The American Minervan

Tag: Roman Empire

  • Age of the Rule of Faith: Crusade against Gnostics and Scientific-Thinking Pagans

    Age of the Rule of Faith: Crusade against Gnostics and Scientific-Thinking Pagans

    Act of Irenaeus (Bishop of Lyon) disputing with Narcissus Gnostics and Scientific-Thinking Pagans (Christians invent the Rule of Faith) Christian Exclusive Truth Claims and Emphasis on Right Belief vs Pagan and Eastern Religions (Valerie Tarico) “The true Christians died with the last of the Gnostics, and the Christians of our day are but the usurpers…

  • Ernest Renan on the Concept of Nation: The Nation becomes tied to Race

    Ernest Renan on the Concept of Nation: The Nation becomes tied to Race

    ERNEST RENAN DETAILS IN 1882 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPT OF NATION AND NATION TIED TO RACE AS A CONFUSION “Since the fall of the Roman Empire or, rather, since the disintegration of Charlemagne’s empire, western Europe has seemed to us to be divided into nations, some of which, in certain epochs, have sought to…