Jesus and Christianity Today

Modern Christianity is well removed from the message of Jesus. Today's Christians follow many different traditions, with the oldest traditions based on Roman Catholicism and the Greek Orthodox Church. Catholicism and the role of the pope can be traced to the earliest Christian emperors of ancient Rome who considered themselves the defenders of the faith and presented themselves as the head of the church. Indeed, the similarity between the Roman Emperor and the pope can be noted in the tradition for centuries of the Holy Roman Empire, a powerful political entity headed by the pope which existed well outside the European countries that it encompassed.

In addition to the long-standing traditions found in Catholicism and Greek Orthodoxy, newer Christian traditi

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