Perhaps the real animus of the religious critics has been not so much against the civil religion in itself but against its pervasive and dominating influence within the sphere of church religion. There really is no way to properly simplify this, but I also don’t want to get on too much of a tangent here. If you ask me, I think it’s actually really neat to see the Catholic Church emulating Rome in this way. This mutually assured silent treatment is known as the Great Schism of 1054, the point where the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches split up for good. The split between the eastern and western churches grew and grew and grew until they were so separate that both sides stopped responding to the other’s text messages entirely. When the split happened a young boy named Odo was 12 years old. It revolved around the Rothschilds, a German banking family who had provided large loans to the Confederacy, and Judah P. Benjamin, the Confederate Secretary of State, who happened to be Jewish.

And given that little tangle of a family tree can be considered devout, it is no surprise that at this point in history enough people are bothered by not just the Church’s debauchery, but the heavy politicking to do something drastic. Only when individuals and groups undertake this education for peace can we build a fraternal and united world, freed from war and violence. Also associated with him were two lesser war deities: Enyalius, who is virtually identical with Ares himself, and Enyo, a female counterpart. Well, tellingly, another two hundred years later we have the Borgias, the holiest of holy families. Recent turmoil in the Middle East and Asia centers on conflicts between the two major sects of Islam, Shi’ite and Sunni. For those keeping score, that’s so far a handful of popes and one major city that Dante’s blaming for the sorry state of the church. The Byzantine empire had lost a major battle along with a sizable portion of Anatolia. While the empire was getting irrevocably cleaved between east and west, the church has slowly but surely been drifting farther apart along those same lines for centuries.

The state management blocked any tendency toward spiritualization and removed the need for any vigorous individual participation; however, by ensuring that the gods were conciliated by a schedule corresponding to the regular process of nature, it made the individual citizens feel for centuries that relations with the supernatural were being maintained safely. Debates like this were all the rage in the first millennium of Christianity and most of them ended up with one brand of Christianity being deemed unorthodox which means they were anathematized, expelled from the church, and in effect condemned to burn in the eternal fires of hell. In the case of Christianity the Roman west ended up taking it in a different direction than the predominantly Greek east. It’s important to note here that the church in the west had formed what’s called the Papal States in central Italy in 754, which was really just a formal recognition of the political power the pope had enjoyed in the region for over a century already. And remember, this is all just for having a different point of view than the central church did.

The biggest sticking point in Christian eschatology is the timing of the Second Coming. This was all well and good until there were so many people coming up with their own interpretations that each person believed was totally right and that everyone else, especially Catholics, were obviously dead wrong, and then you get fighting – a lot of fighting. Thank you so much for your words and prayers, I do confirm each and everyone of them this had been the exact prophetic words that have been coming up in my life for the past few months. This “favor” lasted for a few hundred years, and we today call it the Crusades. Basically Urban wanted to do the Byzantines a solid favor and have the Orthodox church repay it by running right back into the pope’s loving arms. The pope was running the civic business in Rome for some time at this point in history and it had also since picked up a nice little swath of territory.