RE: The Archaeology Thread
January 5, 2024 at 9:54 pm
(This post was last modified: January 5, 2024 at 9:55 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Archaeologists' Pagan Temple Find Challenges History of Roman Christianity
Boin said the discovery indicates how societal changes in Roman times took place very slowly. Even though Constantine was the first emperor to convert to Christianity, it did not become the official religion until around 70 years later. In this period, those who worshipped pagan gods gradually converted to Christianity.
"This [discovery] changes everything about how we perceive the pace of social change and our impression of the impact of social and cultural change," Boin said.
"This building, in a very radical way on its own, shows us the staying power of the pagan traditions that had been on the ground for centuries prior to the rise of Christianity. We are on the cusp of giving people a very visible piece of evidence that really upends the neat and tidy ways people think about big moments of cultural change."
"This building at Spello shows us quite vividly that Rome's first Christian emperor, Constantine, continued the established imperial cult practices of his predecessors. That is a remarkable historical discovery," Boin told Newsweek.
"It shows us that the path from paganism to Christianity was filled with all sorts of strange detours and odd cultural mixing, not all of which would be remembered fondly by authorities in the later church. Just as pagan Romans blended patriotism, imperial ideology, and religion, Christian Romans in Constantine's time did the same."
https://www.newsweek.com/pagan-temple-ch...ty-1858210
But Christianity is all about the cult of personality of the ruler: first, it was about how the Roman emperors were chosen by Jesus to rule, and then it was the same about the medieval kings and aristocrats, and even now some (would be) leaders are pushing the idea that they are chosen by god.
Boin said the discovery indicates how societal changes in Roman times took place very slowly. Even though Constantine was the first emperor to convert to Christianity, it did not become the official religion until around 70 years later. In this period, those who worshipped pagan gods gradually converted to Christianity.
"This [discovery] changes everything about how we perceive the pace of social change and our impression of the impact of social and cultural change," Boin said.
"This building, in a very radical way on its own, shows us the staying power of the pagan traditions that had been on the ground for centuries prior to the rise of Christianity. We are on the cusp of giving people a very visible piece of evidence that really upends the neat and tidy ways people think about big moments of cultural change."
"This building at Spello shows us quite vividly that Rome's first Christian emperor, Constantine, continued the established imperial cult practices of his predecessors. That is a remarkable historical discovery," Boin told Newsweek.
"It shows us that the path from paganism to Christianity was filled with all sorts of strange detours and odd cultural mixing, not all of which would be remembered fondly by authorities in the later church. Just as pagan Romans blended patriotism, imperial ideology, and religion, Christian Romans in Constantine's time did the same."
https://www.newsweek.com/pagan-temple-ch...ty-1858210
But Christianity is all about the cult of personality of the ruler: first, it was about how the Roman emperors were chosen by Jesus to rule, and then it was the same about the medieval kings and aristocrats, and even now some (would be) leaders are pushing the idea that they are chosen by god.
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"
