I have already written articles on the topic of the Christianization of Slavs and Europe in the past, but this article will be written from a completely different perspective. It will contain entirely new information.
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Unknown academic knowledge about the bloody crimes of the church: spreading Christianity by violence and genocide https://filozofia.nett.to/krestanstvo/sk/nezname-akademicke-poznatky-o-krvavych-zlocinoch-cirkvi-sirenie-krestanstva-nasilym-a-genocidou
Unknown academic knowledge about the bloody crimes of the church: spreading Christianity by violence and genocide 2 https://filozofia.nett.to/krestanstvo/sk/nezname-akademicke-poznatky-o-krvavych-zlocinoch-cirkvi-sirenie-krestanstva-nasilym-a-genocidou
Introduction
Why are we Christians? Who actually promoted this poisonous ideology? These are very important questions that we need an answer to.
In this article, I will refer exclusively to serious academic historical facts in an effort to reconstruct history as objectively as possible.
Christianity is an extremely strong egregore that has very strong protective mechanisms. The egregore has such power that it influences the thinking of every person, even non-religious people.
More on this topic in these two articles https://filozofia.nett.to/krestanstvo/sk/hlboke-pochopenie-krestanstvo-egregor-nabozenstva ** https://filozofia.nett.to/krestanstvo/sk/preco-sa-ludia-pohorsuju-nad-ezoterikou-ale-cirkev-im-nevadi-ludia-su-totalni-otroci-egregorov-slobodna-vola-ludi-je-silne-obmedzena
Historians and archaeologists have to go against the current with the energy and power of their minds to even have the energy to deal with the history of the church. And when a scientist-historian finally publishes a professional publication on the true and objective history of the church, it is difficult for it to reach the general public.
I heard indirectly about the scientific work of a Slovak academic historian who very sharply criticizes the genocide and extermination of the non-Christian population by the Hungarian King Saint Stephen. But unfortunately, I don't know the author's name or the name of the publication. I would be glad if someone could help me find it.
Even historians themselves are of the opinion that history is written by the victors. The phrase "history is written by the victors" is a very true and apt one. By this I mean that if historians do not find more evidence of the most violent and bloodiest ideology in the history of mankind, namely Christianity, it does not mean that it did not actually happen. Many written sources could have been subsequently destroyed by the church in later times to cover its tracks.
Debunking myths with serious academic facts. Did Christianity bring cultural progress?
However, Christianity did not bring any cultural progress; Christianity caused and was the reason for the collapse of the Roman Empire, and what is much more important, Christianity spread most intensively during the most difficult period in the entire known history of Europe – the period of the Migration Period https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%A5ahovanie_n%C3%A1rodov . The well-known archaeologist Sedov justifies this period by a major crisis, which was conditioned by something very negative: there were long-term floods that destroyed crops, which forced people to migrate.
This enormous chaos undoubtedly greatly helped the spread of Christianity. The whole of Europe was under a great test of crisis and the fire of dark forces, which weakened Europe as such. It is clear that it was the decline of Christianity that caused this very difficult period for Europe.
Christians argue that the Roman Empire collapsed due to the moral decline of the Roman Empire. However, I openly refute this very well-known and very often repeated myth, because the decline of the Roman Empire occurred only after the Christianization of the Roman Empire. This means that Christianity brought about that decline. The Roman Empire collapsed precisely after the accession of Emperor Theodosius I, who was the first emperor to establish Christianity as the only permitted religion in the Roman Empire, spreading Christianity by force. The Christian madman Emperor Theodosius caused the collapse of the Roman Empire, not the moral decline of the pagans.
Was Europe also enthusiastic about Christianity ?
Christians say that Christianity brought amazing "progress" and people voluntarily longed for "progress" and voluntarily accepted Christianity and rejoiced in Christianity. However, such Christian fabrications are refuted by real facts.
For the Romans, Christianity was a crazy sect. Although we cannot idealize the pagan Roman-Greek religion in any way (polytheistic religion is certainly not the right spiritual direction), Christianity was still too crazy a religion for the Romans and Greeks. Nowadays, people find nothing strange or controversial about Christianity, because Christianity is a strong manipulative egregore. Many years ago, however, Christianity had a very weak egregore, and every normal person perceived it as a sect of madmen. To declare a corpse on a cross as their only God must have been crazy for the Romans. Furthermore, the fact that Christians made a God out of the man Jesus must have been very controversial for the Romans. Furthermore, the exaggerated celebration of Jesus' passion and suffering (e.g. in the form of the Eucharist) as a source of salvation must have sounded crazy to the Romans – it is the celebration of negative energies. The Romans and Greeks perceived Christianity as a crazy "satanic" sect that celebrates negative energies, they perceived it as a dark cult.
Another thing that must have been controversial for the Romans and Greeks was Christianity as the only permitted religion and absolute intolerance towards other religions. Until then, the Romans had never encountered anything like intolerance – this was completely new to them. Roman emperors would never have had the slightest problem with the very different Slavic spirituality, which differed significantly from the Roman one; the Romans had no problem tolerating even the Jewish religion.
So, to get to the point: the Romans and Greeks considered Christianity to be madness, and therefore the spread of Christianity in the Roman Empire could not have happened in any other way than through violence and bloodshed. Nobody wanted Christianity in Europe, nobody longed for it.
Why did Christianity prevail even though nobody wanted it?
What motivated regional rulers to wage civil war, to murder their own population who did not want to be baptized? What motivated regional rulers (kings) to promote some obscurantist religion, which they themselves knew to be a dark "satanic" cult? How was it possible to motivate soldiers to murder innocent people who were unwilling to accept the insane Christianity?
The motivation of rulers to spread Christianity: The problem arose at the peak of political power. The mad Emperor Theodosius came to power and declared Christianity the only permitted religion. The peak of political power was controlled by dark forces. Normal emperors no longer came to power. Evil triumphed. Behind the emperor stood a huge military force. If regional rulers did not want to wage war and lose it, for the sake of survival they were forced to cooperate with Rome and submit. Later, all political power passed from the emperor to the pope. The pope was militarily and politically too powerful for anyone to dare to oppose him. The Christianized territory expanded. Regional rulers had no choice but to cooperate with evil – with the pope. Otherwise, their country would be militarily conquered and its population exterminated and massacred (see the Crusades against the Slavs).
The motivation of soldiers and ordinary people to spread Christianity. Despite the fact that history is written by the victors, something has been preserved. Zakon Sudnyj Ljudem (Great Moravia 9th Century). " Every village in which pagan sacrifices or oaths are made shall be handed over to the temple of God with all the property belonging to the lords in that village. Those who perform sacrifices and oaths shall be sold (into slavery) with all their property and the proceeds shall be given to the poor."
Being an informer was very advantageous – to report someone for not being a Christian was advantageous because the informer seized the property of the pagan. Pagans were sold into slavery (I would like to point out that this is also the opinion of professional historians from academia, that it was a sale into slavery), so it was a very advantageous business. If there were periods of crop failure, being such an informer could also be a matter of survival.
Is violence, the violent spread of Christianity, contrary to Christianity? While today the church and Christianity present themselves as a peaceful ideology that does not take violent statements in the Jewish Old Testament seriously, in the past it was different. Violent statements from the Old Testament were taken literally, so the spread of faith by force was then in full accordance with Christianity.
Comparison of the cruelty of the communist Stalinist dictatorship and the Christian tyranny
The Stalinist dictatorship is considered by some to be the cruelest in history. However, the dictatorship of Christianity was incomparably more cruel.
– Under Stalin's dictatorship, anyone who publicly criticized the communist regime went to the gulag. In the Christian tyranny, it was not at all necessary to publicly criticize Christianity, and you went into slavery anyway. Slavery was for life, but one could get out of the gulags.
– Furthermore, Stalin was very tolerant of his greatest ideological opposition – the Orthodox Church, and never banned it, limiting it only minimally. In contrast, the Christian dictatorship had zero tolerance for anything that was not Christian.
– While Stalin was in power for only 31 years, he did not have time to do much evil. On the contrary, the Christian dictatorship was in power permanently for more than 1000 years until the fall of the monarchies after World War I.
– While the Christian dictatorship forced everyone to be Christians without exception, Stalin did not force all people to be members of the Communist Party, although he would have liked to. Stalin did not force anyone to be a member of the Communist Party; on the contrary, the Christian dictatorship, under the threat of the death penalty, forced everyone to be Christians.
In conclusion: Stalin was an innocent angel and a tolerant liberal compared to the Christian tyranny.
Shocking fact: sincerely convinced Christians only started to exist around 1700. Before that, they did not exist.
– While Christians think that the Slavs accepted Christianity very quickly and with great joy after the arrival of Cyril and Methodius, the reality is completely different.
– First of all, it should be noted that the vast majority of churches in Slovakia were built only after about 1750, so there was no place or space to brainwash people. Whether there were any other spaces for spreading Christianity, or whether religion was proclaimed and religious rituals were performed elsewhere or in the open air, is for historians to find out (I haven't heard about that yet).
– Sincere religious faith is possible only if the religion has a strong egregore. + – It is possible to build a strong egregore only if a huge number of churches are built and if there is a large number of monasteries.
– Until 1750, people in Slovakia were not only not sincere Christians, but they were also very clear that Christianity represented dark forces. People really knew that Christianity was a cult of worship of dark forces. People were Christians only as actors, only for the sake of survival (otherwise they would have been easily accused of witchcraft and burned). The Slavs did not easily forget their "pagan" roots and knew well that the worship of blood in Christianity came from dark forces. Through oral tradition, people retained the awareness of how violently Christianity was imposed.
What impact does the violent history of the church/ Christianity have on the present?
It is nice that Christianity currently preaches love, peace, and tolerance, and Christians today do not murder anyone, but without its violent past, Christianity would never have become such a great religion.
Many people say how great it is that Christianity is the largest world religion, professed by 2 billion people, but few will say that every second person in Europe had to be murdered for this amazing Christianity to prevail.
Although Christianity is currently peaceful, thanks to its extremely violent history, Christianity has managed to build an extremely strong egregore that can manipulate people very strongly. For Christianity to have a huge impact on society, for the church and Christianity to psychologically and energetically enslave people, a Christian dictatorship is no longer necessary. In Europe, the church is still stronger, more influential, and more powerful than the state.
The truth is proclaimed on my website. But who cares about the truth when the lie, which is the egregore of religion, is a million times stronger than the truth. Nobody cares about the truth. The "truth" belongs to the one who is stronger, who creates a stronger egregore. A lie stronger than the truth.
Christianity and Islam are very strong egregors that strongly block and prevent the emergence of other competing positive egregors, such as the shamanic worldview and the like.