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Rogério Coelho |
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How the
Devil
was born
It
is
evident
that the
Saints
of today
are the
successors
of the
ancient
pagan
idols
Part 2
(Final)
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According
to
Carlos
Roberto
Nogueira,
the
concentration
of evil
in
a
character
is only
visible
in the
New
Testament.
There
satan
(noun)
becomes
Satan
(proper
noun).
From an
opponent
(with
a
small
"o")
he
turns
into the
Opponent
(with
a
capital
"O").
The form
of
Jesus’
enemy,
the one
who
tests
His
goodness,
is
ready.
Greeks.
With the
religious
unification
achieved
by Rome
in the
fourth
century
AD,
Christianity,
stopped
being a
persecuted
sect
(remember
that
Paul of
Tarsus
was a
Roman
soldier
who
hunted
Christians
until he
had his
divine
vision
in the
Syrian
desert)
and
began to
pursue:
it
changes
into an
official
cult and
it is
mandatory
for all
Empire.
Full of
divergent
currents
in its
beginning,
Catholicism
becomes
increasingly
closed
but of a
general
feature
(Catholic
=
Universal).
Pagan
is now
all the
past and
the
present
alien to
the
Roman
Empire.
With the
growing
power of
the
Latin
Christians,
we have
a
special
issue:
the
attempted
extermination
of the
entire
Greek
cultural
tradition.
Some
manifestations
are
easily
visible
as the
destroyed
oracles
and the
noses
and
broken
arms of
the
Greek
sculptures,
such as
what was
done in
our
times by
the
religious
leaders
of
Afghanistan,
destroying
the
enormous
and
representative
statues
of
Buddhism.
Any form
of
parallel
cults
linked
to
fertility
and
nature,
as the
sacred
rural
parties
of
spring,
are now
strictly
prohibited.
But the
ban was
often
unsuccessful.
For
failing
to curb
these
practices
the way
it
wanted,
Christianity
uses the
weapons
of the
enemy.
It
maintains
the sole
God
above,
but
produces
a
multitude
at a
lower
level:
the
saints”.
It is
evident
that the
Saints
today
are the
successors
of the
ancient
pagan
idols,
because
the
Church
failed
to
eradicate
idolatry.
It's the
old
story:
if
you
cannot
fight
the
enemy,
better
join
him.
Not even
the old
rural
parties
stopped
happening:
they
were
replaced
by urban
parties
that
have
survived
to this
day.
Just see
what
happens
at the
Catholic
churches
in the
months
of May
and
June.
DEMONOLOGY
In fact,
what we
have
today is
no
different
than the
pagans
had at
that
time. It
was
indeed
necessary
for the
advent
of the
"Comforter
promised"
to put
order in
the
Planetary
House
that
accepted
us.
Despite
the
growing
emphasis
that the
Devil is
gaining
within
Christianity,
hitherto
God's
victory
over the
Devil is
considered
indisputable.
The
latter
exists
in the
world to
be
overcome
and to
give
more
glory to
the
heavenly
absolute
power.
The
picture
changes
only at
a much
later
historical
moment
with
another
great
theoretician
of the
Christian
religion:
St.
Thomas
Aquinas.
We are
in the
thirteenth
century
and the
Catholic
Church
lives
the
apogee
of its
territorial,
political
and
economic
domain.
To
remain
so, it
must
demonstrate
its
power
with
ever
more
visibility,
one
might
even
say,
with
daring
and
violent
overt.
In this
context,
and this
imperative
need for
the
Church
to
sustain
its
slave
type of
domain,
St.
Thomas
Aquinas
potentiates
the
Devil
figure
in such
a way
that,
from the
popular
folklore
symbols,
he
invents
a
science
to
combat
it: the
demonology.
In this
festival
of
ignorance
Catholics
are
still
surpassed
by the
said
Evangelical
(Protestants)
where
the "mise-en-scène"
of the
pastors
almost
operate
by
violence
in an
attempt
to expel
the
Devil
from the
body of
the
terrified
sheep of
their
docile
herds
with a
frustrating
and
backward
reasoning.
Thus
there
are now
well-defined
rules to
identify
the evil
character
that
could
only be
defeated
with the
indispensable
help of
the
Christian
Faith.
Therefore,
the
Devil
wins
more
accurate
physical
contours,
even
with the
help of
great
painters
who
worked
for the
Church
exclusively,
not
saving
the
resources
to color
with the
bold
colors
of
ignorance
the
infernal
panels
with the
purpose
of
causing
fear.
SCAPEGOAT
"The
hybridism
human/animal"
-
continues
explaining
Laterce5
- "a
form
used by
the old
Eastern
peoples
to
represent
the
supernatural,
will be
the
basis to
compose
an
essentially
deformed
figure.
A
recurring
presence
are the
feet of
the
goat, an
animal
chosen
by many
pre
Christian
cultures
for
rituals
and
sacrifice
of
praise
to the
gods
(hence
the
expression
scapegoat).
In
addition,
a Greek
god
particularly
threatening
to the
dogmas
of
Christianity
was
Dionysus,
patron
of
dance,
music,
theater
and
drunkenness;
i. e.,
the
unruliness
proper
of the
chaotic
effervescence
of
artistic
creation.
And what
is the
most
striking
feature
in the
appearance
of
Dionysus?
His goat
hooves.
The
presence
of these
hooves
in the
popular
imagination
helped
to put,
at once,
the
Greek
and
oriental
religious
tradition
in an
intimate
connection
with the
evil
forces.
Thus the
Devil
becomes
an
omnipresent
obsession
and it
stops
being an
individual
to be
characterized
as a
group of
fighters
(legion
of
demons)
and
therefore,
anyone
anywhere
can be
"possessed",
and
therefore
in need
of being
helped
by the
exorcism
of the
Church.
The
persecutions
of the
"Holy"
Inquisition
reach
all
those
who
diverge
from the
predetermined
Christian
standard,
which in
the
opinion
of
attentive
ecclesiastical
authorities
had part
with the
demo.
Any
philosophical
shoot
that
began to
flourish
and
emerge
above
the
rigid
dogmatic
context
imposed
was
presto
and
mercilessly
mowed.
The
charges
that
usually
carried
the
condemned
to
death,
constituted
themselves
in the
most
absurd,
banal
and
arbitrary
libel: a
family
was
condemned
to the
stake by
changing
the
bedding
on a
Friday;
redheads
have in
the
color of
their
hair the
sign of
the
relationship
with the
fire of
Hell and
physical
disabilities
are, by
analogy,
deformed
spiritual
and
forgotten
by God,
therefore,
burn
them at
the
stake!
PRINCE
OF
DARKNESS
In the
nineteenth
century,
a
movement
"incensed"
by the
Church
to
increase
its
power
towards
the
East,
the
Crusades
(the
design
of the
Nazi
swastika
is made
up of
two
superimposed
crosses,
that is,
"crusades"
-
Coincidence?),
had as
its
motto
the
concept
of Holy
War
against
paganism
and as
object
the
expulsion
of the
Arabs
from the
region
where
Jesus
was born
and
lived.
The
physical
composition
of the
Devil
wins new
items:
goatee
beard
and a
dark
skin,
characteristic
of the
Moors.
And so,
nourished
by the
placenta
of
ignorance
and
shameful
subaltern
interests,
the
Devil
will be
composed
until it
reaches
its
present
"status
quo".
The
monarchical
absolutist
model of
the
Middle
Ages
helps to
compose
the idea
of the
leader
of all
the
demonic
army:
Satan is
now the
Prince
of
Darkness,
the
reverse
of
Christ,
the
Antichrist,
who
would
one day
rule
over the
Earth.
But
there
was a
much
more
important
hidden
reason,
this
time
financial,
to
highlight
the
demonic
forces:
the
profitable
sale of
indulgences!
Let me
explain:
the
biblical
Apocalypse
seemed
to be
coming
true due
to wars
and
plague.
And with
the
infernal
panels
being
painted
from
above
the
pulpits
with the
strong
terror
colors,
the
necessary
dependence
was
created
and the
Church
used
this
profusely
for its
profit:
tickets
to
Heaven
were
guaranteed
through
the sale
of
indulgences
for
which
the
nobles
paid a
very
high
price.
There we
have the
Devil
appointed
the
Church’s
minister
of
economy.
Without
the
Devil
there
would be
no fear
and no
one
would be
interested
in the
precious
"passport".
However,
as no
situation
lasts
forever,
from the
sixteenth
century
onwards,
with the
advance
of
modern
science
and the
new
philosophical
humanists,
we have
a
decreasing
importance
of
religion
in
everyday
life.
With
this,
the
Devil
also
lost
ground...
Today,
despite
our
world
increasingly
rationalist
and
desecrated,
the
Devil is
present
in
rituals
of some
Protestant
currents,
in
satanic
cults
and in
the
world of
fiction
in a
fair
number
of
dubious
quality
movies,
among
which
some are
an
exception:
"Rosemary’s
Baby” by
Roman
Polanski,
and "The
Exorcist"
by
William
Friendkin.
FATE OF
HUMANITY
Laterce
concludes
with
philosophical
wisdom:
"reading
the
Devil in
the
Christian
imaginary
suggests
that our
desire
was
always
to carry
Evil to
a
distant
world
from us,
transcendent,
only
that
increasingly
we have
evidence
that
Evil is
indeed
of human
order".
At the
end of "The
Book of
Spirits,"
Paul of
Tarsus
left the
following
letter
to all
of us,
Christians
of
today:
"to
gravitate
to the
divine
unity is
the fate
of
Humanity.
To
achieve
it,
three
things
are
necessary:
Justice,
Love and
Science.
Three
things
that are
the
opposite
and
contrary:
ignorance,
hatred
and
injustice.
Well! I
tell
you, in
fact,
that you
lie to
these
fundamental
principles,
compromising
the idea
of
God,
because
you
overstate
His
severity.
You
doubly
jeopardize
it by
imagining
that the
creature's
Spirit
has more
clemency,
virtue,
love and
true
justice
than the
Infinite
Being.
It is
necessary
to
destroy
the idea
of
Hell,
making
it
ridiculous
and
unacceptable
to your
beliefs,
as it is
in your
hearts
the
hideous
spectacle
of
executions,
the
fires
and the
tortures
of the
Middle
Ages.
Believe
me: or
you
resign
yourselves
to let
all your
dogmas
perish
in your
hands,
preferably
that
they
change,
or live
them
allowing
them to
benefit
from the
emanations
that the
Good, at
this
point,
pour
over
them.
The idea
of
Hell,
with its
fiery
furnaces,
and
steaming
boilers,
could be
tolerated
and
understood
in an
age of
iron;
however,
in this
century
of
lights,
it is
just a
ghost
that
may, at
best,
frighten
little
children
because
as soon
as they
grow a
little,
they
stop
believing
in Hell.
If you
still
persist
in this
terrifying
mythology,
you will
create
incredulity,
the
mother
of all
social
disorganization.
I
tremble
just to
imagine
an
entire
social
order
shaken
and
crumbling
on its
foundations,
due to
lack of
penalty.
PUNISHMENT,
WHAT IS
IT?
Men of
burning
and
living
faith,
forefront
of the
day of
light,
work not
to
maintain
fables
that
have
aged and
are
discredited,
but to
revive
the true
penalty,
consistent
with
your
customs,
feelings
and the
enlightenment
of your
time…
What is
punishment?
The
natural
consequence
caused
by going
astray
from the
Divine
Law; a
certain
amount
of
necessary
pain to
make man
experiment
suffering;
the
sting
that,
through
sorrow,
makes
the soul
seek for
salvation.
Punishment
only
aims at
rehabilitation,
redemption...
Wanting
it
eternal,
due to a
not
eternal
fault,
is to
deny it
the
whole
reason
for
being.
"Oh!
Verily I
say,
cease,
cease to
put in
parallel,
in its
eternity,
the
Good,
the
Creator’s
essence,
and the
Evil,
essence
of the
creature.
It would
create
an
unreasonable
penalty.
On the
contrary,
claim
for the
gradual
softening
of
punishments
and
penalties
due to
transgressions
and you
will
consecrate
the
divine
unity,
and
united
feeling
and
reason".
Created
for
profit
and to
meet the
eager of
domination
of a
parasitic
caste,
the
Devil
was
killed
and
buried
by the
Spiritist
knowledge
that
clearly
informs
us that
it is
not
credible
that our
Heavenly
Father,
the God
of Love
and
Goodness,
could
have
created
a being
eternally
doomed
to evil,
stating,
however,
that all
Spirits
are
created
simple
and
ignorant,
and that
the evil
ones are
simply
Spirits
of
incipient
evolution,
but able
to raise
to the
highest
spiritual
ranks in
the
infinite
course
of time.
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