by Daniel Gurpide Christianity was carried by a Jew, Saul of Tarsus, from the Le

by Daniel Gurpide

Christianity was carried by a Jew, Saul of Tarsus, from the Levant to the Greco -Roman world. Its doctrines found fertile soil among the populous slave class in Rome.

Eventually, after playing a far from negligible role in the collapse of the Roman Empire, the revolutionary spirit which stood in opposition to all authority – and hierarchy – was firmly organised by the Church of Rome.

Once in power, the Church readily compromised with pre-Christian values and social forms, and condemned as heretics those who demanded that it live by the values of the gospels.

The seed of rebellion and protest is inherent to the Gospels. That is why the Catholic Church traditionally opposed the reading and interpretation of the Bible by the people.

–“Of all books, from a historical point of view,the most perilous is,indisputably, the Bible, if the public peril is to be in any way considered.”–(Goethe)