Smokescreens (Paperback)

by Jack T. Chick (Author)
Key Phrases: Billy Graham, United States, Roman Catholic (more...)

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Product Description
Highlights the Dangers of the Ecumenical Movement.

Many Christians are joining the ecumenical movement, thinking God has ordained it to bring all Christians into unity. But this book reveals that the ecumenical movement is nothing more than a smokescreen, hiding the Vatican's real intent, to stamp out religious freedom and rule the world.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Chick Pub (January 1, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 093795814X
• ISBN-13: 978-0937958148
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #178,887 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars An embarrassment to Protestantism, September 1, 2008

By	Eric R. Hollander - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I expected this book to be a goldmine of ammunition to attack the Roman Catholic Church with. It is. But, that ammunition is falsehoods, so it is no good.

The part that surprised me most was the it's claim that the Catholic Church started the Holocaust in order to finish what it started. Independent, as well as Jewish sources, would beg to differ. Searching history, you will learn that the Catholic Church saved the lives of about 860,000 Jews. Though Hitler and the Nazis wanted to be on Pius's good side, it was a one-way relationship, because the Pope and church condemned Nazism. For starters, read "The Myth of Hitler's Pope: Pope Pius XII and His Secret War Against Nazi Germany" by a Rabbi, David Dalin.


When he does cite a source, it is usually another biased source. When he doesn't, it is his own speculations and fabrications. Nearly everything contradicts independent sources of history.

That is why this book falls nothing short of bigotry, and it damages the credibility of Chick Publications, the anti-Catholic movement, and anyone using this book as a resource.

13 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Judgement, August 29, 2003

By A Customer

A reviewer of this book suggests to use that Chick loves us because he tells the truth (sic) about the RCC. I would invite the reader to question what is meant by "truth".

An example of the errors of the RCC is given in the alleged complicity of the Church, and more personally, Pope Pius XII with the Nazi government and Hitler, even suggesting he should have been sentenced to death at Nuremburg. I would question this asertion. It is a matter of public record that as Cardinal Eugeno Pacelli (prior to his election as Pope and holding the office of Sec. of State in the Vatican) that Pacelli made Former Israeli diplomat and now Orthodox Jewish Rabbi Pinchas Lapide notes that Pius XI "had good reason to make Pacelli the architect of his anti-Nazi policy. Of the forty-four speeches which the Nuncio Pacelli had made on German soil between 1917 and 1929, at least forty contained attacks on Nazism or condemnations of Hitler's doctrines. . . . Pacelli, who never met the Führer, called it `neo-Paganism.'

Hitler sent his envoy, Joachim von Ribbentrop, to meet Pius XIIth, who listened politely as he spelled out the supremacy of the 3rd Reich before the Pope read him a list of Nazi atrocities and sent him away. During the war Pius XIIth issues thousands of false documents to Jewish families in Europe to help them flee Nazi persicution, he opened the doors of the enclosed orders for their sanctuary, including the Vatican. When Hitler re-installed Mussolini in 1943 one of the Nazi commanders demanded of the Jewish community in Rome payment of one hundred pounds of gold within thirty-six hours or three hundred Jews would be taken prisoner. When the Jewish Community Council was only able to gather only seventy pounds of gold, they turned to the Vatican who provided all the gold that was needed to satisfy this demand. This act, along with many others, led to the eventual conversion of the Chief Rabbi (Zolli) to Catholicism.

After Pius XIIth's death in 1948, Golda Meir, a Prime Minister of Israel said of him: We share the grief of the world over the death of His Holiness Pius XII. . . . During the ten years of Nazi terror, when our people passed through the horrors of martyrdom, the Pope raised his voice to condemn the persecutors and to commiserate with their victims"

So what is "truth"? Is it, as Chick would suggest, that the RCC let the Jews suffer and die? or is it as history tells us that he acted to save Jewish lives? Would Chick suggest that the Jews are in league with the Anti-Christ? and if that were the case, why would he be concerned about the actions of the RCC in relation to saving Jews if the Jews, like the RCC were condemened for all eternity? You decide.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Truth Hurts!, December 2, 2008

By	Michael L. Alessi (Stoneham, Ma USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was a catholic once until I started reading the word of God. I challenge any atholic to read what the Bible has to say then compare it to the catechism. The catechism is ABSOLUTE blasphemy! Do we also keep ignoring the tracks the Vatican has covered up over the centuries. CMON PEOPLE THE ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN IS GETTING ON YOUR WORTHLESS KNEES, ADMITTING YOUR A SINNER AND RECEIVING THE HOLY SPIRIT WHICH SEALS YOU FOR ETERNITY NO MATTER WHAT! Any church that teaches that you have to perform sacraments to be saved is BLASPHEMY! The real church is fellowshipping with other born-agains who walk in obedience with the holy sprit EVERY day. Going to church once a week to receive the Eucharist is NOT going to save you. First communion is NOT going to save you! Mary is not going to save you. It makes me sick when I see people bowing down to statues of Mary breaking Gods law of idol worshipping. Until you absolutely humble yourself ON YOUR FACE in the fear of the lord to accept ONLY Christ (NOT MARY) you will NEVER be saved. Don't matter what title we give ourselves, Mormon, Jehovah witness, Catholic, Protestant or Baptist WE CANNOT be saved from hell until we get on our worthless faces and accept this wonderful gift of eternal life that we don't even deserve. You think Jesus Christ like to see us bickering over denominations? Just do what he says... period! Jesus SAYS: "verily verily I say unto to thee, except a man BE BORN AGAIN, he cannot see the kingdom of God"