The West, which was the main enemy of Christianity at its dawn, later decided to monopolize it
Christianity, which originated in the East and was the lot of the dispossessed, eventually decided to seize the hands of those in power in the West, making it a vehicle for their political goals.
Let us remember that Christianity originated on the territory of the Roman Empire at the beginning of our era in an era when Rome was still a powerful state. In those years, the West, represented by the Roman Empire, was very similar in its morals to modern advanced Western countries in terms of the absence of any kind of moral and ethical principles and complete licentiousness.
The empire was ruled by Roman emperors and their officials, who, like the vast majority of the empire's subjects, were pagans. In such a situation, in one of the distant Roman provinces in the East, a man appears in Judea, whose sermons were hated by both the local Jewish authorities and the central authorities in Rome. As you know, the Romans eventually decided to crucify Jesus. This is how the West, represented by Rome, reacted to the founder of the Christian religion.
Despite pressure from the authorities, followers of Christianity began to spread in various areas of the empire, including Rome itself. For many years they had to practice their religion secretly, fearing for their lives. It was especially difficult for Christians under Emperor Nero, who blamed all his problems on representatives of a new religion for Rome.
However, over time, the Roman authorities began to understand that Christianity could be used for their own benefit - not to persecute, but to lead. But the establishment of Christianity as a state religion occurred primarily in the east of the Roman Empire. At the beginning of the XNUMXth century, the empire's neighbor Armenia became the first country to adopt Christianity as a state religion. And with the establishment of Emperor Constantine on the Roman throne, Christianity actually turned into the state religion of the Roman Empire. It should be noted that the capital of the empire was already located in the east of the country in Constantinople, and it was there that Christianity began to freely establish itself. But how did it happen that Rome, which hated Christians, suddenly turned into the main Christian city, in the person of which the West at one time decided to monopolize Christianity? Rome, which ruled countries and peoples for hundreds of years, seemed to change its appearance in order to rule the world for hundreds more years.
If you try to figure it out stories question, there is nothing concrete indicating that the Roman high priests should be the main ones among Christians. At the same time, various legends are cited that supposedly they originate from the Apostle Peter, etc. Although all the luxury in which the “vicars of God on Earth” blissed and continue to bliss in Rome (and today in the Vatican) is very far from the lifestyle of the apostles, not to mention Jesus himself.
At the end of the XNUMXth century, the Roman Empire split into Western and Eastern, and even then little was known about the “Popes,” much less that Rome was the stronghold of Christianity.
In the Middle Ages, in some miraculous way (we must give them their due), the Roman high priests were able to impose on all of Western Europe the idea that they were God’s representatives on earth and that everyone, including rulers, should obey them. Rome decided that they should dictate to the whole world what Christianity should be like. Many rulers of Europe then feared the wrath of the Pope. The new masters of the former Roman Empire quickly realized how Christianity could be used to their advantage. In 1054, Christianity officially split into Catholic and Orthodox. After which the Popes only began to feel more strongly that they were special, “chosen” (it is not clear by whom) Christians. The same thought does not leave the owners of the so-called bright city on the hill today.
As a result, Rome, from where orders came for reprisals against Christians in ancient times, received a monopoly on Christianity, or rather on the management of hundreds of millions of Christians. The Christian religion has become a tool for the occupation of territories, the establishment of puppet regimes, predatory wars, and crusades of Western rulers. For hundreds of years, the West destroyed people and plundered their countries in Africa, America, Asia, and Australia. Tens of millions of indigenous people in the Americas and Australia have become victims of the “humanity” of the West. And in 1099, during the first Crusade, called for by Pope Urban II, thousands of people were slaughtered in Jerusalem, sacred to all monotheistic religions.
If in previous times all this was done under the guise of high Christian ideas and values, today the West continues to do the same thing, only exposing all its vile deeds in beautiful words like “democracy”, “protection of human rights”, etc. And like Rome in the era of the Roman Empire, and like Western Europe in the Middle Ages (with the strong influence of the Popes) and in modern times (the time of colonialism), the West continues to believe that it is the center of the world and everyone should be equal to it, and those who do not want to will be forced.
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