Dr.3D
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I don't confuse the two but monotheistic religion is certainly at the heart of the matter, but that is just my opinion and not stated as a fact, although there is a wealth of evidence to support this. I will agree that Jesus Christ was a great mystic and promoted a peaceful philosophy promoted in the Gospels, but the thing about any dogmatic religion is you are asked, or made, to believe certain facts about your existence and the universe, blindly. Once you can be made to believe something blindly, you can be made to believe anything. It is college for sheeple. Constantine knew this and was quick to harness the power of religion for thought control, moral control and military control. I know these are not popular things to say and I am not saying all people of the Christian faith are evil but their minds are not typically open. They live under constant threat of hell unless they do what they are supposed to, and this is a philosophy based on fear based morality.
Well, the reason I brought this up is because the Vatican is responsible for all of the problems you have been addressing toward Christians. The Roman Catholic Church (AKA, the Vatican) was the one who migrated to England and Spain and all around the world, making a sort of Vatican empire if you will. It proclaimed itself to be the mother of all Christian Churches and went about trying to prove it.
Myself, I don't even associate true Christianity with the Vatican, so I am non denominational. I don't even want to be called protestant, because that would be associating myself with the Vatican as in protest. I don't protest it because I don't recognize it as having anything to do with Christianity.