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I forgot; we did not mention the sect of the Essenes. Some historians have said that they had their own army, and others have said that John the Baptist and Jesus were members of that Jewish sect
Christianity could have been born on Mars, and we would not make any difference, and a new Bible of 88 books would not make any difference either. It is only a mythology that will not liberate mankind. The latest archaeological study has proven that the whole bible is a false narrative created by scribes; religious leaders are just repeating old false conceptions, and the latest paleopathological findings have debunked the Genesis book completely; we were not created; we evolved from African apes. The whole thing has fallen apart, and the Exodus narrative is completely false; it has been proven that the desert could have been crossed in 14 days rather than 40 years. They spent most of their time in Canaan
The 18th century told us most of this, and yet here we are, in 2026, not only promoting old myths, but coming up with new ones even more ridiculous. Anything but reason! (Just as, in social science, anything but socialism!)
The Coptic and Armenian Churches, which include the Ethiopian Church, separated from the Byzantine Church in the 5th century. They were the Monophysites, the opposite to the Nestorians. The Nestorians migrated into Central Asia, Tibet, Mongolia and China, where they were well established by the time of the T’ang Dynasty. Many of the Mongols were Nestorians before conversion to Buddhism.
The same old crap about Jesus’ divinity. Several religious groups have been struggling for several centuries over a mythological figure. Personally, I prefer Greek mythology, which was part of my Humanities classes along with the Divine Comedy and Goethe. The so-called pre-diluvian narratives are as mythological as the rest of the bible
It is interesting to read and study them from a materialist point of view, but most secular atheists do not have a materialistic point of view, and they do not know that religion had a materialistic origin
But I do. 😀
However, I also learned from the inside, because when I was 17 to 20 years old my last adolescent phase was Orthodoxy. I outgrew it but in the interim I learned firsthand a lot about Orthodox monasticism, living with monks in the Greek mountains. Whereas most in western Europe think of the Roman Church as central – the “original” Church – I learned that this was not so. The factional struggles within Christianity were fought out in the East. Also, unknown to western Christians, it was an Asiatic and ascetic religion, and totally alien to the modern forms in the West today.
Throwing it off was a real emancipation, but what I had learned of its history, ritual and culture was invaluable.I do not think that everything that I learned from the Jesuits, the Salesians and the Lasallian brothers was totally negative. The monastic nuns and sisters who took care of us were good women dedicated to their beliefs
There are many good people in the Catholic Church. It is renowned for its centres of classical learning, run indeed mostly by the Jesuits. I attended Fribourg university, the principal Catholic university in Switzerland. One professor had a huge poster on his door of Thomas Muenzer!
A student I lived with ran the theology faculty’s paper and was asked to print a full page ad for a local Catholic bookshop. He had a great sense of humour and printed it on the centrefold, opposite a full page photo of Karl Marx!😀At Kent university the only paper that printed my ads for SPGB meetings was the Anglo-Catholic paper. The students union paper wouldn’t do so.
They have the best universities and the best curriculum on classical humanities, literatures and novel including Spain golden age of literatures . World history philosophy and languages
A black Jesus, a white Jesus, or an asian Jesus will not make any difference; it is the same mythology. They can add two hundred more books to the Bible, and it will not make any difference either; it is a false historical narratives copied from different civilizations. None of the personalities never existed
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