The main religion in Spain is Catholicism. Knowing this, I have a duty to lean as much about it as I can, and figure out how to unlock their hearts, and reach them with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
I interviewed an ex-Catholic, and this is what is the result. If you think it's too brutal, or too mean, then I'm sorry. I'm just reporting, word for word, our converstaions.
The slaughterhouse of human souls: The Catholic Church
Were your born into a Catholic family?When you get married, usually momma takes daddy’s religion. Daddy was a catholic on both sides for generations. Hungarian on the father’s side German and Irish. Mother’s side was Scottish, Irish and English Anglicans, which is nothing more than the English Catholic church.
So, when my mother married my father, she became a catholic.
I was baptized a Catholic not long after I was born, and that was back in 1960. At about the age of 6, I received my holy communion. We moved from Oakland, a very catholic city, to Athens, GA in 1970. We went to the Catholic church there for a few years, and then mom decided to break away, and left them for a Presbyterian church, and were there for about 2 years.
We were there, and then broke there, leaving for an Episcopalian church. And all that is would be a American version of the English-Catholic.
So much of it is uh, the same, a few different things, but it’s basically the English Catholic church. I belonged to the Episcopal church almost all my life. Basically a catholic for 12 years, Presbyterian, 2 years, Episcopalian rest of my life. When I moved from Athens, GA to Social Circle, GA (2001), they had two (white) churches there, Methodist or Baptist. I became a Baptist. That was about 5 years. I moved to Roswell, and were invited to another Baptist, which I’ve been in for about two years.
When was it, with all the bouncing around, that you accepted Christ as your saviour?It was long gradual thing, and I might have it written down somewhere.
Do you have any idea,? Was it in the catholic church, or where?In the Catholic, Presbyterian , Episcopalian churches, they don’t preach a gospel of salvation. It wasn’t until I got to Social Circle that I heard the Romans road. It took me a while to comprehend that. And I didn’t fully comprehend it until I started going to my current church. At Social Circle, I had to unlearn a lifetime of stuff, and the problem is most of your protestant church, and all the others, they don’t teach salvation.
And the Catholic Church thinks it’s this big monolith, unified thing, and its…Its very divided. In the protestant world, everyone and their brother made a church. In the Catholic world, you have all these different diversified thoughts, all under one umbrella. From the outside, the Catholic looks unified, all the same, monolithic, uniform, solid front. All the same. Once you get in the Catholic church, you see the truth. They kept all these ideas under the Catholic moniker.
So what does the Catholic church teach as far as salvation?This is hard for most to comprehend, but the Catholic Church, it is not the Church of Jesus, it is simply a church about Jesus Christ. A catholic actually believes in salvation through infant baptism. That that ritual removes the stain of original sin, made the baby a child of God, member of Church, and it started the process of salvation. (Obeying Rome’s ordinances, and partaking in her stuff) Salvation is a process to the Catholic Church, where as in the Bible, we see it is a decision.
In the Catholic Church, the process of salvation is never complete. It starts with baptism, then the sacrament of first communion, later there’s the sacrament of confirmation, where you’re made an adult, and they view marriage as a sacrament as well. And confession, and last rites. A whole load of stuff.
Describe what you mean by sacrament.The way it is with them, Ok, they’re like mile stones.
What happens if I don’t reach enough mile stones?It’s a never ending process. The problem with them is they never know it’s enough.
So there’s no security of salvation?No. You never know if it’s enough. Ok, supposedly, your salvation is through infant baptism, removes original sin, and starts the process of salvation. It starts a lifelong process. In the Bible, we see that salvation is only through Jesus Christ, and no one else. The Catholics teach that it’s only through the church.
The Bible teaches that you must have the right relationship with our Lord and Maker. The Catholic church believes you must have the right relationship with them.
The Catholic church believes that you should have last rites, holy unction, mass, all theses sacraments. Even after you die, you go to purgatory, and your family has to pay to have masses to get you out.
Everyone goes to purgatory?Yes. No matter what you are, a monk, nun, saint, priest, you go to purgatory. And your family has to go and pay the church to have masses for you so that you can be prayed out of purgatory. The problem is that when you die, you don’t know how long you’ll be in purgatory, which is never in the Bible. And no one can tell you.
And what happens in purgatory?Now purgatory, like I said, and I’ve studied the Catholic church. And I studied it both there and since I’ve left, and I’ve read the Bible, and the whole thing is the purgatory is not in the bible ever. Purgatory was actually dreamed up by the Catholic church. What they did was dream it up to control the people and make money off them. Billions of people have been born, lived and died as Catholics, and went to a supposed purgatory.
Trillions of dollars have been spent on buying masses to get them out of purgatory. It’s the best money making scheme ever.
Now, the Bible never mentions purgatory. In a true church, the Bible is the ultimate, and only, authority. In the Catholic church, it’s one of many.
What are some of those books?The Catholic church places a lot of stock in tradition. And there’s probably 150+ volumes of tradition, of which, one of those is the Bible. SO, to a Baptist, the Bible is the one and only authority on everything. To the Catholic, the Bible is one out of 150. And with 149 to 1, the Bible gets very outweighed.
And some pope somewhere invented purgatory. And it’s the greatest scheme in history. It’s not found in the Bible, but it’s all throughout Catholic tradition. The Catholics avoid verses like the end of Revelation. They just ignore it totally, and go on their merry way, dreaming up things that have no Biblical foundation.
Like what?Confession, like purgatory, is not found in the Bible. There’s another concept which is transubstantiation. What that means is that the bread and blood at communion literally turns into the flesh and blood of Christ! Total heresy! The Bible says to eat and drink them in remembrance! Nowhere in the last supper does Jesus say, ‘That the priest will turn this into my flesh and blood”
So they have no assurance of salvation.?They also don’t follow the Bible as the supreme word of God?Right, they believe that the Church is the authority, and not the Bible. What makes this mind boggling is there are over 1billion Catholics worldwide, and around 20% USA!
So that means that at least 1 in 5 people in the USA will go to hell when they die?
Yeah. And that’s not the Mormons, Jehovah’s witnesses, atheists, agnostic, protestants, and everyone else. It’s mind boggling.
And it’s the main religion of South America, Mexico, Central America, French Canada. America is basically the protestant bastion of all the Americans, and we’re not doing a real good job. Go to Europe, and it’s at least 50% Catholic. All of the countries. And they’re worldwide!
Every country worldwide has a massive population. And the Catholic church refuses to release number. There could be as many 1.5 billion Catholics. But they’ll never admit it. They’re too secretive.
They won’t tell you where all the churches are. Nor how many people are in them, or anything! You will never know how many Catholics there really are. We know there’s one pope, and the rest is classified.
The biggest thing about them is this they’re not Christians. They don’t meet the definition. They’re about Jesus, but aren’t a church of Jesus. It’s a slaughterhouse of human souls. They do enough to make you think you’re saved, but won’t save you.
And the Catholic inquisition has killed 10's of millions of people. Joseph Stalin killed 60 million. They think the catholic church has killed more than that. The inquisitions followed them all over the world. The worst was in Spain. No question. Spain was the worst.
The only thing people that killed more than the Catholic church were Mao sing Tung, and Hitler. They’re the number three killer in history. Hitler, over 100 million, Mao Tse Tung, at around 100 million. The Catholic church reaches about 70 million. And they’ve never apologized to the family of the victims. And when they killed someone, they would take everything he or she had. All of it.
If you could say something to every Catholic right now, what would it be?
I would tell them the words of the Bible. The words of Christ. And this was wrote to the Catholics, from in the Catholic church, Revelation 18:4-5”
"And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
What that’s talking about is the Catholic church. Jesus Himself said to come out of that church, and not to be a part of it! It’s so bad. Go to Revelation 18, and just start reading. The whore in the book of Revelation is the Catholic church. The one who is drunk with the blood of martyrs. To me, that’s the blood of those in the inquisition, and all the people killed by the catholic church. The Catholic church has created more horrors than anything on earth.
They take an order of celibacy, yet have a woman on the side. They create whores! Rome, Catholic capital, has one of the highest prostitution (per capita) than almost anywhere.
So you have accepted Christ as your saviour?
Yes.
And would you say that it would be possible for someone to be saved from hell in a catholic church?
I would venture forth to say, and like I said, this is my personal belief, from my experience, I still believe that there have been people who have made it to heaven not because of the Catholic church, but in spite of it. There’s nothing in the catholic church that would lead you to heaven.
But as a faithful Catholic, you wouldn’t make it?
And this is the killer, no matter how long you do anything in the Catholic church, no matter how long you’re a monk, nun, priest, altar boy, anything, you will never, not even once, will you hear a clear presentation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and the true way to heaven and salvation.
--Pray for Spain. Pray that the Lord would raise up missionaries and native Spaniards to take the gospel to the millions of lost souls in Spain.--
