• FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Western Christianity was co-opted by the Roman state with predictable consequences. But it was already “founded”. There was no undoing the fact that core Christianity was “do no resist an evil person”, “turn the other cheek”, “love your enemy” etc. All features that are inconvenient to a would-be organiser of religious wars.

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          2 months ago

          Sure, if you ignore the whole “anyone who doesn’t believe this deserves to and will be tortured for eternity” part, which is why it was so easy to co-opt in the first place.