DID THE CHURCH MAKE GOOD USE OF CAPITAL? (No) It doesn’t look like it. In fact,

DID THE CHURCH MAKE GOOD USE OF CAPITAL? (No)
It doesn’t look like it. In fact, it looks a lot more like christianity use literacy as a weapon to keep the population docile, subservient, and ignorant and indoctrinated, so that it could extract rents (‘taxes’) from them for false services they claimed they provided but could not. In other words it was a very expensive, especially at medieval levels of productivity, burden on the population for no return – instead for relative stagnation and ignorance only overcome by the weakness of the church as a governing force, and the success of the economic sector in eventually breaking the church – beginning in 1200 with the restoration of classical knowledge, and the rise of the Hanseatic League and the restoration of trade, and succeeding as a consequence with the printing press and the massive explosion of a sequence of restorations of knowledge over the next 250 years, and the collapse of the church by the protestants thereafter.
Even so, it took until the time of napoleon for europe to recover from the christian destruction of the ancient world, and the resulting superstition, feudalism, illiteracy, ignorance, and near absence of intellectual tradition under the church.
And we are still struggling with our own fundamentalists, the jews, and the muslims (at least) because of this abrahamic counter-revolution against the indo europeans and in particularly greek reason. And the present revival of counter-revolution against europeans the jews, muslims, marxists and the marxist-to-woke sequence of abrahamic seditions.
If we want to say jesus was a philosopher who made it possible for the little people to find virtue and honor and respect in doing no harm, and doing charity, rather than the heroism of the indo european aristocracy. If we want to say jesus was an anti-hero to compete with Achilles. If we want to say the bible is an anti-hero of the slave, underclass, and serf against the european aristocratic tradition’s demand for excellence, loyalty and responsibility that are impossible for middle eastern familism, clannishness, and tribalism – then that’s fine.
But the church in general was a catastrophe.
If instead they church had spread literacy in europe’s philosophy and epic cycle (the bible of the greco roman world) then we might have claimed it wasn’t a catastrophe. But it effectively tried to destroy civilization just as thoroughly as the marxist to woke sequence is destroying ours.
Why? Because the abrahamic religions and marxist cults are just two generations on top of the female means of sedition by the attempt to end demand for personal responsibility.
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