I never said he was an architect, but he did bring Christianity into the fold of the ...

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2024-01-05 03:10:55

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I never said he was an architect, but he did bring Christianity into the fold of the empire .. and there was always a push and pull. Christianity did become more pagan over time (Easter, Christmas and other traditions merged the existing with the new).

And there certainly were some pretty big variants! Christianity didn't start spreading until almost a full generation after when Jesus supposedly died/resurrected (The God Who Wasn't There, 2005, Flemming).

I use to be a born again/evangelical from 1996 ~ 2003 ... I haven't really started looking at that time until recently. I think Christianity is incredibly important to the development of the western world, and non-theists dismiss it way too easily; but I think it's way more complex than true believers thing it is. I wrote this a few weeks back:

https://battlepenguin.com/philosophy/faith/deconstructing-faith-and-removing-retaining-walls/

I also found this random Kiwifarmer's take really interesting:

https://kiwifarms.hk/threads/2023-israel-palestine-armed-conflict.173114/page-666#post-17013484

and lately I've been going through these, which are really interesting looks at Gnostic/Paulean ideology:

https://sacred-texts.com/gno/fff/fff12.htm

https://sacred-texts.com/gno/fff/fff13.htm

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