constantly gambling with your life at all times, with the continuous
persecutions which the Christians were subjected to, as much by the
Jews at first as by the Romans later on. But the powerful ones, seeing
that, in spite of their efforts to eliminate the followers of that philosophy
- which was so detrimental to their egoistic interests - the number of
followers did not stop growing, they opted for the strategy of “if you
can't beat them, join them”. Following the conversion of the emperor
Constantine, who decreed the conversion of the whole Roman Empire
to Christianity, a great many people were forced to become Christian,
and not through belief in the message. And the majority, being forced
Christians, spoiled everything. Love towards one's fellow man ended
there. The old high priests of the previous cults and their followers
changed sides and converted to Christianity without any spiritual
transformation, and began to take over the important positions. How
do you think that the ex-high priests of the previous cults were going to
cope with being just one more of the believers? They wanted to retain
their share of power! So they changed the cap of high priest for that of
bishop of the Christian Church. Nor did they even change caps,
because even the cap of the Pope and bishops, the mitre, comes
from another religion. It is known as this because the priests took it from
the old cult of Mithras, one of the divinities worshipped by the Romans.
Many adapted to Christianity the rituals of their previous religions and
adulterated the original message of love towards one's fellow man
with other ideas contrary to this message. And so the Catholic Church
was born. As Jesus would have said, it is not possible to serve God and
money at the same time and the Catholic Church, like the Hebrew
Church of 2000 years ago, sided with the latter almost from the
beginning.
So with regard to the infallibility of the Pope and that he is God’s
representative on Earth...
It is all false, of course. He can be mistaken, just as any human can.
Regarding his connection with the spiritual world, he does not have
any privilege compared to any other person. The connection with
superior spirituality is made increasingly stronger by the personal work
of unconditional love, rather than by the concession of any earthly
title, however magnanimous this may be.
So where does this idea come from then?
As I have already said, from the Church leaders themselves. It is a way
of justifying their acts, which were generally motivated by the ambition
for wealth and power, so that nobody disputed them. If they were
able to convince people that they were essential for salvation, they