"Roman" Catholic

[JenyEliza]

Jeny needs to read up on the Council of Nicea.

Just sayin'.

No need to re-do that work. I know the Nicene Creed, which was brought about at the Council of Nicea.

Doh! Just sayin' .....

 

[Sky Dancer]

Uhm....no. Peter (one of Christ's disciples) was the founder of the Roman Catholic Church and the FIRST Pope.

I hate when peope spread malicious bullshit about the RCC.

It may be merely a lack of knowledge and not malicious at all. Just sayin'...

 

[eagleseven]

So by the way it was founded, would it be considered a falsehood of true religion, and established for the sole purpose of keeping control of the people by the romans, thus rendering it a false religion.

All modern forms of Christianity were the result of power struggles between rich old men, including the Romans, the Germans, and the Thracians.

If that's your criterion for a "false religion", you should be an atheist.

 

[CurveLight]

Jeny needs to read up on the Council of Nicea.

Just sayin'.

No need to re-do that work. I know the Nicene Creed, which was brought about at the Council of Nicea.

Doh! Just sayin' .....

Show us in the New Testament where Peter is called the Pope.....or where he was appointed the Pope....or where the Papacy is stated........

Surely someone of your expertise will have no trouble enlightening the rest of us on where those verses exist.

 

[CurveLight]

So by the way it was founded, would it be considered a falsehood of true religion, and established for the sole purpose of keeping control of the people by the romans, thus rendering it a false religion.

No.

Jesus was a radical revolutionary and he was the catalyst for rebelling against both Rome and the corruption in the Temple Jewish system. Rome and the Jewish leaders both tried to squash the Jesus Movement but were obviously unsuccessful. Early in the 4th Century it was obvious Christianity was spreading faster than it could be controlled so Constantine sought help to retain his own seat by doing a complete 180 on Rome's policies and moved from criminalizing Christians to actually giving them power. This is where the blend of paganism and Christianity had the most profound effect that still permeates Christianity on a global contemporary scale.

Not all Christian groups welcomed the change because some saw it as selling out Faith for money and power. They weren't far off in their predictions as Vatican City proves. A point of viewing the rise of Christianity is to forget about the concept of separation of Church and State. During those centuries such a concept would have been completely incomprehensible and even laughable. How can God be compartmentalized? How could God be separated from any area of life?

The rise of Christianity was more of what we would today see as political and not religious. It was a collective fight joining peoples of different backgrounds, educations, professions, Faiths, economic and social statuses in a struggle against being dominated. If you ever hear someone say Jesus had nothing to do with politics then it should be the last thing you ever listen to them on regarding Christianity.

A decent analogy of how the Jesus movement operated is looking at how Dr. King lead non-violent resistance against racist oppressors. Marches and boycotts were planned and executed. Rosa Parks? That was a sting operation to fight against the injustices of segregation. Dr. King employed many of Jesus' philosophies and obviously it worked as we saw leaps of progress in fighting racism in a short period of time.