Model Train Journal

MurphOnMillerAve wrote:

HONDO74 wrote:How was it that humans came to the conclusion that it was necessary to build these elaborate massive structures for religion. In the name of Christianity. Did Jesus preach in these structures.

He did favor the Jewish temple in Jerusalem.

I'm guessing that was just a wee bit smaller than the European cathedrals.

If we look at what has come to be called The Temple Mount, and take notice when Jews visit its foundation walls to touch them and to offer prayer , the site appears, to me, to be quite massive. Atop that mount is a blue domed edifice which has come to be respected by Islam as a place sacred to them too, connected to Abraham.

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:

MurphOnMillerAve wrote:

HONDO74 wrote:How was it that humans came to the conclusion that it was necessary to build these elaborate massive structures for religion. In the name of Christianity. Did Jesus preach in these structures.

He did favor the Jewish temple in Jerusalem.

I'm guessing that was just a wee bit smaller than the European cathedrals.

It's all about marketing or, in this case, scaring the crap out of the God-fearing populace.

The Crusades- initiated, supported and sometimes directed by the Roman Catholic Church against pagans, heretics or for alleged religious ends. These differed from other Christian religious wars in that they were considered a penitential exercise, and so earned participants forgiveness for all confessed sins.

In 1095, Pope Urban II proclaimed the first expedition at the Council of Clermont. He encouraged military support for Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos against the Seljuk Turks and called for an armed pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

Favorite movies about the Crusades.... Kingdom of Heaven and Arn the knight Templar.

healey36 wrote:It's all about marketing or, in this case, scaring the crap out of the God-fearing populace.

By a religion that's based in love,

Burning at-the-stake was popular, too, for quite a while, even in the early Colonial times.

Of course, if we think about it, the whole experience began with violence, from Herod's search for the infant Him, to the Jews screaming their heads off at Pilate for Him to be crucified.

SOUND OF FREEDOM. Watch it.