How Narrow Is The Way?

[Truth Warrior]

Is it mere coincidence that institutionalized Christianity was originally a creation of the Roman Empire? I think not.

 

[Corydoras]

Is it mere coincidence that institutionalized Christianity was originally a creation of the Roman Empire? I think not.

We can agree there.


I think the question of how narrow the way is, strictly speaking, moot, insofar as we are not the Judge. We can only follow the way as best we can.

 

[Truth Warrior]

Are there any Christian judges?

 

[Truth Warrior]

It has long seemed very interesting to me that Jesus was executed through a conspiracy between both church and state.

Is there a lesson in there for us today?

 

[Corydoras]

I don't think it was a conspiracy between church and state... it was more like the civil authorities indulged the ecclesiastical authorities.

Well, I agree with your implicit sentiment, that that program where pastors are being trained to keep the populace in check during big emergencies is certainly pretty scary...

But then again, I'm not against a certain amount of coordination, insofar as time and time again people through the centuries have crowded into churches asking for God to lift an epidemic, thereby spreading the disease quite efficiently.

I don't think there's necessarily a problem with an established church per se in the abstract, though it is not an American thing. I think it has not been too terrible a thing in Greece, for example.

 

[Truth Warrior]

Or was it the ecclesiastical authorities indulging the occupying foreign civil authorities in identifying malcontents, dissidents and troublemakers. A conspiracy between church and state by any other name still stinks. Almost all institutions just tend to give me the creeps. The Romans pound the nails and the Jews get blamed for 2,000 years. Classic!