The “Church,” Pope and so-called religious entities are rife with bloodguilt. The National Socialists began viewing the Jews as a cancer and started segregating and persecuting them. Hitler begins his “master race” propaganda (which such prejudice is an unscriptural “christian” teaching BTW), and all the while no religion stepped up to condemn him. To the contrary, they gave their approval.

Guenter Lewy writes in his book The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany: “Had German Catholicism from the start adhered to a policy of resolute opposition to the Nazi regime, world history might well have taken a different course. Even if this struggle had ultimately failed to defeat Hitler and prevent all of his many crimes, it would in this view have raised the moral prestige of the Church immeasurably. The human cost of such resistance would undeniably have been great, but these sacrifices would have been made for the greatest of all causes. With the home front unreliable, Hitler might not have dared going to war and literally millions of lives would have been saved. . . . When thousands of German anti-Nazis were tortured to death in Hitler’s concentration camps, when the Polish intelligentsia was slaughtered, when hundreds of thousands of Russians died as a result of being treated as Slavic Untermenschen [subhumans], and when 6,000,000 human beings were murdered for being ‘non-Aryan,’ Catholic Church officials in Germany bolstered the regime perpetrating these crimes. The Pope in Rome, the spiritual head and supreme moral teacher of the Roman Catholic Church, remained silent.”—Pages 320, 34

The Catholics supported both sides in the two world wars, in which people of the same religion, “brothers,” killed one another. For example, in WW II, French and American Catholics killed German and Italian Catholics; At times, they killed others who were not only of the same religion but also of the same national background. The two world wars erupted in the heart of Christendom and wouldn’t have been possible had the clergy obeyed the commandment to love, and taught their followers to do the same. But instead, review of the historic record will show that it was the Church’s illicit religio-political relationship that catapulted Hitler into power in Nazi Germany.

In Fascist Italy, on February 11, 1929, the Lateran Treaty was signed by Mussolini and Cardinal Gasparri, making Vatican City a sovereign state. Pope Pius XI claimed that he had “given Italy back to God, and God back to Italy.” Really? 6 years later, on October 3, 1935, Italy invaded Abyssinia, claiming that it was “a barbarous land which still practises slavery.” Who was really being barbarous? Did the Catholic Church condemn Mussolini’s barbarity? While the pope issued ambiguous statements, his bishops were quite vocal in blessing the armed forces of their Italian “fatherland.” In the book The Vatican in the Age of the Dictators, Anthony Rhodes reports:

“In his Pastoral Letter of the 19th October [1935], the Bishop of Udine [Italy] wrote, ‘It is neither timely nor fitting for us to pronounce on the rights and wrongs of the case. Our duty as Italians, and still more as Christians is to contribute to the success of our arms.’ The Bishop of Padua wrote on the 21st October, ‘In the difficult hours through which we are passing, we ask you to have faith in our statesmen and armed forces.’ On the 24th October, the Bishop of Cremona consecrated a number of regimental flags and said: ‘The blessing of God be upon these soldiers who, on African soil, will conquer new and fertile lands for the Italian genius, thereby bringing to them Roman and Christian culture. May Italy stand once again as the Christian mentor to the whole world.

Yes, Abyssinia was raped with the blessing of the Roman Catholic clergy.

Most damning of all is their OWN admittance! The Roman Catholic Church in France  issued a formal “Declaration of Repentance,” asking God and the Jewish people for forgiveness for the “indifference” the Catholic Church showed toward the persecution of Jews under France’s wartime Vichy government. From 1940 to 1944, more than 75,000 Jews were arrested and deported from France to Nazi death camps. In a statement read by Archbishop Olivier de Berranger, the church admitted that it had allowed its own interests “to obscure the biblical imperative of respect for every human being created in the image of God.” This was reported in the French newspaper Le Monde.

The declaration read, in part: “The church must recognize that in regard to the persecution of the Jews, and especially in regard to manifold anti-Semitic measures decreed by the Vichy authorities, indifference by far prevailed over indignation. Silence was the rule, and words in favor of the victims the exception. . . . Today, we confess that this silence was a mistake. We also recognize that the church in France failed in its mission as the educator of people’s consciences.”

I also thought the words of British flying officer, David Walker, in a conversation with a Catholic priest during World War II was interesting.

“You know, padre, on our aircraft one of our crew members is a Catholic, and you bless him before we go off on bombing missions over Germany. Now, the same Catholic religion in Germany is blessing a Catholic crew member of a German aircraft that comes over and destroys our cities. So the question I ask is, ‘Whose side is God on?’”

The New York Times stated: “In the past local Catholic hierarchies almost always supported the wars of their nations, blessing troops and offering prayers for victory, while another group of bishops on the other side publicly prayed for the opposite outcome. . . . The contradiction between the Christian spirit and the conduct of war . . . seems increasingly clear to many, as weapons grow more brutal.” And U.S.News & World Report noted: “The prestige of Christianity in the world has been gravely impaired by the frequency with which the so-called Christian nations have used violence.”

The Catholic’s bloodguilt goes back hundreds of years actually. Christendom’s, and the Catholics in particular, leaders, religious and secular, displayed intense hatred for anyone who tried to encourage Bible reading or anyone who exposed their unscriptural practices. John Hus and Bible translator William Tyndale were persecuted and martyred. During the Middle Ages their oppressive rule reached a peak in the diabolic Catholic Inquisition. Any who disputed the teachings or authority of the church were suppressed, and countless thousands of so-called heretics were tortured to death or burned at the stake.

The Inquisition lasted over 600 years! It was a murderous attempt to torture and stamp out all who disagreed with the church. The Catholics have been swimming in the blood of the innocent for many, many centuries, and the atrocities of the 1930′s and 1940′s represent only a very small part of their guilt.

Peter De Rosa, who states that he is a “patriotic Catholic,” says in his book Vicars of Christ—The Dark Side of the Papacy: “The church was responsible for persecuting Jews, for the Inquisition, for slaughtering heretics by the thousand, for reintroducing torture into Europe as part of the judicial process. . . . Popes appointed and sacked even emperors, demanded that they impose Christianity on their subjects under the threat of torture and death. . . . The cost to the Gospel message was horrendous.” The only “crime” of some who were murdered was that they possessed a Bible. I won’t even get started on the Crusades.

If there really IS a God, this murderous, idolatrous religion’s blood-stained hands will be the evidence for its adverse judgment. Any who associate themselves with this vile organization can only suffer the same fate.

Why is it Harold Camping cannot get his ‘Doomsday’ prediction correct? First, let’s lay the foundation for his initial prediction of a 5.21.11 Doomsday prediction, followed by a 10.21.11 Doomsday.

According to Camping, May 21st marked exactly 7,000 years since Noah’s flood. Since the number ’7′ is a significant number in the Bible, Camping concluded that the 7,000 year mark must signify the end of times for wicked mankind. When May 21 came and went, Camping explained the lack of a global destruction by stating May 21 was actually Judgment Day, and that those judged worthy would be taken to heaven, and those deemed unrepentant and wicked would be destroyed along with the physical earth, on October 21, 2011. Just as May 21 did, so too did October 21 come and pass with nothing out of the ordinary happening. So, what went wrong? Two things.

1) The date is impossible to calculate to begin with. Mark 13:32 says: "Concerning that day or the hour nobody knows, neither the angels in heaven nor the Son, but the Father" and 1 Thes 5: 2 says: "For YOU yourselves know quite well that God’s day is coming exactly as a thief in the night." In other words, we know no more as to when "The End" is coming as we know when a thief is going to break in in the night.

2) Even if it was possible to calculate the date, Camping has the date for Noah’s Flood wrong anyway.

Camping’s basis for their End of Times prophecy was that May 21 marked exactly 7,000 years since Noah’s flood. WRONG.

The Bible provides chronological information that allows for a careful count back to the beginning of human history. At Genesis 5:1-29, we find the genealogical line from the creation of the first man, Adam, to the birth of Noah. The Deluge began “in the six hundredth year of Noah’s life.”—Genesis 7:11.

To determine the time of the Flood we need to start with a date that is accepted in secular history and corresponds to a particular event recorded in the Bible. From that point, we can determine the exact year of the flood.

One pivotal date is 539 B.C.E., the year when Persian King Cyrus overthrew Babylon. Secular sources for the time of his reign include Babylonian tablets and documents of Diodorus, Africanus, Eusebius, and Ptolemy. Because of a decree issued by Cyrus, a Jewish remnant left Babylon and arrived in their homeland in 537 B.C.E. That marked the end of Judah’s 70-year desolation, which according to the Biblical record had begun in 607 B.C.E. By taking into account the period of the judges and the reigns of Israel’s kings, we can determine that the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt occurred in 1513 B.C.E.

Bible-based chronology takes us back another 430 years to the making of the covenant with Abraham in 1943 B.C.E. Next, we must take into account the births and life spans of Terah, Nahor, Serug, Reu, Peleg, Eber, and Shelah, as well as Arpachshad, who was born “two years after the deluge.” (Genesis 11:10-32) Thus, we can place the beginning of the Flood in the year 2370 B.C.E. Which would mean that only some 4,381 years have elapsed (give or take a year), NOT the 7,000 years that Camping calculated. ***

*** Counting Backward From Cyrus’ Decree Allowing the Jews to Return From Exile to the Flood of Noah’s Day
537  Cyrus’ decree
539  The overthrow of Babylon by Cyrus the Persian
68 years

2370  Beginning of the Flood

 *   Cyrus’ proclamation for the release of the Jews from exile was made “in the first year of Cyrus the king of Persia,” likely in the year 538 B.C.E. or early in 537 B.C.E.

As much as I admire Leni Riefenstahl’s talent as an actor and director, there is no question that she’s guilty of being a Nazi sympathizer. There are mounds of evidence to support that, including she herself!

For example, how do we explain the film clips of Riefenstahl dining with Goebbels, Himmler, and other men of the SS branches? Do you mean to tell me that she dined with these Socialist officials and had NO IDEA what they stood for? What they were doing? That she was completely naive and ignorant to the facts? And she may have claimed she never ate at Goebbels’s home, but that’s a lie. Goebbels even states this was so in his diaries. And she was on friendly terms with Hitler all through his rise and time in power, meeting with him numerous times, even as late as 1944.

And I think it’s interesting that although she left the front line in as a war correspondent supposedly over the repulsion of the Wehrmacht brutalities, that just the following year, she sent a telegram to Hitler congratulating him on overtaking France. She said: “Everyone thought the war was over, and in that spirit I sent the cable to Hitler.” Apparently she was able to accept and live with the brutalities Hitler’s regime exacted on others after all.

She even used concentration camp inmates in her films that were later sent to their deaths. And she KNEW about this. She, of course, would deny this, but later when on trial she changed her tune on that little lie, and vowed never to repeat it. 

She was a self-involved opportunist who knew full well that her films were propaganda. She failed to speak out, when others DID speak out.

When facts about the era and her role in it are brought out, she would go on the defensive. She’s even had outbursts where she would grab and physically shake the person interviewing her when facts were brought out that painted her in a negative light.

Are we to believe that “Triumph of the Will” and “Olympia” was inspired solely by her desire to be “artistic”? Wrong! How many do we suppose were inspired to join the Nazi cause after that greatest of film propaganda (Triumph) the world has ever known was released? I’m afraid to guess. And Olympia? Despite the naysayers, this was financed by Goebbels’s propaganda ministry.

Riefenstahl knew full well what she was doing and what she was promoting. But she “sold her soul to the Devil” as it were, by turning a blind eye to what the Nazi’s represented, so as to improve on her so-so movie career. She was only doing so-so before Hitler gave her her “break.” She saw an opportunity and took it.

The short of it is, Riefenstahl was, without question, a Nazi sympathizer.