World out of Balance / Rational Protestantism

Out of Balance	Muhammedan Christianity	Rational Protestantism

Out of Balance

Alexander's Warzone

Until 333 BC The Middle East knew many empires, but mostly only fighting on borders and not overly agressive. Offering a kind of stability.
Then Alexander the 'Great' started plundering, aimed at destroying Persia. Alexander disappeared soon, but the Roman Empire inherited the Aristotelian ethics of his Hellenistic Empire, and ended in very expansive Catholicism.

The last 1500 years saw 3 extensions of the Roman Empire, all 3 extremely expansive variants of Christianity:
1. Catholicism (Roman Christianity)
2. Muhammedan Islam as Middle East Monophysite variant of Christianity.
3. Rational Protestantism as Northern European variant of already expansive Roman Christianity

1. Resulting in rise and fall of catholic Spanish and Portugese Empires (Madrid and Lisbon)
2. Resulting in muslim Islamic Empire ruled from Mecca
3. Resulting in rise and fall of rational protestant British Empire ruled from London
In World War II both were attacked by the rational protestant Nazi Empire ruled from Berlin.

And after World War II: rise of rational protestant US Empire ruled from New York
Muslim Empires were allowed to make a come-back, in return for loyalty or oil.
Rational Protestantism in the US became more puritan and hyper-rational
21st century: Fall of last extensions of Eastern and Western Roman Empire (Neo Muslim Empires and of Western World (Europe+US)

Muhammedan Catholicism

There are 3 main variants of Christianity, the basic Roman version and the variations of Muhammad (Islam) and of Luther (protestantism).
The variant of Muhammad differed (after death of Muhammad) by being monophysite and being even more expansive than Catholicism.
The later variant of Luther differed by even more than Catholicism fundamentally following the dual world view as Aristotle wrote down in Nicomachean Ethics. Luther's protestantism was not 'rational' at al, more 'spiritual', but after Enlightenment 'rational protestantism' developed.

After the 'blitzwar' of Alexander the Great the Middle East became a warzone. A warzone that was step by step conquered by the Roman Empire. This Roman Empire made one BIG mistake, and in the end had to flee from The Middle East. To break the power of Meccan traders it allowed Muhammed to gather followers.
c. 610-22 CE Muhammad preaches in Mecca.
622 CE Muhammad and followers flee to Medina.
630 Muhammedans capture Mecca. Pilgrimage is Muhammedanized.
Under Muhammad expansion was restricted to Arabia (Saudi Arabia)

Aggressive expansion started after death of Muhammad.
632 Death of Muhammad. 633 Muslim conquests (Jihad and Futuhat) begin.
Jihad means: fighting in the way of Allah in order to establish a just system which upholds the laws of the Shariah and seeks to realize the aims of Islam on earth.
Futuhat = 'liberation campaigns' by Jihad resulting in the spread of Islam

633-655 AC Arab capture of Assanid Empire (centre Persia), Ghassanid Empire (centre Damascus), Byzantine Empire and North African coast.
Qur'an written

Rational Protestantism

egoism individualism protestantism

Lutheran Catholicism or Protestantism differently from Catholicism preached self love (individualism and egoism).
Protestantism stated: "Self love should be practiced as true path into 'the kingdom of heaven".
Protestantism has all the ingredients in it to become more extreme than Catholicism.
During Enlightenment Protestantism developed into Rational Protestantism (Calvin-Kant Protestantism)

Until know Rational Protestantism brought us 3 empires
The British Empire
The Nazi Empire
The US Empire (most of Nazi Empire in Asia), with close friend Europe

21st century developments are that the US Empire is going to cooperate with Saudi Arabia (the investor behind Islam expansion).

A Return to the undivided Roman Empire. Politics of Power.

Henk Tuten, december 2005,

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