Author: win r

"Catherine, the pious Christian - who has so well deserved in the eyes of the Church of Christ for the atrocious and never-to-be-forgotten massacre of St. Bartholomew - the Queen Catherine, kept in her service an apostate Jacobin priest. Well versed in the "black art", so fully patronized by the Medici family, he had won [...]

""They undertake by scales of miles to tell the bounds, dimensions, and extent of hell; where bloated souls in smoky durance hung like a Westphalia gammon or neat's tongue, to be redeemed with masses and a song." - OLDHAM, Satires upon the Jesuits. "York - But you are more inhuman, more inexorable - O, ten [...]

"There has never been a religion in the annals of the world with such a bloody record as Christianity. All the rest, including the traditional fierce fights of the "chosen people" with their next of kin, the idolatrous tribes of Israel, pale before the murderous fanaticism of the alleged followers of Christ! Even the rapid [...]

"The fierce polemics and single-handed battles between Irenaeus and the Gnostics are too well-known to need repetition. They were carried on for over two centuries after the unscrupulous Bishop of Lyons had uttered his last religious paradox. Celsus, the Neo-Platonist, and a disciple of the school of Ammonius Saccas, had thrown the Christians into perturbation, [...]