I do get sick of the narcissism of religion. No sorry Steve, Paul didn't invent the modern world all by himself, not to mention the book of Paul was way after the fact and is a pseudo name like a ghost writer.
Just knock it off Steve. You ask a Hindu, and they will argue that their religion is the seat of humanity. Ask a Muslim they will argue their religion is the seat of humanity. Ask Jew, they will argue they are the seat of humanity. Ask a Buddhist and they will argue the same.
The concepts of Senate were around longer than the Jesus myth in Greece and Rome. But even in Polytheist Greece and Rome they had ruling families to which the senates had no real impeachment power of their king.
Constantine adapted Christianity for political expedience, regardless of his personal beliefs. I could give a shit less if he believed in Paul. Rome did not become a modern western society. They still had kings, and during the history of the Vatican, the Pope was the dictator of his own Papal state. The Vatican you see today isn't it's entire history. It had money and power and it's own state,, and while some Popes might have been kinder, many were brutal dictators of their state.
Religion does not make a person good, much less a religious leader.
This was just another convoluted argument to make the naked assertion that you got it right. So what, everyone of every religion thinks they got it right.
Just knock it off Steve. You ask a Hindu, and they will argue that their religion is the seat of humanity. Ask a Muslim they will argue their religion is the seat of humanity. Ask Jew, they will argue they are the seat of humanity. Ask a Buddhist and they will argue the same.
The concepts of Senate were around longer than the Jesus myth in Greece and Rome. But even in Polytheist Greece and Rome they had ruling families to which the senates had no real impeachment power of their king.
Constantine adapted Christianity for political expedience, regardless of his personal beliefs. I could give a shit less if he believed in Paul. Rome did not become a modern western society. They still had kings, and during the history of the Vatican, the Pope was the dictator of his own Papal state. The Vatican you see today isn't it's entire history. It had money and power and it's own state,, and while some Popes might have been kinder, many were brutal dictators of their state.
Religion does not make a person good, much less a religious leader.
This was just another convoluted argument to make the naked assertion that you got it right. So what, everyone of every religion thinks they got it right.
