Ancient history

17. The Conflict of Christianity

Christianity was mired in conflicts since its birth. This was a natural thing because the sophistication of a best institution, best idea, best creation or system can happen only after conflicts. The thought arising in the heart of man in relation to any subject, is not necessarily so superior that it does not have the possibility of any sophistication.

Jesus Christ claimed himself to be the son of the Lord and never claimed any divinity. He had been asking God for forgiveness for his enemies even in the last moments. So it was certain that he never claimed to be God himself.

When he left this world, there was a competition among humans to give him divinity. There were many reasons and emotions working behind this. Some people accept the greatness of a man when he dies. Because of this feeling, many people now found Jesus to be great.

Some people wanted to give the status of divinity to Jesus so that he could pose a new challenge to the priests and contractors of the prevailing religions. Some people started seeing divinity in Jesus because of the pure feelings of their conscience, while some people were eager to create a new religion for the fulfillment of their selfish interests.

There is no doubt that during his lifetime, Jesus was endowed with the qualities of divinity, but within a few hundred years after the crucifixion, millions of people believed in the divinity of Jesus. Now along with being the son of God, he had become so dignified that he was worshiped instead of God.

When the king of Rome accepted Christianity at the beginning of the fourth century AD, Christianity was neglected and no longer a religion of the common man. He was inspired by the pride of state-protection. The time had come for the preachers of Christianity to settle the accounts with their opponents, but at the same time Christianity got entangled in a new conflict. Christian preachers got caught up in arguments about the divinity of Jesus and the Christian Trinity, instead of understanding and applying Jesus' teachings.

In Christianity, the Father, Son and Holy Ghost (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) are called Trinity. On this subject they formed separate groups and they started calling each other infidels, atrocities on each other and even slit each other's throats. Once upon a time in some denominations of Christians 'Homo augen' There was a fight over the pronunciation of the word.

Some communities used to say that at the time of prayer homo ausgen The word should be pronounced while some communities hold the view that homoi aujin The word must be pronounced. This word is related to the divinity of Jesus Christ. To resolve this dispute, a fierce battle took place on both sides in which many people died.

The quarrels of the Christian preachers were so great that he could not take immediate advantage of it even after it became the religion of the king of Rome. When the Roman king left Rome and went to Constantinople, a dispute arose between the Christians of Rome and Constantinople as to who was the biggest and real Christian among them! Due to this the Christian community of the Roman Empire was divided into two communities. The Christian community of Constantinople began to call itself the Greek sect and the Christian community of Rome began to call itself the Latin sect.

The Roman Church came to be called the Catholic Church and the Church of Constantinople came to be called the Orthodox Church. The bishop of the Roman Catholic Church became the head of the Latin Christian community, which later became distinguished by being the successor of St. Peter. After some time this sense of exclusivity grew so much that the bishop of the Catholic Church of Rome 'Pope' i.e. 'Father' Began to be called It was an astonishing situation. The successor of the disciple of Jesus, the Son of the Lord, had become the father of Christians all over the world! With the absence of the king in Rome, the status of the Pope increased day by day.

Even in the 6th century AD, the battles of Christianity were not with non-Christians, but with other Christian sects. These sects were extremely intolerant towards each other. Throughout North Africa, West Asia and Europe, Christians tried to explain to their Christian brothers the essence of religion with punches, sticks and swords. During this period Christianity had spread to Turkestan, China and Abyssinia (Habsh) and was completely cut off from the Christianity of Rome and Kustunnia.

The Dark Ages began in Europe. Christians searched and destroyed the books written by then because they contained ancient Greek philosophy, ancient Roman religion, and were written about the worship of ancient gods and goddesses. Along with these books, the painting, sculpture, musical art of ancient times also suffered a great loss at the hands of the Christians of that period. They were searched and destroyed. Because these artifacts undoubtedly represented ancient Roman gods and goddesses.

Some Christian priests and priests were not as conservative as their other brothers. They considered the past as the legacy of their ancestors. Therefore, in some Christian ashrams, churches and monasteries, old books were secretly stored and saved from destruction. Similarly some ancient paintings were also saved. During this period some Christian dervishes moved away from human settlements to desert areas.

There these people lived in a wild condition and used to inflict pain on themselves. He did not take a bath and tried to suffer as much as possible. This was especially found in Egypt where many such dervishes lived in the desert. His thought was- 'The more they hurt themselves, the more they stay away from bathing and washing, the more pure they will become.

One dervish sat on a pillar for many years. These people kept raising their hands. Even this hand used to dry up and become useless. Or used to sit on iron nails. This way of life of these dervishes was very similar to the Indian Hatha-yogis. Gradually, the tradition of these Christian-dervishes ended, but for a long time many Christians believed that- 'It is a sin to rejoice.'