Statue of ancient god of child sacrifice Moloch, put on display in Rome

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Are they saying that statue Packamama was venerated?
And the other statue near the Coliseum was somehow tied to the Synod?
Isn’t it a historic artifact ?
It seems this publication is very biased against our Pope every time I stumble across one of their articles. I don’t see any benefit to a dialog that resembles modern American cable news politics. This is the Holy See! Catholics need to publish news accurately, but there is a line somewhere that approaches," out to get him." To me, the article conjures Edward G Robinson and the Golden Calf. That’s out of line.
 
I’m not sure I understand.

Apollo, for example, was a Greek god.

There’s a statue of him actually in the Vatican museum, the Apollo Belvedere.

We understand that Apollo was not real, but a mythological creation.

Are we supposed to believe that Apollo was real, but a demon pretending to be a deity?
 
Her annointing ceremony. Part of the Coronation, the non public part
 
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I’m not sure I understand.

Apollo, for example, was a Greek god.

There’s a statue of him actually in the Vatican museum, the Apollo Belvedere.

We understand that Apollo was not real, but a mythological creation.

Are we supposed to believe that Apollo was real, but a demon pretending to be a deity?
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The Bible tells us, several times, all the gods of the gentiles are demons.
 
So what should the Vatican do with the Apollo statue?

I went to Catholic school, we learned about Greek and Roman gods, goddess etc. they didn’t tell us they were actual true stories about demons.

The planets are named after demons?
 
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And it is more non-visible than non-public. Concealed by the canopy, but seated on the coronation throne.

I think.
 
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So what should the Vatican do with the Apollo statue?
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Great question with plenty of good answers in Sacred Scripture.
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I went to Catholic school, we learned about Greek and Roman gods, goddess etc. they didn’t tell us they were actual true stories about demons.
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We live in a secular world . We should be taught critical thinking. Ask ourselves just who and what a pagan god is.
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The planets are named after demons?
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mars the god of war, venus the goddess of love, the sun was worshipped as a god at one point. Saturn the god of agriculture…all gods and goddesses of the gentiles.

loki has vecome a popular name for a dog, the norse god of war and trickery.
 
Not televised in the last coronation. only viewed by a certain few who participate, it is about oil allegedly given by the Virgin Mary to St Thomas Beckett, or manufactured a few centuries later, depending on what you believe, used to annoint the monach and consecrate them, they become associated with the divine.

Lots of myths surround this.

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OTOH, I have walked, once, on a portion of the carpet laid in Westminster Abbey, for the 1953 coronation.
 
Just what is the origin of that oil, would be a great question too, and this annointing was part of the human example Vico and I were discussing.

Frankly, I am surprised by the assumed benign climate of the statue that is the topic of this thread. There are 20 or so verses in Sacred Scripture that talk of moloch, this in Leviticus 18 , is one of them

21 You shall not give any of your children to offer themb to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.
 
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You bring up valid points.
  • Should every historical exhibit be dismantled?
  • Should we rename the planets?
  • Can we have a car that’s named after a pagan deity?
Hmmmm 🤔
 
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A stone statue is not “a demon” either.

That’s why I said in one sense, none of these are demons. (Deuteronomy 4 says they are “gods of wood and stone, the work of men’s hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.”)

But BEHIND all of these are demonic influences. All of them.
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St. Thomas Aquinas wrote in the Summa Theologiae (II-II, Q94, A1) of forms of idolatry, not all demonic, even though temptation may be through demons but may also from fallen nature itself – influenced by the devil (serpent) but also Adam and Eve.

http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3094.htm#article1
  1. divine worship was given to sensible creatures
  2. divine worship was given to a creature represented by some sensible form or shape, which is called an “idol”.
    a) images themselves which appeared to contain something God-like through demonic effects
    b) to the creatures represented by the idol.
 
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And then we have conspiracy theories about our dollar bill and how the US is under the control of the evil Illuminati…and the Freemasons…etc…etc…is it true??..(exit to the theme from the twilight zone)
 
I’m unfamiliar with cars named for a deity (off the top of my head🥺)
 
Yes. I think the devil, flesh and the world come into play on all forms of idolatry.
 
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Yes. I think the devil, flesh and the world come into play on all forms of idolatry.
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So how and what should the Church do about secular exhibits featuring names/images of pagan gods?

Should the statue of Apollo be taken out of the Vatican?
 
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