Diarmaid MacCulloch's A History of Christianity

[IlRezzonico]

Not a bad series, barring some lefty garbage - like blaming Christianity for the holocaust.

[barbourjohn]

This is a unique history of Christianity, It takes you places that you have never been before.

[cirosuperiore]

without the Universal Church, NO Western Civilization.

you must thank the Roman Catholic Church and the organizational genius of Italians to keep Christian Civilization going for 2+ thousand years.

which part of the word Genius you don't understand???

[cirosuperiore]

DM is anti-catholic bigot.

[hamartolos1]

Why can't people take their comments to P.M. or something. People don't want to read banter between two individuals.

[barrach7]

P.S: Only quoting the following from teh Bible as it's relevant to the topic and situation:

Matthew 7:24-27 and Luke 6:47-49

Without the basics, you have nothing. No foundation. Your fascination with academic learning as being some kind of measure of 'intelligence' or superiority only continue to reinforce your reliance on ego. Now - try starting again. Sincere good luck. You've said nothing yet....

[barrach7]

Perhaps try scrolling down and give basic comprehension a try. Good luck.

[barrach7]

P.S: MUST try harder......

[barrach7]

P.S: Being 'well read' is frankly a cop-out. Whilst not a Professor, I have a Master's degree in a scientific field (so what?!) I've learnt FAR more through self-thinking and through learning not to accept ludicrous statements myself than I EVER did at university. 'Reading a book' is only useful if you can think outside it, take it with a pinch of salt and don't have an agenda. THAT is truth!

[ORAKAR]

@barrach7 Oh, of course; I'd hardly be so ad hominen as to say that he's correct because he's well read. But people who are very well respected, very well read and very well argued shouldn't be casually swept aside by ignorant, uninformed YouTube viewers.

[barrach7]

@ORAKAR

He's controversial...thus attractive and 'respected' by many - irrelevant of his actual 'thought' processes. I'm ill-informed as to what happened to Harry Potter in books, as I haven't read them....do you see (?)

Good luck in discovering ego-control and actually thinking for ones' self. The only true thinking there is.

[ORAKAR]

@barrach7 Forget thinking for oneself, you don't seem to think at all, full stop! You haven't at all involved yourself with what I've said, but merely said that it's incorrect. The mark of a true intellect, I'm sure.

[professoressa99]

Bubble-popping at its best, if that is your primary agenda! Seems a little Anglo-centric in its 'Christianity isn't as great as you think' approach . . . . the churches of the East were never 'lost', only ignored; what about the Hagia Sophia being turned into a mosque BEFORE any 'tragedy' in Cordoba, . . . . .

[barrach7]

Since when have Roman Catholics "believe that the priest turns the bread and water into the physical blood and flesh of Christ"? None that I know of believe that, but rather that the priest is the trained holder of the ceremony around this spiritual transformation and that only God Himself can 'perform' this.

Perhaps ill-advised words Professor, or perhaps incredible ignorance on your part - or (I would hope not) a sub/conscious, anti-catholic agenda...

[ORAKAR]

@barrach7 If the priest initiates the ritual with his own free will, then how does he not play an active role in turning the bread and water into Christ's body and blood? Sure, God responds to the priest's ceremony, and is the active force in the transformation, but that doesn't mean that the priest doesn't supply the flint which is struck.

Be careful about attributing 'incredible ignorance' to Professors. MacCulloch is INCREDIBLY well read.

[barrach7]

@ORAKAR "be careful...?!" Is he mafia or something?!

To answer your frankly ill-informed question: NO - the priest DOES NOT "play an active role in turning...". He just undertakes a ceremony. It's really that simple. That you had to ask that and your 'genius' on here still don't get this basic concept is either evidence of incredibly limited cranial capacity..or a political agenda..

[ORAKAR]

@barrach7 Ill-informed? Limited cranial capacity? Righhht. Luckily, I don't build my intellectual self-awareness from the hyperbolic and mean comments of YouTube viewers. Your question-begging blanket rejection of what I said is hardly the height of intellectual integrity. Why doesn't the priest play an active role? Does the priest not, with his free will, choose to engage in the ceremony? If so, he commissions God to do the transformation. Of course HE doesn't transform it, but chooses it to be