10-07-2012, 11:06 AM
Theo and David,
Agora is a very good movie and it's in my collection. However, the Christian sect depicted in that movie was not representative of the "monks" I was referring to. More on the "other side," yet just as crazy, we find the Saint Anthony and Prophet John types, who basically destroyed their bodies to enhance the soul... many "living" atop pillars and in solitary caves. Christians were not all militant. And I'll stick to my original prognosis that the church, by funneling huge sums of moola into itself, could not have been an advantage to the secular coffers of the late Western establishment.
Agora is a very good movie and it's in my collection. However, the Christian sect depicted in that movie was not representative of the "monks" I was referring to. More on the "other side," yet just as crazy, we find the Saint Anthony and Prophet John types, who basically destroyed their bodies to enhance the soul... many "living" atop pillars and in solitary caves. Christians were not all militant. And I'll stick to my original prognosis that the church, by funneling huge sums of moola into itself, could not have been an advantage to the secular coffers of the late Western establishment.
Alan J. Campbell
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
