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The Romans commonly called Christians "atheists." People today assume that means Christians didn't have that whole mess of gods - but if you really dig into what Jesus taught, there's an argument that early Christians were genuinely atheist, in the modern sense. I'm not an atheist - I believe in God. But how "God" is defined is the rub. And that's the problem - calling something a heresy is justification of murder, or at least theft.
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