Excerpt from, "Jesus, a prophet of Islam". (Muhammad 'Ata ur-Rahim)
Introduction
To the non-Christian believers and Muslims in general, Christianity is a historical reality based on metaphysical fiction. Because it's foundations are mythical and invented, as opposed to existential and revealed, it appears as a locked system of negation. Declaring a doctrine of love, it establishes the inquisition. Preaching pacifism, it enacts the crusades. Calling to poverty, it constructs the vast edifice of wealth called the Church. Declaring 'mysteries', it involves itself in politics. Reformation, far from resolving the contradictions, revealed them further. Declaring the priesthood of all believers, they established a priesthood, but with a shift of focus by which the inherent insanity in the Christian fiction began to emerge.
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| The Concordat between the Vatican and the Nazis, Cardinal Secretary of State, Eugenio Pacelli (later to become Pope Pius XII) signs the Concordat between Nazi Germany and the Vatican at a formal ceremony in Rome on 20 July 1933. Nazi Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen sits at the left, Pacelli in the middle, and Rudolf Buttmann sits at the right. The Concordat effectively legitimized Hitler and the Nazi government to the eyes of Catholicism, Christianity, and the world. |
The qualifications of priesthood in the reformed churches were PURELY ACADEMIC, while before a man could win a place in the hierarchy through piety and withdrawal from the world. This was the beginning of the concept of the secular - now, there was a zone of 'religion' and a zone of politics. Church and state are held to be separate. What we discover is that, they HAVE BEEN ONE, as the author reveals in this thought-provoking study, from the beginning of the church's bloody history.
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