Appeal for peace – hypocrisy in the Jesuit magazine

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An appeal for peace. An author writes in a Jesuit magazine and uses the commemoration of the beheading of John the Baptist as an opportunity to denounce the conditions in society. In doing so, however, she overlooks the direct connection between cause and effect, and above all the perpetrator.

Expressed concern about the state of the world

The world is indeed in turmoil. The number of unrests is increasing and becoming more intense. It is not only simmering on the front lines of the wars that are clearly being waged between two states, but within many countries too things are now boiling over. The calls for peace in the world are getting louder, especially those from Rome. As if the pursuit of world peace had not been at the centre of the destinies of countries since the founding of the UN, a point now seems to have been reached where the warnings of impending doom are being directed at a supposedly single saviour.

Christ’s message of peace necessary

With an appeal for peace, the Jesuit magazine “America – The Jesuit Review” (of all places) has now called for action. “In a world obsessed with violence, Christ’s message of peace is necessary,” is the title of the corresponding article. (Source). The reason for the call for peace by author Colleen Dulle, a multimedia journalist specializing in Catholicism and the Vatican, is the anniversary of the beheading of John the Baptist. “I want you to give me the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately.”

However, if one considers the background to the reasons for the names John and Paul so often chosen by the popes, even twice in combination in the 20th century, then this request for John’s head, presented as a reflection, seems entirely understandable. John the Baptist and Paul were both beheaded. In various “spiritual circles” this has the symbolic expression of the death of the old and the subsequent new beginning. Something “new” is emerging.

Watched too many films

Right at the beginning of her article in the Jesuit magazine, the author basically lists what the problem actually is. She and her husband, as she reports, have been watching television series that have been labelled “the best of all time”. These include films such as “Deadwood,” “Game of Thrones” and “The Wire.” These are “great dramas with ensemble casts of tragic characters,” says Dulle. But when she looks at the violence in them, the total disregard for human life, the despots, cowboys and drug dealers, her stomach turns.

If this kind of violence were relegated to fiction, that would be one thing, but that is not the case. Watching these films in the evening and waking up in the morning with the news of the next shooting in the city center, a bloodied Palestinian in the Instagram feed, dead and injured children in the rubble. Although you can watch this violence from a distance on the screen, it is real, says the author. This reality is a heavy burden.

Background to the beheading of John the Baptist

Herod Antipas had John’s head cut off because of his promise to grant his wife’s daughter, Herodias, “every wish”. The reason was the daughter’s lovely dance, which enraptured Herod. Secretly, Herodias intervened and whispered to her daughter to ask for John’s head. This is what happened.

Herod made his promise in front of everyone present. Backing out would have cost him his credibility. He did not want to “lose face”. Reluctantly and “deeply saddened”, Herod gave the order to behead John and bring his head on a silver platter.

Analogy with Hollywood movies

For the author, this “story” has something of a “Game of Thrones” feel to it. A king who sympathizes with John and shows great interest in maintaining his strong image throws away the life of his righteous prisoner, and this as a result of a party trick. Josephus (Flavius), an important historian in the first century, does not confirm the exact sequence of events, says the author, but he also reports that John was beheaded on Herod’s orders. The violent killing of a man, even revered as a prophet in several major world religions, is a fact, says Dulle.

Like the Passion of Jesus, the Passion of John holds up a dark mirror to humanity, says the author. “God sent us an emissary of his love, and this is how we reacted – an axe through the neck, nails through the hands, a head on a tray, a spear in the side.” Dulle makes it clear that she does not understand “humanity’s obsession” with violence. This applies to fiction as well as reality. This applies to history as well as the present. For people, it seems to be a preferred reaction when their sense of power is threatened.

This spread makes it clear how “radical and necessary the message of Christ” still is. “Blessed are the poor, the persecuted, the peacemakers, the merciful.”

Continued Jesuit theater

With a lot of goodwill, this analogy by the author can be dismissed as irony. Viewed neutrally, it is already cynicism. In a Jesuit magazine of all places, the author sees parallels to the violence that can be observed in society and the violent series that are voted “the best of the best” and that bombard humanity every day. Those films from Hollywood and co. that merely represent the variants of Jesuit theater that have been carried into the modern age. It all began with the Jesuit school in 1548 in Messina, Sicily. With a short interruption (1773 to 1814), this theater performance was transferred to so-called movie theaters thanks to the Jesuit Eusebio Kino.

The type of the Church of Rome

The author obviously did not realize that the plot surrounding the beheading of John the Baptist is a type of the Church of Rome and its many daughters. Herod Antipas, a picture of the state. The illegitimate wife, Herodias, the Roman Catholic Church. An unfortunate connection between state and church. The ecstatically dancing daughter, a symbol of the apostate, once Protestant churches. (Info). The scheming mother (church of Rome) persuades her daughter (apostate evangelical churches) to persuade Herod (state) to behead John (true believer). John, albeit reluctantly, carries it out.

In the Middle Ages, before the Reformation, when the Church of Rome still held the ecclesiastical and state monopoly power, the order for the execution of “deviators from the catechism”, as those who were faithful to the Gospel and declared heretics, was still given directly to the state executive. The verdict was passed by the Church, the murder of the people was carried out by the state. In the future, the Church of Rome (also known as Jezebel, Revelation 2:20), to which all threads converge, will remain discreetly in the background and repeatedly let those who have drunk of its “wine of lust” carry out the bloody work. The daughters willingly lend it a hand.

Inverted Gospel conveyed

Be it “Game of Thrones”, “Star Wars”, “The Tomorrow War”, “Left Behind”, “The Lord of the Rings”, “The Chosen” (Info) or other such Hollywood films based on Jesuit theater, they all have in common that they take up themes from the Gospel and exchange good for evil and evil for good.

These films convey the “theology” that the core of the Roman Catholic Church, especially the “Loyola clan”, would like to have brought into this world. It is the world view with the rules of the direct adversary of God. The figure that is depicted as the “beast from the abyss” in Revelation 11 and 17 (Tier, Frau, Hure – Info).

What now of Christ the Peacemaker?

The title of this article actually promised more. At least as far as Christ’s message about peace in this world is concerned. It is understandable that this topic has been addressed less than sparsely, because there is not much on the subject. But what Jesus Christ Himself said about the peace He sought in this world is clear and precise., Matthew 10:34-36:
“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.“

Jesus Christ had no intention of bringing “world peace” to earth. He has no intention of doing so at present. This “world peace” on earth will only come after the end of the Millennium and the final judgement that follows. First, He will create a new heaven and a new earth. Only then can we speak of “world peace”. Evil, sin, will no longer exist.

There will be no earthly savior

Whoever it may be who will pretend to be able to ensure peace on this present earth is a charlatan. This adversary, who has been active since the time of Paul’s preaching, and who has been changing laws and times, can still be found in Rome. The one who only recently proposed to be recognized as the “honorary head” of all churches (Info).

There will be no such peace, which corresponds to the complete will of God. Nimrod had already tried this unification of humanity (“Tower of Babel”). But it was an attempt at united rebellion against God. A rebellion that has the appearance that was put on paper in the “Charta Oecumenica”. (Info).

An excessive hypocrisy

The article in the Jesuit magazine can safely be described as the attempted self-dramatization of a small (fat) angel of innocence. Being the cause of all problems, but hypocritically pointing out the prevailing unspeakable things. Purely by chance, one also presents the potential redeemer of all problems. But this one will not be it, for one simple reason: Info.

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