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Re: the uses of religion...
Posted by Jeff (Guest) - Thursday, October 27 2005, 4:13:45 (CEST)
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beezelbub wrote:
>...one of the most fascinating puzzles in the world is why the Roman Empire turned Christian. Of course it has nothing to do with any reason the self-serving Church has given us...the Roman people, like everyone else in the world, had to be forced into converting to it...but why would the Emperor, hardly any kind of Christian, have forced the change?
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>In Durant's, "Caesar and Christ" , refering to the earliest days of Rome, when it was still a collection of tribes, he writes, "By establishing a uniform worship for the diverse tribes of Rome, Numa strengthened the unity and stability of the state."
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>...fast-forward a few centuries when there are no longer strong tribal loyalties and the state has become an empire instead, made up of various and diverse people...and you get a clue as to why Numa's descendants, the emperors of Rome, might have been inteserested in establishing another "uniform worship"...by adopting a totally new, obscure and unheard of religious "ethic" among the people of their far-flung empire...a religion that would not be seen as part of any already established and formidable part or faction of the empire...but rather an obscure one from some god-forsaken quarter that would be new to everybody in the empire and therefore equally hard to swallow.
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>The aim here as well would have been to strengthen the, "unity and stability", not of the state, but of the empire. The Romans were administrative geniuses...and maintaining order was almost a fetish with them.
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>Like most things, the reasons given were nothing like the actual reasons. If the majority of the Hebrews of that day...who heard and saw this amazing Christ in the flesh, were unmoved and unimpressed by Jesus and his "message"...a message, after all, they were all familiar with as Jesus WAS a Hebrew himself and well versed in Mosaic law...if only a smattering of people across a very small landscape were moved by Jesus...how could it be that people ten thousand miles away and from a totally different culture and ethic, be said to have LEAPT into Christianity?
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>They didn't. They were dragged into it by the hair and their grandchildren believe to this day that it was otherwise...just look at the Black Americans today who love Jesus so...and recall what we know was done to their ancestors, their culture, language, Heritage and Arts...and see how faithful they can be made ANYWAY to the religion of their destroyers and slavers...and you'll begin to realize the pernicious damage to CHILDREN...children of those forcibly converted, this religion from hell has meant.
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>Especially when you consider that Love and Peace were not invented by it and hardly ever came with it...that these human qualities existed in abundance already...but, rather, the CORE of the religion is playing at cannibalism, vampirism and ritual human sacrifice...all wedded to venerating a bloody corpse that hangs over their altars to this day...that the entrie hope and promise of the religion is that if you do these otherwise despicable acts so roundly condemned throughout human history, and accept the murder of an Innocent for "your sake"...you will get an unimagineable "gift"...the gift of eternal Life, though why anyone with any decency would want such a thing, at SUCH a price, is beyond me...and would render them fit only for prison on earth...and you get the scope and destructive power of this religion...masked and hidden from view as it is behind Jesus, "gentle, meek and mild".
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>Look at Bush...has he earned anything BUT a place in hell?
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