Zone1 People simply do not understand how evil pagan religions of the past were.

[Crepitus]

I think being buried alive is about as horrific as it gets

Think it tops burned at the stake?

 

[Votto]

Think it tops burned at the stake?

Dunno, why don't you try both and get back with us?

 

[Crepitus]

Dunno, why don't you try both and get back with us?

Ok, stand still. I got a rope and some kerosene.

 

[surada]

what about them canaanites

What about them? They continued to live alongside the Hebrews.

 

[surada]

Sure it was.

Constantine, who started the Catholic church, was not even a Christian. He still worshiped the pagan gods, even though it was rumored he converted on his death bed. This was a man who had his wife and son murdered, and all for political ambition.

He then created the Vatican which was a literal sovereign nation with a literal army and with a Pope that acted as emperor to all the kings in Europe. You then had all that follows, which is the politics of man for power over his fellow men. The evils of Inquisitions, Jewish ghettos and Crusades were just around the corner.

Conversely, Jesus said that his kingdom was not of this world, nor could be. In fact, when he gave the people food to eat with the miracle of the loaves of bread and fish, they tried to make him an earthly king, and he fled from them.

The OT also hammers this point home in 1 chapter 8 Samuel as the Hebrews demanded a human king. God warned them of the abuses if they continued to insist on one, but they would not listen. The next thing you know they were in the ovens of Nazi Germany.

Try again.

Don't confuse Emperor Constantine with Pope Constantine. They were hundreds of years apart.

The Catholic Church emerged in the fourth century after Emperor Constantine came to its rescue after 300 years of persecution.

Pope Constantine was 7th century.