NotfooledbyW
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NotfooledbyW Oct’24 Veortb:
i. What's wrong with Christianity 210811
ding Aug’21 wwwcz: Christianity gave us America. Aug 11, 2021. #wwwcz6
ii. Evolution of Rational Theism beyond Christianity gave us America. 241007 {post•1}
NotfooledbyW Oct’24 Veortb: What Christianity as practiced today by supporters of Don Trump is morally, spiritually, and civically antithetical to the solid American principle of Civil Religion and freedom of conscience.
The idea that Christianity had something to do with the founding of America is a unfounded,
Saint Ding is afoul of the truth in paragraph i.
iii. A little history about the evolution of Christianity itself; excepts from “The Evolution of God” by Robert Wright
TEofG pg 288: It didn’t take Christians long to start annoying people as early as 64 CE, before all the books of the New Testament had been written, the Emperor Nero was having followers of Jesus smeared with pitch, put on crosses and set on fire. The thrifty persecutor, Nero (according to the Roman historian Tacitus), used the flaming bodies to serve as lights when daylight failed. The emperor’s immediate aim was to make Christian scapegoats, to blame them for a devastating fire that some people were blaming on him. But there was a less informal source of tension between the Christians and Roman rulers. Christians didn’t fit the Roman model of religion.
The Roman government let people worship whatever God they chose so long as they also paid homage to the official guards of the Empire. Christians refused to worship state gods, and they couldn’t honestly grant legitimacy to the various other gods people worshiped, either. In fact, they actively challenged that legitimacy because Christians weren’t just monotheistic; they were monotheists prone to proselytizing. .
The proselytizing outweighed the persecution, and Christianity grew until, in 312, it crossed its famous threshold: Emperor Constantine, inspired by a vision, decided to fight a crucial battle under the symbol of the cross. The ensuing victory elevated Jesus in his esteem and helped usher in an error of official tolerance for Christianity. By the end of the fourth century, Christianity was the official religion of the empire, and pagan religions were banned.
iv. Evolution of Rational Theism beyond Christianity gave us America. 241007 {post•1}
NotfooledbyW Oct’24 Veortb: It is not even remotely possible to believe America was created by any organized religion, including white protestant Christianity just before the turn of the 19th century.?
That one thing Saint Ding says above is part of one of the greatest and longest sustained lies in human history.
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i. What's wrong with Christianity 210811
ding Aug’21 wwwcz: Christianity gave us America. Aug 11, 2021. #wwwcz6
ii. Evolution of Rational Theism beyond Christianity gave us America. 241007 {post•1}
NotfooledbyW Oct’24 Veortb: What Christianity as practiced today by supporters of Don Trump is morally, spiritually, and civically antithetical to the solid American principle of Civil Religion and freedom of conscience.
The idea that Christianity had something to do with the founding of America is a unfounded,
Saint Ding is afoul of the truth in paragraph i.
iii. A little history about the evolution of Christianity itself; excepts from “The Evolution of God” by Robert Wright
TEofG pg 288: It didn’t take Christians long to start annoying people as early as 64 CE, before all the books of the New Testament had been written, the Emperor Nero was having followers of Jesus smeared with pitch, put on crosses and set on fire. The thrifty persecutor, Nero (according to the Roman historian Tacitus), used the flaming bodies to serve as lights when daylight failed. The emperor’s immediate aim was to make Christian scapegoats, to blame them for a devastating fire that some people were blaming on him. But there was a less informal source of tension between the Christians and Roman rulers. Christians didn’t fit the Roman model of religion.
The Roman government let people worship whatever God they chose so long as they also paid homage to the official guards of the Empire. Christians refused to worship state gods, and they couldn’t honestly grant legitimacy to the various other gods people worshiped, either. In fact, they actively challenged that legitimacy because Christians weren’t just monotheistic; they were monotheists prone to proselytizing. .
The proselytizing outweighed the persecution, and Christianity grew until, in 312, it crossed its famous threshold: Emperor Constantine, inspired by a vision, decided to fight a crucial battle under the symbol of the cross. The ensuing victory elevated Jesus in his esteem and helped usher in an error of official tolerance for Christianity. By the end of the fourth century, Christianity was the official religion of the empire, and pagan religions were banned.
iv. Evolution of Rational Theism beyond Christianity gave us America. 241007 {post•1}
NotfooledbyW Oct’24 Veortb: It is not even remotely possible to believe America was created by any organized religion, including white protestant Christianity just before the turn of the 19th century.?
That one thing Saint Ding says above is part of one of the greatest and longest sustained lies in human history.
nfbw 241007 Verotb00001
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