Rome and Politics (8): Rome’s Syncretism with Pagan Religions

Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions (1965) Given the Roman Church's false ecumenism with the Eastern Orthodox, Anglicans, and Protestants, it is no surprise that it is engaged in syncretism with pagan religions.1 After all, Jehoshaphat's false ecumenism with the apostate Northern Kingdom (II Chron. 18; 20:31-37) led him into syncretism with pagan Edom (II Kings 3). Rome has always been syncretistic to some degree. Witness its compromises in the conversion...