My name is Jake Warren and I go to LSU. I am writing this blog for my Religion class as an assignment for my teacher. The assignment is to write a blog within the confines of our current read. In my blog I will question why God was always portrayed an elderly white man. Some people say that religion and the concepts of God and sin were made up by the controlling classes to further control the masses of uneducated people into being civil and easy to rule over. The men in control at that time would resemble something close to an elderly white man. Naturally passing down control and wealth to their sons - Jesus. This picture of social order made sense to masses of uneducated people. Since most couldn't read, the paintings of early church closely to what people knew. I think that the Catholic church should have enabled the people learn in an unbiased way. They should have let the people decide for themselves what are fundamental rights and wrongs of human behavior.
I think the horrible corruption in the Catholic church at this time supports this theory as far as the rules being written down and punishments for each transgression spelled out. In fact, John Jay said, "The Protestants have concurred in considering the pope as the great antichrist mentioned in the scriptures. It is said there are many antichrists and the head of Catholicism is of the main ones."
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