OT: The Passion of the Christ movie

[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Sacrifice is useless? Which is still around again, the Roman Empire or Christianity?

The Roman Empire, masquerading as Christianity. It all started with Emperor Constantine wanting to integrate religion into his political toolkit, but it continued even after the original political authority, the Emperor, was gone. This is most obvious with Roman Catholicism since they have a single 'head' of their church comparable to the Emperor, but nearly all of the other sects are also political parties using religion to justify their authority, not religions. Only a few 'odd' movements on the fringes like the Quakers could really be called religious.