SINS OF THE FATHERS
A string of sex-abuse scandals across Europe rocks the Catholic Church and threatens to undermine Pope Benedict XVI.
(TIMES, March 29, 2010)
"We must frankly admit that we have no source of information with respect to the life of Jesus other than ecclesiastic writings put together during the latter part of the Fourth Century."
"It is amazing that neither history nor tradition should have embalmed for us even one certain or definite saying or circumstance in the life of the saviour of mankind, except the comparatively few events in the four brief Gospels. There is no statement in all history that says anyone saw Jesus or talked with him. Nothing in history is more astonishing than the silence of contemporary writers of the events relayed in the four Gospels relative to Jesus, his disciples and his work."
"The chief of the (Mithraic) fathers, a sort of pope, who always lived at Rome, was called Pater Patrum".
August 2008
Myth-shatterer Tony Bushby has distilled 25-years of source notes into this weighty A-Z tome that shows that the Catholic Church has falsified and lied about its history and cannot even prove that Jesus Christ existed.
We've reviewed many of Bushby's books (e.g., The Bible Fraud, 8/06) and run many of his articles (e.g., "Criminal History of the Papacy", 14/01-3), so regular readers will get the drift. In the introduction to the The Christ Scandal, Bushby tantalises with a pointer to the entry "Bible banned for 1230 years"; a quick scroll through and there are astounding revelations on the history of Bible suppression by a host of popes.
Bushby had a hard time working out how to present all this information, and there seems to be no particular reason for the order of subjects. Fortunately, there's a comprehensive index to help in a more specific search. This is a referenced work that can be picked up at any page or read from cover to cover. Some entries are pages long; others, just a few lines; many are illustrated.
There are entries covering Another Jesus, Censoring Jewish books, Depravity of the churchmen, Khrestus not crucified, Mithraic fathers of Rome, Occultism in the Bible, Sun worship, Virgin Mary's children, and X-Files from the Vatican. Extensive references are included to aid further research.
Nexus Magazine
"It was said that early in 1981 Pope John Paul II (d. 2005) read the Third Secret of Fatima and reportedly made a public comment relating to its contents. In an interview in the October 13, 1981 issue of a German publication, Stimmes des Glaubens, he said this about the Secret.
'Through your prayers and mine, it is possible to eleviate this tribulation, but it is only in this way that the church can be effectively renewed. How many times, indeed, has the renewal of the church been effected in blood ... this time, again, it will not be otherwise'.
This numbing statement reveals popes are still happy to encourage murderous Crusades to protect their institution".
(The Christ Scandal, Tony Bushby, Stanford House Publishing 2008, p. 280)
"During the research for this book, a British Professor of Theology came forward claiming that he held irrefutable documentary evidence derived from Arabic sources establishing that Christianity was unknown in its present form until 1439 and was created shortly after Cosimo de' Medici (1389-1464) obtained a collection of original old scrolls from Alexandria, Constantinople, and Jerusalem. The Professor contends that the presbyter's manuscripts and all church councils were dedicated to Mithraism, having nothing to do with Jesus Christ, and the now-called popes were the Mithraic fathers of Rome."
(The Christ Scandal, Tony Bushby, Stanford House Publishing 2008, p. 463)
"One glaring example of premeditated forgery is the 'true name of Jesus Christ' (known by Pope Benedict XIII, 1394-1423) that was deliberately altered to read 'the Lord' in subsequent revisions of patristic writings. Fulsus in uno, falsus in omnibus ... 'Untrue in one thing, untrue in everything'."
(The Christ Scandal, Tony Bushby, Stanford House Publishing 2008, p. 269)