LordsFire
Internet Wizard
1. I'm not going to try to defend catholicism. In fact, I agree with you about how destructive a lot of catholic power politics and doctrinal heresies are.Again with your conclusion assuming your premise is correct. No, Catholicism is not a superior moral system with regard to ideological conflict, because the obsessive logical formulations to connect absolutely everything in the scripture together into as cohesive a worldview as possible creates points of failure on things that do not fucking matter or are outright bad like having a singular worldly institution as sole moral arbiter.
And the earlier forms of Christianity that displaced Roman religion were an utter clusterfuck. Again, street riots over theological minutia, whether it be the contents of the Eucharist in terms of transubstantiation or the internal nature of Christ. Yet the churning mass of barely-related post-Judeo-Stoic mostly-nonsense did not create catastrophic results like the churning mass of barely-related post-Christian mostly-nonsense, because people were used to questioning ideology.
There was a healthy ecosystem of varied baselines to what you thought was right and established customs to handle different moral standards, things Christianity went out of its way to be rid of. And without those, when the Catholic Church inevitably discredited its moral system for huge swaths of Europe by being corrupt elitist cunts, you got nonsense because people couldn't behave themselves dealing with those of minutely different framework for mostly-identical moral standards, let alone the coming shitshow of post-Christian utopians deriving irreconcilably different frameworks for wildly divergent moral standards.
2. Your argument that Christianity is somehow uniquely terrible in being vulnerable to 'what comes after' fails evidentiary tests too. Cambodia wasn't Christian. China wasn't Christian. North Korea wasn't Christian. Yet all of these, when they turned atheistic/communist, were every bit or more brutal and murderous as nations that had been at least nominally culturally Christian before the atheists took over.
3. A 'healthy ecosystem' of ideology is one centered around pursuit of Truth. If you don't value truth as a transcendent concept, you're going to end up at nonsense no matter what the material or cultural peculiarities of your society are.