08-19-2006, 02:13 AM
[=Husky,Aug 12 2006, 12:16 PM]
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Of couse, the pope 'allows' pagan rituals amongst Christianised peoples of Americas and Africa - after having murdered them in previous centuries for their pagan rituals, the Catholic Church has realised that the reviving Old Traditions could turn new generations of conquered peoples away from the Church for good. Especially considering the Church's historic record of treating them abysmally. Catholicism has realised it better bend or break. That's why the Church has temporarily learnt to live with it: better even a heretic flock than no flock at all.
And most of the Catholic Church's flock, whether it likes it or not, resides in S America and Africa. To lose them would mean to lose everything - Europe was only partly Catholic historically (E Europe was Orthodox), and even that was cut down to a smaller size by Protestantism. And with today's loss of Christians to freethinking and agnosticism in Europe, all the Church has is the 'developing world'. The only place where it can press upon people that it is teaching truths, when the rest of the world already knows how patently false much of the bible is, how most of Christian theology was voted upon and how the gospels were assembled. Also S America and Africa do not know that Orthodoxy is closer to the early form of Christianity and that Catholicism is a fraud (the pope is not even recognised as any authority in Greece, for instance).
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No ,the aculturation of orthodox to catholics was made in 1700 by "peacefull "methods like destroing hundreds of orthodox churches whit the gun, by using discriminative laws and using the old fashion but efficient inchizition torture. At the end some people accept the Pope as a lider and some catholic dogmas. However the things has change now,The Pope smiles all day and spread only peacefull mesages.
I didnt heard that catholics use bribe conversions.I know cases may self in which poor people are convert to protestantism in order to get a free washing machine or similar ,but this practice is use in general by american sects.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Of couse, the pope 'allows' pagan rituals amongst Christianised peoples of Americas and Africa - after having murdered them in previous centuries for their pagan rituals, the Catholic Church has realised that the reviving Old Traditions could turn new generations of conquered peoples away from the Church for good. Especially considering the Church's historic record of treating them abysmally. Catholicism has realised it better bend or break. That's why the Church has temporarily learnt to live with it: better even a heretic flock than no flock at all.
And most of the Catholic Church's flock, whether it likes it or not, resides in S America and Africa. To lose them would mean to lose everything - Europe was only partly Catholic historically (E Europe was Orthodox), and even that was cut down to a smaller size by Protestantism. And with today's loss of Christians to freethinking and agnosticism in Europe, all the Church has is the 'developing world'. The only place where it can press upon people that it is teaching truths, when the rest of the world already knows how patently false much of the bible is, how most of Christian theology was voted upon and how the gospels were assembled. Also S America and Africa do not know that Orthodoxy is closer to the early form of Christianity and that Catholicism is a fraud (the pope is not even recognised as any authority in Greece, for instance).
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No ,the aculturation of orthodox to catholics was made in 1700 by "peacefull "methods like destroing hundreds of orthodox churches whit the gun, by using discriminative laws and using the old fashion but efficient inchizition torture. At the end some people accept the Pope as a lider and some catholic dogmas. However the things has change now,The Pope smiles all day and spread only peacefull mesages.
I didnt heard that catholics use bribe conversions.I know cases may self in which poor people are convert to protestantism in order to get a free washing machine or similar ,but this practice is use in general by american sects.