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WHAT ARE ROMAN CATHOLICS TO BELIEVE?

by Jerry Kane, blogging at The Millstone Diaries, ©2019
(Nov. 22, 2019) — “[B]e it known unto thee … that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.”  Daniel 3:18 KJV
A Vatican-placed statue of the Canaanite god Molech is creating quite a stir among tourists visiting the Colosseum in Rome these days.
“The Colloseum of Rome is owned by the Vatican … If anyone wants to do anything there, they must get permissions from the office of the Diocese of Rome. This exhibition, called ‘Cathargo: the immortal myth’ could not be held there at all unless permissions were granted at high levels.”
A statue of the Phoenician/Carthaginian deity Molech sits at the entrance to the Roman Colosseum. It is a replica of the statue featured in the 1914 Italian silent film Cabiria.
The Molech statue, which has been in front of the Colosseum since September, is part of the Carthago exhibition celebrating Carthaginian culture and art.
Culture and art notwithstanding, some tourists and Roman Catholics are not amused that Molech (one of the most monstrous and terrible pagan deities of the ancient world) sits at the entrance of the most-visited tourist destination in the world where countless Christians were tortured and executed for entertainment.
“Standing guard over the entrance was the colossal pagan statue of Moloch. … [E]veryone that entered into the Colosseum had to pass it. It was like they put Moloch there to mock the sacred place where the holy martyrs spilled their blood …” Alexandra Clark, visitor to the Colosseum
In ancient Carthage, it was customary for Molech worshipers to burn their children alive as offerings to the deity.
Scripture also mentions Molech in the books of Leviticus, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, and Jeremiah where God forbids the Jews “to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech.”
Last month the Roman Catholic Church was embroiled in controversy surrounding the opening of the Amazon Synod. A ceremony involving the pagan goddess “Pachamama” was held at Vatican Gardens in the presence of Pope Francis and top-ranking prelates.
The Amazonian Synod ended with Alexander Tschugguel, a frustrated Roman Catholic, tossing the wooden statuettes of the fertility goddess into the Tiber River.
The placement of a pagan god (responsible for the deaths of untold numbers of children) and the ceremony honoring a South American fertility goddess have left some tourists and Roman Catholics looking at the Vatican with jaundiced eye.
“Both of these evil pagan idols required child sacrifices and both of them came to Rome at about the same time [as] the Synod.” Alexandra Clark.
The Molech statue will remain at the entrance of the Colosseum in Rome until March 29, 2020.
As a side note, ancient pagan deities are being acknowledged in key locations throughout the world today. In 2016, a 50-foot reproduction of the arch that stood at the Temple of Baal, a.k.a. the Arch of Palmyra was temporarily reconstructed in New York City, London, and Washington D.C.
“[T]hat which is offered in sacrifice to idols is … sacrifice[d] to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils. 1 Corinthians 10:19, 20,21 KJV
The image of Moloch that currently stands outside the Colosseum is modeled after the idol of Moloch from the 1914 Italian silent film Cabiria. In the film, the idol of Moloch sits in a Punic temple and houses a furnace in his chest where children are thrown in and burned alive.
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Mark
Wednesday, July 31, 2024 12:50 AM

This is libelous. Nobody at the Vatican decides what Italy can do. They are their own sovereign territory completely separate from Italian and Roman governments. The Colosseum is owned by the Italian government. The Vatican holds a lease for an annual religious event held there. They have say in how it’s preserved (and rightly so considering how it was there that the early church was nearly exterminated.) But they do not own it nor do they have complete control over everything which happens there. If The Vatican had anything to do with it, why did Rome scramble to remove it before The Pope’s next visit?? This hateful, bigoted fodder needs to be retracted immediately. Shame.

Dweezil
Monday, August 17, 2020 9:06 AM

Boy, that Moloch sure is a funny lookin’ fella. No wonder the only fun he gets is burning up kids!

Kerri
Monday, November 25, 2019 7:46 PM

LIES
“The Vatican” has no control over that museum! There have been pagan things there always…they killed human beings for sport there! The Catholic Church has nothing to do with this. Just because it’s in Rome does not mean the Church has anything to do with it. Vatican City and Churches In Rome are what “the Vatican” controls. Stop spreading falsehood (bearing false witness) please!

Joe
Reply to  Kerri
Friday, May 14, 2021 7:48 PM

The Vatican owns the colesium. The coliseum had statue of molech at front entrance

Ve Vr
Reply to  Kerri
Thursday, January 11, 2024 9:18 AM

Do you honestly believe the Vatican had nothing to do with it? Really?? Of course the Vatican is responsible. The Vatican Not Only disrespects our Lord and Savior. He thinks he is our Lord and Savior. Wake Up.

Lloyd Carter
Friday, November 22, 2019 11:28 AM

I’m not Catholic but I always thought they believed in the only God. A friend of mine told me when going to Catholic school they NEVER read the Bible. Maybe that is why the Pope seems ignorant of what it says.

Ve Vr
Reply to  Lloyd Carter
Thursday, January 11, 2024 9:36 AM

That’s absolutely correct. The Catholics have their own “catholic” bible. They do not believe in the original king, James, the closed canon of scripture. Most Catholics have no idea what the Bible says, and they do not believe in salvation through Jesus Christ, but through “good works”. Which will never get you into Heaven. I am the way the truth and the life. No man comes to the father, but by me. the words of Jesus Christ.

Ve vr
Reply to  Lloyd Carter
Friday, January 12, 2024 10:09 AM

The Vatican just put out a statement that he blesses homosexual couples. As if he has that right, he is not of God because scripture states it’s an abomination. God says it’s an Abomination!! The pope has no idea what the Bible says!!