RE: If Only The Romans
December 25, 2014 at 4:04 pm
(This post was last modified: December 25, 2014 at 4:10 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(December 25, 2014 at 3:16 pm)abaris Wrote: Anyway, I don't find it particularly admirable to supress religion. I don't want to be supressed because of what I think and I extend the same courtesy to others as well. The only thing I do want, is for religion to stay out of politics.
Religion, particularly of the evangelical christian variety, does not exist to stay out of politics. It exists to attack otherwise rational people in their least rational area so as to gradually break them down and make them susceptible to wide spread intrusion of a particular variety into all aspect of civil life, politics not by any means the least of goals.
(December 25, 2014 at 2:58 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote:(December 25, 2014 at 1:53 pm)Chuck Wrote: Maybe there is a reason why the Chinese empire is still around after 2000 years, where as the one afflicted with the jesus cult isn't.The role Christianity in the fall of Rome is debatable, as they declining before they became Christian and the eastern roman empire was christian and stood till 1476.
If Christianity found so debatable an argument that's it has determined to be useful to further itself. it will burn you at the stake for debating.
