Jesus Christ had changed nothing. Sorry. Two millennia after he ‘gave his life to save the world’, the world was no nearer to being saved – if indeed saving was what it needed – than before. For the two thousand years since his death, and for many thousands more before his birth, people the world over had been loving their neighbour as themselves, turning the other cheek, and forgiving not seven times but seventy times seven. They had also been hating their neighbour, striking out in violence, and avenging every wrong done them. BC or AD, armies rampaged, men murdered, raped, stole, hated; BC or AD, people cared for one another, were selfless, loved, forgave. Jesus Christ changed nothing. Using his gift for oratory and communication he had sought to spread humanitarian principles, but he did not devise them. And those principles had survived unhi now not because of the churches that bore Christ’s name; nor even in spite of them. They had survived simply because they were part of man’s nature. It was part of man’s nature to love and to care, just as it was part of man’s nature to hate and destroy. If the good side was ever to overcome the bad, then it would not be through fear of God, nor even through love of God. It would be because man had evolved. Christ’s teachings were irrelevant to the growth and self-sustainment of the Holy Roman Empire and all the sects it spawned. The legacy that was the Church, the legacy that was Christianity, was not the legacy of Christ, his words or his deeds. It was the legacy of men and their ambition. It was the legacy of power, of wealth, of dominion. And however much men talked about the Kingdom of God, the kingdom they were really interested in was right here, on this earth.
Peace Carlan
. We are associated with conquistadors, imperialists, and other politically motivated people because the missionaries often came with the conquerors. In some parts, Christianity is considered a “white” religion and therefore has nothing to offer non-white, non-western people.