Judas & The Love of Money: Why Christ Would Never Be A Catholic

When Paul Tillich said that "all institutions are inherently demonic," what he was touching upon was the idea that all systems of power are, by their very nature, evil. And as Christ opposed the Sanhedrin for appointing itself as the adjudicators of all divine moral justice, imposing its dogmas and doctrines as if they were the word of God, so Christ today would oppose the Catholic Church, and every other similar religious institution, for daring to do the exact same thing. 

The Catholic never doubts for a second that, were Christ alive and well today, he'd no doubt be a Catholic, even though history shows that the Catholic Church has only surpassed the Sanhedrin in every form of corruption and brutality imaginable, and every draconian imposition of rules and dogmas it could devise. 

The good Catholic of course "believes" this is simply untrue, and almost as much as they simply chose to "believe" that God will reward them with eternal salvation for obstinately refusing to consider they could ever be wrong about the belief just mentioned. 

Jesus, however, hailed from a tradition that had always understood precisely what Tillich had pointed out, which is why the 10 Northern Tribes of Israel had always opposed David's desire to build a temple. And this makes even more sense, when one understands that the temples were so "demonic" in those days, because they were the banks, which is something that Christ himself was no doubt aware of. 

The Catholic Church is likewise a bank, with the Vatican Bank having $8 billion in assets. But the "bank" is not only the Temple that Christ had thrown the "money changers" (i.e. bankers) from, but it is also, metaphorically speaking (and all of the stories in the bible are at least as metaphorical as they are literal, if not more), the purse that Judas received for betraying Christ. 

Like King David betraying Israel for the power of money that came from building a temple that operated as a bank, which resulted in the destruction of the Twelve Tribes and the nation of Israel, so Judas betrayed Jesus (who is Israel, in Ex 4:22, Hosea 11:1 and Matt 2:15) in his lust for money as well. 

As Christ has pointed out, as Lincoln would later quote so ominously, "a house divided agaisnt it self cannot stand."  And a house is divided agaisnt itself" when it is forced to serve two masters. As Christ put it:

 "No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."

But serving two masters is exactly what any institution is necessarily forced to do. This is why, for example, the Catholic Church sided with the wealthy aristocracy during the French and Spanish Revolutions, in opposition to the poor landless peasants who raged as much against taxation like the colonies in America, as agaisnt the corruptions of crown and church and the heavy handed system of hypocritical laws and courts that both relied upon to maintain their power.   

It is also why the Catholic  Church sought to hide, for as long as possible, the number of child rapes being committed by its priests and nuns around the world, for fear that it would bankrupt the Church (i.e. bank) if ever such crimes became known. 

So much for "trusting" that their God would ensure that the "gates of hell" would not prevail agaisnt His Church. And in its attempt to stop that from happening financially, the Catholic Church opened wide its doors to that hell, and ensured that it did so morally.

And where is it that the "Christian Nation" of America is currently fighting or fomenting wars, via Gladio and other means, but those same nations that continue to resist, like the Ten Northern Tribes, the establishment of the "temple" of a "for profit" (i.e. love of money) banking system.