| For those of you who don't know, this Jack Chick character asserts, among other things:
1: That Catholics swear temporal Allegieance to the Pope, and are therefore ineligible for American citizenship. ( untrue )
2: The Holocaust was carried out at the behest of the Jesuits in order to exterminate "God's Chosen People." ( untrue; plenty of Jesuits died in the camps too )
3: The Inquisition was a Jesuit institution. ( Untrue: the Inquisition was carried out by the Dominicans, Jesuits frequently got in trouble for opposing it, in fact. )
4: The Pope personally ordered several divisions of Swiss mercenaries into Spain during the Spanish Civil War, in order to help out the Nazis and massacre good Protestants.
5: The Jesuits "planted" fossils hundreds of feet in the earth in order to prove the Satanic theory of Evolution.
6: Rock music is Satanic, and all master-copies of Rock albums are cursed by Satanist clerics before they are coped and distributed, the better to corrupt the young.
Chick borrows much of his quack Theology from Alexander Hislop's "The Two Babylons," which not only attempts to prove that certain similarities between Catholicism and ancient "mystery religions" prove that the two are related ( correlation does NOT equal causation ), but also "invents" a number of things about the Catholic Church which simply don't exist.
We do not worship statues.
We do not "baptize" bells, cars, or buildings.
We do not worship the Pope.
We do not worship Mary.
We do not worship Saints.
We do not owe temporal allegiance to the Pope. |