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Mormon God vs the US government (i.redd.it)

submitted 8 months ago by Mandarbmax to c/[email protected]

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[–] Sam_Bass 44 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Now imagine how much the christian god's mind was changed by the roman government

[–] kromem 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Well, given that not long after the emperor converts it became deadly to possess the version of Jesus's sayings which claims he said "Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce " (allegedly said at the time when Tiberius was the first emperor to inherit the kingdom due to dynastic claim vs accomplishments and had abandoned ruling to party but wouldn't turn over the position to anyone else) - probably just a wee bit of mind changing.

[–] Sam_Bass 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah those wee bits have grown considerably the last several hundred years

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thousands of Christians were martyred in the first centuries after Christs death. Often they were tortured and/or crucified.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not exactly a punishment that was unique to the Christian.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My point is that they didn't bend to the Roman government.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No, but eventually they would become the Roman government and then they bent a whole lot

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Roman emperor was the head of the church, so Christianity became a political tool to manage the population.

The Empire was politically managed by having it divided into two halves, a Greek speaking eastern half and a Latin speaking western half. Which ended up shearing Christianity into Catholic and Orthodox.