BP. SCHNEIDER DENOUNCES GNOSTIC CLERGY

The bishop of Kazakhstan says laity must defend the Faith because many priests fear losing their positions

ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) – Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Astana, Kazakhstan is denouncing what he calls gnostic clergy who erroneously believe doctrine and pastoral practice can be separated. To masque over their error, he added, they abuse sentimental expressions of mercy and compassion.

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Bishop Schneider, in his address last Thursday at the Lepanto Foundation, likened this Gnostic group, comprised of priests, bishops and cardinals, to the Pharisees and Scribes. Even though the Jewish leaders knew the divine truth about marriage, he said, nevertheless they sought to have Jesus legitimize the practice of divorce that had been widely adopted out of “pastoral reasons.” (more…)

Carl Jung On Synchronicity

Synchronicity is a concept first explained by Swiss psychiatrist and Gnostic Carl Jung, which holds that events are “meaningful coincidences.”

Martin Luther King Jr. – The Influence of the Mystery Religions on Christianity

(Source: Stanford University) – King wrote this paper for the course Development of Christian Ideas, taught by Davis. The essay martil luther king jrexamines how Christianity developed as a distinct religion with a set of central tenets and how it was influenced by those pagan religions it assimilated. King repeats material from an earlier paper, “A Study of Mithraism,” but he extends the discussion here to the influence of other mystery religions.1

Davis gave the essay an A, stating: “This is very good and I am glad to have your conclusion. It is not so much that Christianity was influenced by the Mystery Cults, or borrowed from them, but that in the long process of history this religion developed. It, Christianity, is the expression of the longing of people for light, truth, salvation, security. (more…)

Has medical science demonstrated the fact that a spark of the divine rests in the heart of every man?

When an echocardiogram of the human heart is made, the tissues that separate the chambers of the heart are aligned in such a way as to manifest the Hebrew letter Shin ש שין.

spark of the divine rests in the heart (more…)

A world divided: Elites descend on Swiss Alps amid rising inequality

Politicians and business leaders gathering in the Swiss Alps this week face an increasingly divided world, with the poor falling further behind the super-rich and political fissures in the United States, Europe and the Middle East running deeper than at any time in decades.

The Swiss mountain resort of Davos is seen in this January 16, 2012 file photo. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/Files

The Swiss mountain resort of Davos is seen in this January 16, 2012 file photo. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/Files

Just 62 people, 53 of them men, own as much wealth as the poorest half of the entire world population and the richest 1 percent own more than the other 99 percent put together, anti-poverty charity Oxfam said on Monday. (more…)