barracuda wrote:eyeno wrote:So don't stroke out because everybody on the planet takes an equal beating in this article
You can bet I certainly won't stroke out - I'm a Catholic.
But will you take an equal beating like everyone else?
I've never stroked out either, btw, being Catholic also. Sometimes wonder what it would feel like, but until marriage all my energies must be devoted to promoting and furthering the global dominance of the Church of Rome using all the Jesuitical deception and Papish rhetorical tricks at my disposal. Dr. Ian Paisley says that's what Catholics do, and he's a noted authority, so I also among my brethren must play my part.
Stephen Morgan wrote:The church? It was the Templars who allegedly came up with banking
I know that goddamnit! They were also the first multinational corporation. I wasn't talking about who came up with the idea in the first place, but about who now runs very large and influential banks. The Vatican Bank is large and influential, yes? And it does all the things I mentioned, as you know because you know all about the Banco Ambrosiano, Roberto Calvi, the Nazi rat-runs and Bishop Marcinkus, yes?
Yes. Exactly. So stop disagreeing.
But the first
central/national bank was set up by a Scottish conman (they call them economists nowadays) to make money for himself from the French King and pay off his gambling debts. Name was John Law. He was a dick. Very clever though.
Stephen Morgan wrote:And the church, nicely, incinerated the fuckers.
But they weren't really out to eliminate usury, were they, with all the burnings and tortures, as their subsequent enthusiastic use of it in the banking sphere shows? They were out to eliminate Jewry, and thereby competition, like I said. And of course they aimed to wipe out heresy in general. So the burnings and tortures were only a good thing if you think getting rid of usury is so essential to our wellbeing that it's also worth getting rid of freedom of thought, action, religion, and expression in the furtherance of that cause, as the medieval Catholic Church allowed none or very little of each amongst it's adherents and dupes.
I know you hate the Templars, and there's many good reasons to do so, but remember that they were a Catholic military order, answerable only to the Pope himself (the pagan elements weren't very far outside the mainstream practices of the Church at the time, and the Baphomet stuff remains unproven), that the Pope destroyed them very reluctantly, that most were allowed to escape on condition that they didn't stage a comeback or uprising, that all their lands, holdings, wealth and traditions were inherited virtually unchanged by the Knights Hospitallers (who added large-scale commercial slave trading to the repertoire of evils) with the full approval of the Church, and that a more recent Pope pardoned The Templars unconditionally.
Stephen Morgan wrote:What the modern world needs is to be more like Phillip le Bel and the medieval Catholic church.
Ah, you don't really mean that.
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