MY MESSAGE: The Reason For The Season – Jesus Christ
?THESE EUROPEANS ADOPTED CHRISTIANITY, BUT NOT ITS INHERENT SOCIALIZING CONCEPT; AND THIS CONCEPT REMAINED ALIEN TO THEM BECAUSE ITS ROOTS WERE NEVER NURTURED.
Old World Anglo Saxons developed their understanding of social stratification from ?examples set by the kings, queens and – so called - lords, nobles and ladies, who were largely parasites & despots.? These parasitic rulers primary had one ?uniting theme which was to keep oppressing the pheasants and anyone who was poor - regardless of ?nationality.?
When these? Europeans arrived in the New World they carried this structural societal model with them and it has continued to the present. ?
Their Popes provided spiritual leadership (within the limits of their own imperfections) to these early adventures
History tells us that these adventurers slaughter millions of inhabitants in the New World and then later sought and received absolution from their spiritual leaders.
The history of Christian popes has not been a stellar one. Listed below are some (though not all) of the more notorious:
Pope Stephen VI (896 ? 897) held the "Cadaver Synod" of 897. ?He exhumed the decaying corpse of Pope Formosus, to the dismay of his predecessor. The deceased was tried and convicted of perjury,?? violating canon law and being unqualified. The cadaver was thrown into the river after it had been de-fingered, twice.
Sergius III (897 ? 911) Also displayed poor judgment, by retrieving the body of Pope Formosus from the river, proceeding to remove the head and returning the body to the river. He also fathered a child with a fifteen-year old girl, to whom he was not married.??
Pope John XII (955 – 964) was accused of many offenses, which included: rape, being promiscuous, stealing from church offerings, worshiping pagan gods and other offenses. He was eventually murdered by a jealous spouse.???
Pope Alexander VI (1431 – 1503) born Roderic Borgia was one of the Renaissance most controversial popes,?“partly because he acknowledged fathering several children by his mistresses. Therefore his Italianized Valencian surname, Borgia, became a byword for libertinism and nepotism, which are traditionally considered as characterizing his pontificate.”?He was “notoriously infamous and his history so large and well known that he has proved a great embarrassment to the modern Church vainly trying to portray a pious papal past.”
?The phenomena of European Christianity, foraying into the New World is one that witnessed moments of extreme religious and philosophical perversion. This perversion defied the spiritual message of Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5:3-12
?“It’s where He revealed a higher law of love and taught the Beatitudes: spiritual characteristics we can aspire to even today.”
?In this story, we will see periods within which these invaders displayed a deprave indifference for human life. And yet, the justification given for this endeavor was to provide the New World heathens with much needed knowledge of the Christian religion. The real question from the reader should be who is the real heathen in this scenario? Who really needed this knowledge? Journey through these pages for the real answer; it is ironic.
When the Moors entered Europe (Spain) in 711, they did not arrive as destroyers but instead came as consensus builders.? The Jews and the Moors worked together and in some instances the Jews were viewed as collaborators with the Muslims.?
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In Moorish Spain “thousands of Jews and Christians lived in peace.” The Moors may have carried into Spain, some of the lessons learned from Rome’s occupation in North Africa (Timgad) 100 AD.
“Moors, inadvertently showed, that they were practicing the tenets of Christianity. Their stance resounded with words taken from the book of Isaiah 11:6 “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid”.? ?
This rich and sophisticated society took a tolerant view towards other faiths. Tolerance was unheard of in the rest of Europe. But in Moorish Spain, "thousands of Jews and Christians lived in peace and harmony with their Muslim overlords."
We can see that Europe was still in its baby stage.
During the eighth century, Europe was still knee-deep in the Medieval Period. ?In his book, The Day the Universe Changed, the historian James Burke describes how the typical European townspeople lived:
The inhabitants threw all their refuse into the drains in the center of the narrow streets. The stench must have been overwhelming, though it appears to have gone virtually unnoticed. Mixed with excrement and urine would be the soiled reeds and straw used to cover the dirt floors.
At first, the land resembled the rest of Europe in all its squalor. But within two-hundred years the Moors had turned Al-Andalus into a bastion of culture, commerce and beauty. "Irrigation systems imported from Syria and Arabia turned the dry plains... into an agricultural cornucopia. Olives and wheat had always grown there. The Arabs added pomegranates, oranges, lemons, aubergines, artichokes, cumin, coriander, bananas, almonds, pams, henna,woad, madder, saffron, sugar-cane, cotton, rice, figs, grapes, peaches, apricots and rice." (Burke, 1985, p. 37)
Because tolerance was promoted by all, the Moors, inadvertently showed, that they were practicing the tenets of Christianity. Their stance resounded with words taken from the book of Isaiah 11:6 “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid”.? ?This is true for all of the animals, including us, Homo sapiens, the highest form of animal life that God Has created.
We can see that Europe was still in its baby stage.
After we have talked and tried many things (forms of governance) may we ultimately conclude that our starting point has to come after reflection on the message Christ delivered in his sermon from the mount; a sermon which infers: after we’ve received love and being thus informed, love reciprocates. ?
And who knows, maybe, you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this.
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10 个月Excerpts from ‘IRONY’: “THESE TWO EXAMPLES DESCRIBE (1) A VILLAGER: SOMEONE WHO WISHES TO LIVE WITH A SOCIAL COMPACT, AND (2) A PILLAGER: SOMEONE WHO PREFERS TO TAKE BY CUNNING.?ARE WE WITNESSING HERE THE BEGINNINGS OF SOCIALISM AND CAPITALISM? THE IRONY WILL BE UNAVOIDABLE.” My parents made me to understand that “by the sweat of thy brow thou shall eat bread.” (in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; (Genesis 3:19). To me it meant that I have not only to depend upon my own abilities, but also to refrain from being a thief. “Do not steal or attempt to deprive others of the fruits of their labor; “Work honestly for a living’ and “do unto others—as you would have them do unto you.” (Luke 6:31). These instructions seem to have been omitted from the parental messages of a youthful Anglo Saxon.?His historic record will show that he was a pillager. His preference was to go into the village and show his antisocial proclivities. Claiming ownership of whatever he can acquire through the use of force, intimidation or murder. ...? ?https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/people-without-moral-tether-william-gooding-3e%3FtrackingId=z1jkXPQ%252FcgpB4K0bX