Board:   [DoveNet] Religious Discussion/Debate/Evangelism
Subject: Re: Spirituality
From:    Moondog
Date:    Mon Jun 29, 2020 10:35

@VIA: CAVEBBS
  Re: Re: Spirituality
  By: Vk3jed to Grasshopper on Mon Jun 29 2020 07:19 pm

 > -=> On 06-29-20 02:06, Grasshopper wrote to All <=-
 >
 >  Gr> @VIA: VERT/ONENESS
 >  Gr> What happened to the spirituality aspect of religion? I see people
>  Gr> doing it more for show than anything. Main stream religion seems to
 >  Gr> have lost that.
 >
 > A lot of what passes for "religion" these days is about power and control of
 > the people.  The Catholic Church started out as an instrument of the Roman
 > Empire, from what I understand, after Emperor Constantine converted to
 > Christianity in the 4th Century.
 >
 >
 > ... People forget how fast you did a job just how well you did it.

In a case where people will follow the church before the state, it was
essential to establish a system where the church became a branch of the
state.  The divine right of kings was such a system, where kings became
leaders of men because it was God's will.

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