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Convicted Nazi War Criminal, “Blessed” Stepinatz 202 PART 3: CONVICTED NAZI WAR CRIMINAL, “BLESSED” STEPINATZ : A special case study of the Antichrist’s sin (II Thess. 2:3): Papal Support and Beatification in 1998 of the Convicted Nazi War Criminal, “Blessed” Cardinal Stepinatz. Chapter 1 Introduction. a) Disclaimer to usage of Nazi atrocities by “human rights” propagandists. b) Some Roman Catholic and Nazi racial and religious theoretics relevant to understanding the Ustashi’s forced “conversions” and murders of Serbs in the Croatian Inquisition. c) Lack of media coverage of World War II Papist-Nazi War Crimes. Chapter 2 Historical Background of the three Yugoslavias in the Balkans (1921-2006): Serbia, Montenegro, (Slav) Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Slovenia. Chapter 3 Some Relevant Historical Matters to the Independent State of Croatia (1941-5). Chapter 4 The trial and sentencing of the war criminal Archbishop Stepinatz in 1946. Chapter 5 Would Stepinatz have been dealt with differently if Mihailovic’s royalist Chetnik’s had won, rather than Tito’s Communist Partisans? Chapter 6 Various Popes support Stepinatz. Chapter 7 Some Jewish, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestant Responses to Stepinatz’s Beatification. Chapter 8 Marian Medugorje Romish cult linked in popular Papist devotion to the glorification of Stepinatz and justification of Ustashi mass murders. Chapter 9 Connections between Stepinatz’s Cult and Irish Roman Catholic terrorism against British Protestants. Chapter 10 Interconnections between Nazi Ustashi War Criminal Artukovitch, Stepinatz, Irish Roman Catholicism, and Roman Catholics in the USA. Chapter 11 Stepinatz’s Irish-American Cult and Croatian-American Cult. Chapter 12 Stepinatz’s Croatian-Australian Cult. Chapter 13 Glorification and honour of Stepinatz exposes the Pope as Antichrist. 203 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION (a) Disclaimer to usage of Nazi atrocities by “human rights” propagandists. I defend the historic concept of religious freedom found in British Law from 1689 under the Protestant Christian State; and historic concepts of e.g., freedom of speech; freedom of assembly; freedom from arbitrary arrest, detention, or imprisonment; trial by jury for a capital or heinous crime (thus allowing a jury to give a so called “perverse verdict” against an unduly oppressive law), rule of law, and other such historic freedoms, which in broad terms were continued by the Stage 1 Secular State from the 19th century till about the end of World War Two in 1945 (and broadly speaking were continued about a further 20 years in Australia till 1965). While I support democratic government, I do not consider a universal electoral franchise is a necessary component of democracy, much less a so called “right;” nor do I think it is even desirable, so that I would e.g., support the former historic positions of not extending voting privileges to Roman Catholics in Northern Ireland, nor coloured people in South Africa, nor coloured people in the American Deep South. Believing as I do in race based nationalism, I do not endorse the 1967 referendum in Australia giving Aboriginals citizenship, and think the pre-1967 situation of them being citizens of the State (or Territory) they lived in, but not citizens of Australia, to be much preferable. The fact that this 1967 referendum had such strong support in the electorate, must be qualified by the fact that if the electorate had been told plainly that the repeal of section 127 of the Australian Constitution would mean that to be an Australian one no longer had to be a Caucasian (although the policy used to allow a small amount of assimilation from other races), and that the passage of this referendum would therefore result in the repeal of the White Australia Policy and a flood of coloured and / or non-Christian immigrants into the country, and so the white Christian cultural identity of Australia would be attacked by “multi-culturalism,” with various non- Christian religions and coloured races, then I think this same referendum would have been resoundingly defeated. Even if, as I think highly improbable, I am wrong in this assessment of the electoral outcome had the people of Australia been properly informed as to its ramifications, I would still never support the said repeal of section 127 on the basis that it violated the principle of race based nationalism, and bearing in mind that a number of Aboriginals have remained with their heathen religious beliefs, also the historic Christian cultural identity of Australia. Thus I entirely repudiate the post World War Two notion that one should put the historic freedoms of predominantly white, Western, Protestant countries, under the name of “human rights,” and attach to them a raft of non-discrimination values, opposing discrimination on the basis of: 1) race, 2) sex (feminism), 3) sexual practice e.g., disallowing landlords from evicting a de facto couple because he considers they are “living in sin;” or non-discrimination of homosexuals. Connected with this propagandist concept of “human rights,” there has also been a general lessening of the freedoms of white Protestants in these lands in various ways. E.g., in the workplace they are asked to endorse such pernicious values, and reprobates who do so, now use these laws to persecute godly men who do not. Such men may be removed from jobs under such names as “inefficiency,” since they do not “efficiently” enact or practice such policies, and so the element of religious and political persecution against them is cloaked, though it is very real and oppressive. 204 Then there is the stealing of happiness from godly men, who are constantly subjected to the barrage of coloured people in their lands; or feminist women in various positions in society; and also the taking away from them of marital happiness by feminist poisoned females and a feminist geared economy. Ejection or exclusion from traditionally recognized academic forums, such as universities is another example of this. This may be done by e.g., “marking down” the “politically incorrect” conservatives; or quotas requiring “40% female” lecturers, all of which are necessarily feminists, so this is really a political test requiring that 40% be committed to this ideology. Control of the universities by such persons, means both post-graduate work and journal articles by the cream of the genuine academic crop, have all but come to an end for more than forty years. As with the promotion of this evil “human rights” agenda in other areas, a situation has come about where the best and brightest are excluded precisely because they do perceive the damage done by the “human rights” agenda of anti-racism, anti-sexism, etc. (This would be like excluding anyone who considered theft or murder was dangerous and immoral, i.e., what is left is either morally corrupt, or inept, or relatively stupid compared to what has been removed.) This act of discrimination by their intellectual and moral inferiors, who are blinded by and charged up with this evil philosophy, means they think nothing of their destructive actions. Thus under the name, and in the spirit of “human rights,” there is the persecution of godly, intellectually gifted men. And so, there has been created a fictional academic consensus in favour of “human rights;” and the average university student, is therefore further brainwashed into this hyper- normativity, as he seeks to live up to this academic stereotype of “the intellectual.” Alas, his average university lecturer is just as brainwashed, and just as incapable of dispassionate independent analysis, so that the average “academic” is also living up to this same crazy stereotype of “the intellectual.” (Here I note a precedent was formed for the ejection of the genuine intelligentsia, with the removal of the old earth creationists under the burden of Darwinian propaganda from the late 19th century, and the preposterous theory of “natural selection” accounting for the origins of species.) Thus the type and kind of man that God once used to bless the Western World in e.g., their universities, is no longer generally found in such established or officially recognizable “intellectual” forums. They are now, by long- standing practice, ejected or suppressed from these academic positions, or from the writing of journal articles in “respected” journals, but once again, the element of religious and political persecution against them is cloaked under such acceptable sounding names as “academic standards,” by which they really mean hyper-normativity in accepting, peddling, and promoting, their wicked “human rights” agenda in the social sciences, or Darwinian macroevolution in the biological sciences. Religious persecution of Christians or Christian values, can take different forms. One type of persecution is a general persecution of anyone who professes to be Christian (whether or not they really are Christians). Such were the ten general persecutions of Christians under Pagan Rome (1st to 4th centuries), or the general persecution of Christians in ancient times outside the Roman Empire in pagan Persia 1. Such are the contemporary persecutions in Communist countries such as North Korea, or (inconsistently) some parts of China. A second type of persecution is a specific persecution of those who profess some 1 Bramley-Moore’s Foxe’s Book of Martyrs , pp. 1-40 (Pagan Rome), pp. 42-3 (Pagan Persia). 205 specific spiritual tenet or tents of religious orthodoxy (whether or not they are orthodox in all areas, and whether or not they really are Christians). This can be perpetrated by pagans, infidels, or heretics. Under pagans, such were the persecutions under Julian the Apostate (361-3 A.D.), which saw the martyrdom of the school teacher, Cassian of Imola, specifically for refusing to sacrifice to idols in 362. Under infidels, such are the contemporary persecutions in Mohammedan (Islamic) countries that “tolerate Christians” under certain conditions, including the fact that they do not seek converts, and then persecute, in some instances killing, any converts from Mohammedanism to any professed form of Christianity.
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