It is said that the Christian Church has left a legacy throughout Western society. Most non-Christians would agree that it’s a legacy that foters sexism, racism, intolerance of difference, and even the desecration of nature. Christianity is the one religion that has attempted to control, contain, and confine spirituality, politics, and the relationship between an individual and a god. The beginning of this Christianity is known as “orthodox Christianity”. It’s belief lies in a singular, solely masculine, authoriatian God who demands unquestioning obedience and who mercilessly punsihed dissent (as many biblical stories will attest to). Christianity started off with several different sets, but it was mainly this orthodox breed that came to wield political power, through adapting their religion to appeal to the Roman government. And as Hilter has shown, once you gain that power, that’s all it takes. From then on “the Church” enforced conformity to their practices, and persecuted all of those who did not conform. At this particular time period, those members of the Pagan religion were the most slaughtered since Paganism and the belief in polytheist, nature-oriented gods was the standard creed of the time.

The worst thing Christianity has ever done, in my personal opinion, is the period of the Dark Ages. After the Church took leadership of Europe, and the mighty Roman Empire collapsed, the rest of the world came with it. The Church was in supreme reign, and completely wiped out education, technology, medicine, history, art and commerce in favor of divine dedication to pure worship. Anything that wasn’t Christian was burned, including great libraries of information. Who knows how far back Western Civilization has been set back because of this. But before the Dark Ages even creeped up on us, the ideas of a heliocentric-earth solar system, eilliptical orbits, and  moon gravity tides were already presented and in their beginning form before the Dark Ages. And after, it took anywhere between 1,000 to 1,600 years to rediscover this information again. Same goes with art. Art thrived in the classical period, but lost all technique through the Dark Ages. All art was of divine beings only, and look very primitive considering that Christians burned the majority of classical works, which explains the majority of the rarity today of classical arts. It wasn’t until the Renaissance era that Western Civilization pulled itself out of a religious spiral, that art started to be “reborn” through a sort of neoclassicism. It took that period of time just to relearn everything using what little classic art that even existed.

The lesson learned: Seperation of Church and State is imperative, Christianity nor any other religion should have no influence on politics.

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