In Western Europe, Christianity gradually
metamorphosed, into humanism. Over a long period of
time and with perseverance, the Divine-Human has
steadily been diminishing. He has been changed, He
has been narrowed down and finally reduced to a mere
man: to the “infallible” man in Rome and the equally
"infallible" men in London and Berlin.
This is how
the Papacy
came into being, by stripping Christ of everything, just
as Protestantism similarly did,
by asking little of Christ, and quite often, nothing at
all.
In the Papacy
and in Protestantism, man has replaced
the Divine-Human Christ,
both as the highest value and the highest criterion.
Painstaking and
deplorable changes to the Divine-Human's work and
teachings have been accomplished. The Papacy has steadily
and persistently been striving to substitute the Divine
Man with a mortal man, until finally, in its dogma
defining the infallibility of (a mere mortal) the pope,
the Divine-Human Christ was once and for all substituted
by an ephemeral, "infallible" man; because thanks
to this dogma, the pope was decisively and
clearly pronounced as being something superior – not
only to all men, but even to the holy Apostles, the holy
Fathers, and the holy Ecumenical Councils. With this kind of
deviation from the Divine-Human Christ, from the
ecumenical Church which is the Divine-Human’s organism,
the Papacy outdid even Luther,
the founder of Protestantism.
Therefore,
the first radical protest that was voiced in the
name of humanism but against the Divine-Human Christ and
his Divine-Human organism—the Church—should be sought in
the Papacy, not in Lutheranism. The
