Re: We didn't start the fire? was Re: Alignment and 4E

On 2008-06-17, Allen Wessels <awessels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I noticed the exchange of power between the leaders of the growing
churches, including megachurches, and the political power brokers for
the parties.

Yeah. But, in most cases, "megachurches" are not founded based on a belief
in a position; they are founded based on the observation that many people
are vulnerable to social engineering exploits where you offer a well known
key and they trust you as a result.

I have never seen convincing evidence that Christianity as originally
practiced (pre-Constantine) can coexist with temporal power. So far as
I can tell, you must choose between them; certainly, that is how the early
writers understood it.

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