Holy steps in Rome claims to have blood stains of Jesus

Nine years shorter in Purgatory. Thats what Catholics get for each step they climb on their knees in a Vatican staircase, claimed to have been transported to Rome from Jerusalem.

Catholics who have believed the lies, perform religious rituals at the «Sacred Steps» in Rome.

The so-called «Sacred Steps» in Rome is supposed to be the staircase from Pontius Pilate’s mansion, on which the Catholics are told Christ was made to walk on his knees, carrying the cross.

People still walk on their knees on those 30 odd steps as a mark of Jesus’ sacrifice for mankind. And there are 4 places on the stairs that are encased in gold-framed glass, supposed to be places where drops of Jesus’ blood fell.

How Pilate’s staircase came to Rome?

Helen, the mother of Emperor Constantine, brought it from wherever she might have found it.

In the Catholic Church, plenary indulgence can be granted for climbing the stairs on the knees. Pius VII on 2 September 1817 granted those who ascend the stairs in the prescribed manner an indulgence of nine years for every step. Finally Pius X, on 26 February 1908, granted a plenary indulgence to be gained as often as the stairs are devoutly ascended after confession and communion.

Not a few popes are recorded to have performed this pious exercise; Pius IX, who in 1853 entrusted the Passionist Fathers with the care of the sanctuary, ascended the Holy Stairs on 19 September 1870, the eve of the entrance of the Piedmontese into Rome.

There are replicas (holy copies) of these Holy Stairs at Lourdes, France; St. Anne de Beaupre, Canada; Tytuvenia, Lithuania; Abruzzi, Italy; Nasonville, Rhode Island and at St. Patrick’s.

My comment:

First:

There is no words in the Bible, about Jesus being dragged in a staircase in the Governor`s palace in Jerusalem. And if there ever was such a staircase, how did it end up as a pagan Roman Queens possession, more than 300 years after the life of Jesus?

Second:

And if there were blood in this staircase, how did anyone come to know if the blood was of Jesus? No one had His DNA-profile.

Since Pilate washed his hands of Jesus, would it not be reasonable, that someone would have cleaned up the mess in the staircase?

Third:

Frankly, it is more than unlikely that the Governor would make his presumed blood stained staircase into a «Museum» for a Jew the Jewish crowed wanted to get rid off, and the Roman soldiers crucified.

Forth:

In Mathew 28 you can read how the chief priests and the Jewish elders tried their best to blot out any traces and evidences of a risen Messiah, a cover-up that was supposed to have pleased Pilate.

Fifth:

How do you transport a staircase? I guess it must have been difficult to demolish? Was the building also demolished, and a proper copy of the castle built in Rome, to fit the staircase?

Six:

Jesus did not redeem mankind in the presence of Pilate, and any penance in such a staircase that will redeem the dead Catholics from «purgatory» is not-Biblical non sense.

The Vatican is cheating. The pagans claimed to be «Christians» has built a religion around a copy-cat Jesus, and religious rituals based on fabricated stories that perverts the truth.

Super powers to force end of Zionism in bid to stall nuclear Iran

They are called the Quartet, leaded by papist Tony Blair. On 19th of March they will agree that Israel must give up Zionism to get peace with Islam.

Three wise men on their way to Jerusalem. But not to bring glory to God of Israel and His Son.

The U.S. and Russia are trying to convene a meeting of the so-called Quartet group of peacemakers – the U.S., Russia, the European Union and the United Nations – in mid-March in Moscow, according to diplomats. A tentative date of March 19 has been discussed but is not yet confirmed.

The meeting would bring together Clinton, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton along with other European officials, including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who is now the Quartet’s special representative.

Over a nice cup on tea, Obama and Putin will agree on the future of Israel, without the Israeli leadership being present.

It would seek to build on the work of Mitchell, special U.S. envoy for Middle East peace, who has been shuttling back and forth to the region with only limited success in improving the atmosphere for a resumption in peace talks.

If held as planned, the meeting would follow a recent flurry of U.S. diplomatic activity in the Middle East, including an upcoming trip to Israel by Vice President Joe Biden in the second week of March.

Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg is in Israel now to participate in this week’s U.S.-Israel Strategic Dialogue and Clinton’s other two top deputies, Jacob Lew and William Burns, each returned from separate trips to the region in the past 10 days.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak is due in Washington later this week for talks with senior administration officials and will see Clinton at the State Department on Friday. Clinton herself just returned from a trip to Qatar and Saudi Arabia that coincided with a visit to Israel by Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Source: Washington Post

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My comment:

The US is a slave of its debt, and China will soon be the owner of half of the US gold reserves kept by the Federal system at Fort Knox. China has Iran as one of its main trading partner, and the Communists have never liked Zionists.

Whatever the US Administration wants to do in the Middle East, they will have to work in agreement with Saudi Arabia. Simply because the Saudis own a big chuck of the American debts, and are the main source of the energy the US needs every day.

Little Israel is a hair in the soup. And 300.000 religious Jews are now the only stumbling block towards the coming rule of anti-Christ . The moment the Jewish settlers are removed from Jewish land in Judea and Samaria, the Zionist dream is over. There is no longer any valid reason, why the state of Israel should hold on to «occupied East Jerusalem».

«Tony the Papist Blair» will come up with the brilliant idea: The city of David should be made an International Zone for the three World religions. The Temple Mount should be made into a great International Temple , and United Nations should established a center for World peace in East Jerusalem.

In 1938 Checkoslovakia was sold out to Hitler by England and France, without the offer lamb`s leadership being invited to the summit. In a similar way the state of Israel will be sold out to Islam for about «30 silver coins», by the so-called Christian western powers.

Lets wait and watch.

Bibi gives Papa crisis counselling

This week we learned that the Israeli and Greek premiership had an informal one-on-one discussion about crisis management and international intervention.

The Prime Minister of Greece feels the heat now a days.

Week end comment

By Mike Adams

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ran into his Greek counterpart George Papandreou while dining out at a Moscow restaurant. Prior to this encounter, the two men had been having talks with the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. In the case of Israel, Iran’s nuclear threat was at the top of the agenda; Greece was wrapping up an energy deal for the Burgas–Alexandroupoli pipeline that will be used to transport Russian oil from the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Burgas to the Greek Aegean port of Alexandroupoli.

The ad hoc meeting lasted an hour, during which time Netanyahu told Papandreou that the international community was obliged to reach out a helping hand to the economically stricken Greece as well as imposing biting sanctions against Iran. The clincher came when Netanyahu presaged that “if Iran gets nukes, so will Turkey”.

To me this sounds as is if Netanyahu is playing Greece off against Turkey. Notwithstanding, it was straight talking from someone at the centre of it all. Poor Greece knows that its prodigious neighbour to the east is no delight, but rather a security liability. In Grecian eyes, the ever present Turkish menace has of late assumed an added sinister dimension – the growing Islamic faction headed up by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is reaching out to other Muslim brothers in arms in “unorthodox” Iran, Syria, Sudan and Gaza. Netanyahu is fully aware that Greece is in a predicament being deemed the economic dunce in the EU class.

WikiAnswers states that the following countries are Greece’s allies: USA, England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Serbia, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Spain, Italy, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Armenia, Malta, and France. Their support for Greece is beginning to sound more like doublespeak if indeed they’re speaking up at all. According to WikiAnswers Israel has an ally in: USA, UK, Germany, Turkey and India. Amongst other Israeli allies are Canada, China and the Czech Republic. The sting in the eye for Greece is Israel’s ties to Turkey. That’s changed somewhat in the past few months.

Without elaborating on it, we know that Erdogan has been rubbing Netanyahu up the wrong way for quite some time now. Israel knows that she needs to play up to potential partners, not fraternise with foulmouthed foes. Hence Bibi’s portrayal of Turkey as an ogre and an imminent threat to global stability. Israel may not care to patch up things with Turkey when Greece just happens to pop out of the blue looking for some answers to a major fiscal headache and much, much more.

Banging her head up against one of her columns won’t get the Greece far. The Grecian state has also some serious thinking to do in her stance toward Israel. Will Greece continue to merely tolerate Israel’s existence or will she come alongside a Middle Easterner who really can show what being an ally is all about? Greece will find in Israel an empathetic soul; one who is familiar with standing alone in a sea of resentment and violent hostility. Mutual back-rubbing in the fields of defence, economics, commerce, culture and science will benefit both countries. It’s time for Greece to consider its options.

I’m reminded of what the Israelis did for security during the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Israel had voiced displeasure with the arrangements and asked to send its own security detail to protect its athletes. The Greek government reluctantly agreed. Traditionally, the host country is solely responsible for guarding athletes and does not authorise outside police agencies to carry weapons in the Olympic Village.

“We sent a team to Athens to look over security,” a former Israeli military officer had told the Washington Post. “It was so bad that we privately threatened to boycott the Games unless things were changed”. The no-nonsense approach got the Greeks off the track of complacency.

The Olympic security mess was instrumental in getting law enforcement and intelligence agents from Israel to handle training of their Grecian colleagues regarding suicide bombers. Good old Papa was Minister of Foreign Affairs back then as he is now, but he now shoulders the responsibility of the office of Prime Minister as well. It would serve him well to actively bless Israel before it’s too late. I don’t think anyone is too keen on yet another Greek tragedy.

EU High Court will soon make Jews in East Jerusalem stateless

The EU High Court denies Israeli jurisdiction over Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria. A fresh court verdict will also harm Jewish companies in East Jerusalem.

The former EU commissioner for Foreign Affairs Javier Solana wants the EU to force Israel to give Mahmoud Abbas East Jerusalem as soon as possible.

Both the state of Israel and the PA government in Ramallah have trade agreement with the European Union. But the The European Union’s high court ruled Thursday that products that Israeli companies make in the West Bank are subject to import duties. Because the court does not consider such territory to be neither under the jurisdiction of Israel nor the Palestinian Authority.

Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said Israel had no immediate comment on the EU court ruling.

Israel’s military maintains control over the territory, which is home to many Palestinians and Israeli settlements. Israeli companies located in the settlements produce many products there, including cookies and pretzels, wines and cosmetics and computer equipment.

Since Palestinians have few job opportunities in the Palestinian-controlled areas of the West Bank, jobs in settlement factories are sought after. Still, pro-Palestinian groups in Europe are likely to be pleased by Thursday’s ruling because they regularly protest in European supermarkets to complain about «Made in Israel»

Source: Jerusalem Post.

The EU High court is doing grave injustice to the Jewish settlers. Because the court have made them stateless.

Is quit unique that a High Court goes against the national sovereignty of the free and democratic state of Israel.

I can not recall, that any area people on Planet Earth ever have been called stateless in their own homeland. Zionist have been banded as racist, and the government of Israel have been falsely accused of building an Apartheid state. But never before has Israel been accused by judges, for making their own Jewish people homeless occupiers, that must be removed to get peace in the Middle East.

The EU´s ongoing effort to delegitimize the state of Israel just took a turn for the worse for the Jewish people.

Iranian Website: Our nuclear bomb will bring end to Israel

Our bomb will only be used in self defense. But the very existence of such a bomb will lead to an exodus of scared Israelis, that will bring an end to the Zionist regime.

The nuclear arms race in Tehran is a big gamble. For Israel, there is hardly any difference between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Adolf Hitler.

The Iranian website Asr-e Iran has posted an editorial stating that Iran possessing nuclear weapons will result in Israel’s elimination: Even if such weapons are never used.

An Iran with nuclear weapons means an end to the dream of «secure Israel». This means the exodus of most of the residents of this occupied land (who immigrated there for absolute security and for jobs). This exodus will include human, financial, and other capital, and therefore will be a death sentence for this regime.

The editorial was published on February 18th 2010. The editor explained that Israel’s raison d’être is the illusion that it can provide absolute security for the Jewish people, and that it has security supremacy. Once Iran possesses nuclear weapons and shifts the balance of power in the Middle East, it states, this will be end of Israeli society.

«Since its establishment in 1948, the central pillar on which Israel is founded has been ‘creating a secure territory for the Jewish people, in order to protect it from any possible danger.’ This issue is so important to the elected officials of the Israeli regime that in the country’s 62 years of existence, they have dealt harshly with any element, [even] the most minor, that could possibly strike at or harm «the famous Paradise»

Source: MEMRI.org

My comment:

When Adolf Hitler wrote «Main Kampf», he promised to «solve» the Jewish problem. But few people in free Western nations took Hitler `s threats at face value. The consequences of not dealing in time with Hitler, was a man made disaster called World War II. 60 million people perished, six million of them Jews slaughtered in gas chambers in Nazi-controlled Europa.

The consequences of not taking the anti-Jewish remarks from Iran at face value, might lead to a massive Israeli first strike on Iran. After the Holocaust the state of Israel correctly established a zero tolerance policy towards political forces that gives the Jewish people their threat of extinction.

Unfortunately for Israel, the same kind of hypocritical attitude the World presented to Hitler, is today present in regards to Iran in Washington, London and Moscow. Israel can not expect anything but massive condemnation if they act alone.

Behold, people or Israel, you are not alone. God of Israel is with you, and Christians who believe that Jesus of Nazareth is His servant. Amen.

School books with beer drinking and smoking «Jesus» confiscated

The government in the Indian state of Meghalaya has confiscated textbooks showing pictures of Jesus Christ holding a cigarette and a can of beer.

A beer can and a cigarette has been added to the Catholic image of Jesus.

The book has been used for primary classes and has caused a furore in the north-eastern state, where more than 70 per cent of the population are Christians.

State Education Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh said legal action against the publishers was being contemplated. The company, based in Delhi, has so far not responded to the complaints.

«We are now considering legal action against the Skyline Publications of New Delhi who published the controversial textbooks», Mr Lyngdoh said.

The controversial picture of Jesus was discovered in cursive writing exercise books being used at a private school in the state capital, Shillong.

«We are deeply hurt by the insensitivity of the publisher. How can one show such total disrespect for a religion?», asked Dominic Jala, the Archbishop of Shillong. The Catholic Church in India has banned all textbooks by Skyline Publications from all its schools.

«We have told all our member schools across the country to ban this publisher»,said Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) spokesman Babu Joseph.

«Jesus Christ is central to Christian faith and Christian life. The attempt to tarnish his image is highly objectionable and goes against the spirit of religious tolerance in India», Mr Joseph said.

Source: BBC.

My comment:

According to the gospel of John, the first miracle of Jesus was to make water into wine. He also shared suppers with His disciples, who were drinking wine. The Jewish Apostles Paul instructed Timothy to take a little wine for his stomach problem. And Jesus him self might have taken quite a few drinks. And He might not.

Matthew 11:18-20

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and “sinners.” ‘ But wisdom is proved right by her actions.”

So what is the fuzz?

The problem is that makers, promoters and defenders of images and idols are sinners. Such people claim to be Holy, but they mock God of the Bible, by breaking the second commandment. You can not tarnish the «image of Jesus», because the only valid «image» of Him is found in His Words. The Jew did not recognize Him neither by seeing His image, nor because they had seen a statue of Him.

Still thousands of Jews recognized the Messiah when He walked on Earth. How did they do that?

By reading the scripture, obeying the scriptures, and sharing the scripture with others. Thats why a blind man could cry out and say. «Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me».

Religious people who are offended by tarnished «images» of Jesus, please read:

John 9:41
Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.

The roof came down on Church with relics of Pope Celestine V

The sacred relics of Pope Celesine V could not save St. Maria of Collemaggio church in L’Aquila during the earthquake in April 2009.

Relics of a pope could not prevent the roof from falling down in this Church.

The Pope visited the Church on the 28th of April.

The Pope visits the damaged church and papal relics

During his visit to Padre Pio at Santa Maria delle Grazie in San Giovanni Rotondo, the Pope prayed before the exhumed body of St. Padre Pio and the Mass was said in the presence of his sacred relics.

Jeremiah 8:19

Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?”

Vatican and days of Fascism: # 10

Not only Rome and Berlin. All the major nations which made Roman Catholicism the ruling religion, fell prey to Fascist dictators.

With Goldstone´s logic Winston Churchill was a war criminal

According to Goldstone’s standards, Winston Churchill himself should have been placed in the defendant’s seat as a war criminal.

Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin has reasons to be worried. The EU is on the edge of supporting despotism based on Islamic lies against the state of Israel. .

On the eve of a European Parliament debate on the Goldstone Report, Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin warned its 736 MEPs on Tuesday against «allowing Goldstone’s new morality to take over international law».

European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek said the debate was a sign of his institutions growing interest in the Middle East.

«The European Union wants to be a player [in the Middle East] and we are doing it very seriously», said Buzek on Tuesday at a press conference in Brussels.

European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek

«Tomorrow we will discuss the Goldstone Report, the next signal that the European parliament and institutions are interested in solving the Middle East problem», said Buzek.

Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin gives the EU a stern warning:

«According to Goldstone’s standards, Winston Churchill himself should have been placed in the defendant’s seat as a war criminal, as would American and British generals who have killed thousands in Iraq», Rivlin said.

«In the meantime, it is Israel alone that pays the price of the double standard, which does not differentiate between the victim and the attacker or between terror and self-defense. If the trend is not changed, next in line will be British and American military personnel, and those of the rest of the free world».

He warned that the «new and crooked morality will usher in a new era in Western civilization, similar to the one that we remember from the [1938] Munich agreement, which allowed a dictatorship to spill the blood of the free world, and almost brought about its defeat».

Source: Jerusalem Post.

My comment:

If the EU had invited Hitler to explain why the Jews are bad people, I am sure the European commission would have come up with a solid report of 200 pages. The list of Nazis that would have given «eyewitness accounts» would surely have been long.

But would such witnesses have been trustworthy?

What kind of credibility do Hamas have?

Do people who behead and slaughter even their own Muslim brethren, have any role to play in the International court of Justice?

London has become center of Hamas activity

A report by Israel’s Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC) labels London as the new international hub of Hamas political, legal and propaganda efforts.

Muslims in London display´s how much they love freedom of expression and democracy.

ITIC, a non-governmental organization dedicated to uncovering the activities of Israel’s enemies, wrote that Hamas today directs the bulk of its non-violent efforts against Israel via operatives and activists in the British capital.

That was evidenced recently in a string of attempted indictments against Israeli leaders in British courts. According to ITIC, Hamas was behind those legal actions.

Hamas has found London a perfect center for its operations due to the easily manipulated British free speech laws, an overly tolerant British legal system and the large Arab and Muslim population in the city.

Source: Israeli Magazine, Israel Today.