Hello, i am a real Christian

[SleepingDemon]

Why do christians believe that christianity is older than it actually is? Christianity was so insignificant during the 1st century that the Roman's didn't even see it as a threat to their already existing theology. Christianity began as a highly varied practice amongst cavedwelling cults, and it wasn't until the council of Nicea that an actual "church" and unified doctrine existed. Constantine and the religious leaders from the larger christian sects worked out a series of compromises to unify the religion to unify the empire. Your church began as a political ploy to strengthen the Roman empire. It's doctrine was taken from a thousand different belief systems that existed at the time, it's holidays mirrored pagan holidays to ease the transition. The only reason that christianity is as widespread as it is today is because it had an empire behind it. The Romans purged Europe, either converting or annhilating every opposing culture and religion. It's insulting for christianity and morality to even be in the same sentence. Christianity burned the world in it's first millenia of existence, a lot, a LOT of people died at the hands of the religious ruling body of Rome.

Early christianity wasn't this diluted jesus loves you hippy nonsense we see these days. The church used it's massive influence within the government to destroy any remaining ideologies that could threaten it. A lot of cultures and religions simply ceased to exist in europe after it's inception, not because the church was spreading it's morality, but because the church justified apartheid and genocide as god's work. A few real history classes might be a good idea dude.

And ANC, religion is a philisophical idea, however it's believers don't see it as such. I would have no problems with it were it simply used as a philosophy, however instead I can't even watch a presidential election without it coming up.