The way that you describe debt and the way that Western society thinks about debt with respect to the Bronze Age, the Fertile Crescent, Mesopotamia, in the aftermath of the agricultural revolution, and the way that Greco-Roman society and Christianity dealt with those ideas was, well, it was...
Until the Great Schism of 1054, what is now referred to as Roman Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity were one. This single Christian church recognized three patriarchates - Rome, Antioch, and Alexandria. Later, Constantinople and Jerusalem were added.Marcia Kurop...
It's not God who wants to use you; it's the Catholic church and to boot, they want to keep you living like it's still the Dark Ages. They called them “dark” for a reason. It's because social oppression of a variety of flavors was perpetrated primarily due to the link between t...
Resignation From the Church: If you've been baptized in a Catholic church, as I was, the church counts you as a member for life even if you stop attending. The only way to have this reversed is toformally defect, notifying the bishop of your local diocese that you've left the church....
(Lycia et Pamphylia), which was a port on the Mediterranean Sea in present day Turkey. He lived in Myra, Lycia (part of modern-day Demre, Turkey), at a time when the region was Greek in its heritage, culture, and outlook and politically part of the Roman diocese of Asia. He was ...
Bringing a whole baked fish to the table is like bringing out the turkey on Thanksgiving: it’ll elicit lots ofoohsandaahs. You don’t need to tell anyone how easy it was, especially since you made the relish earlier in the week. ...
“it was kind of like pepe catholicism,” says david w. lafferty, an independent scholar who writes about conspiracy theories for where peter is , a moderate catholic site founded to rebut right-wing attacks on francis. a sort of “catholic larping,” georgetown theologian adam rasmussen ...
Ms. Penaluna also shows how these women’s desire to think abstractly was repeatedly derailed by needing to prove that they could do philosophy at all. Here she finds a commonality that defines what it means to think like a woman. “My intellect wasn’t shaped in the glory of transcendent...
Mithraism was a strong competitor with Christianity to become the most popular religion of the time. Some of the Roman emperors were followers of Mithra and called him the “Protector of the Empire.” Mithra was born from a rock, and shepherds heralded his birth. He was known as a god of...
This entire world was founded on the basis of this concept. Through time it has tremendously expanded and has been passed down from generation to generation. As new lands were discovered and established‚ this notion of Christianity spread rapidly with it. As explorers traveled‚ they took ...