It has been over a week since I last updated this blog. As you know, I was away on holiday, trying to figure myself out. I even went to the Vatican City to sort of renewing my faith and I must admit that I failed miserably.
The Vatican City was crowded over summer. Hundreds of people queued to get in. Inside, there were tour guides all around explaining Jesus to their groups and I took the effort to squeeze into one of the groups to listen and digest the information, or rather, stories. Well, in the end that was all that they were to me…stories.
It was hard to take things seriously with the naked bronze Hercules staring at me. For a moment, I was asking myself, what is he doing here? It was not his nakedness that bothers me, in fact, all other figurines and paintings are naked too, but rather the fact that he is kind of a ‘God’ in the place dedicated to some other kind of God, that gives me the ‘shiver’. I was imagining thunder and lightning as the Gods fight in the Vatican. I hope they forgive me for my imagination.
The Sistine Chapel was a full-house, overcrowded as the people waited for the Pope. Too bad, that the Pope didn’t make an appearance. I was disappointed as I wanted so much to hear what he has to say although I was firmly told to never ask question.
So, I left the Vatican feeling nothing but tired as hell for the suffocating crowd and unending walkways. I guess, Malaysians are not used to walking…
One thing that interests me while in the Vatican though, is a question from a Chinese tourist about how does the Vatican get to be so rich, in fact, the richest country in the world, as stated by the guide. Hmm…talk about the oblivious Chinese and the blinded-by-faith-guide. The guide simply couldn’t answer. (No wonder they prefer the ‘no question asked’ procedure). From her look, I could see that she was thinking, “Isn’t that a stupid question. The Vatican is a blessed country that’s why it’s rich. The money is just there…showered down from heaven. Now, deal with it”.
Perhaps, the Chinese guy could read her mind because I could see him thinking about “the hen that lays golden eggs in Jack and the Beanstalk”. But then..naahh..I don’t think the Chinese ever heard about that story too.
Anyway, the population of Vatican is around 840 and all of them work for and in the church of the Vatican or around the world as diplomats and representatives. The rest of the other 2,500 workers in the Vatican are mostly citizens of Italy and live outside the Holy city. The country practically lives on sales of stamps, coins, medals and tourist mementos; by fees for admission to museums; and by publications sales.
Wikipedia listed other industries that financed the Vatican include printing, the production of mosaics, and the manufacture of staff uniforms..but I doubt there are much.
So, how does the Vatican survives economically and how come it becomes so rich? I tried to find the answer but only found contradicting, conflicting information all over google. Some say the country survives on donation and that it is not rich at all, instead it is running on a loss. Well, I doubt that too.
The ‘richness’ of the Vatican somehow reflects in the activities of the Christians in our country and all over the world. I don’t think I am wrong to say that besides welfare activities which of course, needed millions or billions of money to pull through, the Christian missionaries are also ‘buying’ people to follow the faith…well, if, it could be called ‘faith’ at all. I hear them going around approaching ‘lost souls’ and offer lots of money to be Christians and help them spread the religion. Some are provided with comfortable living and much more, including tuition fees for the kids…
Unfortunately, this ‘lot-of-money-thing’ is what led me to question ‘faith’. Why we need to buy people’s faith? Is it not enough to offer the truth? Or is there any truth at all?
Why some say ‘homosexual’ okay in Christianity today and not before?
Why pray to ‘Allah’ instead of ‘Father’ all of the sudden? Why is it okay to kill the disbelievers according to the Old Testament, but it’s not okay anymore today?
Is there anywhere stated in the Bibles that the Christian teachings changes through times? If there was, then who decided on the changes? The Vatican? Or the people who financed the Vatican?
Today in Malaysia we see the Christians purposely inciting prejudice, creating conflicts and making unnecessary demands. If the Arabs and the Africans are going crazy with the Muslims extremists, Malaysia is forced to deal with the Evangelists who cannot keep their faith to themselves and must provoke and ticked people off.
For some reasons, the Christians in Malaysia must use the word ‘Allah’ and I don’t think even Jesus knows why.
The Evangelists must pick a fight with the Islamic authority and distribute the Holy Bible in Malay with the word ‘Allah’ in it and then blame the government for taking actions. I supposed that the attack against the Islamic authority is an indirect message to the power that be, the Sultans and Agong.
But why must the Christians do all these?
The truth is, it is not Christianity that is doing all these, but the Christians in DAP. Just look at who is stomping the ground over MAIS and JAIS, all for the 'love' of 'Allah'?
Isn’t it enough that the world has to deal with crazy Muslims Jihadis and Neo-Con terrorists? We don’t need Christian anarchists to add to the destruction.
Why? Because it is easier to use religion as a tool as it provides an automatic immunity when confronted. As a result, Christianity is being 're-constructed' as according to the interests of its financiers. In order to understand who are the financiers, here's an excerpt from the book "The Vatican Billions" by Avro Manhattan, 1983" :
The Catholic church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence. She is a greater possessor of material riches than any other single institution, corporation, bank, giant trust, government or state of the whole globe. The pope, as the visible ruler of this immense amassment of wealth, is consequently the richest individual of the twentieth century. No one can realistically assess how much he is worth in terms of billions of dollars.
...The Vatican has billions of shares in the most powerful international corporations... The Vatican has large investments with the Rothschilds of Britain, France and America, with the Hambros Bank, with the Credit Suisse in London and Zurich. In the United States it has large investments with the Morgan Bank, the Chase-Manhattan Bank, the First National Bank of New York, the Bankers Trust Company, and others."
You see, DAP is using Christianity to camouflage its true colour of racism. Of course, it would be most natural for the Vatican or any Christian society to help pump the money in for DAP in the name of Christianity. And we all know that when DAP rules, the Singapore rules. When Singapore rules, the U.S rules. When the U.S rules, the Neo-Con rules.
...The Vatican has billions of shares in the most powerful international corporations... The Vatican has large investments with the Rothschilds of Britain, France and America, with the Hambros Bank, with the Credit Suisse in London and Zurich. In the United States it has large investments with the Morgan Bank, the Chase-Manhattan Bank, the First National Bank of New York, the Bankers Trust Company, and others."
I know that the Chinese basically have very little knowledge about the U.S conspiracy theory or the New World Order. Only after MH370, that they started to learn a thing or two about it, but they could not make any sense of it because their minds are not trained to figure out anything else but money.
More Malays have ever heard of Rothschild, Freemason or Illuminati compared to the Chinese because Chinese are too busy being greedy to care about the world. Some Malays might be in the dark about it too, but they could digest the story better as they have been pre-warned by the Quran about the Jews, particularly the Zionists and their quest to rule the world.
What I’m trying to say here is that the Chinese should start ‘thinking’ instead of ‘breeding, roaming the earth and sucking everything dry’. Haven’t the Chinese realized that the new generation Chinese is only too eager to become Christians? Not because they believe in Jesus Christ but because they think it’s more glamorous to be one even though when they cannot pronounce their Christian names properly; Laura becomes Lola or Richard becomes Lichet. What they don't know is that, becoming Christians could mean helping some quarters destroy the nation, the country, the values, the cultures and the faiths, including Christianity itself.
So, if you chose to be a Christian then let it be because you believe in the teachings not because you like the idea of having a name like a Mat Saleh and celebrate Christmas. You should know that you are following the wrong path when you are told that the wrongs are rights. You should know that provoking and jeopardizing peace and stability is wrong.
Being a good Christian means being a good person and not go around poking into other religion’s business.
It makes me sick to see how the DAP trying to teach the Muslims on how to be good Muslims when they themselves are not even good Christians, what more good citizens. Christianity is having enough issues from within it, we don’t need to take up the problems of the Muslims to add to the confusion.
Anyway, I left Vatican and continued to look for myself in the rest of Italy but I didn’t find me. So, here I am, back home in Malaysia trying to make sense of how the Muslims in PAS and Buddhists in MCA have become the frontliners for the Christians in DAP while I myself, watch in disgust...
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