(The Gospel of the Holy Twelve- condemned by the Church)
Another section of the gospel proves Christ's compassion for the cat. While he was walking through a village, he noticed a group of boys tormenting a cat. Jesus asked them to stop, but they did not listen. After unsuccessfully trying to persuade them to stop, he drove them away with a whip, saying: "This earth, which my Father-Mother made for joy and gladness, ye have made into the lowest hell with your deeds of violence and cruelty..." Yet another incidence of Jesus' kindness to cats is recorded, "And as Jesus entered into a certain village he saw a young cat which had none to care for her, and she was hungry and cried unto him; and he took her up, and put her inside his garment and she lay in his bosom. And when he came into a village he set food and drink before the cat, and she ate and drank and showed thanks to him" (Ibid, pp.56-57)
No doubt due to the cat's association with the devil, evil and Paganism, only one obscure reference to the cat appears in the Bible. The Letter from Jeremiah contains one mention of the cat when referring to Pagans in the Book of Baruch.
By the year 476 AD, unrelenting Barbarian hordes were attacking the Western Roman Empire. Quickly disintegrating under the strain, and with Romulus Augustus' abdication to Odoacer, a Germanic King of Italy, Rome ultimately saw it's death...In most of those 500 years, before the onslaught of Christianity, the Romans managed to include the cat in their daily lives, worship her in the form of Isis and Diana, and carry her to the far reaches of the empire...Moreover, all the ancient Aegean civilizations including both Greek and Roman found the cat important enough to capture in their art. Some postulate that it was the coming of Christianity that brought the Roman Empire to its inevitable doom, as it surely did the cat. The Dark ages and fanatical Christianity would consume Paganism and the cat together, and the cat once adored, then tolerated, would soon become demonized.
