You have a hard time understanding the fact that Emperor Constantine called the Nicean council in 325 AD, he participated in this council
Constantine understood how church government worked. He wanted resolution to the Arian crisis and needed the pope to pull it off. The pope needed Constantine to pull it off.
You have a hard time understanding that Emperor Constantine donated the land and built the old St. Peter's Basilica that is now Vatican City
No, I do not. Constantine had secular power and money, bishops did not.
You have a hard time understanding that Emperor Constantine is the foundational father of what is now "Roman Catholicism" in his "State Church" that persecuted the true lineage in Christianity Athanasius the Great be banished to mention one
Your "Roman Empire State Church" is a myth, conjured up by hostile Protestants.
On 28 February 380, Theodosius issued the
Edict of Thessalonica, a decree addressed to the city of
Constantinople, determining that only Christians who believed in the
consubstantiality of
God the Father,
Son and
Holy Spirit could style themselves "
catholic" and have their own places of worship officially recognized as "churches"; deviants were labeled heretics and described as "out of their minds and insane".
[136][137][v] (this does not mean Catholics ran wild slaughtering non-believers, as asserted by mentally ill Bible cults)
Recent scholarship has tended to reject former views that the edict was a key step in establishing Christianity as the official religion of the Empire, since it was aimed exclusively at Constantinople and seems to have gone largely unnoticed by contemporaries outside the capital.
[139][140] For example, German ancient historian
Karl Leo Noethlichs [
de] writes that the Edict of Thessalonica was neither anti-pagan nor
antisemitic; it did not declare Christianity to be the official religion of the empire; and it gave no advantage to Christians over other faiths.
[141] It is clear from mandates issued in the years after 380 that Theodosius had made no requirement for pagans or Jews to convert to Christianity.
[142][vi] Nonetheless, the edict is the first known secular Roman law to positively define a religious orthodoxy.
[136]
It makes me smile every time a Roman Catholic claim's that "Roman Catholicism" is the true lineage and succession of Christianity, nothing could be further from the truth
Merely asserting such nonsense proves nothing. It makes me smile every time an anti-Catholic claims the early church was not Catholic. Then what was it? Was Athanasius a Protestant???
Vatican City finds its lineage in the Italian facist dictator "Benito Mussolini" in 1929 who established it
You can't be serious.
Vatican City has been a refuge for catholics around the world who are guilty of crimes who are protected without extradition, Boston's Cardinal "Bernard Francis Law" being a prime example, he fled to Vatican City in 2002 amidst 400 claims of child sexual abuse in Boston, Pope John Paul protected him at Vatican City from extradition to the US to stand trial
You are grasping at straws with this off topic derailer.
Rebellion to authority is part of the fallen nature.
Nobody is born a racist, nobody is born an atheist and nobody is born an anti-Catholic.
But the socialization process is the same. In the final analysis, it usually points to a dysfunctional father, or no father at all. The Catholic Church makes the perfect scape goat for those projecting anger or loss on a symbol of parental authority. The next post illustrates this.
