RE: Was Christianity started to control the masses and dictate poltical agendas
April 12, 2018 at 5:42 am
(This post was last modified: April 12, 2018 at 5:46 am by Fake Messiah.)
(April 12, 2018 at 5:09 am)Ruckus123 Wrote: It was sorta easy, you don't need many gods or wars anymore. Only one God, then Islam came and now you have two. But it was pretty unifying easy system that had got influencial is most likely why it got to where it is today
Actually that's total ignorant bullshit. Christians were warring against each-other from the get go, as the Roman writer Ammianus put it: "No wild beasts are so hostile to mankind as are most of the Christians in their savagery toward one another." source
The different branches of Christianity were in open war with each other, since most of them vied to be the only official one, and dismissed their rivals as heresies. Whenever one of them had been in power, Christians belonging to any other faction were persecuted just as much as pagans were.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
