Can the current political situation be described as an attempt to expand Roman Empire?

I am an older Christian .

But I will say this - so far every religion has been corrupted through out the ages because of greed and the desire for power and domination. There are no exceptions .

I believe ( think ) that both good and evil right now are like salt and pepper that has been tossed together . Impossible for human kind to separate . It would certainly take divine intervention.

Because there is good and bad every where . No people as a whole can claim they are with out sin . No person can claim that either .

In the Christian Bible it says - Let the Angels do the harvesting - least you pull out the Good as well as the Bad.

The Second Reich was led by Otto von Bismarck, having nothing to do with the Roman or Holy Roman Empire. In fact, Bismarck was a devout Lutheran.

We may one day have a third world war and it may very well pit Christians against Muslims but i doubt the Holy See will be doing anything other than trying to prevent it.

Interestingly, there is more that unites Jews, Christians and Muslims than divides us as compared to Eastern religions and philosophies. The key to a peaceful world is secular government, tolerance and global free trade. People who trade fairly with each other don't tend to fight.

Tim M. Jesus was most certainly a Jew--born, lived and died as one.

The Bush doctrine was specifically about Empire - using preemption to keep America as the sole superpower following the fall of the Soviet Union.

...however, this had nothing to do with any Church. The drive to make all of Muslims the enemy when only a particular branch attacked America on 9-11 was simply a way to tie Iraq into the retaliation, when Al Qaida was actually an enemy of the secular Saddam Hussein. And Iraq was a target even before 9-11.

Rumsfeld did expect to get oil from Iraq - incompetence does not disprove intent. He said Iraq would "pay for itself" and intended to sell the nationalized Iraqi oil fields to the highest bidder( Halliburton) in order to pay for reconstruction (Halliburton)

Sadly - Churches, with their hierarchical structure and authority are sometimes prone to corruption.

I was beginning to think you had an interesting thesis there until I kept reading.

Wars are fought over many things. It is a simplification to attribute them solely to one cause, like resources, religion, or empire.

The United States spends as much on its military as the rest of the world combined and could nuke the planet into oblivion with the push of a button. It has no interest in seeing a war in the middle east, and it wouldn't need a proxy to attack Iran if it was inclined to do so. We do not like to occupy foreign countries and are no threat to any country that does not threaten our security or trade or that of our allies.

They expanded with military force (ex. Republic conquered Carthage using the three units of hastati, principes, and triarii in the triplex acies formation *checkerboard formation*.) They conquered usually without too much destruction however several incidences do point out that at times they could be extremely brutal and inhumanely cruel. (Boudicca and the Iceni for example) They held their provinces by 1. Keeping troops in the province 2. Obtaining allies around the province to help protect it 3. In the later years they bribed enemies and allies alike to not attack.

I'm Catholic. Your post is offensive and ignorant.

The "evil" Vatican has spoken out numerous times against Israel's crimes against humanity. The "evil" Vatican spoke out against the Nazi's and the Communists. Why do you think the media has died down on their whole "Nazi pope" business? Because there is too much evidence that shows it's not true! Even the Jewish newspapers have advised Jews to give it up.

We aren't pagan, and there is no ritual child abuse. There are sinners that committed child abuse, and bringing up 30+ year old cases and plastering the media with it is a diversion tactic by Jews because Israel is in hot water right now.

They love playing on anti-Catholic bigotry to divert attention away from themselves. And you fell for it.

Yes

well first of all when you think about it Jesus was not a Jew. Judaism is the same as Christianity with the exception of Christians believe Jesus was the messiah, witch he believes also.

i do believe that we are in for a WW3 but cant every prewar situation thought history be compared to the roman empire?

Catholics rituals are not pagan. we'd have to believe in multiple gods for that and we only believe in one.

History does not repeat it self; it is linear not circular.