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=> Bertrand Russel on Christianity

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Thursday, September 9 2010, 11:55:20 (UTC)
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.....after lowing through detailed explanations of various Greek philosphers I come to this on page 281 of his "History of Western Philosophical Thought"....

" Conatantine´s most important innovation was the adoption of Christianity as the State religion, apparently because a large proportion of the soldiers were Christian."

Huh? That´s it? A large proportion of Roman soldiers were Christian...so might as well make it the State religion? Aside from that being a strange reason to "adopt" a religion, just what does it mean when Roman soldiers, the last group anyone would think of as natural converts to a religion of Peace and Love, voluntarily decide to throw over the gods of their youth and families for a barefoot carpenter, a Jew at that, from a people constantly at war with or causing trouble for Rome?

What part of the religion attracted them...turning the other cheek? Being meek? They wouldn´t even render unto Caesar but forced Ceasar to render unto them. Is it supposed to be a compliment to Christ that the most brutal soldiers on earth adopted him and his creed? Soldiers who attacked innocent peoples, murdering, raping, pillaging...across Europe and Asia till they´d subjugated over 100 nations. Why?

I hope Lord Russel goes into this in a little more depth later in the book...he´s sort of promised to.

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