Oddbean new post about login | logout "...The association [between the State and the Church] nonetheless led the church into a position of both conformism and of power, and this was the basic error, the fundamental heresy, of Christendom. "...For the most part the church sold out and was led astray by the exercise of power and by association with the political powers. This was the most sinister aspect of the entire period we know as Christendom."