Chapter Thirty-Seven/Mourning and Rejoicing at Babylon's End -Merchants Weep and Mourn - Continue

 Yes, Babylon the Great was a close friend and a good customer of wealthy merchants. For example, the monasteries, nunneries, and churches in Christendom have over the centuries acquired huge amounts of gold, silver precious stones, valuable woods and other forms of material wealth. Further, religion's blessing has been bestowed on the lavish buying sprees and drunken orgies that accompany the celebration of Christ-dishonoring Christmas and other so-called holy days. Christendom missionaries have penetrated distant lands opening up new markets for the "traveling merchants" of this world. In the 17th century Japan, Catholicism, which had come with the traders, even became involved in feudal warfare. Reporting on a decisive battle under the wall of Osaka castle, The Encyclopedia Britannica states: "The Tokugawa troops found themselves fight against foe whose banners were emblazoned with the cross and with images of the Saviour and St. James the patron saint of Spain." The victorious fiction persecuted and practically wiped-out Catholicism in that land. The churches participation in worldly affairs today will likewise bring her no blessing.  

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