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The ‘Queen Of Heaven’ Of The Catholic Church Comes From Pagan Babylon

Wednesday, February 10, 2016 21:42
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The Roman Catholic traditions of the “Madonna and Child” began back in pagan Babylon with the stories of Nimrod, Semiramis and the baby Tammuz.

“The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.” Jeremiah 7:18 (KJV)

Until the age of 30, I was your typical product of the Roman Catholic system. I had been sprinkled as a baby, received “first holy communion”, confessed my sins to a ‘priest’, and completed the Catholic sacrament of “Confirmation” all by the time I was in 5th grade. If anyone would have asked me who the “Queen of Heaven” was, I could answer them immediately and accurately. The “Queen of Heaven” was the same Virgin Mary that I had been taught to to pray to and to seek salvation from all my life.

In order to attempt to staunch the flow of criticism Catholics receive about idol worship of mere humans like the biblical Mary, we were trained to tell people that “no, we do not worship Mary, we simply venerate her out of respect”. But for those of us on the “inside”, we knew different. We were taught to pray to Mary more than to anyone else, with prayers like this one:

O Mother of Perpetual Help, grant me ever to be able to call upon thy powerful name, since thy name is the help of the living and the salvation of the dying. Ah, Mary most pure, Mary most sweet, grant that thy name from this day forth may be to me the very breath of life. Dear Lady, delay not to come to my assistance whenever I call upon thee; for in all the temptations that assail me, in all the necessities that befall me, I will never leave off calling upon thee, ever repeating: Mary, Mary. What comfort, what sweetness, what confidence, what tenderness fills my soul at the sound of thy name, at the very thought of thee! I give thanks to our Lord, who for my sake hath given thee a name so sweet, so lovable, so mighty. But I am not content merely to speak thy name; I would utter it for very love of thee; it is my desire that love should ever remind me to name thee, Mother of Perpetual Help.” source

If you think that saying something like that is not worship or prayer, you are highly deceived. That was just one of dozens of Vatican-approved prayers to Mary. Catholic schools and churches love to place statues of the Virgin Mary and the Baby Jesus in the classrooms and chapels. Everywhere you go, there the Madonna and Child appear before you like an apparition. But as I got older, I discovered statues like that did not have the beginnings with Mary and Jesus, not even close. The Roman Catholic traditions of the “Madonna and Child” began back in pagan Babylon with the stories of Nimrod, Semiramis and the baby Tammuz.

In his excellent book, Babylon Mystery Religion, author Ralph Woodrow shows us where the Roman Catholic “Mother and Child” worship came from.

Nimrod, the mighty hunter before (against) the Lord, was the first to organize cities into a kingdom under human rule, Genesis 10:8-10.  This much we know from the Bible.  The name Nimrod comes from the word, marad, meaning “he rebelled.”  Legend has it that Nimrod married his own mother, Semiramis.  After Nimrod died, Semi­ramis claimed Nimrod was the sun-god.  She later had a child, Tammuz, whom she claimed was Nimrod reborn, supernaturally conceived, the promised seed, the “savior.”  Semiramis developed a religion of mother and child worship.  Symbols were used to develop a “mystery” religion.  Since Nimrod was believed to be the sun-god (Baal), fire was considered his earthly representation.  In other forms, Nimrod was symbolized by sun images, fish, trees, pillars, and animals.  Tammuz, son of the sun-god, was represented by the golden calf.  And so it was, that mankind followed this religion of worshipping the creation (creature) rather than the Creator, Romans 1:21-26.

Rome, the greatest and longest-lived human world-ruling empire, assimilated religions from her many conquered territories.  All these religions had commonalities, for they all came from Babylon.  These practices infiltrated and overcame the professing Christian Church, which later came to be dominated by Rome itself. Many pagan religions had mother and child worship, whether Devaki and Krishna (India), Isis and Horus (Egypt), Venus or Fortuna and Jupiter (Rome), etc.  Each nation gave different names to essentially the same god or goddess.

A mother goddess, or “queen of heaven,” was said to have given miraculous birth to a son.  Ancient Israel sometimes followed this false religion, Judges 2:13, 10:6; I Samuel 7:3-4, 12:10; I Kings 11:5; II Kings 23:13; Jeremiah 44:17-19, with disastrous results.  In Ephesus, Semiramis was worshipped as the great mother Diana, the many-breasted goddess.  This form of mother-child worship was followed throughout all Asia and the world, Acts 19:27.

Pope Francis Entrusts the World to the “Immaculate Heart of Mary”:

Mary worship had no place in the early Christian Church.  Even the Catholic Encyclo­pedia (article, “Virgin Mary,” pp. 459-460) admits that in the first centuries, A.D., there are no traces of the worship of Mary.  By the fourth century, the time of Emperor Con­stan­tine, wor­ship­ping Mary as a goddess and offering cakes at her shrine, began to come into the professing Church.  In A.D. 431, the Council of Ephesus made Mary worship official.  By mixing beliefs already being practiced (Diana of Ephesus worshipped as a goddess) with nominal Christianity, so-called Church “fathers” reasoned that they could gain more converts.  It is the same old story.  Apostates believe that lowering God’s standards results in a better form of religion, more acceptable and popular to the masses.

The Bible is clear that there is only one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, I Timothy 2:5.  Yet Roman Catholicism teaches that Mary is also a “mediator.”  Catholics offer prayers to Mary, burn candles to Mary, and have statues of Mary, which came directly from their pagan counterparts.  Isis, the Egyptian goddess, was known as “mother of God,” just as Mary is titled by Catholics.  Weigall, in The Paganism in Our Christianity, page 129, says, “When Christianity triumphed, these paintings and figures became those of the madonna and child, without any break in continuity: no archaeologist, in fact, can now tell whether some of these objects represent the one or the other.”

In pagan religion, the mother was worshipped as much (or more) than her son!  Noted Roman Catholic writer Alphonsus Liguori stressed that prayers addressed to Mary are much more effectual than to Christ.  Mary is deified as the “queen of heaven,” born without sin (Immaculate Conception), the “mother of God,” exactly as pagan worshippers deified Isis, Venus, Ashtoreth, etc.  Jesus did not teach that Mary was superior to other human beings.  When someone mentioned His mother and brethren, Jesus asked, “Who is My mother? and who are My brethren?”  Then, stretching forth His hand toward His disciples, He said, “Behold My mother and My brethren!  For WHOSOEVER shall do the will of My Father which is in heaven, the same is My brother, and sister, and MOTHER,” Matthew 12:46-50.  Anyone who does the will of God is on the same level as Mary.

Closely associated with praying to Mary is the rosary, a chain of fifteen sets of small beads, marked off by one large bead.  The ends of the chain are joined by a medal with an imprint of Mary, from which hangs a short chain with a crucifix at the end.  The use of prayer-counters or rosary beads is an almost universal custom in pagan religion.  From Nineveh to India to China, beads were used as a part of worship.  The Phoenicians used a circle of beads resembling a rosary in the worship of Astarte, the mother goddess, as early as 800 B.C.  Francis Xavier was astonished to see that rosaries were universally familiar to the Buddhists of Japan.

The main prayer of the rosary is the “Hail Mary.”  The complete rosary repeats the Hail Mary 53 times, the Lord’s Prayer 6 times, and several other recitations.  The Hail Mary combines the statement of the angel about Mary from the Bible with unscriptural blasphemy, “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; Blessed art thou among women Jesus [a loose translation of Luke 1:28], and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.  Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of death, Amen.”  Mary was not the mother of God, she was not holy, she was a righteous woman who is dead in her grave, waiting for the resurrection to eternal life, with all the other dead in Christ.

The Catholic Encyclopedia says, “There is little or no trace of the Hail Mary as an accepted devotional formula before about 1050,” article “Hail Mary,” p. 111.  Jesus instructs us not to use vain repetitions when we pray, Matthew 6:7-8.  The so-called “Lord’s Prayer” verses 9-13, was a model prayer, not a prayer to be monotonously repeated.  Jesus said in effect “pray thus” (after this manner therefore pray ye), not “pray this.”  Prayer should be spontaneous, not rote memory with no heart-felt meaning.

Now you know where the idea of Mary worship comes from, because it certainly is not in the Bible.

There is not one verse of scripture in the entire Bible that would give any weight at all to praying to Mary, worshipping Mary, or placing Mary in any position of prominence at all. The book of Acts shows that Mary is in the Upper Room on the day of Pentecost, but merely as a silent witness. No one asks her anything, and she offers no comments of any kind. Rather strange, don’t you think, considering the exalted position afforded her by the Catholic church?

“And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” Revelation 18:4 (KJV)

The Roman Catholic Church is the prophesied Whore of Babylon found in chapters 17 and 18 in the book of Revelation. It is a system that God hates, and will one day destroy during the time of Jacob’s trouble. The Lord saved me back in 1990, and pulled me out of this false system. He will do the same for you if you desire to know the truth.

“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:32 (KJV)

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  • interesting article…congrats on the spiritual progress….
    see the Keith Piper websites for a similar discussion:
    Credit to Keith Piper
    http://www.gospeloutreach.net/romanerr1.html

    here is my own list of catholic abuses. These pagan practices were incorporated into the church after Constantine legalised Christianity. The pagans showed up for baptism, dragging behind them the idols they had stolen out of the pagan temples. They labeled them with some saint’s name, and worship of them continued after they set them up in a church building.

    Catholic Errors:
    Church tradition the equal of scripture
    Works salvation, grace plus works, sacramentalism
    Confession to man and not God
    Mandatory celibacy of priests (1139 at the 2nd Lateran Council)
    Infant baptism
    The Mass & Transubstantiation
    Purgatory
    Selling of Indulgences (selling salvation)
    Veneration of Mary & other saints, prayers to saints
    Mary Worship
    Perpetual Virginity
    Queen of Heaven
    Mother of God
    Co-Mediator
    Source of Grace, all grace comes through her
    Immaculate Conception
    Bodily Assumption
    Co-Redemptor, salvation depends on her intervention & help
    The “Gate of Heaven”
    Mediators other than Christ
    Idolatrous images, icons, statues, relics
    The Papacy & Names of Blasphemy
    Pontifex Maximus, “Chief Bridge Builder”
    Holy Father
    Monseignor, “My Lord”
    Vicar of Christ, in effect, “God’s Replacement on Earth”

  • the harlot has many daughters. Here is a list of protestant abuses.

    1) Modernism-Liberalism: Bible as Mythology; Rejection of Inerrancy, Historical Criticism, Higher Criticism

    2) Prosperity Gospel…tithe your way into prosperity, obligate God to make you Rich, Rich, Rich. This is the worst form of sorcery, putting the con on God.

    3) Hyper-Calvinism, 5-Point Calvinism, Reform Theology, summed up as “TULIP”
    T Total Depravity
    U Unconditional Election
    L Limited Atonement
    I Irresistible Grace
    P Perseverence
    This error says that God planned from before eternity began to purposely set up individuals so that they have to reject Christ and have to go to hell. The corollary of Unconditional Election is Unconditional Reprobacy, which a form of blasphemy. Who would want to worship a god that planned to burn their unsaved grandmother in a grease fire in hell and used his sovereignty powers to make it so? This error also say that human will is reduced to that of a robot doing its programmed functions since grace is irresistible. This error says that people who meet the minimum standards for a salvation experience and then turn traitor on God (basically live for the devil the rest or their lives) are nevertheless saved. This is the “once saved always saved” errror.

    4) Modern Antinomianism: These people say that because we are saved by grace, the Law has been abolished. Therefore live and do as you please, regardless of standards of Biblical or public morality. Christians therefore cannot lose their salvation. Some of these people say you do not even have to bother to ask for forgiveness of sins after salvation, because you have alredy been forgiven in advance.

    5) Blasphemous rejection of the end times work of the Holy Spirit. Some pentecostals have strange practices. To automatically say that the pentecostals are full of satan and are doing the works of satan is blasphemy. These people are carnal. Blame carnality for the excesses and abuses, not demon possession. That’s what Paul did when he sent the Corinthians their letters.

    6) Practical Heresies: Worldliness, Compromise, Lukewarmness & Indifference….sad to say, this is in every church. Some people are zealously getting ready for the rapture and second coming, which is good. It seems like the lukewarm are zealously preparing to be left behind.

  • I think that the author has been reading comic books

    I know FOR A FACT that there were mothers before the Babylonians!

    All that stuff about a self regenerating patriarchy riding about on t-rexes before the Babylonians is SDA CRAP!

    • what is “SDA”???

      • Seventh Day Adventists

    • geee! what a surprise! the snake like, medusa lady, dont like Adventists! well, sorry for you, they are what one can call “bare minimum right” whereas, ALL “sunday” xtians, are TOTALLY WRONG< and destined for hell0fire, due to their rejection of the Law.

      and your argument, is stupid, and would only appeal to SDA hating catholics.

      there is NOTHING more reprobate , than a catholic neighbourhood, symptoms of catholisim, is misery, and depression, i will post the 9 aspects of rome, for louis below, who obviously recieves a paycheck for his papal love,. no human in their right mind, would EVER stand up an defend child molesting, child sacrifincin , whore worshippers.

      MARY IS A SPACE WHORE<

  • A blasphemous, twisted, inaccurate piece of trash article attacking holy truths taught by the church founded by the Son of God in Person and insulting this Lord’s Blessed Mother.

    There’s got to be an especially hot place in hell for anyone — such as Now the End Begins — crass and stupid enough to insult God’s Mother.

    The Catholic Church doesn’t meet the criteria of the Biblical “great harlot.” The Vatican is not even situated on any of Rome’s seven hills, but sits on the far bank of the Tiber outside the city limits of ancient Rome.

    The “great harlot” is clearly described by the Book of APOCALPSE as false Talmudic Judaism centered in Jerusalem, which like Rome is a city build on seven hills and whose rabbis wear scarlet and purple ephods. Talmudic Judaism is also responsible for the rise of communism which in Russia, Eastern Europe, China and elsewhere has slain tens of millions of Christians.

    Whoever wrote the above article is a deranged possessed stupid liar.

    • , mary, is a dumb whore, a silent whore known as “cybele” and, you catholic dont even know, the vandals, ostrogoths and Waldenses, WILL BE AVENGED> EVERYBODY, except the catholics, know how mad, how sick, and how damaged catholics are, you are in DIRECT opposition to the God of the Bible! INSANITY is your FORTE,

      READ THE TRUTH: and KNOW the 9 ASPECTS OF ROME:

      Rome as the AntiChrist

      AntiChrist, also Anti-Christ, is a title first formed at the same time as the founding of Christianity in 314 CE to exclusively describe the burnt and demolished city of Rome and the defunct Roman Empire. Thus, Rome was, is and has always been the AntiChrist as the personification of everything opposite to the philosophy, principles and values of Christianity.

      The word AntiChrist comes from the Ancient Greek αντίχριστος (antíkhristos) literally meaning “one that is opposite to Christ”. In the first Epistle (epistole) of Christianity pronounced at Antioch (Constantinople) called Epistole Apokalypsis meaning “message from Heaven” and later known as The Apocalypse, the reason the AntiChrist (Rome and Roman Empire) was, is and has always been the only true AntiChrist may be defined as nine (9) aspects being: Tyranny, Injustice, Corruption, Deception, Malevolence, Falsity, Blasphemy, Apostacy and Insanity:

      (i) The Tyranny of the AntiChrist (Rome) was and is the historic fact that Rome and its leaders and agents steadfastly refused to honor the Golden Rule of Law that “all are equal under the same set of laws” and instead promoted a fascist model of dictatorship whereby “the law is whatever we say it is” and could be changed, manipulated, hidden and corrupted to suit the objective; and

      (ii) The Injustice of the AntiChrist (Rome) was and is the historic fact that Rome did promote and encourage the notion of slavery and the seizure, abrogation and blatant theft of rights for profit and power, through the use of military power, covert power and assassinations and constant war known as “Armageddon”. Thus, the only right honored by the AntiChrist (Rome) and its agents has been the perverse notion that “might is right”; and

      (iii) The Corruption of the AntiChrist (Rome) was and is the historic fact that Rome did not, nor ever has followed its own rules or procedures, but used such procedures to “trick” others into a predictable pattern of rules, while every manner of corruption has then been used to defeat such an opponent. Thus, the courts and tribunals of the AntiChrist (Rome) and its loyal allies were, are and have always been the most corrupt in usurping their own claims “laws” and “procedures”; and

      (iv) The Deception of the AntiChrist (Rome) was and is the historic fact that Rome and its nobles proclaimed to honor the rule of law, justice and due process as well as be moral members of society when in fact they were the complete opposite through rampant drug consumption, child molestation, sexual orgies, corruption and murder and utter madness. Thus, the AntiChrist was and is and has always been the ultimate deceiver and impostor to the planet Earth using the argument “whoever be deceived, let them be deceived” as justification for their actions; and

      (v) The Malevolance of the AntiChrist (Rome) was the historic fact that Rome and its allies have been obsessed in blood sports, cruelty, torture and sacrifice in complete opposition to the values of all civilized societies and enlightened minds. Instead, the pseudo-intellectuals in support of the AntiChrist (Rome) invented absurd and contradictory notions that such malevolence was an instrinsic part of the cosmological order, in defiance against thousands of years of illumination; and

      (vi) The Falsity of the AntiChrist (Rome) was the historic fact that Rome was the single largest producer of fraudulent and false documents in history, with literally hundreds of thousands of works, artifacts and monuments being blatantly fictional creations in support of deliberately false, deceptive and misleading accounts of history and events. Thus there is virtually nothing that can be trusted that is spoken, written or published by the AntiChrist and its agents as being true; and

      (vii) The Blasphemy of the AntiChrist (Rome) was the historic fact that Rome and its adherents have always been necromancers and sorcerers obsessed in death, the control over bones and flesh of the dead, the controlling of the spirits of the dead through spells and curses in complete opposition to the principles of Christianity that demanded bodies be cremated and forbid the collecting of bones or uttering of curses or spells; and

      (viii) The Apostacy of the AntiChrist (Rome) was the historic fact that Rome was and has always been its own worst heretic, by refusing to follow its own false histories, false rituals and false scripture and instead repeatedly “re-made” itself every few generations. Thus, the AntiChrist is not only the worst blasphemer and heretic to Christianity but the worst apostate to its own false beliefs and faith making it and its followers the most willfully ignorant (evil) of all; and

      (ix) The Insanity of the AntiChrist (Rome) was the historic fact that Rome has by tradition always been the epicenter of mental illness due to the combination of pathological falsities, absurd philosophies and complete disconnect from nature, true history, consciousness and civilized behaviour. Thus the prevalence of utter insanity, stupidity and idiocy amongst political, military and religious leaders is at once a product of the AntiChrist and its allies and a defense mechanism for the AntiChrist – given if the whole species is insane and disconnected, so that no-one can objectively see such dire mental illness and incompetence.

      o and, in ww3, ima kill every last catholic i come across, from 8-88. or over, hitting old catholic priests is the best, its like punching a plastic bag filled with chicken eggs. im looking forward to my freedom, so i can post on liveleak, me hurting your nuns, in a very very bad way.

      • Troll alert- you are pathetic that you have to stop so low to get attention.It’s a shame for you really.I willpray for you though,because it’s what God wants.

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