"Thirty Years In Hell" Or, "From Darkness to Light"Fresenborg, Bernard
Religion
"Thirty Years In Hell" Or, "From Darkness to Light"
Fresenborg, Bernard
Anti-Catholicism; Catholic Church -- Controversial literature; Catholic ex-priests
In the first place, we desire to say that the Catholic religion--if
religion it can be termed--is founded upon the rock of superstition.
Every code of their church doctrine teaches that the Pope is
infallible and cannot err, which is absurd, and not only absurd, but
a festering lie, for no man or woman who believes in the teachings of
the Holy Bible can believe in such a doctrine, and whenever a man or
woman does believe in the infallibility of the Pope and believes that
the Pope cannot err, he or she believes that the Pope is superhuman,
and such we know cannot be the case as long as there is life in the
body, as we are all liable to the Adamic sin, as the world at large
was cursed with the Adamic sin in the Garden of Eden.
Now, we want to deal in simple facts and truths that are so simple
that the commonest man of ordinary intelligence can understand.
Now, if the Pope of Rome is infallible, he is immortal, and if every
action of this Pope is pure, then everything that is created by him
must be pure; and if such is the case, I was at one time as pure as
Jesus Christ Himself, as I for thirty years was a Roman Catholic
priest and a creature created by a Roman Catholic Pope. Every man and
woman of very ordinary intelligence knows that neither I nor any
other priest ever was pure; in fact, that man has never lived or died
who could claim infallibility and purity so long as life was left in
his body.
If the doctrines of Catholicism are correct then we have no use for a
God any longer, as we already have a Pope; and should Pope Pius X die
to-day the cardinals to-morrow, or some day in the near future, would
elect another Pope, who would take the place of Jesus Christ Himself,
according to their doctrine; and if such doctrines are true, then the
human family in the future and the unborn millions could be saved as
easily without God as they could with Him, as the Pope would perform
that mission himself.
There are thousands--yea, tens of thousands, who send handkerchiefs
and trinkets each year to Rome to be blessed (?) by the Pope, and
who believe that by having some article which has been blessed (?) by
this presumptuous vagabond will prevent them from being overtaken by
bad luck, ill health or any other misfortune that besets the path of
man.
Now, if the Pope of Rome has the power to bless and sanctify a piece
of cloth, a ring, or any dead and inert object, he undoubtedly is
"_the real thing_," and if such is the case the Bible is a lie, the
gospel a fallacy, and God Almighty becomes a hireling, and we have no
further need of a God.
What can we expect of the followers of Catholicism who believe in
this hellish doctrine, and what can we expect of a nation which is
controlled by those who teach and preach such abominations?
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