“People came into the Church in the Roman Empire because the Church was so good-Catholics were so good to one another, and they were so good to pagans, too. High-pressure evangelization strikes me as an attempt to deprive people of their freedom of choice.” PeopleChoicesChurchPressureCatholicStrikesEmpiresPaganRoman EmpireFreedom Of Choice Author:Andrew Greeley
“Indeed I cannot doubt that there has been really one grand empire, or one Universal, one Pandæan, or one Catholic religion, with one language, which has extended over the whole of the world; uniting or governing at the same time.” WorldHas BeensWholeLanguageDoubtUniversalCatholicEmpiresGoverningUnitingCatholic Religion Book:Anacalypsis Source: Anacalypsis
“Totalitarianism is neither left nor right, and within its empire both will perish. I was never a believer, but after seeing Czech Catholics persecuted during the Stalinist terror, I felt the deepest solidarity with them. What separated us, the belief in God, was secondary to what united us. In Prague, they hanged the Socialists and the priests. Thus a fraternity of the hanged was born.” BeliefLeftFeltBornUnitedSeeingCatholicTerrorBelieverEmpiresPriestsSolidarityTotalitarianismPersecutedBelief In GodFraternityCzechPrague Author:Milan Kundera
“The Roman Catholic Church early on simply adapted the hierarchical structure of the Roman Empire and confused the whole thing. Vertical attention and hierarchy were so entangled, that when the French killed the king during the Revolution, they lost much of their vertical attention too.” WholeLostChurchAttentionRevolutionKingsCatholicStructureConfusedEmpiresHierarchyCatholic ChurchAdaptedRoman EmpireVerticalRoman CatholicRoman Catholic Church Author:Robert Bly
“In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by convincing their children that the leaders are good and their policies are wise. The core is religious intolerance. The sides simply change between the Atheists, Catholics, Protestants, Unitarians, etc., depending whether you are talking about the Soviet Union, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, America, etc. A common second reason is to prepare the boys to go to war and the girls to cheer them on.” ChildrenWarCountryReasonGovernmentSchoolAmericaGirlSidesReligiousCommonTalkingLeaderBoysWiseCenturyPolicyWeakCatholicUnionsAtheistCoreCommunismPrimariesPropagandaEtcEmpiresCheerSovietIntoleranceSoviet UnionConvincingProtestantsReligious IntoleranceHungariansUnitarian Author:Marshall Fritz
“The empire of Christ the King includes not only Catholic nations, not only baptized persons who, though of right belonging to the Church, have been led astray by error, or have been cut off from her by schism, but also all those who are outside the Christian faith: so that truly the whole of mankind is subject to the power of Jesus Christ.” PersonsHas BeensWholeChristianJesusNationsChristChurchCuttingSubjectsMankindKingsJesus ChristCatholicErrorsEmpiresBelongingChristian FaithBaptizedSchism Author:Pope Leo XIII
“Protestant churches everywhere are gravitating toward union with the Roman Catholic Church. These religious movements are speeding the fulfillment of the prophecies of the resurrected Roman Empire. For 30 years I have been proclaiming this tremendous event over the air and in print.” YearsHas BeensChurchReligiousAirEventsMovementCatholicUnionsFulfillmentEmpiresPrintProphecyCatholic ChurchProtestantsRoman EmpireSpeedingProclaimingRoman CatholicRoman Catholic Church Author:Herbert W. Armstrong
“Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to the Holy Land as a way to correcta nearly two-thousand-year-old wrong. That view had taken on new passion andurgency with the massacres of the Armenians. To Sykes, in that ongoing atrocity, the Ottoman Empire had proven it could never again be trusted to protectits religious minority populations. At war's end, the Christian and Jewish HolyLand of Palestine would be taken from it, and the failure of the Crusades maderight.” WayYearsTwoWarEndsWould BeChristianPassionReligiousViewsTakenLandReturnHolyThousandCatholicAncientPopulationIsraelMotiveMinoritiesEmpiresRootedTrustedThousand YearsProvenTribesPalestineOngoingAtrocitiesCrusadesMassacresArmeniansHoly LandOttomansOttoman Empire Book:Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East Source: Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East