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rampartc

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4. nearly everything that we consider catholic (and by extension protestant)

Reply to trotsky (Original post)

Wed Jan 30, 2019, 12:48 PM

Jan 2019

was syncretized from older, mostly pagan, religions. christianity owes more to the ptolemaic god serapis (himself a syncretism of greek mystery religion on to the egyptian religion. ) than to mosiac judaism. and then there was constantine, baptized but not quite converted, who wanted a religion to unite all of his subjects. ........

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