Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost: The Deconstruction Movement Part 1

The church has been fostering unholy soul-ties to the world of empire since the second century, when the grandfather of Catholic theology, Irenaeus insisted that the Roman (Catholic) church was the only trusted source for salvific sacrament and ritual. In reaction to both the geo-political instability in the region at the time and the persecution of Christians as well as the propagation of gnostic sects purporting to have secret knowledge of oral tradition traced back to Jesus, he wanted to stabilise and unify The Church, bringing it under the powerful protection of the Empire. To do this, he brought to the tumultuous and contested arena the powerful trifecta that the church is still bound by: the authority of the scriptures, church tradition and the priesthood as apostolic succession.