How Rome Is Being Used to Erase True Christianity
New law sets precedent to criminalize repentance and target faithful pastors.
Seen & Heard :
“Washington governor signs bill forcing priests to break Seal of Confession”
Left-wing Washington Democratic Governor Bob Ferguson – a professed Catholic – signed legislation on Friday that will force priests to break the Seal of Confession in some cases or go to jail.
LINK: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-washington-governor-signs-bill-forcing-priests-to-break-seal-of-confession/
What’s Happening? Quick Overview
Washington just made it illegal for priests to keep confessions private—jail time if they don’t report. This isn’t just about Catholics. The Roman Catholic Church is being used to standardize woke religion under the Christian name so the state can target all faithful pastors next.
The Roman Catholic Church is the global standardizer of a false, woke-compatible religion. It functions to appropriate the name of Christ while silencing true repentance and biblical authority. It leads not to life, but to deception and death.
This development is not isolated, it’s a calculated step in the long-term globalist strategy to subjugate biblical Christianity under the guise of "safety," “inclusion,” and “justice.”
Rome is being used as the gold standard, not because it is faithful to the Bible, but because it’s institutionally recognized as the global face of Christianity by secular and international power structures.
⚖️ Strategic Objectives Behind the Confession Lawfare
Weaponizing Rome to Set Precedent The Roman Catholic Church, with its global infrastructure and diplomatic status (Vatican City is a sovereign entity), is used by global powers to define the contours of "acceptable" Christianity. Once the laws successfully breach Catholic sacraments like confession, those same legal justifications can and will be applied to Protestant churches, regardless of theological distinctions.
Psychological Warfare: Criminalizing Repentance This move is not about child safety. It’s about eroding the spiritual authority of the church and instilling fear around confession and pastoral counsel. By criminalizing sacred conversation, the state is inserting itself between the sinner and God, violating James 5:16, which calls us to "confess your sins to one another."
Separation of Church and Christ This isn’t merely the separation of church and state. It’s a total secularization of religious institutions under threat of law. Globalist lawfare aims to sanitize “religion” of Christ, transforming it into a civil tool for social cohesion, surveillance, and moral relativism. This aligns with the goals of Agenda 21/ Agenda 2030 mile-marker and its “faith-based implementation partners.”
Rome as the Prototype for Apostasy Rome is functionally apostate. Its agreement with global goals, climate change, LGBT inclusion, interfaith unity is not incidental. It is the prototype church of the Beast system, absorbing Christian language but serving a false Christ and false unity (2 Cor. 11:4).
Lawfare as Pretext for Total Control Just as COVID justified medical tyranny, abuse scandals are being weaponized to justify religious tyranny. The goal is not justice, it’s compliance, surveillance, and a global faith infrastructure that omits repentance, salvation, and the true gospel.
📖 Biblical Rebuttal: Why Christians Must Not Submit
God’s Law > Man’s Law“We must obey God rather than men.” (Acts 5:29) When man’s law compels spiritual betrayal, whether in confession or in affirming sin, we must reject it.
Pastoral Confidentiality is Sacred Proverbs 11:13: “He who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing covered.” The pastoral role is not law enforcement. It is spiritual shepherding, accountable to God alone (Hebrews 13:17).
Confession is for Repentance, Not Prosecution James 5:16 calls for confession among believers for healing, not punishment. Turning faithful pastors into mandatory reporters undermines the church's redemptive function.
🔥 Spiritual Diagnosis: This Is Satanic Strategy
This is not merely overreach, it is a satanic maneuver to sever the relationship between sinner and Savior. The Enemy knows confession leads to repentance, and repentance leads to salvation. If the state can criminalize confession, it cripples the conscience and isolates the soul from grace.
🧱 What's Next?
Similar legislation is being drafted in other states and nations.
Ecumenical and interfaith bodies will promote “safe” confessions- sterile, regulated, meaningless.
Biblical pastors will be surveilled, penalized, and eventually banned if they do not conform.
Rome will continue acting as the “acceptable” Christian partner, deepening the deception for millions.
“SB 5375 is the latest attempt by Washington state Sen. Noel Frame to force Catholic priests to break the Seal of Confession and reveal what they hear in the confessional – or go to jail.” — LifeSiteNews
The bill explicitly singles out clergy, stripping away the centuries-old clergy-penitent privilege while preserving it for secular professionals like therapists. The church is being legally subordinated to the therapeutic state.1
“The bill explicitly singles out priests, removing their ‘privileged communication’ exception, while allowing it for professionals who may hear of abuse.”
Senator Frame, its sponsor, even admitted she wanted to go further and eliminate all religious exemptions but settled on this version because it was more politically viable:
“She wanted to go further and eliminate all exemptions but said such a bill could not pass.”
How Rome Is Being Used to Erase True Christianity and Criminalize Repentance
On May 2, 2025, Washington Governor Bob Ferguson—a self-professed Catholic and pro-LGBT, pro-abortion political figure—signed Senate Bill 5375 into law, which will go into effect on July 27, 2025. The bill forces priests to violate the sacred Seal of Confession or face jail time.
This is not simply a legal matter. It’s a spiritual assault on repentance itself. And it reveals how the Roman Catholic Church functions as a globalist religious prototype, standardizing "faith" for the emerging one-world order.
The Cobelligerency Strategy, Secret Societies and the Long Revolution
I’ve often pointed out that Islam is being used as a tool by the global establishment to erode biblical Christendom. It’s not organic; it’s engineered. The deliberate flooding of Western nations with unassimilated Islamic populations, while biblical Christianity is marginalized and criminalized, reveals the technocratic elitist intent: replace Christendom with chaos, submission, and synthetic unity.
The late Pope’s ecumenical alliances with Islamic leaders and the Vatican’s promotion of interfaith projects like the Abrahamic Family House reveal the deeper agenda. Rome and Islam are co-belligerents in the globalist war against biblical Christianity. Islam is being used as a geopolitical tool to erode Christendom and spark civilizational collapse. The goal is chaos and religious exhaustion that paves the way for a Luciferian “solution”: a New World Order disguised as peace but rooted in rebellion against Christ.
Rome: The Religious Backbone of the Global Order
Today the Roman Catholic Church is being used as the global prototype for a state-approved religion: one that speaks in moral platitudes, affirms globalist narratives, and submits to secular power. In essence, Rome is the spiritual engine of globalism.
Its purpose today is to:
Appropriate the name of Christianity
Standardize a universal, interfaith religion compatible with technocratic control
Provide moral legitimacy to a secular, elite-driven order
“The Catholic conference said it supported this bill because it feared a law eliminating all exemptions would pass.”
Rather than resist tyranny, Rome collaborates, giving the illusion that "Christianity" agrees with globalist law. Once Rome normalizes a compromise, it becomes the legal template for other churches. Protestant pastors will be next.
This is strategic: use Rome to legitimize global laws, then turn those laws on those who preach true repentance and biblical truth.
The Club of Rome: Planning the Global Faith-State Nexus
It is no coincidence that the Club of Rome, founded in 1968, chose Rome for both its name and birthplace. The name signaled far more than a location. It symbolized a return to centralized imperial planning—not just politically or economically, but spiritually.
The Club of Rome became the intellectual engine behind many foundational globalist policies, including:
Limits to Growth (1972) – laying the ideological groundwork for population control and environmental governance
The promotion of “global problems require global solutions”—a mantra now echoed in UN SDGs, climate pacts, and interfaith accords
Advancing the idea that national sovereignty must give way to planetary management (People, Planet, Profits - The Triple Bottom Line)
By naming itself after Rome, the group tapped into the mythos of empire: where law, order, and universal religion merge to shape all human life.
Just as the Roman Empire once fused political power with priestly authority, the Club of Rome, and the technocratic elitists who follow, aim to recreate this global synthesis, using Rome's religious legacy as both precedent and tool.
Reviving the Roman Empire in Spirit and Structure
The Roman Catholic Church is not just an institution—it is, in many respects, the continuation of the Roman Empire in ecclesiastical form. Since the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD, the papacy has served as the spiritual heir and geopolitical placeholder for imperial Rome. Church historian Henry Edward Manning once wrote, “The Church is a perpetuated Empire. The Pope is Caesar’s successor.”
This aspiration is not accidental. It is built into the very architecture of Roman Catholic ecclesiology and diplomacy:
The Pope calls himself the “Pontifex Maximus,” a title formerly held by Roman emperors.
The Vatican sits on the remains of imperial Rome, both symbolically and geographically.
The Roman Curia functions as a bureaucratic empire, with diplomatic ties to nearly every nation.
The Church is structured with cardinals (princes), dioceses (districts), and canon law, all echoing imperial administration.
In modern times, this continuity with empire has taken on new meaning. As global governance bodies seek to merge law, religion, and governance, Rome is perfectly positioned to supply the spiritual and historical continuity they desire.
The aspiration to revive the Roman Empire is not about restoring legions and togas but about restoring unified authority over the minds, morals, and loyalties of the world’s people. Rome’s blend of universalism, legalism, and moral symbolism makes it an ideal vessel for a spiritualized global regime.
In that sense, the Roman Catholic Church doesn’t just represent Christianity to the world, it represents a counterfeit kingdom, echoing the imperial unity of Caesar while denying the exclusive lordship of Christ.
At the heart of this counterfeit is the Pope's title, the "Vicar of Christ" a term that means "in the place of Christ." This title alone is a theological contradiction of the gospel. Christ declared, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me" (Matthew 28:18), and Scripture teaches that He alone is the Head of the Church (Colossians 1:18). To claim a man can serve as Christ’s earthly substitute is not only blasphemous, it is antichrist (1 John 2:18–22). The Pope does not represent Christ; he usurps Him. The Roman Catholic claim to vicarious authority is not apostolic succession, it is spiritual imperialism.
The Rome Statute and the International Criminal Court: Legal Rome for a Global Religion
The push toward a unified spiritual and legal world order is not new. In 1998, the international community adopted The Rome Statute, the treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC). It was not named arbitrarily.
Why "Rome"?
Rome was chosen because it historically symbolizes universal jurisdiction and imperial authority. The Roman Empire was the first to institute a codified, empire-wide legal system—and that legacy lives on.
By adopting the name "Rome Statute," global leaders signaled their intention to:
Invoke Rome as a symbol of global legal unity
Root international justice in a centralized, imperial model
Align with the moral-spiritual authority long associated with the Vatican
In other words: Rome represents both empire and church. It is the perfect symbolic hub for a global order that fuses law, morality, and governance.
The ICC’s creation through the Rome Statute fits hand-in-glove with the broader trajectory of Rome's influence: not as a biblical witness, but as a collaborator in global governance.
Rome gives the emerging global state what it desperately needs: religious legitimacy. But it does so at the cost of truth.
Criminalizing Repentance, Replacing the Church
SB 5375 doesn’t just target Catholic rites. It targets the very heart of Christian discipleship—confession, conviction, and spiritual counsel. The Bible calls us to “confess your sins to one another” (James 5:16), but under this law, confession becomes self-incrimination.
“A priest would presumably have to reveal the name of a person admitting to the abuse in the confessional…”
That means spiritual shepherds are now state informants.
“It presents a novel problem... encouraging the faithful to unburden themselves while at the same time reminding them anything they say can and will be used against them in a court of law.”
This is lawfare against the gospel—an effort to make repentance legally dangerous and spiritual authority obsolete. The state doesn’t want sinners to seek Christ; it wants them to submit to the therapeutic-industrial complex.
Rome Leads the Apostate Church of the Future
Rome is not defending Christianity. It is preparing the infrastructure for the one-world religion—a global, syncretistic faith that replaces the gospel with social justice, inclusion, and state loyalty.
It will:
Criminalize biblical preaching
Redefine sin as “hate”
Replace pastors with therapists
Replace redemption with rehabilitation
As this spiritual Babylon rises, faithful Christians must be clear-eyed:
Rome is not our ally.
Confession must not be criminalized.
And Christ alone—not Caesar—rules over His Church.
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Rome’s role is central to both the spiritual deception and institutional architecture of global governance.
🏛 ROME: The Religious Backbone of the Global Order
Rome as the False Standard of Christianity
The Roman Catholic Church (RCC) is not merely a religious institution—it is a political-spiritual empire that has long merged statecraft, religious symbolism, and imperial control. Its function today is not to preach the gospel of Christ but to:
Appropriate the name of Christianity
Standardize an ecumenical, interfaith religion acceptable to the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, and other globalist entities
Serve as the moral veneer for technocratic control systems
This aligns perfectly with the vision of Agenda 21/2030—a total restructuring of society that requires global spiritual unity to justify its economic and legal domination.
🌐 The Vatican and Global Governance: Key Connections
Rome and the United Nations
The Vatican holds permanent observer status at the United Nations. This unique political-religious access allows it to:
Influence global policy while appearing “neutral”
Provide moral cover for population control, climate justice, and global equity frameworks
Shape interfaith agreements and “shared values” initiatives, crucial to Agenda 21’s “global citizenship” goals
🔹 Example: Pope Francis' Laudato Si’ (2015) encyclical on climate change was used by the UN to rally religious support for the Paris Agreement and the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals).
The Vatican’s Role in Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030
Agenda 21 (1992) and Agenda 2030 (2015) are comprehensive UN plans to restructure every aspect of life: land, education, healthcare, religion, family, and governance.
Rome plays a critical role by:
Supporting “integral ecology”—a theology that equates environmental action with salvation
Hosting the Global Education Pact—a Vatican-led initiative to align all education systems with SDG ideology (SEL, equity, climate consciousness)
Promoting interfaith syncretism, which undermines biblical truth and dissolves doctrinal distinctions
🛑 The Real Agenda: Subvert Christ, Exalt Man
The Papacy’s Antichrist Spirit
Rome preaches another gospel: works-based righteousness, mediated grace, and submission to human authority (the papal office). This contradicts the true gospel of salvation by grace through faith in Christ alone (Eph. 2:8–9).
The Pope functions as a false Christ, a global moral figure who speaks on behalf of humanity but against the authority of Scripture. This is the spirit of antichrist (1 John 4:3), preparing the world for the final religious-political system described in Revelation 13 and 17.
The Goal: A One-World Faith for a One-World State
In summary, Rome is:
The spiritual engine of globalism
The moral gatekeeper of Agenda 2030/ Agenda 21 for the 21st century
The chief apostate “church” absorbing all religions into a New World Faith
And the model used to legally and institutionally persecute those who remain faithful to biblical truth
Rome does not represent Christianity, it replaces it.
The global system being erected under Agenda 21/2030 is not secular in the truest sense. It is religious but not godly. It is an idolatrous, ecumenical substitute that uses the Vatican as its bishop, the UN as its priest, and technocratic law as its scripture.
📌 Albert Pike’s ‘Prophetic’ Letter about World War III: Predictive Script or Psychological Blueprint?
Legend has it that in 1871, Confederate general Albert Pike2 wrote a letter to Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini3 prophetically describing a strategic plan for three world wars to usher in a Luciferian4 world order.
Pike was a prominent 33° Freemason and author of the infamous Morals and Dogma5. Mazzini, also a fellow high-level Mason, celebrated by many in modern secular and nationalist circles as a visionary who championed liberty, unity, and self-determination—particularly in Italy—was the head of an anti-christian secret society known as Young Europe6. The ideas of Pike and Mazzini have been celebrated by authoritarian Right and Leftists thinkers alike.
Pike’s letter detailed a vision of orchestrated global conflicts: the first would topple tsarist and imperial powers, the second would create a dialectic between fascism and communism, and the third would ignite a final clash between political Zionism and Islam. The synthesis of these clashes would leave the world exhausted and ready for the imposition of a new spiritual and political system centered on an ultra rational Luciferian enlightenment.7
First publicly referenced in 1925 by Cardinal Caro y Rodriguez8, the provenance of Pike’s letter is at best murky and widely disputed. Lack of authentication did not stop mid-20th-century so-called conspiracy writers like William Guy Carr9 from citing it and claiming that the letter had been on display at the British Museum Library in London until the predictions came true, then the museum removed it from view to obfuscate the designs of the Luciferian elites.
Adding to the mystery and intrigue, the British Museum has denied ever possessing such a document. Many researchers believe the letter originated as part of an elaborate 19th-century hoax orchestrated by French anti-Mason Léo Taxil10, who confessed in 1897 to fabricating stories about Freemasonry and Satanism to mock the Catholic Church's anti-Masonic crusade.
Even though no verified copy of Pike’s prophetic epistle exists, its content remains disturbingly relevant. Even if it is a forgery, it can be regarded as a kind of predictive script or psychological blueprint. Whether accidentally accurate or deliberately planted, the letter outlines a three-stage global conflict strategy pitting Communism, Zionism, and Islam against each other in successive world wars, with the ultimate goal of exhausting Christianity and ushering in a Luciferian world order.
In one striking passage, Pike allegedly writes:
“The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the agentur of the Illuminati between the political Zionists and the leaders of the Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam and political Zionism mutually destroy each other…”
This vision of orchestrated religious conflict eerily mirrors the Vatican’s current ecumenical trajectory and the opportunistic fomenting of clashes between Islam and the West. But the final prong of this global war on Christianity is not just Islam or Zionism it is the unspoken alliance between apostate Rome, militant Islam, and Talmudic Judaism11, all of which are historically hostile to the true Gospel. The rise of Talmudic influence in media, finance, and law, along with its increasingly open contempt for Christ and His followers, reveals the coordinated nature of this assault.12
These examples illustrate a clear pattern: Talmudic Judaism has long positioned itself not only as a rejection of Christ but as an ideological adversary to His Church. When seen in conjunction with the Vatican’s ecumenical UN alliances and Islam’s political weaponization, it becomes clear that the current world system is unifying apostate powers to destroy biblical Christianity once and for all. Notably, Donald Trump’s enthusiastic support for the Abrahamic Accords and his close ties to ultra-Orthodox and Chabad-Lubavitch Talmudic Jews further reveal how political Zionism is being used to advance a counterfeit unity that denies Christ while masquerading as peace.
The so-called path to “peace” is being carefully staged toward apostasy, not salvation, as global religious exhaustion prepares the world to accept a counterfeit “light” that crucifies Christ anew in the public square.
Donald Trump’s connection to Chabad-Lubavitch and the Noahide framework:
Chabad Ties Through Family and Inner Circle
Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka Trump (who converted to Judaism) are closely affiliated with Chabad-Lubavitch, a Talmudic ultra-Orthodox movement. The Kushners have longstanding personal ties with Chabad rabbis, and Ivanka has been photographed attending Chabad events and celebrating Jewish holidays within their tradition.
📚 Source: The Forward, “Ivanka Trump’s In-Laws Have Long Ties To Chabad,” Jan 24, 2017
Proclamation of Education and Sharing Day (Noahide Laws)
Trump, like several U.S. presidents before him, officially recognized “Education and Sharing Day” in honor of Chabad leader Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who promoted the Noahide Laws, a Talmudic legal code for non-Jews. The proclamation affirms the universal application of these laws, which Talmudic authorities interpret as condemning Trinitarian Christianity as idolatry.
📚 Source: White House Proclamation, “Education and Sharing Day, U.S.A., 2018”
Unprecedented Political Support for Political Zionism and Religious Nationalism
Trump’s presidency saw the move of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, full endorsement of the Abrahamic Accords, and close cooperation with Israeli religious nationalists, many of whom are aligned with Chabad and other Talmudic movements seeking to rebuild the Third Temple and enforce Halakhic (rabbinic) norms in a future unified religious world order.
📚 Source: The Times of Israel, “Trump team sought to draw ultra-Orthodox Jews into peace push,” Aug 2020
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LifeSiteNews. Washington Governor Signs Bill Forcing Priests to Break Seal of Confession. May 3, 2025.
CatholicVote. Washington Governor Signs Law Threatening Seal of Confession; Bishops Push Back in Defense of Religious Freedom. May 3, 2025. Accessed May 4, 2025.
International Criminal Court. Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Adopted July 17, 1998.
Manning, Henry Edward. The Temporal Power of the Vicar of Jesus Christ. London: Burns & Lambert, 1862.
Club of Rome. The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind. New York: Universe Books, 1972.
United Nations. Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. A/RES/70/1. 2015.
Therapeutic State: A form of governance in which the state assumes the role of psychological caretaker, enforcing social norms and controlling behavior under the guise of mental health, emotional wellbeing, or personal development. Rooted in the fusion of medical authority with political power, the therapeutic state replaces moral and religious frameworks with psychological categories, pathologizing dissent and promoting compliance through therapy-like interventions rather than law or tradition. It shifts the basis of legitimacy from divine or constitutional authority to the language of care, safety, and emotional regulation.
(Adapted from critiques by Thomas Szasz, The Therapeutic State, Philip Rieff, The Triumph of the Therapeutic, and Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish, who traced how psychiatric and psychological institutions became instruments of social control.)
Albert Pike (1809–1891) was an American attorney, Confederate general, and high-ranking Freemason, best known for his influential role in Southern Freemasonry and for writing Morals and Dogma, a foundational Masonic text blending philosophy, occultism, and esoteric religion. (Think Aleister Crowley, H.P. Blavatsky, and the Georgia Guidestones.)
Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872) was an Italian nationalist, revolutionary, and Freemason. Seen as a forerunner of progressive revolution, Mazzini was a charismatic ideologue who blended political radicalism with spiritualized nationalism, positioning himself as a messianic figure in the struggle against monarchy and Christianity. Advocating for the rise of the people’s will and the creation of secular nation-states grounded in Enlightenment thought, Mazzini’s writings are revered by revolutionaries and leftist thinkers.
Pike’s Letter to Mazzini is a controversial and likely apocryphal document allegedly written in 1871 by Albert Pike to Giuseppe Mazzini, an Italian revolutionary and key figure in the unification of Italy. Mazzini was also a leader in the secret society Carbonari and the founder of Young Europe, movements for spreading nationalist and republican ideals across the continent. The letter supposedly outlines a plan for three world wars to advance a global order, linking Pike's high-level Freemasonry with Mazzini’s revolutionary networks. Though no original copy has ever been found, the letter is frequently referenced as a symbolic—or perhaps psychological—script for modern global conflict and elite strategy.
Morals and Dogma is Albert Pike’s 1871 magnum opus on Freemasonry, blending esoteric philosophy, ancient mystery religions, and moral teachings. The book, which became a sacred text for the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, presents a syncretic worldview that exalts reason, gnosis, and the pursuit of hidden truth—often interpreted as promoting a Luciferian understanding of enlightenment. (Think Aleister Crowley, H.P. Blavatsky, and the Georgia Guidestones.)
Young Europe was a secret revolutionary alliance founded in 1834 by Giuseppe Mazzini. Rooted in Enlightenment ideals and the overthrow of monarchies across Europe, Mazzini’s eschatological vision fueled a network of radicals who coordinated uprisings and ideological subversion of traditional Christian order in Europe.
Luciferianism refers to the veneration of Lucifer—biblically understood as Satan, the fallen “covering cherub” (Ezek. 28:14)—not as a figure of evil, but as a symbol of enlightenment, personal will, and hidden knowledge. Rooted in rebellion against God, it promotes spiritual self-deification, moral relativism, and the rejection of absolute truth. Associated with occultism, Gnosticism, esoteric Freemasonry, and New Age doctrine, Luciferianism envisions a counterfeit spiritual and political order in opposition to biblical Christianity. In the New Testament, Satan is described as a liar, murderer, deceiver, tempter, accuser, adversary, and counterfeit light-bearer (John 8:44; Matt. 4:3; 13:19; 1 Pet. 5:8; 2 Cor. 11:14; Eph. 2:2; Rev. 12:9–10), underscoring the radically deceptive nature of any system that exalts him.
Cardinal José María Caro y Rodríguez, the Archbishop of Santiago, Chile, was the first make reference to the alleged Pike-Mazzini letter in his 1925 work El Misterio de la Masonería (The Mysteries of Freemasonry). The Cardinal cited the letter as evidence of a long-term Masonic plot to destroy Christianity and instigate global upheaval—though he did not provide a primary source. The document’s authenticity remains unverified to this day.
William Guy Carr (1895–1959) was a Canadian naval officer, anti-communist lecturer, and prolific researcher and writer within so-called conspiracy circles. In his book Pawns in the Game (1958), Carr popularized the alleged Pike-Mazzini letter, claiming it was once displayed in the British Museum and outlined a plan for three world wars to bring about a Luciferian global government.
Léo Taxil (1854–1907), born Gabriel Jogand-Pagès, was a French writer and notorious hoaxer also known for unnecessarily fabricating stories linksing Freemasonry to Satanism. His infamous “Taxil Hoax” included forged documents and invented characters, such as the fictional ex-Mason Diana Vaughan, and was intended to mock both the Catholic Church’s anti-Masonic stance and credulous readers. He publicly confessed to the hoax in 1897, admitting that his works were a satire on religious gullibility.
Talmudic Judaism is the rabbinic form of Judaism that emerged after the destruction of the Second Temple (70 A.D.), centered on the Talmud—a compilation of oral law (Mishnah) and rabbinic commentary (Gemara). It supplants the biblical sacrificial system with rabbinic authority and tradition, and explicitly rejects Jesus Christ as Messiah.
In the modern context, Talmudic Judaism not only rejects the deity and authority of Jesus Christ as Messiah, but also mocks His mission and positions itself as a hostile ideological adversary to His Church, specifically by codifying opposition to the gospel within rabbinic tradition.
This is not a fringe interpretation; it is well-documented in primary sources and confirmed by Jewish scholars themselves. Throughout history, rabbinic Judaism—particularly its Talmudic tradition—has expressed explicit hostility toward Jesus Christ, His Gospel, and those who follow Him.
Historical Evidence of Talmudic Hostility Toward Christ and His Followers
Blasphemies Against Christ in the Talmud
The Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 43a, refers to the execution of “Yeshu” (Jesus), stating: “On the eve of Passover they hanged Yeshu... because he practiced sorcery and enticed Israel to apostasy.”
Gittin 57a describes Jesus as being boiled in excrement in hell—an overt act of theological defilement and mockery.
Sanhedrin 106a and Sotah 47a portray Jesus as a deceiver with corrupt lineage—directly contradicting the Gospel witness to His divinity and sinlessness.
(Reference: Peter Schäfer, Jesus in the Talmud (Princeton University Press, 2007)
Talmudic Laws Against Christians
Early rabbinic rulings forbade Jews from associating with “minim” (heretics), a term often applied to early Jewish Christians.
Christians were anathematized in daily Jewish prayers: the Birkat HaMinim (a curse against heretics), added to the Amidah prayer, likely targeted early followers of Jesus.
The Talmud classified the Gospels as idolatrous texts and banned their reading. Some rabbinic authorities even allowed or encouraged the destruction of Christian writings and symbols.
(Reference: Israel Shahak, Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years (Pluto Press, 1994)
Medieval and Modern Persecution of Christians by Rabbinic Elites
In medieval Spain, Jewish communities sometimes allied with Muslim rulers to suppress Christian influence.
In modern times, anti-Christian rhetoric in Israeli Talmudic circles remains intense, including efforts to block the preaching of the Gospel, destroy New Testaments, and prohibit Christian proselytism under penalty of law.
Example: In 2023, two Israeli Knesset members proposed legislation to criminalize sharing the Gospel in Israel, with penalties including prison time.
Zionist Declarations Against Christianity
In 1973, Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits wrote: “Judaism is not the mother of Christianity—it is its enemy.”
The Noahide Laws, endorsed by the Sanhedrin and certain rabbinic authorities, interpret Trinitarian Christianity as idolatry, punishable by death under Talmudic legal codes.
(Reference: Michael Hoffman, Judaism’s Strange Gods (Independent History and Research, 2000)