Through several centruies of history the Christian Church has dominated the beliefs of much of society through charasmatic speeches, Christian centered stories in many different media, and church sponsored and directed propaganda campaigns. The Christian Church, specifically the Cathlic has continually strived to be a dominate force within the society it inhabits. Doctor Faustus is a Morality play that serves the Christian Propaganists intrests.
Doctor Faustus is an noteable written example of the piliferation of the Christian ideals that if it not represent these Christian ideals it would be the modern equlivlent of a low budget made for television movie with a religious undertones that would . Two of the scenes are extremely poor and another two which degenerate into nonsensical diversions. There is also a lack of sustained writing where an excellent quality would do justice to the internal drama that unfolded through Marlowe's mentality. If not for the detail that this play is the first known play to be written in Iambic Pentameter, which William Shakespeare popularized. Doctor Faustus is a flawed play that only served the intrests of the Lords Admiral and Strange's theater company and the fundmentalist Christians sixteenth century.
Although Doctor Faustus was set in the sixteenth century it a piece of quasi-fiction that serves as even a viable example in the late twenith century. Doctor Faustus, scholar who is in the persuit of knowledge, just as many scientists are today, comes to the conclusion that the only way he can obtain more knowledge is through progressing to a different world view, the practiced one practiced by Mephistophilis, just as many scientists have shuned organized religions to persue truth in the world of reason. Scientists and Doctor Faustus were persecuted for changing their beliefs away from christianity.
Many of the Christian belief structures that shun the movment away from God, are muddled in the history of the Roman Empire, and the strayings of survey history books. The early beginnings of Christ parallel what is now seen as in a modern cult. Many newsworthy cults are apocalyptically focused on the comming of the new Milinea. In general these cults are lead by very charismatic leaders, usually a single male; are a small sect of a greater religion; the core members live together in an intentionally isolated comunity. The beginnings of Christianity are highly comparable to a cult. Christaianity at its begining was lead by a Jesus, a charismatic single male; it was a smaller sect of Judiasm; and its members initially lived small groups.
Christianity had the chance benifits any popular social movment, it was in the right environment, where the other religions of the area and time did not offer happiness after the reconing day or if they did offer happiness after death, excluded women or certain social groups, or were expensive to belong to. Christanity, like any good item had filled a need, the Roman Empire was expanding past its ability to be able to mandate a single religion and as such passed laws allowing certain religions to forgo the worship of the Emperor. Christianity at first spread like a popular fad, residents of the Roman Empire were able to join without a great fear of persecution because of the sparsness Roman Authorities. In later years the Christian religion became the official religion of several countries including the remnants of the Roman Empire, and what was to become the Russian Empire, England, and through time it also became a major religion in the United States after it was founded in 1787 .
Christianity has gone through a transformation in the 17.5 million hours since the birth of its founder. Christianity in American has taken on the role of a political entity. The Christian Colition, argubly the premier composite representational group of America's mix of Christianity, is activly involved in influencing the government. The Christian Colition has been privatly influencing the politics, during a 1997 private meeting Reverand Pat Robertson proclaimed that the didn't “...thing at this time and juncture the Democrates are going to be albe to take the White House unless we throw it away.” Clearly this isn't binding the original persuits of Jesus Christ, he taught the early Christians to respect the government that they were ruled by.