Dear My Twin - 06
Dear My Twin, I think often, that the BIG issue with Christianity starts way back in the 3rd century. When Constantine decided that he needed a good luck charm to win a battle. So on the soldier's shields, he painted Christian crosses. They won the battle, Constantine converted, and then forcibly made Christianity the state state religion. We all know the saying, "Power corrupts," and that has been true of Christianity as well. Married with political power, things have just continued to go south, past Antartica, and way off the planet. I'm not sure if south has meaning once you're off Earth, but wherever South is, off planet, it then kept going. The schisms. The splits. That one time there were THREE popes and they all excommunicated each other. Even the Pilgrims! Coming to America to practice their religion (by the way, other nations frame it differently. Instead of the pilgrims leaving to find "freedom for religion" they were leaving to "prac...