[I am reposting this from March 2014, just because I felt like it.]
There are quite a few theories about history and just what it is and what it means. Here's mine:
Guiding Axiom: History is the story of the powerful oppressing those less so.
Corollary 1: The powerful have always been able to convince one or more subsets of the less powerful that another subset of the less powerful--rather than their actual oppressors--is the source of their problems.
Corollary 2: Throughout much of history (or at least the last 1500 years or so), the church (in all its various forms) has been in bed with the oppressors rather than the oppressed.
Overly simplistic? You bet. But pick a time in history and this dynamic is probably playing out.
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