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Posted by pancho (Guest) - Friday, May 27 2005, 0:22:33 (CEST)
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...one useful thing about it is that it inadvertantly tells us a basic truth about how religions and new moral orders are spread...they do not rise up from the masses and THEN become Law...as Christian apologists claim...but are imposed from on top...for no religion is going to be acceptable to the ruling class unless it promotes their own interests.

We`re constantly told about and shown too, the one Roman soldier who breaks down and cries at the murder of Jesus...he`s supposed to represent the conscience of Rome..awakening with a start at the realization that THIS Jew is indeed the son of god and so on. The biggest fable of Christianity is that everywhere it spread it was first adopted by the little people who then won a few supporters among the ruling classes...until the leader "came to his senses" as well and everyone magically drifted off to Disneyland together.

Never happened.

Constantine was not about to impose a religion on his people unless he knew damn well it would serve the empire`s purposes best...no one tied his hands and made him do it...and neither he nor any other emperor after him was any kind of Christian...Constantine killed his wife and two children...and went on from there..and this was AFTER turning Christian...as indeed the Romans, only after turning Christian, began the serious persecution of Christians.

In fact...Julian the Apostate, who tried briefly to lead Byzantium back to paganism, was a most devout and gentle person...more Christian than any Christian...but it was too late...the Imperial government of Rome saw what a brilliant religion this nonsense made....look at it this way...if you were the head of the Roman Empire and all around you things were falling into disrepair and new people with all sorts of ideas about gods were creeping over your borders...would you take to a religion that espoused the rights of each individual to full dignity and an equal share of the spoils in this life? Or would you prefer a new one that teaches people to remain in their place, pay taxes and be "gentle meek and mild"...to want nothing to very little of the things of THIS life...and instead pin their hopes and all their attention on what would come to them AFTER they died...with the added "advantage" that the more shit they ate in this life..the more caviar they`d get in heaven...some where "up there".

No one forced Christianity on any people except the rulers...Abgar included. And it impressed no one..it sang out to no one...or to very few. Had it not been for the Roman Empire, Christianity would have remained a minor sect in the MidEast...like it has been for 2000 years. Sure, they had monastaries here and there and several poor villages...and that, as they say, was that!

Had the other half of the world been presented with Christianity the same way..without a marrauding army at its back, they too would have passed. Who, in their right mind, throws away their ancestry on hearing of someone ELSE`S religion?

Did you say... "Assyrians"?

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