POPE LIBELS PAGANS OVER PAEDOPHILE PRIESTS

I have many issues with Christianity. At base, it has a completely alien world view to the European logos. In some ways Protestantism is better than Roman Catholicism and vice-versa in Western Europe, always when the Semitic tradition is abandoned in favour of something more European. The Roman Catholic Church's obsession with celibacy has been particularly unnatural and it is no coincidence that the Church itself has become a hive for sexual delinquents who have practiced sexual abuse on our children. Not only this, but successive popes and their cardinals have conspired to cover up both individual cases and the sheer scale of systematic and institutionalised abuse of the most vulnerable members of society for whom the clergy had a duty of care. The abuse has also been an abuse of trust and power in which the clergy had been confided. Now, the current active pope Francis has been using the scandal to deflect blame onto 'Pagan practices' within the Church of Rome, which sounds suspiciously like Puritan rhetoric. So what is going on here?

 

 

 

Certainly, one has to look at the doctrine, rites and customs of the Judeo-Christian tradition in comparison to the European Pagan ones with which the former has interwoven itself. Most of the abused are of course boys, and the Bible itself both in the Old and New Testament decries homosexuality, in Levitucus 18:22 and 20:13, 1 Corinthians 6:10 and 1 Timothy 1:10. Equally, one could argue that the circumcision of baby boys demanded of the Jews by Abraham was at least better than most other Semitic religions' practices of child sacrifice. It does, however, show that the Jews have always had a peculiar and unhealthy attitude towards sex and children and practice a ritualised form of child sex abuse that includes genital mutilation and the Mohel sucking the child's penis. This early sexual trauma can only lead to severe sexual complexes in adulthood, hence Sigmund Freud's complete obsession with sex as a singular motivation for all human action. Let us also take this scripture from the Talmud as an example:

 

 "When a grown-up man has intercourse with a little girl it is nothing, for when the girl is less than this, it is as if one puts the finger into the eye; but when a small boy has intercourse with a grown-up woman he makes her as 'a girl who is injured by a piece of wood,' and [with regard to the case of] 'a girl injured by a piece of wood,' itself, there is the difference of opinion between R. Meir and the Sages." - Talmud, Kethuboth 11b.

 

But what has all this to do with Christianity? Well, the early priests and bishops were all circumcised Jews, with the first diocese being that of Jerusalem, who formed the character and nature of the culture of what would grow into the Church of Rome. By the time the first Roman Gentile became Bishop of Jerusalem, the culture was in place. This is not to absolve Roman Gentiles of responsibility, for as Sallust and Tacitus inform us, Roman morality - and particularly Roman sexuality - had become perverse both in the period leading up to the coming of Christianity and during its establishment. However, note well what Sallust says about the Romans of a few decades before the birth of Christ in his Coniuratio Catilinae:

 

When wealth was once considered an honour, and glory, authority, and power attended on it, virtue lost her influence, poverty was thought a disgrace, and a life of innocence was regarded as a life of ill-nature. From the influence of riches, accordingly, luxury, avarice, and pride prevailed among the youth; they grew at once rapacious and prodigal; they undervalued what was their own, and coveted what was another's; they set at naught modesty and continence; they lost all distinction between sacred and profane, and threw off all consideration and self-restraint. 

 It furnishes much matter for reflection, after viewing our modern mansions and villas extended to the size of cities, to contemplate the temples which our ancestors, a most devout race of men, erected to the gods.

 

Note that the youth are explicitly described as having rejected the teachings of their Pagan religions in behaving in debauched manners. Sadly, we do not have uncorrupted Pagan scriptures to cite passages from, as the Christians burned or rewrote what few there were, and most Pagan rites and rituals were in any case transmitted orally from priest to layman, but Sallust's words are a good indicator that the European Pagan religions extolled the virtues we recognise as traditionally moral today. Tacitus also alludes to this in his critique of Ptolemy in his Histories:

 

But Ptolemy was just like a king: though easily upset, on recovering his nerve, he showed himself keener on pleasure than religion.

 

Tacitus, like other Roman scholars can be criticised on other subjects, such as his liberal approval of miscegenation and critique of those who hold racial purity in high value, which demonstrates the decline of Rome, but there is at least no duplicity in his observations. Ptolemy is seen as debauched in a materialistic sense and the Roman Pagan religions as antithetical to this. The Greeks, of course, are another matter, and the level of acceptance of pedersaty depended upon the era and city state. The Greeks were also very much influenced by Semitic tribes like the Phoenicians, with whom they had also traded for centuries before the Macedonians conquered Phoenicia. The Phoenicians practiced both temple prostitution and child sacrifice, with children being thrown into the fires of Molech. As Christianity largely came into Europe via the wandering Jews, other Semites and Semitic-influenced Greeks, it would also have come with their cultural baggage as regards the abhorent treatment of (particularly male) children. This was coupled with an obsession with the unnatural prescription of celibacy, as given by the New Testament:

 

"For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it." -- Matthew 19:12

In contrast to Christian celibacy, in Pagan Rome the expectation, both at state and religious levels, was to reproduce, with the notable exceptions of the Vestal Virgins and the eunuchs of Cybele, the latter forced to live an existence on the fringes of society as mendicants. The Cybele cult also came from the Greeks, who originally imported it from Phrygia. The conditions of celibacy and the culture of pederasty were probably two conflicting reasons why women were excluded from priesthood, in addition to the Semitic religious misogyny of the Genesis story in which man is given mastery over woman for her sin. On the one hand, women posed a temptation to heterosexual priests' vows of celibacy; on the other, pederasts would be all too keen to keep the Church as a boys' club for their own sexual interests. The ascetic life, in which one is largely spared interaction with the world at large, made it all too easy for the abuse to happen in a claustrophobic atmosphere where such a culture prevails and those inculcated in such a culture are perceived to have such sacred power. These were, then, the main reasons why the Church of Rome has such an epidemic of pederasty and paedophilia, and the present pope's scapegoating of Paganism is as egregious a deflection of blame and avoidance of responsibility as is his post-Marxian nihilistic love of everything that threatens to destroy Europe.