Preamble
Historical
Christianity and its methods of persuasion to control through the reward of
heaven and the punishment of hell. Creation of punishments and hopes to control
human happiness in life and death.
UNLIMITED AND UNCONTROLLABLE POWER
To understand the unlimited power that
imposed the repulsion and abhorrence of women for millennia, without anyone
daring to oppose or question it, it is necessary to delve briefly into the
history and origins of that power, and some of the "persuasive"
methods that Christianity used and still uses to impose itself.
This originated during the 1st century AD in
the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire, throughout the area of Judea,
Palestine, in the Syrian-Palestinian corridor, in Syria; this means that it had
historical, chronological, geographical, social, and religious coordinates, as
it was a movement of Judaic origin but that, by the mid-1st century, was
transforming into a Hellenic, Hellenophone movement, which implied that many
non-Jews could access its message of salvation. The personal salvation message
they offered was for everyone.
COVETED ATTRACTIONS
The first and wonderful attractive message of
salvation issued by Christianity was the promise of eternal life; that is, an
unlimited existence in another plane after death, first imposing that eternity
is of utmost importance and that it begins with physical death, a concept that
teaches us to remain focused on that eternity.
To fulfill that attraction, very
intelligently, they created a reward, an excellent and highly coveted one
called heaven; an indeterminate location where people, upon dying, if
they had strictly complied with the precepts imposed by the Church during their
lives, would reach that paradisiacal place, where for all eternity they would
enjoy all earthly and non-earthly pleasures and joys that exceed our desires
and imagination; and furthermore, the complacency of God for all eternity; that
is, full and endless happiness, without worries or needs.
SUPERVISION, CONTROL, AND DOMINION
That possible eternal happiness needed to be
dominated and controlled, imposing limitations on the fidelity of the
believers, and for that control, they implemented or created a punishment; a
horrendous punishment, superior to any other known and existing, which they
called hell; a gloomy, sinister, eerie place where the deceased would
go; transgressors in life, sinners who never repented or obtained forgiveness
through the members of the Church; and in which they would remain for all
eternity, in a lake of fire, controlled by sinister figures and where they
systematically inflict horrendous tortures and sufferings, incomparable to
those known in earthly life.
INCENTIVES AND HOPES FOR HAPPINESS
To incentivize the hopes of achieving full
happiness for those who died in the grace and friendship of God, but
imperfectly purified, they also created an alternative, in an intermediate zone
between the hereafter and the here, which they called purgatory;
something like a waiting room, where the deceased would purge their sins for a
time less than eternity, receiving punishments inferior to those of hell but
still very harsh; a place from which they could only leave through the
mediation of suffrages, which the living, family members of the deceased, had
to pray a lot, and if they wanted to shorten the stay in that also terrifying
place and speed up the continuation on the path to heaven, they achieved it
based on the generosity of donations to the Church to acquire indulgences, and
thus their dead could continue towards eternal happiness. The sale of
indulgences and the substantial donations from the relatives of the deceased
produced an immense amount of earthly wealth for the Church, persisting in its
exploitation for many years, becoming a lucrative business that enriched many;
and especially the Church, which did not stop selling indulgences even to those
who in life wanted to accumulate them for use upon death; that is, it was like
an advance payment to achieve "eternal happiness."
As can be observed, they used the two known
methods to generate control and servitude: instilling fear and instilling hope,
which translates into the renunciation of the present for the future.
PUNISHMENT FOR THE UNBAPTIZED
For those who, for any reason in life, had
not eliminated through baptism the original sin with which all humans are born;
generally children; or those who had not known the doctrine of Christ, they
created a place near hell for those deceased, which they called limbo,
in which they would remain for all eternity, without sufferings, in darkness
and forever deprived of God's grace; that is, in the most absolute oblivion.
TO BE CONTINUED
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