What I saw in this documentary was basically a one hour summary of the secular history of two huge branches of Christianity. Now although I say two branches, which implies different churches, the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christian churches were considered the same church for about 1000 years. The Christian church before it split into two was originally a sect of the Jewish religion. In fact, they have all the same historical beliefs as the Jews up to when Jesus had his ministry. The Christian church saw Jesus as the Messiah, and this separated them from the Jews. Although the early church struggled against many persecutions, it proved to be quite resilient and when Constantine took up Christianity as a Roman emperor, its popularity skyrocketed. According to the documentary, Christianity became the "in" thing at the time. As Christianity spread across the land, so did ideas about …show more content…
They honestly did not want to fight, it was just a different interpretation of the same source material. There were no more apostles to turn to for authority, so nobody took any actions because they didn't have the right to. I find it amazing that, from what this documentary contained, there weren't any radical people that jumped and tried to force their sect's beliefs onto the other sect. This is the sort of thing I hear about and think that it's amazing for them to be so calm about the issue. But what really takes the cake is in 476 CE, when Rome falls to outsiders of the Roman Empire, rather than the church using its political power to punish/fight other countries, it starts to send out missionaries to them. This is amazing to me-the Catholic sect takes a huge blow and how does Christianity as a whole respond? Send out-not the troops-but the missionaries. After part of Christianity was attacked, rather than retaliate, they kept with the level-headed