Pagan Origin of the Fish Hat

The "cross" held by various popes, including Francis, is more like a devil's stang.
The Vatican is quite comfortable with a host of pagan symbols.
Fishhats or mitres sell for $400 to $3,000 dollars, but one is needed for each colorful season, from sky blue to rosy pink.


The adiaphora article in the Formula of Concord is almost universally ignored. One point is that we should not identify with false religion, even when it is not done with bad intent. The purpose of such grand costumes is to impress the ignorant and the easily persuaded.

Pope John - and Paul after him - loved to wear the papal tiara, the crown signifying rule over all kingdoms. Pope John Paul II had to leave it alone because it was considered too arrogant. Francis? - no one does humility better than a Jesuit.

The papal audience hall features a crucifix more like a snake.

 The ceiling of the papal audience hall suggests a snake and its eyes.

 The long view is obvious, but we will never be invited to see it.

Adiaphora, Formula of Concord, Solid Declaration, Article X

5 "Namely, when under the title and pretext of external adiaphora such things are proposed as are in principle contrary to God’s Word (although painted another color), these are not to be regarded as adiaphora, in which one is free to act as he will, but must be avoided as things prohibited by God. In like manner, too, such ceremonies should not be reckoned among the genuine free adiaphora, or matters of indifference, as make a show or feign the appearance, as though our religion and that of the Papists were not far apart, thus to avoid persecution, or as though the latter were not at least highly offensive to us; or when such ceremonies are designed for the purpose, and required and received in this sense, as though by and through them both contrary religions were reconciled and became one body; or when a reentering into the Papacy and a departure from the pure doctrine of the Gospel and true religion should occur or gradually follow therefrom [when there is danger lest we seem to have reentered the Papacy, and to have departed, or to be on the point of departing gradually, from the pure doctrine of the Gospel]."

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GJ - When the Lutheran leaders are not aping the Calvinists, they are aping the papists, copying as much as they can about Vatican worship, readings, and costumes to wear.