Quote:
Originally Posted by Veritas the invincible
in summary:
the romans invented Christianity to control the populace yes?
|
sort of. i can't say that the romans invented it, i can only say they utilized it to serve their wills. i think constantine was a lunatic, but i believe those assembled in constantinople at the inventing of the basic christian bible were logical people who could forsake the old gods that they probably figured out didn't really exist and why not give the masses a new god, so when traveling amongst the provinces everyone is following the same teachings from the same curriculum every priest could teach
because we look at the bible but it wasn't really made for plebian eyes. it was made for priests to decipher and teach those who attended their places of worship and stories the populace passed around was taught by the preacher priest dudes of every village let alone province
thats why there was so many gospels in the first place, north africa had different gospels then syria and so on and so forth. it was a way to dumb down religion by assembling all the gospels from all of romes far flung regions, and selectively trimming and reducing it until we have what we have today.
but i give jesus respect as a mythological figure proportionate to his feats. i put samson above him tho. i have the warrior spirit. hercules. badass heroes of lore. jesus and buddha are like hippies and shit. if i was to accept a mythological hero there are cooler ones basically.
because at the end of the day its all stuff humans made up.