| At least to some monotheists. This part:
God is *never* seperate from us.
I'm generally so unused to Judeo-Christians making this claim that to read it from a Catholic (IIRC?) is deeply refreshing. I'm also glad to see that you're not the only J-C to assert this here.
Much of the power in the Christian Church was derived in the Dark and Middle Ages from the assertion by ecclesiastical authority that God is seperate from us; and that it took intervention by ordained clergy to bring the laity back into touch with Him.
Tithing thus became a tax on the fearful. |