It is a dark history - of political manuvering, intentionally causing a dark age, subjugating women, and eriadicating the truth that it was a political body embraced by the failing roman empire as a method to contol its public and nothing more. Of the emperors who directly re wrote portions of the bible to further subjucate. woman and free thinkers.
Any of you who are about to flame me saying it never was that way / never happened. please go to a library - and read up on HISTORY not the corrupt works of man ie the "HOLEY" bible.
2006-12-27 09:55:56 · 7 answers · asked by Tom 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You are correct that people have attempted to misuse the Christian religion at times to justify evil deeds or control people. They have also misused patriotism, economics, radical education, racism, and a thousand other things. So what is the point? Sinful people will abuse anything.
Oh, and no emperor ever "rewrote" one word of the Bible. Emperor Constantine did pass a law that allowed the Christian religion to be practiced (which was repelled by his son). But he never had a thing to do with the book produced. The minutes of notes of the Nicene Council still exist, if you would like to actually read the history of what happened there. The Emperor never attended a single meeting, never sent a single note or letter to the group, and did not have a representative, etc. on the Council. In fact, he was not even in the same country when it was going on.
There still exist today over 2,300 copies of the New Testament books that were published as much as 200 years BEFORE the Council that are word for word the same as the ones published by the Council. Not a single word was changed by the Council. Get your facts straight, please.
2006-12-27 10:11:21 · answer #1 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You also seem to know very little of Christianity.
There is no proof that roman emperors wrote portions of the bible.
Subjugating of women is not a religious thing; men have made laws to keep down women all through History and it still happens today. While man have done much evil in the name of religion, true religious folks have done lots for humanity.
One wonders; if there was no religion, would there have been no evil doings?
2006-12-27 10:07:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know that Christianity persecuted 'non-believers' and 'heretics' for hundreds of years when it found favour first with the Romans and then in the Middle Ages and beyond. For example the Book of Mary (Magdalene) was excluded from the official Bible by the Popes who portrayed her as a prostitute when the Bible actually calls her a "fallen woman". Clearly a male-dominated agenda was at work here not to mention a homophobic one with St.Paul's references to homosexuality being misinterpreted as calling it "an abomination" when in fact another translation would tell you not to lie "with manhood as with womanhood" "if it's not your nature" which is completely different. Anyway Islam and Judaism arguably also have arbitrary rules which are unfair to minorities as does Hinduism - of which the caste system which relegates millions to second-class citizenship is the hallmark. I think we may need to return to polytheistic Paganism, agnosticism or atheism to make our socieities more tolerant of difference. Oh well.
2006-12-29 05:36:49 · answer #3 · answered by Paranormal I 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think emporors directly rewrote portions of the Bible. If they did, it would be clear. Please off me some proof of this rather than a blogers word or some such...
The rest I would be a fool to enter into a debate about.
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You got nothing, and you know why? Because the texts you say were changed were copied and spread out to much to change and have archaeologists accept. Stop lying.
2006-12-27 10:01:46 · answer #4 · answered by BigPappa 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
More of them should know the history of their own r-e-l-i-g-i-o-n. If they really knew, maybe they'd think twice about it.
Lisa
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/secularhumanism/
2006-12-27 09:59:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
All Christians should know it and if they don't they might want to just to know what they are believing in and who they are believing in.
2006-12-27 10:00:10 · answer #6 · answered by ilovebleachalot 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
errrr i know where my religion came from and it came from Jesus Christ, Our Saviour.
2006-12-27 09:58:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋