Roman Catholicism, as taught by our modern priests and inspired by the papal power at Rome is naught but the distant rumblings of an antiquated chariot of darkness, as the teachings of this MONARCHICAL creed has naught in view but the enslavement of reason for the financial gain and benefit of the "Robed" few who claim the right to think for the masses. For thirty long years I was bound to this bewitching spirit of darkness by the chords of superstition and never dared to look above my blind superiors for wisdom, until a "something" which I will call "fate" broke the windows of my mental dungeon and permitted the light of "SPIRITUAL LIBERTY" to filter through my being which awoke "reason and common sense" from her long sleep of lethargy. Now, what I once thought "Holy" I detest as abominable; What I once worshipped, I now hate. It is not the glitter of gold nor the applaudits of the protestant world that I crave, but it is the Master's approval that I desire. Therefore I deem it my duty to both God and mankind to proclaim to the world what I know of the awfulness of Roman Catholicism, and I know enough to make my poor soul often wonder if I shall ever be permitted to sing with the blest around that GREAT WHITE THRONE in the New Jerusalem. As you peruse these pages, I pray that you may whisper a prayer to God in my behalf, as I am now fifty-six years old and only a child in wisdom. With pity for the blind hosts of Catholicism and a prayer upon my lips for their deliverance from the trenches of paganism, I dedicate this book to the world as coming from a heart which poured out its youth's vitality upon the barren fields of superstition, and wasted its vigor in serving only the god of myths. With a feeling of brotherly love for the entire world, I am, Yours in His name, BERNARD FRESENBORG. TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Page. Who I Am, What I Am, and Why I Am What I Am. 15 CHAPTER II. Some of the Abominations of Catholicism Carried On in the Name of Our Blessed Savior. 33 CHAPTER III. All Children of Protestant Parents, Declared Bastards by Catholicism. 51 CHAPTER IV. Tear from the Citadel of Reason, the Power to Reason and You make Slaves of Humanity. 65 CHAPTER V. Innocent Girlhood at the Confessional Box. 81 CHAPTER VI. The Nations completely dominated by the Power of the Pope, are Nations of Illegitimacy. 97 CHAPTER VII. The Power of the Pope in Cuba, Porto Rica and the Philippine Islands. 109 CHAPTER VIII. Monasteries are often Criminals' Abode, and Nunneries the Slaughter Pens of Virtue. 127 CHAPTER IX. Unmarried Cussedness of the Roman Priest-Craft. 149 CHAPTER X. A Brazen Insult to God. 171 CHAPTER XI.