‘Give me liberty, or give me death!’ Patrick Henry
The banner of truth and religious liberty held aloft by the founders of the gospel church and by God’s witnesses during the centuries that have passed since then, has, in this last conflict, been committed to our hands. The responsibility for this great gift rests with those whom God has blessed with a knowledge of His Word… The people of our land need to be aroused to resist the advances of this most dangerous foe to civil and religious liberty.–Spirit of Prophecy, vol. 4, p. 382. {ChS 163.2}
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‘Many were driven across the ocean to America and here laid the foundations of civil and religious liberty which have been the bulwark and glory of this country.’ Great Controversy p.253
“In 2014 President Barack Obama has named Jesuit Father Thomas J. Reese as the newest member of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF),” and in 2016 Reece “will take over as the chair of the organization, an independent, bipartisan commission that monitors and reviews religious freedom violations around the w
“The inquisition was founded to prosecute judaizing conversos, namely individuals of Jewish ancestry who were baptized as Christians but continued to practice aspects of Mosaics law such as dietary rules and rituals associated with the Sabbath. To Christian religious authorities, conversos who followed Jewish ceremonies were heretics because they appeared to be practicing two religions simultaneously and hence betraying their baptismal vows. The Inquisition was supposed to find these judaizing heretics and, if possible, enclose them again in the Christian community after eliciting from them an expression of repentance. If the suspected heretic refuse to confess her error and sufficient eyewitness testimony against her, she would be relaxed to the secular arm, a phrase meant released to the secular authorities and burn at the stake. The Cambridge Companion to The Jesuits Edited by Thomas Worcester p23,24
Romanism as a system is no more in harmony with the gospel of Christ now than at any former period in her history. The Protestant churches are in great darkness, or they would discern the signs of the times. The Roman Church is far-reaching in her plans and modes of operation. She is employing every device to extend her influence and increase her power in preparation for a fierce and determined conflict to regain control of the world, to re-establish persecution, and to undo all that Protestantism has done. Catholicism is gaining ground upon every side. Great Controversy p.566
See how on matters of vital truth the Vatican mimics that truth with its own, such as religious liberty, Sabbaths, the call to Holiness …..