2025-11-25
This is dangerous territory, so before plunging in, if you have not already, please read Down the Rabbit Hole 1 wherein I attempt to justify taking a critical look at topics which many will find controversial.
Here someone else takes a look at early Christianity (upon which topic the brainwashing has had at least two millennia to get going). He's obviously done a lot more work on this than I have, so I'm very happy to concede the leadership on this one.
But first, to get ourselves into the mood ...
Do we believe that the Bible as we know it today is the uncorrupted Word of God?
Do we think we know the origins of the Church of England?
Or the foundation of Christianity in Rome after the martyrdom of St Peter?
What is the true meaning of the Holy Spirit?
How did we go from there to the burning of heretics at the stake (even for merely translating the Bible into English!), and the notorious genocide of the Cathars?
If you ask me, these acts alone (and I don't doubt there are many more) indelibly mark the Vatican as the incarnation of Satan on Earth. Or at least the Antichrist.
But what about our good old C of E?
Read very carefully - it's dark in here! You decide, if you dare.
Exercise for our readers:
Consider whether the Cathars were similar to the pre-Roman civilisation in the British Isles, and in what ways they are known to have differed?
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