation to the next. The evil the Church
projected on women as a race, presented in unholy action. One historic record
in Germany alone, tells of the systematic burning-execution of approximately
20,000 women accused of practicing sorcery, is but one example of unholy action
due to insane theological musings made dogma. (See chapter xxx) Today, this
age-old illness of misogyny, this imbedded hate for women, is stronger than
ever. Certain fundamentalists' believe that the Feminist movement is an evil
socialist plot to undermine family values. Women in the Church cannot become
priests, and since Vatican II, Nuns are becoming extinct. The current Pope
merely pays lip service to issues of women's rights: the right to choose, sex,
contraception, and sexual preference.
In the following, we will examine the
founders of Christianity, Paul and Peter, examining their views on sex and
women. We will also examine a selected number of early Church Fathers, whose
influence moulded all future souls in the form of hate and unspeakable violence
against women.
It
is proposed that the epistles of Paul and Peter influenced the church fathers,
basing their future writings towards the promulgation of an unhealthy rejection
of sex and deep hatred for women
St Paul
boasted about his bachelorhood: his dislike for women is well known. He
seriously advises:
“It
is good for man not to touch a woman.” (Corinthian, 7-7-9).
He boasts again:
“For
I would, all men were even as me.”
Our man from Tarsus is an unashamed
misogynist, and he’s proud and pleased for being so.
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Following the Roman Mystery Cults, he does
advise his brethren to live a life of celibacy. As stated above, he wishes all
men to be as good as he! Certainly a man of his time and culture, he believed
women to be inferior to man. A woman’s duty is to be submissive to the mastery
of their husbands. Paul does not give
us the impression of having a great concern about his women followers crossing
the “ethical- line”, sexually tempting the males of the flock. Paul is aware
that there are those women who have “already turned aside after Satan”. (Tim:
5:15) A woman’s place is in the home,
bearing children, cleaning and always, avoiding occasions of temptation.
When Paul refers to women and the
church, he is firm on a few points: Women must remain silent in church. All
questions they have must be asked of their husbands in the home. A woman must
cover her head, while inside the church. This must be done, covering her
beauty, thus avoiding the angels’ seductive stares, causing more to fall,
risking a second banishment from the Almighty. (Corinth: 11:10)
“For it is improper for a woman to speak
in an assembly, no matter what she says, even if she says admirable
things, or even saintly things, that is
of little consequence, since they come from the mouth of a woman.” (Origen (d. 258): Fragment on First
Corinthians, 74.)
These versus are strong, strict and has
a tone of absolute fascist authority.
The condescension and contempt for women is more than apparent. In the
few words of the last verse, “self-restraint”, leads one to believe that women,
at least in the first century, are evolved one level above a wild sow. By mentioning self-restraint in the passage,
one can assume that women have exercised no
restraint in the past. We can only deduce that, the author is referring to
sexual control, forcing the conclusion that women are irrational and
undisciplined sexual predators. Later in
this discussion, the works of St. Augustine will be analysed in detail. It is hoped, you
will see Paul’s influence on the church fathers’ of a theology, entrenched in
sexually biased abstractions. The foundational seeds of the doctrine of Original Sin are in these versus, and
sex, a sin more offensive than murder. The Fall of Man is exclusively the fault
of women, without exception, without a skirret of responsibility taken by men.
This is a glaring out point on so many levels, least of which, the product of
an irrational, disturbed mind.
Compared to the early church fathers,
Paul’s hatred for women is mild, a self-congratulating smugness. Reading later
in his letters, he shows respect for specific women in Synagogues. These
faithful women of God toil diligently, following orders, knowing that, the
sudden arrival of the Lord and the coming of the end of days will come soon –
it hasn’t happened yet.
St Peter,
in his first Epistle, follows along similarly to Pauls’ general sensibility
about women. Peter states the total subjection of women to their husbands.
Women are never to dress provocatively, remaining loyal and respectful at all
times. (Peter: 1:3:1-4) Throughout Peter’s first letter, the apostle rants
several times about the sin of lust and fleshy abominations. Peter elevates the
sin of the sexual act, positing them equal to the Laws of the Prophet. We can
feel his strong belief that lust, a sin, remains a core sin, viler and wicked, than any other transgression. Peter’s
over-concern about the sins of the flesh, goes so far as stating, that, “…even baptism doth also save us (not
putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience
toward God.) (1:3:21) He is
saying, we are saved, (Pauline tenet) in baptism, and despite the temptations
of lust never leaving us, we can be assured of our faith, in a good conscience
before God. Again, Peter names lust or the sins of the flesh, many times in his
epistles, over and above any other transgression. For both apostles, sex, lust,
sins of the flesh and women, show to be a central concern.
It is proposed that the epistles of Paul and
Peter influenced the church fathers,
basing their future writings towards the promulgation of an unhealthy rejection
of sex and deep hatred for women.
Tertullian (160 CE
– 220 CE) Father of Latin in the Church, was born
in Carthage, now Tunisia, then a Roman province of Africa. According to
scholars, he was a renowned intellectual and prolific writer, a major
contributor to the Christian Church. Tertullian’s conversion to Christianity
occurred circa: (197-198.) We can glean
from his writings that his conversion to Christianity, was dramatic and
decisive. He is famous for writing, “Christians are made, not born.” (Apol,
xviii)
The Father of Latin Christianity and
active polemicist penned several elegant but ruthless pieces about women.
Writing against heretics, those attacking the tenets of Christianity, we know
Tertullian’s retaliation lacked all mercy, welding a sword of humour, satire and
cutting wit. He is best known for his use of the term, Trinity, delivering the oldest existing formulation of the
concept’s terminology, later adopted by the First Council of Nicaea.
The Christian theologian, as a child in
Carthage, was raised on the writings of St. Paul. The zealot evangelist’s
influence on the young, Tertullian, can be read in his published theology. One
of his more biting comments on women reads:
“Woman
is a temple built over a sewer.”
(Tertullian: 7:14)
“In
pain shall you bring forth children, women, and you shall turn to your husbands
and he shall rule over you. And do you not know that you are (each) an Eve? The
sentence of God on this sex of your lives in this age: the guilt must of
necessity live too. You are the devil’s gateway: you are the un-sealer of that
(forbidden) tree: you are the first deserter…Woman; you are the gate to Hell.”
(On the Apparel of Women, Chapter One)
Comment:
Tertullian was famous for his towering
intellect, razor sharp pen and skilled tongue, there were few colleagues or
otherwise, who would dare challenge his diatribe of nonsense about women. The
benefit of hindsight and years of research, enabled us to come near accurate
understanding, as to why this rare kind of philosopher, could accept notions of
pure, emotional bias and hate, leading to the nonsensical doctrine, Original Sin. As mentioned, he was
greatly influenced by the writings of St. Paul, mirroring Paul’s notion of
undeniable filth in all women. Tertullian’s mind is
infected– thus he contributed to the mental illness of ingrained hate. This led
to future church father’s jumping on a political bandwagon with other angry
Church leaders, sabotaging the role of women, passing on this mental illness
that is realized in present time.
Tertullian continued writing, through to the
end of his life. A man who wrote in the defence of the church, more so than any
other church father, was over looked for sainthood. He was excommunicated for his sympathy and
allegiance for the Montanism sect. Specifically,
he was condemned in the 6th century Decretum Gelasianum, Tertullian was reinstated, however, when
church opinion changed because of his large body of work and his other writing,
conducive to church dogma at the time. In those early days of the developing
religion, aspects of church doctrine would change, thus creating a whole new
group of heretics.
Tertullian, best known in the records of
history as a spiteful misogynist and accomplished polemicist, rather than a
brilliant scholar, a Latin father, and contributing more to theology as a
legitimate subject and practice, leaves the temporal world, according to St.
Jerome, well into old age. Not surprisingly, this time of his death has been
refuted by church scholars.
"Nothing is so powerful in drawing
the spirit of man downward as the caresses of a woman."
A servant of Augustine once wrote that
he could never be alone with a woman, that he required a male with him at all
times in the presence of the fairer sex. This certainly communicates his fears
of temptation, and to be even in the vicinity of a woman could well bring-on
lustful thoughts in the theologian. It is also said that Augustine found his
erections difficult to confront or deal with...he realized his penis had a
"mind of its own", and would not obey his will. He blamed this on the
sins of Adam and Eve, and their lust after the Fall.
Augustine claimed that Original Sin was transmitted through the
sex act. This is a declaration that copulation, generally, is evil. He writes:
"What is the difference whether it
is in a wife or a mother, it is still Eve the temptress that we must beware of
in any woman...I fail to see what use woman can be to a man, if one excludes
the function of bearing children." (De
genesi ad litteram, 9, 5-9)
It cannot be understated that
Augustine’s writing on sex and women continues to influence Church doctrine in
present time.
For this Church Father women and sex
transmitted Original Sin and could
only be tolerated inside marriage; and only for the purpose of creating
children. In this case, sex is a venial sin, however, the sex act for pleasure
without intention to propagate, is a mortal sin, ranking in level with adultery
and at certain times, murder.
St. Thomas
Aquinas (1225-1274) is the Church’s claim to
fame in the theological department. His most notable works are Summa Theologica and Summa contra Gentiles. Thomas was a
philosopher who studied and wrote on metaphysics, political theory,
epistemology and particularly ethics. His work on combining Aristotelian
philosophy and the principles of Christianity is compulsory study for those
seeking ordination as priests. The writings of Aquinas are considered Catholic
doctrine. Outside the Church in modern intellectual circles, his work in
aesthetics can be found in the writings of James Joyce and the works of the
semiotician, Umberto Eco. He is also, along with Augustine, the Church’s
leading authority on matters of sex. Aquinas has also a deep, pathological
hatred for women, and regards sex in marriage to be filthy, disgraceful and
foul. The faithful owe their imbedded neurosis and guilt to this Church Father…
He found the sexual act repugnant and perceived women:
“As
regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the
active force in the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in
the masculine sex; while the production of woman comes from a defect in the
active force or from some material indisposition, or even some external
influence. (Summa
Theologca 1 q. 92a)
The reader must remember that Aquinas is
the Catholic Church's "fair haired boy" when it comes to theology and
philosophy. He is also considered to be one of the great thinkers in the
History of Ideas. To call a woman defective and misbegotten, meaning a person
who should have never been born, has
taken their own self-importance to a level above even that of the angels. This
man has no humility. Taking this further, for a man that claims to be a student
of Aristotelian logic, he provides zero evidence for his outlandish proposals.
"...production of woman comes from a defect in active force...or even from
some external force." In his vague academic prose and pious tone, he is
writing blaspheme against God and His
creation. In ancient apocrypha, God booted Satan out of heaven for not
appropriately acknowledging his creation of the Human. Our Dominican
intellectual is proving to be doing far worse than the prince of darkness.
Aquinas has caught this insipid illness planted by the first Vicar of Christ
(Satan) and Christianity's true founder, the ranting heretic, Paul. This
seething hatred for women, and abortive and twisted view of sex, carried down
through Church Fathers and Popes to present day.
It is certainly Peter/Satan and his
minion, Paul, who planted this black seed of hatred for women; however, it took
the Church's hero of theology and a man of apparent superior intellect and
unfounded influence to infect virtually the entire Western World.
The list of Church Fathers and Papacy
that were infected with this disease is extensive. This list includes such
Church luminaries as St Ambrose, St. Jerome, Clement of Alexandria, St. John
Chrysostom, Pope Siricius (384-399), Pope Leo I (440-461), Innocent III
(1198-1216) and Pope John Paul II. In our research, the majority of high Church
clergy in present time, retain this misogynistic disease.
What did centuries of Pauline promises
and Church deception about women and sex affect us as spiritual beings?
Conclusion
Women are the cursed gender, as a result
of a need for a confused, chaotic and wicked scapegoat, an innocent target for
all iniquities committed, influenced by pathological misogyny and
interpretation of an obvious allegory in the Old Testament; evolving in the
church as the doctrine of Original Sin.
Women are not and never have been the cause of ‘man’s fall from grace’. Thus
the black seed of evil had been sowed.For true believers, the emotion of apathy
and guilt will prevail in the hearts of all, for these men deem it so, buried
under imposed illusions, a false reality
of half-truths, deceptions and shadow.
In order to make our argument, revealing
how this deception of hate for women, and sex, pushed as a crime more wicked
than murdering one’s neighbour, one’s children, we should look to the words of
Jesus Christ concerning men, women and marriage. He said:
“…have ye not read, that he which made them at the
beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave
father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and “they twain shall be one
flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath
joined together, let not man put asunder.” (Matt: 19:
4-6)
The Church has ignored the word of the
Lord. This hatred for women and view of the sexual act as sin, if enjoyed and
not to propagate, is Pauline Christianity, extending forward to the church
fathers, and presented to the faithful as the Word of the Lord. This is a lie,
it is unadulterated deception. In the above verse, Jesus is reminding us that
we were made as man and woman, the reason is for man to leave his family, and cleave to his wife. Our twain, our
differences, shall be one flesh. This is teaching from Jesus of Nazareth,
informing us of our duty as human beings.
This is a far cry from Paul’s teachings
about women and the act of sex itself. Paul tells us: “It is good for man not
to touch a woman.” (Corinthian,
7-7-9). Later he states in a rather
impish and smug tone: “For I would, all men were even as me.” He is stating
with an air of self-satisfaction, that he would prefer all men of the faithful
to not touch women and be exactly like him.
Jesus
states:
"But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto
them, every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a
house divided against a house falleth."
(Luke: 11:17)
According to Jesus Christ, men and women
are created equally, and God's will is
that we join as one flesh, and our purpose is to execute God's will, thereby
growing spiritually as human beings. It is evident that the Church has been
intent on corrupting this God given duty. Satan has almost succeeded in dividing male and female entirely,
putting men and women forever asunder. By
driving a wedge between the sexes, we have been prevented from growing
spiritually, and forced to sin against God.
Let us just mention that the game is
certainly not over. There will come a time when this terrible, imposed false
reality ends. We must first recognize that we have been deceived, target the
source of guile, and live in the light of Spiritual Goodness, the light of
Jesus Christ, which the Almighty intended.
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