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Yesterday we had an unexpected ram gift. We had no idea Vanilla was pregnant, we thought she was just fat like the others lol.
Vanilla is a mixed breed.
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"The Jesuits are the janissaries of theocratic Catholicism."
― Victor Considerant, 1848

"Don Quixote and Machiavelli are united in the order of the Jesuits."
― Kuno Fischer, 1887

"The Overman belongs at once to both the Jesuit Order and the Prussian officer."
― Gilles Deleuze, 1968

"Jesuits are radical religious entrepreneurs, activists of globalization."
― Peter Sloterdijk. 1999

"The Jesuits have made of religion the mirror image of the conquistador armies."
― Alphonso Lingis, 2000
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The Jesuits and Early Trade

Another area where the Jesuits sought to compete against the Protestant states early was in the securing of lucrative trade routes. Thanks to Pope Gregory XIII, the Jesuits were the only religious Order with the power to conduct commerce and banking.

Jesuit Superior General Claudio Acquaviva (1581 - 1615 ) soon put this to good use when in 1580, he ordered Fr Vilela S.J. to purchase of the port of Nagasaki from a local Japanese warlord. General Acquaviva then sent Alessandro Valignano S.J. back to manage the new commercial mission.

The Jesuits promoted heavily the growth of their wholly owned port of Nagasaki, to one of the most profitable trading ports in the world. Jesuit ownership of the port of Nagasaki gave the Society a concrete monopoly in taxation over all imported goods coming into Japan.

The Jesuits under Peter Claver S.J. were also instrumental in the development of the slave trade from Africa to South America to be used in the gold mines. Up to half a million slaves were shipped and arrived under the watch of Peter Claver S. J. Later, the Jesuits transformed Claver from one history's worst slave masters to the patron saint of slaves, Colunbia and African Americans.

However, both Spain and Portugal in particular were angry at the increasing wealth and influence of the Jesuits encroaching on their profits from the slaves and monopolization of trade.

In response to the Portuguese seeking to restrict the Jesuits in Japan by arming their enemies, General Claudio Acquaviva formed an alliance in 1595 with the Dutch in supporting their merchant ships and trade. In response to the new alliance, the English Parliament issued a charter granting a monopoly on the pirate trade alliance of the East India Company in 1600.

In 1602, General Claudio Acquaviva assisted the Jesuit merchants to gain a 21 year charter of monopoly from the States-General of the Netherlands to form the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC in Dutch, literally "United East Indies Company ( Dutch East India Company).

Using the exclusive powers of the Jesuits to conduct banking and commerce, Dutch East India Company represented one of the most profitable companies of history thanks to its control of spices, slaves, drugs and plantations. The Jesuits only lost control in 1773 at the disbandment of the Order.

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Adolf Hitler was a Roman Catholic

What follows is a sampling of irrefutable citations demonstrating the simple fact that “Uncle Adolf” was a devout papist serving the Pope.

For it could not be denied that Hitler still belonged to the Catholic Church. In March, 1933, it is true, he had demonstratively remained absent from the services of his Church; there was the story that in his youth he had spat out the Host. But he was on terms of intimate friendship with several Catholic clergymen, such as Abbot Alban Schachleitner, former head of the Emmaus Cloister in Prague, who after 1918 had been driven out by the Czechoslovakian revolution. In his whole being Schachleitner was a fragment of that German national dynamite scattered through the whole of Central and Eastern Europe. It is possible that his faith in his people overshadowed his faith in his Saviour. Hitler, who in 1918 certainly still went to confession and communion, is even said later to have received the sacrament from the hands of this National Socialist abbot. At all events, on July 1, he let it be officially proclaimed: ‘Reich Chancellor Hitler still belongs to the Catholic Church and has no intention of leaving it.’” -Der Führer by Konrad Heiden pages 632-633

By solemn Concordats Roman Catholic Hitler and Roman Catholic Mussolini were in unity and harmony with the Pope: the first dictator was called ‘the secular arm of the Church. while the Pope called the second dictator ‘the Man of Providence’.” -Catholic Victory in 1960? by Peter J. Doeswyck page 76

“Yet, his adjutant Gerhard Engel in his 1974 Heeresadjutant bei Hitler 1938-1943 reported Hitler to have promised (p. 31), "I shall always remain a Catholic as I have always been." Hitler never did leave the Roman Catholic faith into which he had been born and all of whose sacraments he received, and he died as a Catholic in good standing with his Church and his Pope.”
-Why the Holocaust Happened: Its Religious Cause & Scholarly Cover-Up by Eric Zuesse page 97-98

HITLER is a product of the Catholic Church. He has never renounced the religious doctrines nor condemned the political aims and aspirations of the Church into which he was born and baptized. Just as his father regarded the Catholic priesthood as the highest state to which anyone could aspire, so to him as a child the priest appeared as the ideal human being. In his autobiography Hitler says that he was deeply impressed with the religious ceremonies of the Catholic Church and was a member of the choir in his parish church. In his free time he took singing lessons at the nearby convent, ‘This,’ he says, ‘supplied me with the best opportunity to steep myself in the solemn magnificence of the brilliant feasts of the Church’. These early emotions never completely disappeared, and he has always remained conscious of the extremely suggestive value of ecclesiastical surroundings. Towards the end of his book he describes ‘the psychological conditions which tend to create that artificial and mysterious half-light in Catholic churches—the wax tapers, the incense....’ In fact, in his Mein Kampf Hitler approves of everything particularly relating to Jesuit Catholicism as opposed to Protestantism. He approves of the indisputability of Catholic dogmas, of the intolerant attitude of Catholic education, of the necessity of blind faith, of the personal infallibility of the Pope—imposed upon the Church by the Jesuits in 1870, and of the compulsory celibacy of the Catholic clergy. These are all matters that make Catholicism radically different from the other churches of Christendom.
-Behind the Dictators by L. H. Lehmann page 28

He (Hitler) never left the Church, always paid his church-rate punctually… Ever since his time as a choir boy at the Convent of Lambach, he had admired the Roman Church with its organization, its ceremonies, its symbols and its banners and he copied these for his temporal ministry down to the smallest details.”
-The Hitler Phenomenon by Henry Picker page 8, parenthesis mine.

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Buddha was Canonized as a Roman Catholic and Orthodox “Saint!”

One other saint, however, I must draw special attention to, as he has been an object for centuries of peculiar honour, veneration, and worship in the (Catholic) Church. Infallible Popes, especially Sixtus V. and Pius IX., have guaranteed by special bulls the authenticity of his claims to be regarded as a Christian (Catholic) saint. A church in Palermo was erected to him, his Italianised named inscribed over its main door, with a command to the faithful to go to him; inside the church he has his altar, surmounted by his statue in life-size, and having his name and the date of its erection, 1750. And who is this saint? He is none other than Buddha… In the seventh century a pious romance was written in Greek in the convent of S. Saba, near Jerusalem, of the life and conversion to Christianity of a noble Hindu prince, called Josaphat… In 1590, when Pope Sixtus v. purged the Roman Calendar of numbers of spurious saints, and the churches of numbers of spurious relies, he expressly retained as worthy of worship ‘the Holy Saint Josaphat of India, whose wonderful acts St. John of Damascus has related.’ But about this time the Portuguese historian, Diego Conto, discovered that the history of St. Josaphat and that of Buddha were identical… the truth came out, in spite of Papal bulls and Church anathemas, and so ‘in 1859, Laboulaye in France, Liebrecht in Germany, and others following them, demonstrated that the Christian (Catholic) work was drawn almost literally from an early biography of Buddha, being conformed to it in the most minute details, not only of events but of phraseology, the only important changes being that, at the end of the various experiences showing the wretchedness of the world, identical with those ascribed in the original to the young Prince Buddha, the hero, instead of becoming a hermit, becomes a Christian (Catholic), and that for the appellation of Buddha-'Bodisat'-is substituted, the more Scriptural name of Josaphat."
-The Roman Catholic Church in Italy by Alexander Robertson, pages 188-190, parenthesis mine.

The very person of Buddha has been appropriated not only by the Hindus as an incarnation of Vishnu, but by the Roman Catholic and the Greek
Church as an orthodox canonised Christian (Catholic) saint, and as such entered in the Greek and Roman Calendars, and ordered to be worshipped as a Saint by the former on the 26th of August and by the latter on the 27th day of every November, under the name and noscript of St. Josaphat. or S. S. Barlaam and Josaphat
. The discovery that the Joasaph or Josaphat of our story was none other than Buddha was made at the same time and independently of one another, by French, German and English scholars. The writer himself admits that the story came from India. Any one can recognise it as none other than that of Buddha as told in the Lalita Vistara. Suffice it to say that the identity of Buddha and St. Josaphat cannot be questioned. We need not go over the story of Buddha's life. Our readers know it already—only to make it the life of Josaphat, for Buddhism they must insert Christianity (Catholicism); instead of establishing a new religion, he simply becomes a Christian (Catholic); and instead of the name Buddha, we have Joasaph or Josaphat.”
-The Story of Barlaam and Josaph: Buddhism and Christianity, edited by K. S. MacDonald, page lii, parenthesis mine.

For now was brought to light by literary research the irrefragable evidence that the great Buddha—Sakya Muni himself—had been canonized and enrolled among the Christian (Catholic) saints whose intercession may be invoked, and in whose honour images, altars, and chapels may be erected; and this, not only by the usage of the mediæval Church, Greek and Roman, but by the special and infallible sanction of a long series of popes, from the end of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth…”
-A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, Volume 2, by A. D. White, page 381, parenthesis mine.

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