Middle East during the time of writting of New Testament wasn' the greatest powerhouse of political thought tbh ^^

Read the orations of Constantine.

Catholic conception of power is decadent

Goatfuckers weren't smart enough to come up with this shit.

It's not Catholic.

There is no Catholicism then.

Or really Christianity not pietas.

For most "Christians"

Then.

"Goatfuckers" could be smart

Christianiry adopted info European sacred Kingship

But that's not the point

Whixj the goatfuckers didn't have.

They had davidic Kingship

The point is, Biblical conception of power is essentially the one of self-fulfilling failiure

Teach people that all the suffering in the world is bound to happen and that hey shouldn't resist corruption

Teach them contempt for power

When society naturally collapses - "See, we told you so !"

Christianity taught Western men to embrace humanism, and when West, the pillar of civilizaton collapsed - "There, the end of the World is coming just as we promissed"

Well, no shit

@The Enlightened Shepherd Or perhaps the point being offered by more serious theologians is that one should not abandon their leaders just because they are not perfect?

I disagree that Chrstianity taught the embrace of humanism, just Medici fetishists.

Unfortunatelly, most of theologians are essentially wizards, making you see things that there simply aren't

That's the power of theology

Jesus Christ "I came here to separate children from their parents, husbands from their wives" (paraphrazing)

The whole metaphysical system of European people's is relying on their deep belief in significance of past, present and the future

Their connectedness and interdependence

Heritage, legacy - what we do today MATTERS tomorrow

Christianity "All of the past if it's not Christian is useless, ignorant and irrelevant"

"What you do or don't do today has little significance because the end is preordained"

"There is no meaningful tomorrow other than paradise"

Christianity stripped European people of their cautiousness, made them forget and despise their past, made them fatalistic about their future, and contemptuous towards their present

Theologians spent years trying to fix this, until Protestantism arrived and brought Northern Europe back to the beginning, strictly theologically and metaphysically speaking

Well, Protestantism has no Metaphysics

They already had that shit.

Indo European heathenry loves metaphysics

The belief that the manifested world is nothing but an appearance of higher, transcendent metaphysical truth is universal for civilizations of the antiquity

And not only civilizations, many primitive peoples had such beliefs

@TheEnlightenedShepherd Not all Christianity is conflatable. There were many orders in the Catholic Church and as time went on, they had to dumb down the thelogy increasingly. They didn't just squash Protestantism like they should have. If the Catholics stayed on top of their game and the Popes were crushed by Kings more often for stepping out of line, then Dualism would have been a thing of the past, heathenry would have been a camping trip away, Aristotle would have been taught alongside Aquinas and we wouldn't be having this conversation.

Rarely has any Pope possessed the true Will to Power

If they did, and it was all about power, they would have crowned themselves Emperor