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Pastimes : History's effect on Religion
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To: exdaytrader76 who wrote (250)8/8/2005 2:45:30 PM
From: Alastair McIntosh  Read Replies (1) of 520
 
So if Christianity is such ordinary ideas, why has this belief won out? Why is it the world's most popular religion? Why did the persecuted minority become the persecuting majority?

The answer is quite simple. Christianity aligned itself with the totalitarian Roman Empire. It adopted the totalitarian model and its hierarchical structure. Christians were given preferential treatment by the state. Even minute theological differences were met with threats and violence. Adherents of any non-literalist sect were killed and their writings destroyed. Fortunately the library discovered at Nag Hammadi in Egypt gives us access to many of the early Christian texts that escaped the destruction attempted by the Roman church.
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