ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S VIEWS ABOUT ROME,THE POPE, THE VATICAN THE JESUUITS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON AMERICAN SOCIETY
The Event Chronicle
By TABU
Abraham Lincoln blamed the cause of the American Civil War on Rome!The following quotes are from the book, “Fifty Years in the Church of Rome” by Charles Chiniquy, who was a priest in the Roman Catholic Church for 25 years and later left the Roman church and became a Presbyterian pastor. He was a close friend of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln and had several personal interviews with him. The following are quotes from Abraham Lincoln during one of his talks with Charles Chiniquy.
The emphasis in bold and comments in italics are mine.
“It is with the Southern leaders of this civil war as with the big and small wheels of our railroad cars. Those who ignore the laws of mechanics are apt to think that the large, strong, and noisy wheels they see are the motive power, but they are mistaken. The real motive power is not seen; it is noiseless and well concealed in the dark, behind its iron walls. The motive power are the few well-concealed pails of water heated into steam, which is itself directed by the noiseless, small but unerring engineer’s finger.
“The common people see and hear the big, noisy wheels of the Southern Confederacy’s cars; they call they Jeff Davis, Lee, Toombs, Beauregard, Semmes, ect., and they honestly think that they are the motive power, the first cause of our troubles. But this is a mistake. The true motive power is secreted behind the thick walls of the Vatican, the colleges and schools of the Jesuits, the convents of the nuns, and the confessional boxes of Rome.
“There is a fact which is too much ignored by the American people, and with which I am acquainted only since I became President; it is that the best, the leading families of the South have received their education in great part, if not in whole, from the Jesuits and the nuns. Hence those degrading principles of slavery, pride, cruelty, which are as a second nature among so many of those people. Hence that strange want of fair play, humanity; that implacable hatred against the ideas of equality and liberty as we find them in the Gospel of Christ. You do not ignore that the first settlers of Louisiana, Florida, New Mexico, Texas, South California and Missouri were Roman Catholics, and that their first teachers were Jesuits. It is true that those states have been conquered or bought by us since. But Rome had put the deadly virus of her antisocial and anti-Christian maxims into the veins of the people before they became American citizens. Unfortunately, the Jesuits and the nuns have in great part remained the teachers of those people since. They have continued in a silent, but most efficacious way, to spread their hatred against our institutions, our laws, our schools, our rights and our liberties in such a way that this terrible conflict became unavoidable between the North and the South. As I told you before, it is to Popery that we owe this terrible civil war.
“I would have laughed at the man who would have told me that before I became the President. But Professor Morse (Samuel Morse, the man who invented the telegraph and who also warned extensively about Jesuit infiltration and its undermining American culture) has opened my eyes on that subject. And now I see that mystery (also known as MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT of Revelation 17:5); I understand that engineering of hell which, though not seen or even suspected by the country, is putting in motion the large, heavy, and noisy wheels of the state cars of the Southern Confederacy. Our people is not yet ready to learn and believe those things, and perhaps it is not the proper time to initiate them to those dark mysteries of hell; it would throw oil on a fire which is already sufficiently destructive.
“You are almost the only one with whom I speak freely on that subject. But sooner or later the nation will know the real origin of those rivers of blood and tears, which are spreading desolation and death everywhere. And then those who have caused those desolations and disasters will be called to give an account of them.
“I do not pretend to be a prophet. But though not a prophet, I see a very dark cloud on our horizon. And that dark cloud is coming from Rome. It is filled with tears of blood. It will rise and increase till its flanks will be torn by a flash of lightning, followed by a fearful peal of thunder. Then a cyclone, such as the world has never seen, will pass over this country, spreading ruin and desolation from north to south. After it is over, there will be long days of peace and prosperity: for Popery, with its Jesuits and merciless Inquisition, will have been for ever swept away from our country. Neither I nor you, but our children, will see those things.”
Read http://www.biblebelievers.com/chiniquy/cc50_ch61.html for the entire text.
This article (Abraham Lincoln’s views about Rome, the Pope, the Vatican, the Jesuits and their influence on American society) was originally published on TABU and syndicated by The Event Chronicle.
The problem with that is the Catholic Church which would have taught against slavery seemed to have little hold on the people of the South, who rose up against the “Union” …. the Constitution itself… because they didn’t want slavery and thus their way of life to be destroyed. Lincoln is correct that Catholic priests (and presumably Jesuits among them…) were called to the Missions of California and the Southwest. In New Mexico, particularly in Santa Fe which is one of the oldest settlements in the US. The teachings of the Church would certainly be slanted by one’s Jesuit training… But nowhere among even the Jesuit teachings would be slavery. So I think the first cause he spoke of… that of slavery and not wanting it to be done away with… caused the Civil War… But I have not read Mr. Chiniquey’s book yet…
My thoughts, the civil war was never about freeing slaves. The history of the civil war had so many traitors, the South wanted to get out from under yoke of the British Crown. It would be easy to entice slaves with freedom to fight for this. Hardship came for the freed slaves because they only knew of being told what to do. I feel that longing for freedom, however; not knowing what freedom entails can be overwhelming. We are in the same predicament now, except that the majority of people worldwide do not realize that they are enslaved, but I do see that the masses are waking up; better yet becoming aware to some extinct. I think that most are dazed and confused, but we will get there.
In love and light!