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Was Christianity started to control the masses and dictate poltical agendas
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RE: Was Christianity started to control the masses and dictate poltical agendas
(March 25, 2018 at 4:48 am)Banned Wrote:
(March 24, 2018 at 10:11 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: Yo, Banned! You need to look into what Min is talking about. He is totally correct on this!

You know what my pet name for protestants is? Diet Catholics.

All Protestant denominations (including yours) have more in common with Catholics than they do the Early Christian Church. And don't come back at me with some nay saying bullcrap. Take the time to look into Minimalist's claims. If you want to disagree with them, fine, but first demonstrate that you know what the fuck he is talking about.

Yes and no.
It has to do with events.
The reformation churches arose by accepting truth of the Bible which the RCC denied the people access to. It challenged the church and eventually broke her back.
It wasn't until years later, that the Protestant churches ceased their flight to freedom and renegotiated their stance, and united with the mother church, in finance and doctrine, until today they are the same beast.

The Bible encodes it by the following statement in Rev 17,
Mystery - Babylon, the Mother of Harlots.

Mystery - work it out.
Babylon - the city where Israel was captured, because of their apostacy. The papacy arose from an apostate Christian world. It persecuted the saints and kept the world in darkness for 1260 years.
Mother of Harlots - the church would have spawnings. The churches which were established after her downfall, were just as corrupt as her.

The reformation was right, but the institutions/churches which followed ended up rejoining Rome. That meant doing her dirty deeds against humanity.

You wouldn't be quoting Revelation to me if Martin Luther got his way. He wanted to remove it from the Bible.

His followers gave him some pushback, and it didn't happen. He did, however, remove other books successfully. I have a Catholic Bible sitting on my shelf. I bet you it has more books than the one you have sitting on your shelf. The Bible you believe in is different because of the politics in 16th century Europe.

I bet you think that your Bible is the inerrant word of God too. That's a Catholic thing. The Early Christians didn't even have an agreed upon canon (their texts lacked some canonical books or contained apocrypha), nor did they consider it inerrant. The Catholics came along and said, "These books are in, these other books are out, and what we have chosen is the inerrant word of God."

Funny how the inerrant word of God is suspect to the whims of powerful political figures at different stages of history, isn't it? You'd think the inerrant word of God wouldn't be subject to the whims of politics, but it is.
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RE: Was Christianity started to control the masses and dictate poltical agendas - by vulcanlogician - March 25, 2018 at 5:45 pm

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