William Eade wrote:
Thank You, Rick
You pretty well delineated what I was talking about, in a lot more
detail.
When Constantine made the sect that became the Roman Catholic Church
the "official" Religion of Rome in the early 300's, the Roman records
show that they went on a rampage of destruction to obliterate any
group that was in opposition to their belief. There were numerous
sects all calling themselves "Christian" with differing beliefs. In
these records it is said that even the Roman officers were amazed at
the savageness of the designated Christians against the other sects
and the Pagans. Priests and Priestesses were killed, documents were
destroyed, and temples razed to the ground with their own built on the
site of the old one.
If documents such as the Dead Sea scrolls and the Naj Hamadi documents
(The Gnostic Gospels) had not been hidden, they would also have been
destroyed. Christianity made this standard practice all over the world
everywhere they encountered a "Pagan" culture. They had to save the
souls of the disbeliveers even if they had to kill them to do it.
Some try to divorce the actions of the Crusaders and other Christian
Conquerors by saying that they were not doing Christian things. I
can't accept that since at the time they were doing what the Church
wanted them to do. If that does not agree with what we would like to
believe they should have done, we cannot go back, retroactively, and
change it. At that time it was accepted Church policy - therefore it
was Christian whether we like it or not.
Not true. If someone declares himself to be William Eade, then nearly
kills you and makes it clear that he will do so if he gets another
chance, and then does all kinds of horrific things in your name, is it
really William Eade that did them? Even if the history books later say
that it was William Eade that did them, will it have been true?
Microsoft's policy of (how does that go again?) "embrace and extend" is
not so different. The Catholic Church declared itself Christian and
adapted Christian labels for its pagan practices. But it was still a
pagan religion in Christian guise. But now true Christianity has a bad
rap because of ancient identity theft. (Oh that William Eade was a
really, really bad dude. What can anyone expect from his descendant,
especially having the same name?)
I do not worry about having to vindicate my actions to "God" since I
believe that the Spirit is eternal and will return in another body to
continue it's learning - Reincarnation, if you will. It is amazing
that 80% of the world's population do not believe in Christianity, yet
a small percent of those that do think that the rest of us are wrong.
Oh, no! The majority is always right. Just ask the people who just
*knew* that the earth was flat!
My personal library consists of about 3000 books, mostly History and
Religion, with not over a dozen of them classed as fiction - unless
you include the 14 different Bibles (including Catholic) - all of
which I have read COVER TO COVER, and a LOT of books written by
Christian apologists all based on the Bible. I think that those who
use the Bible as a basis of how we should act should read ALL of the
book, not just the GOOD portions.
Impressive. What did it accomplish?
I recently read that someone had tabulated the number of people who
were killed directly by "God" or at "God's" direction. The number
exceeded 2 1/2 Million. Those killed by Satan totaled 10 - Job's sons
and daughters. And Satan at that time was the Adversary, working at
"God's" direction to test Job's devotion, so these can be added to the
list killed by "God.
They overlooked Adam and Eve and all their descendants. Satan killed
(doomed to Hell) the whole lot of them with his lie. (That's currently
in the billions, without even including the ante-deluvian population
which could easily have been even more.)
Someone once said "Beware the man who carries only one book."
Beware the man who has the very words of God, but chooses to rely on
some other source.
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