The Last Prophecy

Peter Was the Christ

1. The Malachy Prophecy of the Popes

In 1139 Saint Malachy, an Irish archbishop, had a vision while in Rome after having been summoned there by Pope Innocent II. The prophecy essentially predicted the fall of the Catholic Church sometimes in the future, namely after Pope Benedict XVI's papacy ("Prophecy of the Popes." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 14 November 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes.).

Perhaps it was a forewarning of things to come if the Church stayed the course it was on at the time, one which led to Pope Innocent III ordering the Massacre of Beziers and ensuing Cathar Genocide starting in 1209 ("Catharism." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 08 March 2019, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharism.).

The prophecy was stored in the Vatican Secret Archives and rediscovered in 1590. The first part of the document was likely adulterated prior to its publication. However, its post-1590 segment appears to be authentic. 

The last pope preceding the prophesied fall of the Church was described as "Peter the Roman," presumably a reference to Saint Peter, the first bishop of Rome. Ironically, Pope Francis named himself after St. Francis of Assisi who created the Franciscan Order in 1209 as an orthodox alternative to Catharism, and perhaps a refuge for Cathar Perfecti (spiritual leaders) fleeing persecution, but failed to reconcile the papacy with its Cathar legacy and redeem the Church. His successor and current pope, Robert Francis Prevost, chose to call himself Leo XIV.

There is no denying that Catholicism is at a time of great turmoil. The Vatican has been drowning under the weight of residential school and pedophilia scandals of the last few decades, of which the Mount Cashel Orphanage saga was a particularly depraved example. There are also stories of financial misconduct at the Vatican Bank, sexual deviancy, and the hiring of male prostitutes for people inside Vatican City ("Why did Pope Benedict Resign?" YouTube, uploaded by Dr. Taylor Marshall, 27 August 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q2HSJ6cbMY.).

2. The Other Malachi Prophecy - The Third Secret of Fatima

This prophecy made in 1917 talks about the coming of an apostate heretic pope who would challenge the papacy and rock the very foundations of Christianity. Three days of darkness would be followed by a deep crisis of faith within the Church.

For more details, see "Did Malachi Martin Leak The Real Third Secret Of Fatima?" YouTube, uploaded by Return To Tradition, 7 October 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3AnjIpA44I.

3. The Cathar Prophecy of 2021

A thousand years ago, the Catholic Church committed a genocide against the Cathars, the spiritual branch of Christianity.

The last Perfecti leader burnt alive by the Catholic Church (1321) predicted that Cathars would return in seven centuries when "the laurel... [would] grow green again." ("Cathars and Cathar Beliefs in the Languedoc." Cathar Info, https://www.cathar.info/media.htm. Accessed 11 December 2025.). That would be around this decade.

The Laurel Is Growing Green Again

As of this date, August 2, 2021, none of the major sources of information on Catharism (Wikipedia, Cathar.info, the Catholic Church) seem to be aware of the existence of a place on Earth whose name very likely translates to "Land of the Cathars," Cathar Launia.

Its most prestigious building, the Sagrada Familia, is an expiatory basilica (i.e. an atonement for wrongdoings) considered one of the most significant buildings in Christendom today. Often described as the Cathedral of Light, it greatly outshines that of Rome. It was consecrated even before its completion by Pope Benedict XVI. Ironically, before his papacy he had been the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the office responsible for the fight against heresy, which began with the Cathar Genocide and continued as the various Catholic Inquisitions which used torture and executed hundreds of thousands, of which many, most of them Perfecti, were burnt alive.

Perhaps the rushed consecration and the double-pope tenure were intended to thwart the Malachy prophecy. While the Church is still standing, it lost all moral authority when it committed a genocide. 

Christianity's most beautiful memorial is an expiatory church built in the Land of the Cathars, forever reminding us of the genocide.

The Catholic Church has fallen. It just does not know it yet!

4. The Jewish Prophecies

According to Jewish prophecy, which Jesus is supposed to be the fulfillment of, the messiah would be called Immanuel (Isaiah 7:14), meaning "El (God) with us." This suggests that the savior would be an angel as their names usually end with el (e.g. Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Uriel, etc.). Neither Jesus nor Yeshua (in spoken Hebrew and Aramaic) is an angelic name. Furthermore, the latter means "Yahweh is salvation," which is different from the meaning above, and El and Yahweh are two different gods ("How did Yahweh Become God? The Origins of Monotheism." YouTube, uploaded by Esoterica, 31 May 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGCqv37O2Dg.). 

The messiah would also be of Bethlehem in Judea. In the original gospel (Mark's), Jesus is clearly said to be of Nazareth without any reference whatsoever to Bethlehem. The same is true for the inscription of the cross (John 19:19).

5. Jesus the Prophet

Most scholars agree that Jesus was an apocalyptic preacher who professed that the end of the world was coming.

Mark 13:24-25: “But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from heaven...."

"Truly I say to you,

this generation will not pass away until

 all these things take place. 

Heaven and earth will pass away..." (Mark 13:30)

Jesus clearly prophesied the destruction of the physical world, not of Jerusalem as Christian apologists argue, and it would happen within a few decades. His prophecy did not come true. The messiah would save us, resurrecting the good, destroying evil, and ushering in an era of peace. That did not happen either.

Jesus was neither a prophet nor a savior.

In fact, in scriptures preceding Jesus, there is nothing about God having a child and no prophecy of a son of his incarnating and saving the world. The Old Testament talks about a messiah, which is an anointed human being, or of various persons (e.g. King David) being awarded the title honorarily.

6. Jesus the Son of God

According to scriptures, both Jesus and Peter performed miracles, resurrected the dead, and died crucified. Which one was the Christ?

The first and original gospel was that of Mark (AD 65-70) who was not one of the twelve disciples. Written in Greek, the gospel begins with John baptizing Jesus and ends at Mark 16:8 with Mary finding Jesus's tomb empty (of him). Verses 16:9-20 were fraudulently added later.

There was no virgin birth (evidence of divinity), no resurrection per se--an empty tomb not being proof of such--no post-crucifixion sighting (actual evidence of resurrection), and no ascension. 

It is unthinkable that a story about Jesus, written some 30 years after his death, would not have these.

The Gospel of Matthew (AD 80-90), despite his being a disciple, is not an original firsthand account but a rewrite of Mark's with massive embellishments, among them the virgin birth like Melchizedek (priesthood of the "God Most High") and sightings after his death. Mark could only have known about them had they taken place! These embellishments raised Jesus to the status of God and empowered the Church immensely. 

"Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners..." (Hail Mary prayer).

Luke's gospel (AD 85) is based on Matthew's (and some of Mark's content), hence problematic. Luke 24:49 describes Jesus's last words just before he ascended to Heaven as, "And behold, I am sending the promise of My Father upon you [i.e. the Holy Spirit]; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high [i.e. until they have received it]."

John 20:19-23 describes Jesus directly breathing the Holy Spirit onto his disciples before his presumed ascension, which contradicts Luke 24:49 as well as Acts 1 and Acts 2 (the Pentecost), which describe Peter and the apostles receiving the Spirit after Jesus's death and presumed ascension.

The fact that the bestowing of the Spirit is absent from the first two gospels, on top of the subsequent contradictory narratives, suggests that Luke 24:49 and John 20:19-23 are fraudulent embellishments. Neither is celebrated by Christians while the Pentecost (Acts), widely viewed as the birth of the Church, is commemorated to this day, lending the latter a certain degree of authenticity.

As late as Matthew's writing, 

no gospel had claimed that Jesus had given anyone the Spirit.

Luke 24:49 adds evidence to Jesus, himself, not having the gift of the Spirit, otherwise he would have baptized his disciples right there and then before leaving, as per the prophecy. 

John's gospel (AD 90-100) is an evangelical book, a work of advocacy rather than a historical account. As you would expect, it is replete with additions, exaggerations, falsehoods, and biased interpretations typical of preachers as opposed to impartial historians. It is also dated, having been written some 60 years after Jesus's death, leaving plenty of time for memories to fade and the story to become twisted, exaggerated, and corrupted as often occurs in oral tradition. It has no birth narrative and is the only gospel claiming that Jesus turned water into wine and resurrected Lazarus, both famous miracles.

There are 4 gospels but only 2 narratives (Mark's and John's) as Matthew's and Luke's works are embellished versions of Mark's story (see synoptic gospels). The latter has 20 miracles; Matthew and Luke add to it respectively 5 and 8 new ones ("The 37 Miracles of Jesus in Chronological Order." Sunny Hills Church, retrieved 22 November 2024, https://sunnyhillschurch.com/3301/the-37-miracles-of-jesus-in-chronological-order/.). Neither narrative includes the miraculous birth, confirming the fraudulence of Matthew's gospel.

The synoptic narrative (Mark's) contains 31 different miracles. As the last one written, John's gospel would normally be the most comprehensive. It features only 8 miracles, 6 of which are not in any other gospel, hence likely to be fraudulent. It matches only 2 miracles of the synoptic narrative, leaving 29 out of 31 as potentially fraudulent. Furthermore, one of the two (Mark 6:33-44) was an example of sharing rather than a miracle, leaving only one (Mark 6:45-52), which could be explained by a sandbar. 

The resurrection is absolutely central to Christianity. There was no post-crucifixion sighting in Mark's gospel. Matthew and Luke embellished their works with respectively 2 (Matthew 28:8-10, Matthew 28:16-20) and 3 sightings (Luke 24:13-31, Luke 24:30-34, Luke 24:50-51). John added another 4 (John 20:11-18, John 20:19-25, John 20:26-29, John 21:1-14). As none of the 9 sightings match each other, in addition to their not being in Mark's original text, they are likely to be also fraudulent.

The Ascension, which occurred in the infamous town of Bethany (see below) according to the Bible and is fundamental to Christianity, is absent from the first two gospels, Mark's and Matthew's, hence is very likely to be a fraudulent addition.

The story of the gospels is one where the narratives

 have become increasingly corrupted over time.

7. The Gospel of Peter

Like Jesus, Peter preached, performed miracles, resurrected the dead (Tabitha, Acts 9:36), healed the sick, suffered, and died of crucifixion, on an upside-down cross. He even walked on water according to Matthew (Matthew 14:22–34), if only for a few steps. He was widely recognized as leader of the apostles and the Church after Jesus died and held the Keys of Heaven.

The apocryphal Gospel of Peter (authored by Simon Peter and only signed gospel) suggests that the resurrection was faked (Mattison, Mark M. "The Gospel of Peter." Gospels.net, https://www.gospels.net/peter. Accessed 15 December 2025.). In the night before the visit of Mary Magdalene to Jesus's grave, two men came, entered the tomb, and dragged a third (Jesus) out while a fourth carrying a cross followed. The latter must therefore have been inside the tomb with Jesus. Later, a fifth man went into the cave, probably the young man that Mary saw. This fits perfectly with the narrative in Mark's gospel and seems to be a natural sequel to his writings (see also Wallace, J. Warner. "Mark’s Relationship With Peter Was the Foundation for His Gospel." Cold-Case Christianity, 22 August 2018, https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/marks-relationship-with-peter-was-the-foundation-for-his-gospel/.).

The Gospel of Peter (3-42) also states: "And they heard a voice from the heavens, saying, 'Have you proclaimed [preached] to those who sleep?' And a response was heard from the cross: 'Yes!'" (Mattison, Mark M. "The Gospel of Peter." Gospels.net. Accessed 15 December 2025.). Those sleeping were the guards, who were therefore Christians, and the man entombed with Jesus would have been a preacher, making the guards and some of the early ministers of the movement complicit in the fraud. In fact, Pilate had specifically provided guards for the tomb to prevent people from stealing the body and falsely claiming he had resurrected (Matthew 27:62-66).

Jesus knew that Judas would betray him presumably not because he, himself, was a prophet but because he had planned it. This is supported by Jesus's insistence that he had to fulfill the scriptures (Mark 14:3 & 14:49) and his anointing by Mary of Bethany (believed to be a prostitute) who was not a stranger to Jesus but the sister of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. Both were close friends of his, which significantly increases the odds of deception, including with respect to the latter's presumed resurrection. Both events occur shortly before Jesus is arrested. In addition, the apocryphal Gospel of Judas, which reports on conversations happening only days before the arrest, describes his betrayal as if by design (Mattison, Mark M. "The Gospel of Judas." Gospels.net, https://www.gospels.net/judas. Accessed 15 December 2025). 

Peter also reports that Jesus looked serene on the cross, "he was silent as if having no pain," suggesting he might have been drugged and lending yet more credence to the idea that it was all planned (Mattison, Mark M. "The Gospel of Peter." Gospels.net. Accessed 15 December 2025.). 

The last words of Jesus according to Mark were: “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” (Mark 15:34). He cannot be the anointed (i.e. the Christ) if God has forsaken him, quite the opposite. His last words according to the Gospel of Peter were: "My Power, the Power, you've left me!" again, suggesting that God had disowned him, which is exactly what you would expect if Jesus had planned to fake a resurrection and make himself greater than God (Mattison, Mark M. "The Gospel of Peter." Gospels.net. Accessed 15 May 2026.).

Jesus was not the Christ.

Presumably, he faked his death on the cross.

He was entombed with someone to tend to his wounds with the intention of reappearing later to his disciples and claim resurrection, in line with what the chief priests and Pharisees had feared in Matthew 27:62-66.

Of all the events that transpired 2,000 years ago, two major branches of Christianity emerged. The main one seems to be based on a fraud, a planned faking of the resurrection, and a god that appears to despise women (Revelation 14:4).

The end game in John's prophecy is the gift of the Spirit. In Acts 2:41 Peter baptizes thousands: "So then, those who had received his word [Peter's] were baptized; and that day there were added about three thousand souls." In Acts 8:14-24 Peter together with John are described as laying hands on someone who then receives the Spirit.

Peter had the power power of the gift of the Spirit.

According to the Bible, Peter renounced Jesus three times. A threefold denial is symbolically highly significant, usually interpreted as total or final. Presumably, he did not want any part in a sacrilegious act, which the faking of the resurrection would be. Some scholars argue that John 21:15-25 constitutes a restoration, but a final act is not restorable. Moreover, there no such thing in the first three gospels, suggesting that the passage in John's gospel is another fraudulent addition.

How did Peter, a guy who renounced Jesus the Son of God, end up with the Keys of Heaven and uncontested leader of the Church?

If you are waiting for the resurrection,

you may have to wait for a long time.

Scientific research has firmly established that the 

bodily resurrection of the long-dead is not possible.

If you want to go to Heaven,

Peter is the one who has the keys!

By renouncing Jesus three times, he went from

 disciple to apostle (apost-asy, apost-olic).*

Peter followed the truth.

His gospel exposes the trickery of Jesus.

Christianity promises the Resurrection of the Dead.

If Jesus did not himself resurrect, 

there is no reason to believe that we will.

[* The word "apostle" is used only once in Mark's and Matthew's gospels and never in John's despite having been written 60-70 years after Jesus's death. Compare this to "disciple." As well, any honest devotee would have also objected to Jesus's anointing by Mary, and many did. The upside-down cross also supports the idea of renouncement. The suffix "el" or "le" in apostle might point to an angelic branch.]

Christianity based its narrative on secondary gospels whose authorship is uncertain and whose source, Mark, was not an original disciple or apostle. It does not describe a story of resurrection and bestowing of the Spirit by Jesus. Of them, only one was based on a firsthand account of an apostle, John's, written late, inconsistent with earlier gospels, and ridden with falsehoods.

The papal canon relies on secondary anonymous sources.

It has nothing written by Jesus, the central figure of Christianity.

It has only two letters from Peter,

the second most important figure in Christendom

and leader of Jesus's disciples and the early Church after his death, and those are believed by scholars to be inauthentic.

Despite the above and the fact that all gospels are unsigned

 and of unconfirmed authorship,

preachers routinely refer to them as the "word of God!"

The gospels of Peter (a signed gospel which shows Jesus faking the resurrection), of Mary (a main eyewitness), and of Judas (the antagonist of the story), on the other hand, are all based on people who had known Jesus personally. Surprisingly, they contain very little in terms of miracles (Gospels.net), hence are more likely to be true. We only know of these firsthand eyewitness accounts not because of the Church had carefully preserved them in its archives but because they were hidden by various sources and rediscovered in the last 200 years.

The Church rejected the most important eyewitness accounts of the early Christianity, including the Gospel of Peter, the first pope.

It did so in favor of a canon based on anonymous secondary sources

and miraculous accounts that made the Church infinitely more powerful.

8. The Lord of Heaven

This brings us to Gerasa (Gadara in original version, see "Mark 5." Scripture 4 All, https://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/Greek_Index.htm. Accessed 15 December 2025.) where Jesus meets a naked man who lives in a cemetery, speaks to the dead, and is said to be possessed by a legion of demons (Mark 5). He attempts to exorcise him, but at their request not to expel them from the region, he sends them instead into pigs, which immediately run over a cliff and die, resulting in a massive loss for the local gentile community and his expulsion from the region.

In Gerasa Jesus, the Son of God, was mocked and sent packing, abruptly ending his attempt at evangelizing the Eastern gentile community.

Instead of forcing the unclean spirits out (an exorcism), Jesus made a deal with them, suggesting he did not have the power of exorcism. Why would Jesus allow demons to stay in the region and possess other people--2,000 of them?

Demonology 101: Do not make deals with demons! 

For someone to still be standing while being possessed by 2,000 demons points to a person of extraordinary strength. He was not possessed because he was weak. In fact, he was described as unrestrainable, having torn apart chains and shackles binding him. Presumably, he was either the demons' enemy (an important angel) or someone intrinsically powerful like a magi. When he asked to follow Jesus, the latter refused and made him his witness for the Decapolis region.

Strangely enough, the Gerasene episode was interpreted by Thomas Aquinas (a foremost Dominican medieval theologian) as Christians having "no duties to animals," which explains why Christianity dropped the ball on the environment ("Exorcism of the Gerasene demoniac." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 16 September 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorcism_of_the_Gerasene_demoniac.).

9. The Three Branches of Christianity

From the maelstrom of first-century Christianity emerged three branches ("Christian Origins & Early Schisms." YouTube, uploaded by UsefulCharts, 13 January 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzuYZi749CM.). 

Jewish Christians

The Jewish-Christian branch was associated with James, the brother of Jesus, and followed Mosaic laws and customs. It went extinct but formed part of the foundations of Islam later on.

Pauline Christians

The main branch mainly catered to the Gentiles and was led by Paul, formerly Saul, a persecutor of Christians (see Acts 8). Persecution at that time ranged from community expulsion, beatings, and imprisonment to torture and execution. The branch followed the corrupt Gospel of Matthew, himself, an ex-tax collector.* Paul (neither a disciple nor an original apostle) went from antichrist-ian persecutor to leading Christianity. A millennial later, this Pauline branch was involved in the murder of hundreds of thousands of Cathars, with the tortured and burnt alive numbering in the thousands. The Pauline ideology was highly influential in what became the Catholic Church, which was probably not apostolic, despite claiming the title, as it professed the resurrection of Jesus.

It is associated with Jesus, claimed Son of God, making Christianity a religion with at least two equal Gods. It sells the resurrection, which brings you back to life from the grave in your old body, presumably for eternity. There are 3 instances of resurrection in the Old Testament (1 Kings 17:17-24, 2 Kings 4:18-37, 2 Kings 13:20-21). All of them could have been comas mistaken for death, and none of the resurrected lived eternally.

For a carnal body to live for eternity without degradation is biologically impossible, not to speak of being resurrected from a stack of bones.

In fact, the bodily resurrection of the dead is an unsupported claim borrowed from Zoroastrianism, which preceded Christianity by about a thousand years.

[* Tax collectors were hated and viewed as dishonest and corrupt at the time of Jesus ("The parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector (Luke 18:9-14)." BBC News, 2026, https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zkw2vk7/revision/3).]

Spiritual Christians

The Gnostic branch of Christianity was associated with Peter and the Essenes,  an ascetic Jewish sect known for its core beliefs in angels and spirits. Acts 2 clearly connects Peter to the Spirit and leadership of the Twelve. Acts 8: 9-25 (Simon Magus) describes him bestowing the Spirit onto people by laying hands on them. This branch was angelic and spiritual, and probably the main root of Catharism, the other half of Christianity.

The Essenes believed in reincarnation, which occurs through rebirth, hence supports eternal life without violation of biological laws. Reincarnation and rebirth are associated with the spirit, which is what survives physical death according to most belief systems. 

Spiritual Christians are primarily associated with Peter,

 angels, the truth, and the spirit.

According to a personal source, the Conference of Bishops removed the reincarnation from the New Testament at the First Council of Nicaea (AD 325). Presumably, all references to it and copies of Peter's gospel were destroyed in its wake. That is, with the exception of the one found in the grave of a Christian monk in Egypt together with a copy of the Book of Enoch (Ehrman, Bart. "And Now: The Gospel of Peter!" The Bart Ehrman Blog, 23 September 2020, https://ehrmanblog.org/and-now-the-gospel-of-peter/.).

The story becomes...

John the Baptist was the prophet.

The baptism with the Spirit was the prophecy (Mark 1:8).

Jesus was a follower of John.

He spoke of his prophecy but neither originated it nor fulfilled it.

Peter was the one who baptized with the Spirit.

He would have been the anointed one.

His gospel was rejected by the Church like the

 Book of Enoch, which was popular at the time of Jesus.

The spiritual branch of Christianity was apostolic

 as it followed Peter who had rejected the crucifixion fraud and resurrection. 

And, he was proven right in time by science.

10. The Laurel Growing Green Again

In 1208, about 900 years after the First Council of Nicaea, Pope Innocent III declared a war on heresy and led the Catholic Church into committing a genocide against the Cathars (Peter's angelic branch which followed the Spirit and rejected the resurrection). The genocide began with the massacre of 20,000 innocents (pacifist vegetarians) "regardless of rank, age, or sex" and ended after several hundred years of persecution of the Cathars and others (pagans, spirituals, healers, scientists, etc.) with the last Inquisition (1834).

Assuming families of four, 10,000 children were murdered in the Beziers Massacre alone. How do you kill a 5-year-old, trample them with horses and leave them to die slowly, cut them down with a sword, bash their heads on stones?

The scriptures that religions call the "word of God" are anything but. Christianity's very foundations are deeply flawed. Those who profess fallacious beliefs as if they were the truth are false leaders.

On the authority of scriptures they refer to as the "word of God,"

those calling themselves "servants of God" have killed hundreds

 of thousands of innocent Cathars

and burnt their ascetic leaders at the stake (The Cathar Genocide).

There are pockets of Cathars here and there in Northern Italy, France, and Spain still practicing their religion but mostly underground. Many on the perfecti path must have found safety among the Franciscan friars, an order created by Francis of Assisi in 1209, the year of the Beziers Massacre.

The spiritual faction of Franciscans, which would most closely represent Cathar views, believed in the vow of poverty at a time when the papacy was filthy rich and powerful. They followed the ideas of Joachim of Fiore who believed in three epoch: the Age of the Father, the Age of the Son, and the Age of the Spirit which presumably began in 1260 and in which an "Order of the Just, composed of contemplatives and preachers, would supersede the institutional worldly Church" ("How Alchemy was a Weapon Against the Anti-Christ - the Apocalyptic Prophecies of John of Rupescissa." YouTube, uploaded by Esoterica, 23 February 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V6oi1JxpkU.). The Order's association with justice points to the priesthood of Melchizedek. In their creed, the final showdown between good and evil would feature an angelic pope facing off against the Antichrist.

Many Cathars were made landless by the Catholic crusade and ended up as migrant labour not always sure when they would eat--a cruel fate especially for the children. Like many of the destitute of Europe, an unknown number of them probably moved to North America after its discovery, hoping for a second chance. Many must have ended up in Quebec (the Invisible Minority of Canada) or other French-speaking parts of the continent. Quebec's national day, celebrated on June 24th, honours John the Baptist.

Cathars called themselves "good Christians."

Quebecers often refer to God as "le bon Dieu," the good God, rather than "Dieu."

Even today, the elderly can be heard at times 

calling the misbehaving "bande d'innocents."