RE: What if christianity never existed ?
August 29, 2016 at 6:47 pm
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2016 at 6:49 pm by paulpablo.)
(August 29, 2016 at 6:25 pm)abaris Wrote: Business as usual. You don't even notice what all your claims entail - oh, I'm sorry - they aren't claims. You were just saying. You left out what I said before, about you saying - just saying - you haven't heard of any of the same things in the christian world. To which I replied that this is the operative word. You haven't heard. Might look up the early schisms, might look at the cathars, might look at Calvinism, might look at Protestanism, which resulted in a small scuffle that lasted for about 30 years and left Europe in ruins.
So, you were saying? Just saying?
Yeh I've heard of battles between different sects of Christianity.
I'm saying I think it's an oversimplification to say that this is the reason of a separation between Church and state.
I've read fairly in depth about some of the events and battles between different sects of Christianity, and at no point did I get the impression that all these battles were the one reason that a separation between Church and state exists.
You could say it was partly due to these battles some progression was made, people fled religious persecution and wanted to avoid it in future.
But just to say, Countries with a history of Christianity have more of a separation between Church and state because of some game of thrones battles is over simplified.
Similar battles happen within other religions and don't directly result in a separation between church and state.
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