Religious Conspiracy Theories

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According to Gordon Thomas’s book Gideon’s Spies: Mossad’s Secret Warriors the assassination attempt of Pope John Paul II was ordered by Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini as a first act of Jihad against Christianity and the West. This theory is based on the following elements: the Grey Wolves organization was pro-Iranian; Mehmet Ali A?ca was trained in Iran; the text of a 1979 letter sent to the press by Mehmet Ali A?ca just after he killed a Turkish journalist used formulas such as “Supreme Commander of the Crusaders” that are directly taken from Khomeini’s style, while A?ca is nearly illiterate. The pope’s jailhouse visit in 1983 to his aggressor was intended to confirm this theory, just uncovered by the Israeli intelligence agency.

There are mahy Catholic Conspiracy Theories including:

Pope John Paul II’s 1981 Attempted Assassination Conspiracy Theories
Pope John Paul I Conspiracy Theories

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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a plagiarism, literary forgery, and hoax with a complex publication history. It appeared in print in the Russian empire (in Russian) as early as 1903. The tract was published in Znamya, a newspaper owned by Pavel Krushevan, as a serialized set of articles. It appeared again in 1905 as a final chapter (Chapter XII) of a second edition of a book, by Serge Nilus, about the Antichrist. In 1906 it appeared in pamphlet form edited by G. Butmi.

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Pope John Paul I died in September 1978, only a month after his election to the papacy. The timing of his death and the Vatican’s alleged difficulties with ceremonial and legal death procedures have fostered several conspiracy theories. British author David Yallop in 1984 wrote the book In God’s Name suggested that John Paul I died because he was about to uncover financial scandals allegedly involving the Vatican. John Cornwell responded to Yallop’s charges in 1987 with A Thief In The Night, in which he analyzed the various allegations and denied the conspiracy. According to Eugene Kennedy, writing for the New York Times, Cornwell’s book “helps to purge the air of paranoia and of conspiracy theories, showing how the truth, carefully excavated by an able journalist in a refreshing volume, does make us free.”

The Jesus Conspiracy (Book) proposes that the Vatican interfered with the 1988 Radiocarbon 14 dating of the Shroud of Turin to show a medieval date for its origin. The authors propose that the shroud is authentic as the burial cloth of Jesus, but that evidence including blood tracks shows that Jesus was alive following his crucifixion. They argue that the Mandylion or Image of Edessa, known from the sixth century, was the Shroud, but folded to only show the face of Jesus. Because Jesus surviving the cross would contradict the teaching of the Resurrection, the central belief in Christianity, the authors allege that the Vatican used a piece from a 13th century cloth with a similar herringbone weave to the Shroud of Turin as a substitute in the carbon dating.

The Antichrist, according to Christianity, is one who fulfills Biblical prophecies concerning an adversary of Christ while resembling him in a deceptive manner. “Antichrist” is the English translation of the original Koine Greek, pronounced än-t?’-khr?-stos. The term “antichrist” appears 5 times in First Epistle of John and Second Epistle of John of the New Testament — once in plural form and four times in the singular.

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Bible conspiracy theories posit that much of what is known about the Bible, in particular the New Testament, is a deception. These theories variously claim that Jesus really had a wife, Mary Magdalene, and children, that a group such as the Priory of Sion has secret information about the bloodline of Jesus, the Jesus did not die on the cross and that the carbon dating of the Shroud of Turin was part of a conspiracy by the Vatican to suppress this knowledge, that there was a secret movement to censor books that truly belonged in the Bible, or the Christ myth theory, proposed for example in Zeitgeist, the Movie as a means of social control by the Roman Empire.