Mithras of Rome and the Roman Catholic Jesus

 

«Mithraism was a religion of the Roman Empire between the 1st and 5th centuries. AD It was very popular with the Romans, especially with Roman soldiers, and was probably the religion of several Roman emperors. Although Mithraism was never given "official status" in the Roman Empire, it was de facto the official religion until Constantine, and subsequent Roman emperors replaced Mithraism with Christianity.

One of the fundamental aspects of Mithraism was a sacrificial meal which involved eating the flesh and drinking the blood of a bull. Mithras, the god of Mithraism, was "present" in the flesh and blood of the bull and was eaten in order to grant salvation to those who shared the sacrificial meal (the so-called "theophagy", that is "to eat one's god").

Mithras also had seven "sacraments", making the similarities between Mithraism and Roman Catholicism too numerous to ignore. Constantine and his successors found an easy substitute for the sacrificial meal of Mithraism in the concept of the Lord's Supper or Christian Communion. Unfortunately, some early Christians had already begun to link a mystical meaning to the Lord's Supper, rejecting the biblical concept of a simple and devoted commemoration of Christ's death and His shed blood. The Romanization of the Lord's Supper completed the transition to a sacrificial consummation of Jesus Christ, now known as the Catholic Mass or the Eucharist ”.

 

Taken from : The true origins of the Roman Catholic Church

 

“ Then he said to me: The waters which you saw and on which the harlot sits are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues. ”
(Revelation 17:15)

“ therefore in one day her plagues will come, mortality and mourning and hunger, and she will be consumed by fire; for mighty is the Lord God who judged her. "(Revelation 18: 8)