Message #37666

[Kilika]

I've been thinking about this whole situation, and it's an amazing one indeed. The Vatican is one OLD continuously-active institution, up to their tricks for about 1700 years or so. That's A LOT of stuff to take from the locals during invasions of foreign "pagan" lands over the ages. I also don't believe the Vatican when it says such things as there were only 5 Mayan codices saved and brought back to Europe. Same for the RCC's take on the Knights Templar and artifacts from Jerusalem.

There is a tv show, which I believe is an in-your-face admission, called "Warehouse 13", a storage place for special "relics" that have powers. And it's US Secret Service agents that run it, working for mysterious "Regents", who are portrayed to have some kind of mystical aspect. Sounds like the Vatican archives to me.

No question they've had men over time, as a "token of their service" to the "church, that have done service for the RCC without the Vatican even asking them, so there is no telling what has been brought back to Rome under cover of darkness.

There are many people who have a vested interest in the archives staying sealed to the public.

So, I wonder if the RCC is the woman riding the beast, would an opening of the Vatican archives initiate her fall? Hmm. I suspect they have a thing or two put away that would make a lot of people very angry at the Vatican.

One angle that has crossed my mind on putting pressure on the Vatican to open up is deeming their archives as a "World Heritage" site, deeming it so "invaluable", that it must be for all mankind and "shared" among all people of the world.

Yeah, the whole situation could turn all kinds of ways pretty much overnight.