dixon76710
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And yet.. we have the pope who most definitely acts and has acted like a secular ruler, read the investiture conflict, constantine's will, the organization of crusades (not only into the ME but also in Europe). Kinda interesting how the christianity with no provision for a government has ended up with the theorcracy which has lasted longest.
Thats because Christian doctrine was written in Latin, read only by the clergy. Christianity was whatever the Catholic Church said was christian doctrine. The printing press, the spread of literacy and the translation and publication of bibles, and you get the protestant reformation. Using the text of the bible to end the scam the Catholic Church had run for so long. In colonial America the Bible was the #1 most widely read printed material in existance until Thomas Paine published "Common Sense" which displaced the bible from the #1 spot. He used Christian doctrine to demonstrate the illigitimacy of monarchies, ordained by the church with Gods authority to govern and for the first time established that gods authority to govern belonged to the individual. Government of by and for the people.
And the Islamic Caliphate spanned from 632 to 1924. Did Christianity have anything that long?