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The Catholic Church >> Babylonian Influence
Is a religion which departed from the early church.
When Rome made Christianity the official religion, they did it by combining the pagan/Babylonian religion with Christianity.
Easter - Eostre is a German goddess associated with spring and fertility - eggs and rabbits. She was celebrated around the spring equinox.
Egg represents new life, and rabbits, fertility.
Remember Tammuz represented the cycle of death and new life, the yearly agricultural cycle, and Semiramus was associated with fertility and points to Baal/Tammuz.
Lent is 40 days of mourning/weeping for Tammuz.
Christmas
December 25th was the birthday of Sol Invictus, the Roman sun god - Baal/Nimrod/Tammuz
Pontifex Maximus - this was the title of the high priest of the Ancient Roman College of Pontiffs - the head of pagan Roman religion. This title then became political as well and was given to the emperor, beginning with Emperor Augustus. Then it became the title of the Pope after Christianity was made the official religion.
This makes the Pope the head of pagan religion, not just the Catholic Church.
The symbol of the sun is everywhere in Catholicism.
The monstrance > pic related
The host, the bread, is placed in the monstrance and is supposedly transubstantiated into the literal body of Christ. The monstrance is considered a sacred vessel. Catholics worship it and are "blessed" with it.
The transubstantiation, where the sacraments are turned into the literal blood and body of Jesus during the Catholic Mass, a bloodless re-sacrifice of Christ each time, has similarities to Mithraic/Zoroastrian religion. Mithra was the Indo-Iranian god of light and Haoma, the son of the creator god, was an intermediary between god and man. He was represented or embodied as a drink used in the worship of Mithra, and was regarded as a sacrifice and priest. There are also similar sacraments practices in other pagan religions as well.
