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catholic: c.1350, "of the doctrines of the ancient Church," lit. "universally accepted," from L.L. catholicus "universal, general," from Gk. katholikos, from phrase kath' holou, from kata "about" + gen. of holos "whole"
| The One: In a 21st century blog I found following interesting comparison: Who needs a mafia when you had the Roman Senate? |
Octavian declared Egypt a Roman territory, he went back to rule Rome and came to be known as
emperor Augustus (the first Emperor of the from start corrupt Roman Empire).
Caesar built the Roman Empire as strong leader without title, after Caesar immediately
the Empire corrupted and started falling.
| 1250 BC: Hebrews move from Egypt to Palestine (Moses) 1025 BC: King Saul unifies greater Israel under capital Jerusalem 961 BC: David's son Solomon succeeds David 930 BC: Solomon builds a temple in Jerusalem for ALL Jews 922 BC: But the Hebrew kingdom splits in 2 groups of tribes, Israel to the north around Samaria and Judea under Jerusalem to the south. |
| Jesus and the Samaritan woman: Jesus was at a well in Samaria (Israel) when a woman approached. She was Samaritan, and the since the murderous King Herod Judah Jews wisely VERY cautiously treated Israelian Samaritans like poisonous snakes. 'Poisonous snakes' are confused when they are treated with kind respect. |
| The 21st century Jews are descendants of Israelian pro Roman followers of Pharisees (no offense). Followers of John the Baptist and Jesus fled to Minor Asia (Turkey), Egypt or Persia. In Persia Zoroastrianism 2 times was annihilated, once by Alexander the Cursed, and again by the Muhammedan Jihadees. But Zoroastrianism as mother of original Islam (Mekka variant) and of original Christianity blossomed in China and became basis of Buddhism |
| Remind: that the concept 'time' only many ages later was INVENTED. To the imaginative King Cyrus the godfather Abraham for Cyrus just was 'on the OtherSide'. That makes sense because the bright Abraham probably often was a source of inspiration for Cyrus. The Jews for Cyrus offered inspiration, and were VERY valuable. |
| The One: It's amazing (and it's not) that I had to dig up ALL information about biblical times from non-Israelian websites. On most official English websites from Israel I got the impression that King Herod was a great leader who founded Israel, mixed Hellenic culture with Jewish religion and scholarship to produce fine wisdom and literature. . Yes he was Israelian, but even for Samarian standards he was IMMENSELY cruel. His 'works' that I remember are massive torturings of Judean leaders, lots of beheadings of Judean leaders, and starving whole Judean leading families to death. And simply ordering all male babies under 2 in Bethlehem to be killed, because completely paranoid he saw an alive male in line of the Judean godfather Solomon as a serious threat. Surely Herod was EXTREMELY impopular in Judah. Wonder why |
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To say it in simple words: After HUGE resistance the dominant hebrew part of Judah bends for pro-Roman Hellenist Israel. Both Maccabeans and Sadduceans worship a quite agressive 'Jawhee'. But in Judah Zoroastrian Jews still saw Jesus as their peaceful leader, and practiced a Judean version of Zoroastrianism (Christianity). After rebuilding Jerusalem Judean people by marriage were as much Turkish as Egytian. The egoistic Israel Jews did not want to mix and won, with a lot of help of their friends in arms the Romans. The One: In the 21st century descendants of those same agressive Samaritans again try to annihilate the inhabitants of Judea. History is tricky. The Bible tells us that at those times there were 'Good Samaritans' (Israelians), but scarce. Egoism is addicting. |
When reading 'God' as 'Aristotle' the game is easy.
Alexander didn't share the opinion of Aristotle that Non-Greek
were barbarians born for slavery. And that they should be treated as animals. But Alexander wanted to be good student.
Without wiping out Zoroastrians and The Great Library of Persepolis (The Evil in the eyes of murderously jealous Aristotle) Alexander never could please 'God' (Aristotle).| Zoroastrianism is the oldest of the revealed world-religions, and it has probably had more influence on mankind, directly and indirectly, than any other single faith. Mary Boyce, "Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices" (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979, p. 1) |
Persian Empire 500 BC - 332 BC: Zoroastrianism
c.146-60 Intro Aristotelian thought in Rome: Start Roman Empire
| The Luke gospel continues the line of Solomon: ...Addi, Melchi, Neri, Salathiel, Zerubbabel, Rhesa, Joanna, Juda, Joseph, Semei, Mattathias, Maath, Magge, Esli, Naum, Amos, Mattathias, Joseph, Janna, Melchi, Levi, Matthat, Heli. An elegant finish of my puzzle is to end this line with Maria, Jesus. |
| Herod was appointed by Roman Senate at the suggestion of Antony and with the consent of Octavian (Augustus). Roman Emperor Augustus in 25 BC rewarded Herod with Jericho, the coastal region south of Dor and the region east of the Sea of Galilee. for his loyalty. Later Herod was given the Bashan, Horen, and Tarchon regions, and three years later the Golan Heights. Herod was brave and skilled in war, learned but also extremely suspicious and cruel. Herod destroyed the entire royal family of Hasmonaeans, executed many of the Jews that opposed his government, and even murdered his own Mariamne and the two sons she gave him. King Herod nearly gave all power to the equally paranoid high priests (pharisees). |
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7. Jesus at age of 12 (!) teaches for 3 days Zoroastrian history to the Pharisees in the Jerusalem temple. 8 The dominant group of Pharisees in the 1st century (School of Shammai), wants to remove Hellenistic influences, though because of Antiochus IV knowing awfully little of Hebrew history. It organizes a separation between 'true Jews' (the ones who followed them) and fake 'Jews' (who were critical) and 'the Strangers' (the Christians). These edicts will be accepted by most Jews, and were the basis for the opposition by the 'Jews' and the 'Pharisees' to the mission of Jesus and the Apostles. 30 Jesus Executed; 30 Jesus' followers imprisoned and ordered not to speak about Jesus or his message
64 Emperor Nero starts persecution Christians (not of Jews); 66 Jews begin revolt against Rome, Christian Jews don't fight. 67 Linus elected first bishop (pope) of Rome, he replaced St. Peter who was murdered 'by' the Emperor. That's why since then Popes and Emperors could rule together. 70 Roman commander Titus captures Jerusalem and destroys Jewish Temple, without official protest from pope Linus. Evidence erased of Jesus being a common Jew. The tons of gold robbed from the Jerusalem temple in this bloody advertising campaign "Promote Titus" were used to build the Roman Colosseum. 90 The Rabbis Johanan ben Zakkai, Gamaliel II and Simeon expel all Jesus followers from the synagogues, and also forbid reading the 10 Commandments in synagogues.
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132 Jews revolt again. 135 Rome attacks to make Jerusalem a Roman city. 161-260 Romans persecute Christians. 261 Emperor Gallienus makes Christianity legal Syrian documents indicate: towards the beginning of the third century the Christians in the Persian territories had some three hundred and sixty churches around 125 Valentinus a Gnostic Christian nearly becomes Pope. That certainly would have COMPLETELY changed Roman Christian history. Valentinus as Gnostic accepted zoroastrian basics, and therefore he himself was accepted by the Persian Emperor 100 - 500 Gnostic Christianity and its literature were practically wiped out by Catholic heresy hunters and the Roman Army. 301 Armenia becomes first Christian nation. 312 Emperor Constantine superficially converts to Roman variant of Christianity, but remains polytheistic until his death. 325 Emperor Constantine officially embraces the Roman variant of Christianity - making the newborn Catholic Church a wealthy and powerful tool of the Roman Empire. Christians though didn't obey the emperor but only the pope, that asked for a brilliant triq. Uniting of Pope and Emperor in a Roman Pope, and call this person 'Pope'. 382 The Roman bible in Latin appears. Catholic edition of Greek and Hebrew scriptures. 476 Romulus Augustus as last Emperor could safely hand over rule to the first Pope new style. Mission defeat terrorist muslims accomplished. Palestine 'tamed'. 491 Armenian orthrodox church declares independence from Rome and Byzantium.
500 The word pope, title for bishops, now is claimed by the Bishop of Rome
5 ages after Jesus the Arabian trader Mohammad met Roman Christianity in Syrian monasteries. Mohammad liked the Roman made myth of Jesus, and already at early age saw advantage in becoming 'prophet'. 571 Mohammad born in Arabia, developed the agressive sect 'Mohammedanism' as branch of Islam with as motto: 'attack is the best defense' (but peace on him) Mohammed claimed to be a prophet, but might be seen as 10 ages later 'Martin Luther' within Catholicism. 'Muhammedanism' is a kind of Islamic Protestantism. |
| Now something to puzzle about: Three major US newspapers are in hands of Jews of Israelian heritage: the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.
US media are penetrated further: Warner Brothers (Time Warner, Warner Music) is also Israelian Jewish hands. ABC televison and the Disney Empire are Israelian Jewish. 20 Ages ago the egoist Kingdom Israel collaborated with Rome to commit genocide in Judah. This time the Israelians collaborate with US government against Palestine ..... After a quick count of the wealth of Jewish billionaires I stopped after 15 minutes at 100 billion $ |
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Alexander the Great had practically killed all Zoroastrian priests. Calling Alexander 'The Great' (warrior), and not 'The Terminator' (of cultures) was typical for Roman thinking.
Alexanders bloody mission was much later subtily finished by the Hellenistic Seleucid empire. 198 BC Judea part of Seleucid (Seleucus was general under Alexander the Terrible and founded Antioch) empire under Antiochus III and IV Syrian King Antiochus IV started systematically changing the traditions of the Judah Jews that were based on a mix of Zoroastrianism and the OT laws of Moses. To make the Jewish (Judean Hebrew) culture behave conform Greek beliefs he appointed new High Priests in Jerusalem. These pro Hellenist probably Israelian priests were allowed practice wrestling and to study ancient Hebrew myths. But were kept ignorant of their recent Zoroastrian background. 170 BC Antiochus IV invades Egypt 167 BC Antiochus IV persecutes the Jews (Judah Hebrews) 164 BC Judas Maccabaeus defeats the Syrians and frees Jerusalem 160 BC Judas Maccabeus is killed in battle against Syrians. His brother Jonathan leads the Jews 157 BC Judea becomes independant (The One: That means that the state Palestine when annexed as 'Israel' by the UK after WWI was 2000 years old) 148/147 BC Macedonia and Greece are annexed by Rome starting 147 B.C. Greek culture, however, 'infects' Rome. The Romans borrowed the idea democracy, only HALF of Greek goverment system 'Polity' (resembling a family structure). 146 BC Rome gains control of Carthaginian territory. The Roman invaders could make some sense in Jerusalem of the Greek speaking Hellinized high priests of the Israel clan (followers of pro-roman King Herod). Antiochius IV succeeded in making the High Priests in Jerusalem forgetting almost all of Zoroastrian ethics. The rural Zoroastrian Judean culture for the Pharisees was a complete mystery, because they interpreted the OT in Greek fashion like book of law and worship, not like history. That's why the paradigm shift attempted by Jesus in Zoroastrian Hebrew culture later to them was 'terrorism'.
Just like Roman Christian US soldiers in 21st century Iraq only notice terrorism, and fail to recognize
the incommensurability
(notion invented by Thomas Kuhn) of the Rational Paradigm Paradigm and the Iraqee Common Sense 'Paradigm' .
Result: War on Terrorism.
And 21st century Israelian settlers who claim to cherish tradition obviously just like Greeks and Romans treat Arabs like animals,
but don't follow the older Hebrew Zoroastrian tradition: Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds
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The OT was written in Hebrew language. Consider the OT as a translation of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh).
Observation is that there is NO "Son" in the Old Testament, and the OT God is pictured as an unforgiving agressive half pagan ghost. Jesus strictly followed Hebrew law, but at the same time attacked what the Pharisees had made of it. Only he didn't realize that his extremely strong intuition in matters of ethics (like many ages later Jeanne d'Arc) was educated to him by his mother Mary with her Zoroastrian interpretation of the OT. He believed to be prompted by God. In modern view he was an 'ethical Einstein', ununderstood but making a lot of right predictions. Just like the 20th century Albert Einstein would have claimed: the relativity theory was given to me by God. Not the Hebrew God threatened Roman power, they were used to all kinds of gods. But the brilliant, charismatic human Jesus revived his common sense version of Zoroastrian thinking and a revolution was 'in the air'. As religious prophet Jesus was a harmless peaceful curiosity, but he was rapidly becoming a risk as political leader. Luckily this otherwise modest Jesus erroneously claimed to be son of God, and that was a violation of Hebrew law. Not a severe one, but by obstructing law the Roman Ambassador should decide if he was a criminal or not (a terrorist or a harmless prophet). But this Roman ambassador (a political function) wanted to please the powerful and pissed off Hebrew Religious leaders (the Hellenistic Pharisees). Hebrew society as former Zoroastrian culture had no split between politics and religion. Compare it to US POLITICAL leadership in present Iraq trying to please the conservative religious and political Muslim leaders (no offense, their function is being traditional). Jesus in his time had made wrong enemies, and politically very influential. In general though in Western Culture (with split politics and religion) military leaders in all ages don't easily give death punishments in case of non military offenses. Simply because often the resulting heavy political protests do much more military harm. Mostly it's their political superiors that urge them to do so. The Dead Sea Scrolls were written between 200 B.C. and 68 A.D. They contain descriptions of Hebrew myths in the shape of books for worship. Among other things every book of the OT except Esther. In rural Bethlehem with very little Hellenistic influence Jesus was educated in recent Zoroastrian Hebrew culture. For him the OT was history as orally heard through his mother Mary. The young Jesus could dream Hebrew history and his extremely rich imagination made it come alive. |
The Ethical Law Paradigm of Jesus
started I'm convinced with the virginal thinker MARY. She seems in some way to have preserved Zoroastrian ideas from the more than two ages
that Judea was part of the Persian Empire. By 'immaculate' conception she got the abstract idea: all humans are equal, also men and women. She educated her very talented son with this 'bubble of thought.
That's why Jesus was a kind of saviour for women. He might be seen as a friendly Ghostbuster
(perfectly human in DNA). Much more like later described in Coptic language in Gnostic Christianity (a more natural belief). The Greek and Roman worlds were male worlds, and war was their reason of existence.
The Romans erased the 'Gnostic' view, certainly closer to the original view of Jesus.
This mythical struggle made it possible that during the Crusades the frustrated in the Roman Christian homelands like Dark Warriors took control, and 'hostaged' power. They created myths like 'Jesus the ONLY son of God', 'democracy', 'industrialism', 'apartheid', 'red black and yellow' people, and 'finally management'.
Even more stealthy and frightening than the Dark Warriors in the with effects stuffed 21th century movie "War of the Jedi's".| Already in AD 325 about the controversy 'gods versus invisible human traits' there was The First Council of Nicaea. The pro Roman bishops condemned Arianism, which denied
the divinity of Jesus (in fact quite modern, stating that Jesus was a gifted 'common' man). In AD 451 at the Council of Chalcedon the early Christian Church split around the issue 'mind body split' in 3 parts. 1) Jesus = Christ = supernatural (god); (2) Jesus = Christ in body of Messiah;(3) Jesus = Messiah = human. 1) Jesus = God; (2) Jesus = 'divine' human like emperors, kings and popes; (3) Jesus = a human with Godlike qualities. A split between in Gods believing Western and Eastern Europe (under Roman influence and Byzantine Orthodox), and Celt Europe (Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Bretagne, Normandie and North of Spain)+ Oriental Middel East(The Gnostics = Zoroastrian based Christianity). Zoroastrians consider a human as body AND spirit in a unity. And just like the Celts Zoroastrians see invisible but clearly present forces just as 'human'. The Eastern Church differs from the Western because Romans believed in God the father AND halfgod the son, while the Byzantine Church (also called 'Constantine's Christianity' after Roman emperor Constantine ) teaches that there is a God the Father who inspirated the god-like human Son. The more close to Gnosticism Egyptian and Syrian Christian religions (Coptic and Jacobite) never accepted the decree of Chalcedon. The Roman persecution of Coptics and Jacobites continued until the arrival of Mohammedanism. Mohammedanism promised toleration. Gnosticism is NOT 'nestorianism', a peculiar Syrian made compromise between Roman Christianity and Gnostic Christianity teaching that Jesus was both God and human. The proceedings of Chalcedon 'breath' the political power fight between conservative aristocratic 'god believers' and open minded common sense people (the powerful Catholic camp against the persistent Celts and Gnostics). The catholic practice 'exorcism' was in fact a practice meant to kill the invisible 'pagan' part of humans (say their 'aura'), to make room for 'spirit'.
21st century 'Christianity' is Roman Catholic, and in this view:
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Early Christians suffered a lot from persecutions during the first three centuries. Because not the God of the Hebrew Bible was a threat,
but the ethical message of the charismatic human Jesus: stop slavery! getting too much fans in Jerusalem.
Jesus was a peaceful freedom fighter, an 'avant la lettre' version of Ghandi. Only even more influential. That's why christians were considered as 'enemies of the Roman state'.
Jesus not knowing better, called his extremely strong intuition: 'God'.
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Before Roman Catholicism became dominant, monasteries dominated the Christian World. It's good to remember that exactly theview on life as celebrated
in the monasteries, was denied by the later ROMAN catholic and Byzantine churches. Often called the
oldest is Saint Catherine's Monastery in the Egyptian Sinai Desert. Even older seems St. Antony's Monastery,
under the Al-Qalzam Mountain near Al Zaafarana. Although already thousands of Egyptian monks were there before founding
of the monastery in 356 AD just after the death of St. Anthony
The Roman Emperor Constantine converted to Roman Christianity and was baptized.
At the beginning of the 4th Century, the first Christian community was largely Greek speaking.
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615 - 628 'Mohammedanism' jumped in the gap left by the crumbled Eastern Empire of the Romans, resulting in constant war with Zoroastrian Persia Mohammed was born as member of the Qureish tribe. One day, Mohammed accompanied his uncle to Syria on business. On the journey he met Bahera, a Roman Christian monk, who saw in the introvert young boy a future prophet. Around 615: Mohammad had gained several converts. His early sect in Mecca was hated, amongst others by wealthy merchants who saw their trade threatened by the Jihadees. Mohammad believed in 1 God, but even more in 1 prophet (himself). Mohammed had no problem at all though with having many wives, and treating women like slaves. 615 AC: About 80 Mohammedans fled from Mecca to Abyssinia (present-day Ethiopia) to escape execution by taking 'asylum' among the Christians there, who distrusted the polytheistic Meccans (at present Ethiopian leaders know Mohammedanism much better). 622 AC: The sect leader Muhammed fled from his home in Mecca before Roman troops could break up his cult 'Mohammedanism'. (The One: like the UN failing to catch Servian leaders). The carefully cultured myth in Mohammedan circles is that Mohammad fled for angry merchants who wanted to kill him. Maybe true, but the local governor for the Romans was worried, because Mohammad was denying all other gods but 'Allah'. Such blind intolerance even shocked official Roman policy. Unfortunately, the attack only made Mohammad more popular among Arabs. The wise and brave governor instead was officially reprimanded by the weak Roman Senate. There were no Emperors anymore, only Popes. The Roman Senate ages earlier had Jesus executed, and now tolerated that the agressive Mohammed took over Islam. In the Sunni wing of 'Mohammedanism' Mohammad's closest conspirator and father-in-law Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, became his elected succesor in 632. The Shi'a wing 'Mohammedanists' follow Mohammad's cousin and son-in-law Ali Ibn Abi Talib. It makes more sense to see Mohammad as Arab 'Robber Baron' than as prophet. 634 - 650 Wealthy Persian Zoroastrians refused to become 'Mohammedan' and migrated to India. They settled in western India where they already had trading contacts, and established large settlements to the north of Mumbai, such as the one at Sanjan. Their descendants founded a Parsi community, reflecting their home land and home language. Parsis are still 0.02% of India's population, and were pioneers of Indian industry. Using the 'slogan': Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds
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Present Zen Buddhism is heavily influenced by Zoroastrianism 63 BC - 476 Roman Empire (religion rule by aristocracy+people using power by skill)Jesus revives Zoroastrianism in Palestine as Christianity25 Romans execute Jesus476 - at present Roman Christian Empire, Catholicism (religion rule by people using skill as power)476 - 1700 Catholic Empire1700 - 1945 British Empire1945 - at present US empire Mohammedanism or Islam (Catholicism in Koran fit)
| The 'Abolition of Slavery' (End of Dependent Labor without Return) in the Western World is a sucking myth. Only the name changed. |
Robin Hood after 1200 was the first 'prophet' who fought the resulting corruption in Western Europe of power.
During Richard's absence on the 3rd Crusade from 1190 to 1194, 'King' John tried to take reign, despite having been ordered by his brother to stay in France.
The BBC writes about John: the popular image of John is of a classically bad king: a scheming, untrustworthy coward consumed by greed, whose rapaciousness drove his subjects to impose their will upon him. His acts of apparent cruelty are well documented. He hanged 28 hostages, sons of rebel Welsh chieftains in 1212 and starved to death William de Braose's wife and son in a royal prison.
Although claiming otherwise The Anglican Church only became a corrupt quite fanatical protestant branch of Roman Church.
Ages later cause of fundamentalist protestantism in the southern states of New World (America), and the Northern Ireland conflict.
During say 1420-1430 Jeanne Darc severily bottom up fought disappearing intuition and
growing absolutism in Catholic church and in aristocracy in France, and the English invaders.
Jeanne d'Arc was lead by an extremely strong intuition, and just like Jesus she called it 'God'. This young woman
was much more an 'animal of evolution' than the 'Romanized' priests and aristocrats.
In 1689 the precursor to the USA Bill of Rights started as English Bill of Rights, when protestant William of Orange and wife
Mary were crowned King and Queen of England.
Aimed at removing catholic King James II, this English bill contained already the murderous Egoism and and Individualism of the later American one.
From 1750 to 1800 Kant smoothened the fight between Anglican Empiricism and French Rationalism, minor deviations of general Rationalism. In 1774 professor Giambattista Vico was burned to death as devil because of being anti rationalism. Kant's Role was ESSENTIAL and DUBIOUS.
He unconciously caused Industrialism and Capitalism.
Friedrich Nietzsche in his Also Sprach Zarathustra around 1880 was the first 'prophet' (mind terrorist) to recognize the role of religion as slave mentality.
But he was ignored like later with Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Osama bin Laden.
Aristotle designed the split of eternal mind and animal body that allowed Alexander to combine 'divine thinking' with murdering and robbing.
After death of Alexander Aristotle became the thinker behind 'rule of the people', the motor behind fascism| Aristotle (384-322 BC) connected 'mind' with 'reason' and INVENTED the living eternal 'soul'.
Tricky is that Aristotes' 'soul' means: eternal spirit, while Plato's soul meant 'intuition'.
Plato's statement body and soul are seperate, only meant that direct intuition is often far from 'wise' (lessons from history).
While Aristoteles' statement body and soul are inseparable only means that in his fantasy Aristotle created a duo (physical body, inphysical spirit) or (body, god). With 'nature' Aristoteles means THE 'god' behind this fantasy. |
After WWII Dr Wernher von Braun was taken to the US and soon made Head of NASA.
| Now recent history:since Martin Luther started 'Lutheranism' there have been 3 Western World empires based on fundamental Protestantism: 1) The British Empire (The Masters); 2) The Nazi Reich (The Arians); 3) The US Empire (The Whites). Who are in Afghanistan and Iraq? Indeed: UK and US. Wonder about the next step ... |
| This guy writes that Jesus treated his intuition as God. Since I'm a Christian I can't accept that; All Christians believe that Jesus is God. That is the basis of Christianity: God becoming man in order to save a sinful world. Paying the price for our sins instead of us. |
| The immaterial 'spirits' of Catholicism led to Mohammedanism, Protestantism, 'understanding, 'science', 'sociology', 'psychology',
'economy', 'capitalism', 'communism. And to the peculiar practice "saving of immaterial souls". And 2 World Wars + Global War on Terrorism. The Challenge: Repair of The Total Addiction in The Western World to the ideas 'spirit' and/or 'understanding' (body mind split). |
This article is part of the seriesLeap away from the 'Western World' |
