(May 2, 2010 at 6:21 pm)Darwinian Wrote: It also has to be said that the reason that there are so few organisations and institutions that are around today that were also around at the time of the early years of the Catholic Church is because the very same went around the world destroying everything it touched and replacing it with bloody Catholicism.
Who knows what sort of ancient organisations there would be today if they had just minded their own business and stayed put in Rome.
That's what I was getting at on an earlier post on this thread that you didn't give me kudos for.
"It's not as if Christianity became so popular as a pacifist in the first place: how is the Catholic's history with violent methods of spreading their 'word' supposed to make sense in a religion that now proposes that you turn the other cheek when in conflict?"