Pope Innocent VIII transfused — A Canard

by Marvin Shilmer 11 Replies latest jw friends

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  Marvin Shilmer

  Pope Innocent VIII transfused — A Canard

  Today I added a new article to my blog addressing another gross misrepresentation about the history of blood transfusion.

  Since 1945 the Watchtower organization has taught that Pope Innocent VIII received a blood transfusion in the year 1492. It turns out this is another stellar example of Watchtower’s utter inability to get its facts straight when it comes to the subject of blood and blood transfusion.

  My new article is titled Pope Innocent VIII transfused — A Canard and is available at: http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2012/10/pope-innocent-viii-transfused-canard.html

  Lest we forget, while leaders at Watchtower are in turmoil trying to figuring out who its Governing Body has been spokesman for over the past 85 years (think: who is the faithful slave?… ugh...), unsuspecting children and adults are suffering premature death over the doctrinal position on blood taken and enforced by those same inept leaders.

  Marvin Shilmer

  http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com
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  Marvin Shilmer

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  A reader asks: How could such a bad mistake have passed Watchtower’s alleged ’70 step process’?

  My answer: Experience tells me if there is a ’70 step process’ it has nothing to do with finding or telling the truth. Rather, it has more to do with placating whims of whoever makes up the current Watchtower organizational regime.

  Marvin Shilmer

  http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com
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  oldlightnewshite

  Good post Marvin. I'm not at all surprised. Are they still churning out that old chestnut 'We only use 10% of our brains'?!
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  FatFreek 2005

  "A reader asks: How could such a bad mistake have passed Watchtower’s alleged ’70 step process’?"

  I just checked my WT Library CD and could find no such statement. Anyone have a clue as to the source?

  Len
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  Refriedtruth

  Good work Marv
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  clarity

  Marvin it is so stupidly amazing how watchtower is

  sooo busy 'powdering it's nose' ..... while its people die,

  its children are raped and its people are commanded

  to go & preach falsehood!!!!!!!!

  Doctrine has changed and yet the gullible must still present the "old truth",

  until watchtower picks the time to slip "new truth" into a back page of a magazine!

  !

  >

  Len lovely to see your face on here today

  clarity
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  Marvin Shilmer

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  "I just checked my WT Library CD and could find no such statement. Anyone have a clue as to the source?"

  I’m not sure what you’re asking about.

  - The question was presented to me privately about my blog article addressing Watchtower’s furtherance of the fairytale blood transfusion administered to Pope Innocent VIII.

  - The ’70 step process’ is something recently mentioned at Watchtower’s annual meeting as protocol for all articles published by it.

  Watchtower has been citing this supposed blood transfusion given to Pope Innocent VIII in 1492 since the earliest days of its teaching against blood transfusion. Turns out Watchtower was wrong on this point the whole time. The story Watchtower repeated over and over again is false, just like the rest of its blood doctrine.

  Marvin Shilmer

  http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com
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  Satanus

  FF

  Is this what you were looking for?

  *** g86 9/8 pp. 26-27 The Sanctity of Blood—An Ancient Controversy ***
  
  The first blood transfusion on record is considered to have taken place in 1492 and was performed on Pope Innocent VIII. Here is a contemporary account: “Meanwhile, in the city [of Rome] tribulations and deaths have never ceased; for, first of all, three ten-year-old boys, from whose veins a certain Jewish physician (who had promised that the pope would be restored to health) extracted blood, died without delay. For, in fact, the Jew had told them he wanted to heal the pontiff, if only he could have a certain quantity of human blood and indeed young; which, therefore, he ordered to be extracted from three boys, to whom after the blood-letting he gave a ducat for each; and shortly thereafter they died. The Jew indeed fled, and the pope was not healed.”

  *** w66 9/15 p. 552 Is the World Bloodguilty Before God? ***
  
  To clarify thoroughly what is God’s will on use of blood, Jehovah’s witnesses made a special Scriptural study, the results of which appeared in the July 1, 1945, issue of The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. The leading article of this issue discussed Psalm 16. On pages 198-201 it discussed the attitude of King David toward taking the blood of others into his human system when he said, in Psalm 16:4 (AV): “Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.” This article quoted page 113 of Volume 4 of The Encyclopedia Americana (1929 edition), which said:
  
  Transfusion of blood dates as far back as the time of the ancient Egyptians. The earliest reported case is that practiced on Pope Innocent VIII in 1492. The operation cost the lives of three youths and the Pontiff’s life was not saved.

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  FatFreek 2005

  "I just checked my WT Library CD and could find no such statement. Anyone have a clue as to the source?"

  Marvin: I’m not sure what you’re asking about.

  I was simply asking for the source of that "70 step process" you mentioned. You then sourced it -- " ... recently mentioned at Watchtower’s annual meeting as protocol for all articles published by it." For which I thank you. Now, then, is there a record of that meeting that you mention, something that I can quote in one of my essays. It's a powerful statement but I will not use it unless I can cite the source.

  Len
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  Marvin Shilmer

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  Geoffrey Jackson is the source. He said it right before my eyes at this year’s annual meeting. There were over 15,000 others listening in too.

  Marvin Shilmer

  http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com