Vance clearly suffers from self-deception, a form of mental blindness, as we all do to greater or lesser extent. He would do well to examine what he and his associates have been doing. Rather than listening to their own repetitive, self-reinforcing utterances: justifications and excuses for unbridled and unnecessary violence. His version of Christianity owes nothing to the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, but is a religion of intolerance and hatred that has launched throughout the world a thousand wars and campaigns of extermination, persecution, and subjugation. Even against those who professed Christianity and likely held more closely to the original teachings. [As but one example, the extermination of the Cathars, "the Pure Ones" - a term applied to them derogatorily by the minions of Pope Innocent III] In recent years very early Christian texts are being discovered and re-examined, including in Ethiopia, which was perhaps the earliest Christian country if one excepts Britain (the Celtic Church converted pagan Rome). Ethiopia was not subject to such Councils as that of Nicaea, nor to the Roman Church, nor to the Reformation, and has preserved many an ancient scripture, written in Ge'ez. Early Christian texts likely held in the library of Glastonbury Abbey, one of the r most influential monasteries in England, would have perished when the Abbey was destroyed by fire in 1184.
