If you have not read Part One, it may be helpful to read it first before continuing.

Jesus had hate.  In Revelation 2:6, Jesus commends Apostle Paul's followers in Ephesus, telling them: But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate (the Nicolaitanes were idolaters).  Jesus is not saying that he hates the Nicolaitanes, but rather their deeds of selfish religion.  Is it not possible to hate the works of selfish religion without hating the individual worshiper?  My work is about exposing the corruption of religious groups and institutions.  The Catholic individual is not the Catholic institution.

We are creatures of the mind.  Take a child, any child, and teach it that its physical body houses an invisible soul that will live on after its body dies.  Fill its childhood in daily religious rituals.  Threaten the child with the ultimatum: Either you comply with this religion and be saved or you deny this religion and be damned.  Teach the child that evil lives in everything that questions the religion.  Twist and bend the child's mind to a particular religious mindset and what do you have?  You have one more soul to add to the heap of souls anchored to fearful, superstitious, separatist religions.

I recently stumbled across the writings of Avro Manhattan (1914-1990), who had been the foremost authority on the Roman Catholic Church in politics.  He wrote over twenty books and, interestingly, was a British Baron, a Knight of Malta and a Knight Templar.  I want to share edited excerpts from three of his books before bringing up Bill O'Reilly's biggest lie.  The first excerpt is from Manhattan's 1984 publication, Unholy Mother of Intolerance: The Inquisition (http://www.chick.com/bc/1984/inquisition.asp).

Today the Catholic Church claims heartfelt love for all those outside her.  Indeed it would be laughably ridiculous if we were not dealing with tragic matters.  Her sudden desire to "embrace the separated brethren" is nothing but her latest device to make people forget the basic spirit of intolerance and fanaticism.  All her actions in past centuries speak of nothing else.  Her main excuse for intolerance makes strange logic: She is specifically charged by God to save the souls of all Christians. Since the killing of souls was worse than the killing of bodies, she reasoned, and since heretics used their bodies to kill souls, their bodies should pay for the sins of the wicked souls they housed.  Thanks to this Catholic logic, soon the ecclesiastical and temporal machineries of the Western world were enriched with the noble practice of judicial torture, expressly employed by Holy Mother Church for the suppression of heresy, later known as Protestantism.

In 1252 Pope Innocent IV issued Bull AS EXTIRPANDA.  It became the classic in inquisitorial procedure. It provides: that anyone may seize a heretic and despoil him of his property; that every magistrate shall appoint an inquisitorial commission, whose salaries are to be paid by the State; that no law may be passed interfering with these Inquisitors; that heretics who will not confess their heresy shall be tortured; that the confiscated property of heretics shall be thus divided: one-third to the Inquisitors and the bishops, one-third to the city, and one-third to those who aided in the arrest and conviction.

Pope Innocent gave precise instructions to all Inquisitors to enforce the regulations throughout Europe.  Eventually it was made Statute Law.  The regular clergy proved reluctant, so the popes turned to the most fanatical, intolerant and narrow-minded section of the Church structure, the sundry monastic orders.  The two which excelled in their infamous task were the Dominicans and the Franciscans.  Armed with practically unlimited power from the popes, these Inquisitors swarmed all over Europe like theological hornets, setting up tribunals wherever they appeared.  Soon individuals, communities, nations, and indeed, the very hierarchy trembled at the mere mention of their names. Wherever they came, denunciations, accusation, treachery, perjury, torture, woe, and death resulted.

Soon no one was safe from potential arrest.  The spying, denunciation, and hunting down of heretics reached cleric or lay, men or women, noble or common.  No one was immune from the terrorizing omnipresence of the Holy Inquisition.  This reign of Catholic terror lasted for centuries.  Hundreds of thousands of men, women, and yes, even children were murdered… burned alive at the stake.  Simply because they dared to disagree with the Holy Catholic Church or with her popes.  This Catholic terror officially ended less than two hundred years ago.  As recently as 1762 a Protestant pastor was condemned to death in France.  Why?  Simply because he was a Protestant!  By whom?  By the Catholic Church!  Yes, by that same church which now pretends to love her "dear separated brethren."

Indeed, in Europe torture was still enforced by all the Tribunals of the Holy Inquisition until the last century, the pope being forced to abolish it only in 1816.  It was Napoleon, who entered Madrid in 1808, who was to abolish the Inquisition.  When the Spanish Parliament in 1813 declared it incompatible with the Constitution, the Vatican protested.  Super-Catholic Ferdinand VII restored it in 1814, with the full approval of the Church. The Holy Inquisition was finally suppressed by the Liberals in July, 1834.  Yes, SUPPRESSED.  Was not this same spirit still alive in Croatia in 1942 when the Catholic Ustachi mutilated hundreds of thousands of Serbian "heretics?"  Or in South Vietnam in 1960 when Catholic President Diem set out to rid that country of Buddhist "heretics?"  Or in 1983 when Christmas shoppers in Protestant ('heretic') London were blasted into eternity by a Catholic IRA terrorist bomb in a crowded department store?

The second excerpt is the preface from Manhattan's 1986 book, The Vatican's Holocaust (http://www.reformation.org/holocaus.html).

THE VATICAN'S HOLOCAUST is not a misnomer, an accusation, and even less a speculation.  It is a historical fact.  Rabid nationalism and religious dogmatism were its two main ingredients. During the existence of Croatia as an independent Catholic State, over 700,000 men, women and children perished. Many were executed, tortured, died of starvation, buried alive, or were burned to death. Hundreds were forced to become Catholic. Catholic padres ran concentration camps; Catholic priests were officers of the military corps which committed such atrocities. 700,000 in a total population of a few million, proportionally, would be as if one-third of the USA population had been exterminated by a Catholic militia. What has been gathered in this book will vindicate the veracity of these facts.  Dates, names, and places, as well as photos are there to prove them. They should become known to the American public, not to foster vindictiveness, but to warn them of the danger, which racialism and sectarianism, when allied with religious intolerance can bring to any contemporary nation, whether in Europe or in the New World.

The last excerpt is the preface from Manhattan's 1984 book, Vietnam—Why Did We Go? (http://reformation.org/vietnam.html).

With an immense collection of facts, photos, names and dates, Manhattan proves that the Vietnam War began as a religious conflict. He shows how America was manipulated into supporting Catholic oppression in Vietnam supposedly to fight communism.  Manhattan explains: How religious pamphlets and radio broadcasts convinced one million Catholics to leave North Vietnam and live under Catholic rule in the South, overwhelming the Buddhists; How brutal persecution of Vietnamese Buddhists led to rioting and suicides by fire in the streets; Why the reports of what was really happening, written by American military and civil advisers, failed to reach the U.S. President; Why the project backfired, and as U.S. soldiers continued to die, the Vatican made a secret deal with Ho Chi Minh.

Catholic mouthpieces, like Bill O'Reilly, paint a whole different picture of the Vatican, as he did two months ago while talking about America's use of water-boarding on prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba,

Bill O'Reilly (The O'Reilly Factor, June 4, 2009):

Three men water-boarded does not make a terror nation.  Every other nation in the world has done far worse than we have, with the possible exception of the Vatican.

Not only does O'Reilly lie-by-omission about the Vatican's long and vicious history of religious terrorism, but exalts the Vatican over all the nations of the world.  It is pure propaganda, made even more outrageous because he delivered this gargantuan lie two weeks after the release of a 2,600 page report detailing the sexual and physical abuse by Catholic clergy upon orphans in Ireland—abuse that the Vatican had known about since the 1930's (http://www.awid.org/eng/Women-s-Rights-in-the-News/Women-s-Rights-in-the-News/Ireland-Catholic-Church-shamed-by-abuse-report).

I have watched nearly all of O'Reilly's shows since 2001.  I like his political debates and often have agreement, but he is sorely incorrect in his exaltation of "traditionalist religion" and his fear of secularism.  Why fear secularism and its desire for religion to be out of politics and the public square when Jesus' Message is effectively secular, having ultimately nothing to do with one's religion?  O'Reilly's "War on Christmas" series that starts back up every December is also untrue, as he never teaches the fact that the high, holy holiday is a lie, created as a marketing tool.  The Vatican stole the greatest annual pagan festival celebrating the birth of the sun-god and turned it into the birthday of the Son of God for the purpose of drawing pagans into the fold.  It made December 25 the birth date of Jesus, though the glaringly evident truth is that the birth date of Jesus remains unrecorded and unknown.

O'Reilly repeatedly tells us about how important it is to help "the children," and though he surely cares about some children I do not think he cares about those children in Ireland abused by his beloved Catholic Church.  Before abortion doctor George Tiller was murdered a few months ago, O'Reilly had delivered report after report on "Tiller, the Baby Killer," even comparing him to a Nazi.  I have not heard O'Reilly say one word about those children raped and beaten in Ireland for over seventy years that the Vatican covered up.  Where is O'Reilly's outrage at the Vatican and why hasn't he compared it with the Nazis?  Instead, he exalts the Vatican as being possibly the only nation that has never committed terrorism.  Tell that to the Muslim babies whose skulls were broken against the walls of Jerusalem during the First Crusade.  Tell that to the multitudes slaughtered during the six centuries (!) of the Inquisition.  Tell that to the unknown volume of children raped by "holy" Catholic priests and authority figures.

God forbid a child abused by Catholic teachers and clergy should grow up to write books exposing the corrupt teachings of Corporate Christianity and its leading media evangelists.  I am that person.  I have sent multiple copies of both my award-winning books to O'Reilly over the years.  He is in The Christian Right… or Wrong in several places, in a good light.  Though his name is not mentioned in Selfless Spirit, Selfish Ego, I debunk the War on Christmas and the fear of secularists.  To date, he has never acknowledged receipt of any of my book submissions.  When will this man educate himself about Jesus' Message and stop exalting traditionalist religion?  He advertises himself as "fair and balanced."  He can say he is fair and balanced until his tongue falls out of his head, but saying it does not make it true.

Traditionalist religion does not teach the most basic Biblical revelations.  God is an invisible Spirit (John 4:24; Colossians 1:15).  God is love and only good (First John 4:16; Mark 10:18).  God is the Source or Selfless Giver of the Spirit (Revelation 22:1).  The governance of God's righteous justice is "as you sow, so shall you reap" (Galatians 6:7-8).  We are known to God not by our religion, but by our character magnifying His Spirit (First John 4:16; Luke 10:30-37).

There is not a pulpit on Earth (that I know of) teaching that God is the invisible Spirit of Selfless Love that, no matter one's religion, lives and grows within all who live and grow in the Spirit.  When shall the world learn that all who have the Spirit shall have Salvation, and that "belief in God" is not justified by verbal confessions but by the "voice" of our hearts and motivations magnifying the Spirit?  These revelations are denied by Christ-idolaters who want the whole world converted to Corporate Christianity and denied by Muhammad-idolaters who want the whole world converted to Islam (the Qu'ran repeatedly instructs Muslims to honor Jesus and His Gospel).

With or without the Bible or Qu'ran, we humans have the free-will, conscious ability to produce the fruits of Selfless Love or Selfishness, and to know the difference.  It should be common sense that the way to everlasting peace comes by mutual companionship producing the fruits of Selfless Love (kindness, peace, truth, goodness, compassion, etc.).  If we treated each other in this manner, as we want to be treated ourselves, divorces and wars would not arise and peace would reign.  BUT NO!  Selfish humans want their separatist, fearful, superstitious, mystery-filled religions instead.  They love that pack mentality of believing that their group is holier over all others.  It is pure self-exaltation.  And what did Jesus say on that subject?

Matthew 23:12

And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

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