Leo Volont
Registered Senior Member
If Religion is So Good, Why Did Christendom Fail?
Religion is necessary for Civilization. But the manifest Health and Longevity of any Civilization depends upon the degree to which its foundational Religion is True, Wise, Established, Institutionalized, and Integrated into its Cultural Life and Traditions.
Well, Catholicism fell short in several areas. Jesus had predicted that there would be Weeds of falsehood mixed with the Wheat of Truth. The Last Prophet of the Jewish Religion, Simeon, had predicted that Jesus would be contradicted. And then it was predicted that the Reign of Christ on Earth would last a 1000 Years. Well it did. But not a minute longer. From the Papacy of Gregory the Great (the first Real Pope) to the Surrender of the Catholics to the Protestants at the Peace Conference of Westphalia, the span of years measured for Christendom was exactly a thousand yars. Well, a thousand years is quite an achievement. Many Civilizations don’t make it a fraction of that far. But still, why did Christendom eventually fall.
Well, the Weeds in the Wheat was Paul. The Problem with Paul’s Contribution to the Christian Religion was that it was unwise. Paul was the genius that thought up ‘Salvation’. Well, what is ‘Salvation’, after all, but a license to Sin? Hmmmm, wasn’t the original point of Religion to keep people from Sinning? But apparently Paul was only concerned with punching up the numbers during his membership drives, and in the Greek World with its flagrant drunkenness and buggery, he rightly thought that a License to Sin would be an easier sell then a demand for Moral Rehabilitation. Paul’s Doctrine of Salvation would not be conducive to a lasting Civilization.
Where Christendom was successful, and it was successful in establishing a Post-Roman Christian Civilization – the Only Civilization consolidated enough to defend against the Mongolian Barbarism that consumed the rest of the World – where this Catholic Civilization was successful was in ignoring the Letters and Doctrines of Paul. You see, before the Printing Press and Bible’s availability for Public Perusal, the Parish Priests could define for themselves what Doctrines they would emphasize to the People. And what they emphasized was Catholic Marianism. Catholicism effectively became a Goddess Religion. Righteousness was encouraged, and asceticism and spirituality were honored. Saints were the Rock Stars of this Christian Civilization.
But there had been underlying problems – the Catholic Bishops. Understand that Medieval Europe was divided up between the Influence of the Bishops and the influence of the Religious Orders emanating from the Monasteries and Convents where the inmates were primarily Goddess Worshippsers – Marian Catholics. The Bishops were the Paulists, and because they believed in Salvation and the Forgiveness of Sins, they were inevitably and understandably corrupt (just as the Modern Bishops could not help but to have Scandals such as the Pedophile Disasters – when you Forgive Sin as a First Principle, then you are bound to have Sin… even create sin). This constant presence of Corruption with every Bishop in Europe was certain to have a divisive and enervating influence. Of course, even the Bishops were wise enough to keep the Knowledge of Pauline Doctrines to themselves. They knew better then to tell the common people they could sin. Remember what Augustine taught, the Doctrine of Divine Election – that Only a Special Few should be taught concerning Salvation – and that Special Few would be the Bishops… and certain Princes let in on the Secret.
Then there was the invention of the Printing Press and the translation of the Bible into the Vernacular Languages. People were buying Bibles and reading them from cover to cover. The Antichrist Paul was being read with the same credence being given to Christ Himself. This would lead to the Protestant Rebellion where people such as Martin Luther would complain that the Church had deliberately conspired to keep the Teachings of Paul from being disseminated to the People … you see, Martin Luther had been surprised when he had gotten as far as Graduate School before his Professors had first expected him to have the first familiarity with Paul’s Letters. Luther had struggled with his impulses for sin – lust, drunkenness, lying, stealing, lending at interest, gluttony. But then when he read paul and found that he never really needed to care in the first place… that he would be FORGIVEN all that… well, he was indignant with the Catholic Leadership for not having told him sooner… for not having told everybody sooner that Life could be one slutty drunken free-for-all… all Blessed by God because the Jews had the good sense to murder Jesus when they had the chance.
But this brings us to the collapse of Christendom. Marianism was supplanted by Paulism. High Spirituality and Conscientious Morality was replaced by the Libertinism of the Universal Forgiveness of Sins brought into favor by Protestantism, and of course by the Atheists that came upon their heals. Religion was cancelled out, and so Civilization could only collapse.
Of course, Catholic Civilization had been successful at Integrating Morality into Cultural Behavior and Traditions. And so, even 5 Centuries after the defeat of Catholicism and Victory for the Protestant Barbarians, we still have some residual Morality simply from the Inertia of tradition, the momentum of customary behavior and habitual cultural expectations. But with every Generation we have young Barbarians of Insight who recognize that such ‘irrational’ Traditions and Customs are only holding them back from their real Potential – that of being Predatory Vikings – raping, pillaging, enslaving and exploiting… laughing at any suggestion of Guilt or Remorse. With every succeeding generation there will be ever more Republicans, and proud of it.
Religion is necessary for Civilization. But the manifest Health and Longevity of any Civilization depends upon the degree to which its foundational Religion is True, Wise, Established, Institutionalized, and Integrated into its Cultural Life and Traditions.
Well, Catholicism fell short in several areas. Jesus had predicted that there would be Weeds of falsehood mixed with the Wheat of Truth. The Last Prophet of the Jewish Religion, Simeon, had predicted that Jesus would be contradicted. And then it was predicted that the Reign of Christ on Earth would last a 1000 Years. Well it did. But not a minute longer. From the Papacy of Gregory the Great (the first Real Pope) to the Surrender of the Catholics to the Protestants at the Peace Conference of Westphalia, the span of years measured for Christendom was exactly a thousand yars. Well, a thousand years is quite an achievement. Many Civilizations don’t make it a fraction of that far. But still, why did Christendom eventually fall.
Well, the Weeds in the Wheat was Paul. The Problem with Paul’s Contribution to the Christian Religion was that it was unwise. Paul was the genius that thought up ‘Salvation’. Well, what is ‘Salvation’, after all, but a license to Sin? Hmmmm, wasn’t the original point of Religion to keep people from Sinning? But apparently Paul was only concerned with punching up the numbers during his membership drives, and in the Greek World with its flagrant drunkenness and buggery, he rightly thought that a License to Sin would be an easier sell then a demand for Moral Rehabilitation. Paul’s Doctrine of Salvation would not be conducive to a lasting Civilization.
Where Christendom was successful, and it was successful in establishing a Post-Roman Christian Civilization – the Only Civilization consolidated enough to defend against the Mongolian Barbarism that consumed the rest of the World – where this Catholic Civilization was successful was in ignoring the Letters and Doctrines of Paul. You see, before the Printing Press and Bible’s availability for Public Perusal, the Parish Priests could define for themselves what Doctrines they would emphasize to the People. And what they emphasized was Catholic Marianism. Catholicism effectively became a Goddess Religion. Righteousness was encouraged, and asceticism and spirituality were honored. Saints were the Rock Stars of this Christian Civilization.
But there had been underlying problems – the Catholic Bishops. Understand that Medieval Europe was divided up between the Influence of the Bishops and the influence of the Religious Orders emanating from the Monasteries and Convents where the inmates were primarily Goddess Worshippsers – Marian Catholics. The Bishops were the Paulists, and because they believed in Salvation and the Forgiveness of Sins, they were inevitably and understandably corrupt (just as the Modern Bishops could not help but to have Scandals such as the Pedophile Disasters – when you Forgive Sin as a First Principle, then you are bound to have Sin… even create sin). This constant presence of Corruption with every Bishop in Europe was certain to have a divisive and enervating influence. Of course, even the Bishops were wise enough to keep the Knowledge of Pauline Doctrines to themselves. They knew better then to tell the common people they could sin. Remember what Augustine taught, the Doctrine of Divine Election – that Only a Special Few should be taught concerning Salvation – and that Special Few would be the Bishops… and certain Princes let in on the Secret.
Then there was the invention of the Printing Press and the translation of the Bible into the Vernacular Languages. People were buying Bibles and reading them from cover to cover. The Antichrist Paul was being read with the same credence being given to Christ Himself. This would lead to the Protestant Rebellion where people such as Martin Luther would complain that the Church had deliberately conspired to keep the Teachings of Paul from being disseminated to the People … you see, Martin Luther had been surprised when he had gotten as far as Graduate School before his Professors had first expected him to have the first familiarity with Paul’s Letters. Luther had struggled with his impulses for sin – lust, drunkenness, lying, stealing, lending at interest, gluttony. But then when he read paul and found that he never really needed to care in the first place… that he would be FORGIVEN all that… well, he was indignant with the Catholic Leadership for not having told him sooner… for not having told everybody sooner that Life could be one slutty drunken free-for-all… all Blessed by God because the Jews had the good sense to murder Jesus when they had the chance.
But this brings us to the collapse of Christendom. Marianism was supplanted by Paulism. High Spirituality and Conscientious Morality was replaced by the Libertinism of the Universal Forgiveness of Sins brought into favor by Protestantism, and of course by the Atheists that came upon their heals. Religion was cancelled out, and so Civilization could only collapse.
Of course, Catholic Civilization had been successful at Integrating Morality into Cultural Behavior and Traditions. And so, even 5 Centuries after the defeat of Catholicism and Victory for the Protestant Barbarians, we still have some residual Morality simply from the Inertia of tradition, the momentum of customary behavior and habitual cultural expectations. But with every Generation we have young Barbarians of Insight who recognize that such ‘irrational’ Traditions and Customs are only holding them back from their real Potential – that of being Predatory Vikings – raping, pillaging, enslaving and exploiting… laughing at any suggestion of Guilt or Remorse. With every succeeding generation there will be ever more Republicans, and proud of it.
