How the Holy Roman Catholic Church Relates to Christianity

Hardly at all, really. Many hundreds of years before the Christian Era began, many Middle Eastern people worshiped the stars, planets and constellations as gods, the ruling powers over the earth that were out in the celestial dome. It was well known that at the beginning of spring Taurus the Bull ruled. Everybody knew that, and nobody really challenged or checked up on it.

Well, one day somebody did. Whoa! Unbeknownst to anyone, the constellations had progressed to the next ruling figure. Who moved the universe? Who stripped Taurus of his position and power? Who had "slain" the bull? Must be some Super-god. Thus was born Mithraism, the religion of the Super-god Mithra. And, of course, the money grubbing, power usurping, society controlling priesthood that goes with any religion formed around it.

In Africa and west Asia, the Christian aspect of mystical Judaism was going on strong, except the Jewish priesthood was fighting it tooth and nails. Along comes a Buddhist missionary who comes to understand the Jewish scriptures, and he writes the Gospel of Mark to explain that the Mosaic Gospel of Jesus Christ is best understood through Buddhism. He presents Gautama Buddha as the embodiment or incarnation of God. THAT is why Mark is so close to Buddhism -- it wasn't that Jesus traveled to India; it was that a traveling Indian had invented Buddha as a Jew!

As the Christian religion of Judaism spread into areas of Mithra worship, the Mithra priesthood said, "Hey, that's our Super-god," thus confusing the non-dual Jewish and Buddhist interior God with the exterior, separate and divided god Mithra. So in Roman Catholicism you have the priesthood, theology, and religious forms of a  dualistic astrological religion painted with the terminology of non-dualistic Mosaic Christianity as depicted by an Indian Buddhist.

Terminology. That is the whole extent of the relation Roman Catholicism has with Christianity. It just sounds like. They actually do not have a clue as to what Moses meant by what he said. What they mean by what they say has no relationship with Christianity at all. You really have to get back to the ancient languages, philosophies and perspectives of the ancient non-dualistic cultures to understand what Moses and Buddha meant by what they said.