With ruthless ambition, and by enforcing an ideology of 'sin and redemptive sacrifice', Christian clerics enslaved the Mediterranean world. But the ambitions of Holy Mother Church were not readily sated. By aggressive
warfare, heathen tribes also were brought into the embrace of the Lord's henchmen. Masters of the whole of Europe for more than a thousand years, sadists in the uniform
of Christ terrorized and brutalized a continent. They then exported that
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The Seven "Sacraments" of the Church
Roman Catholicism's policy for conquest tapped resources unimagined by the caesars. In a world terrified by superstition imagine the horror of being a child unsprinkled by a priest or dying without the babblings of a clergyman?
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Racketeering on an Imperial scale
So venal was the clerical system that it extended its grasping hand into every aspect of life. Across the domains of Christendom the lords of the One True Faith held the common people in subjugation, ignorance and terror.
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The Christianizing
of Iberia
In the guise of a Spanish saint a new use was found for a dead St James. Santiago!
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"Conversion" of
the Tribesmen of Germany and Gaul
Hearts & Minds? The Heathen were Christianized not with bell and candle but with axe and sword. Ironically, the barbarian
tribes that overran the weakened Roman Empire
were, for the most part, Christianized and the forces
that opposed them were pagan.
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Battle
for Britain
Catholic
vanities subjugated the heathen Saxons.
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Christian
cross hacked into a pagan megalith (Ireland).
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Who
Saved Civilization? – Ireland Subdued
by 'Christ'
When a
primitive Christianity extended its grasp beyond the
limits of the Roman Empire it compromised with, adapted
and
absorbed any number of earlier pagan traditions. In Ireland a rapacious Roman
Christianity was brutally imposed by French "Anglo-Normans"
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The Christianization of the Balts
Remarkably, the last pagan kingdom in Europe was eradicated as late as the 15th century.
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1000
Years of Carnage & Barbarity in the name of Christ
For more than a
thousand years,
the henchmen of Christ inflicted a cruel barbarism
on every community they encountered. Both in
theory and in practice, Christians honoured the principle
of murdering their opponents. The
Christian Heaven may have been a vain folly but the Christian Hell
was real enough.
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Missionaries
or Murderers? Enforcing the Faith
In a world run by clerical gangsters, the
writ of Holy Mother Church was enforced by sadism
and torture. Christianity was the
first creed in history to exterminate its adversaries in the
name of love.
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Burning
Times – Auto-da-fé
A Great Day Out
for the Family – Roasting the Heretics became a popular
entertainment and a religious duty.
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Inner
conflict
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Christianity – a
psycho-sexual disorder?
With such perverse values at its core, the
dogmas of the Church have weighed heavily on the human psyche,
the cause and occasion for mental anguish and displaced anger.
The consequence was that for
two millennia Christianity's anti-sexual, puritanical
doctrines inflicted untold
damage on the mental, emotional and physical lives of
countless millions of people. Only monumental hypocrisy and abuse leavened the deadly precepts
into a cruel empire of servitude and violence.
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Men in frocks –
God's curious fashion foibles
Pontificalia is an essential element of the religious circus. Without the fancy dress would Jesus-magic still enthrall the gullible, enthuse the pious and comfort the desolate? The showman needs his ensemble of silk and satin, his purple and gold livery, his dashing headgear, his rings, sashes and baubles.
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