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Ciudanado – the virgin birth, the god dying and resurrecting, these were typical not only of ancient Egypt and of Horus and Osiris, but of all the mystery cults of the Empire and beyond, and early Christians, like everyone else, would have known them well. The closest was the Mithraic cult. The god is the sun, who dies and is buried and after a few days rises anew. The 12 are the sun’s rays, symbolised by Samson’s (the sun’s)
plaits of hair. All is tied in with the Saturnalia and the legends were universal.The Gospel writers indeed would have copied these legends and Christianised them, just as Christians would also Christianise the life of the Buddha and manufacture Christian saints who never existed but are still venerated Catholic saints.
But the Gospels were late, probably much later than credited. Christianities predated them, as did Paul’s epistles.Religio: Religion. The Roman word meant rituals (performance of rites) cementing social cohesion. It served the same purpose as ShintĆ in Japan, Confucianism in China and Hinduism in India.
Christianity was not called a religion, but a superstition.
Slaughter: Why Do God and Guns Often Go Together in U.S. History? – CSGS | Center for the Study of Guns & Society https://share.google/pE53cP6rMqEhXbkq0
Wonder if they were told to choose between their Bibles or their guns, we would see massive garbage collections of Bibles.
The USA was founded on genocide, and the Bible was its constant companion.
How can US MacChristianity know anything of Christianity and its history?
I can imagine slick US Jesus jazzers with designer trainers, MAGA caps and backpacks going there and telling him “You need faith in Jesus! We can help.” And handing out the Trump Bible. đ
” Ethiopia officially adopted Christianity in the 4th century (around 330â341 AD) under King Ezana of the Kingdom of Aksum, making it one of the oldest Christian nations in the world.The Conversion ProcessEarly Introduction: Biblical tradition notes the conversion of an Ethiopian eunuch by Philip the Evangelist in the 1st century, but this did not establish a national church.Frumentius: A shipwrecked Syrian youth named Frumentius was taken to the royal court at Aksum and gained the trust of the royal family.Appointment as Bishop: Frumentius traveled to Alexandria and was consecrated as the first bishop of Aksum by Pope Athanasius of Alexandria.State Religion: Upon his return, Frumentius baptized King Ezana, who then declared Christianity the official state religion.”
Ok. But there remains the question of historical evidence.
Did Christianity imbibe the myth of the dying and resurrected god from Egyptian mythology? Yes. But did Christianity arise in Africa? No.
Was the Roman Catholic Church the institution before 1054 that we know emerged much later? No.
Did Rome invent Christianity? No.
Was Cleopatra African or Greek? Greek.
Did white racism exist in Roman times? No.
You seem to be thinking, when you say “Catholicism”, of a much later period.
Western Europe in the Byzantine era (the time of the Church councils of Nicaea and Chalcedon) was largely discarded. Ecclesiastical history was taking place in the Middle East. The Popes of Rome were unimportant. They were hemmed in by Germanic tribes, who were Arian Christians, not Catholics. The Popes struggled to survive as an enclave of Orthodoxy out on a limb left to itself. They were also beset by the Huns from the east, and by Arabs, who sacked Rome in the 840s. The strongest influence within the Church of Rome was Greek.
Only in 1054 did the Pope, frustrated at being ignored by the East, make himself independent from the uninterested Orthodox Church, and commence an independent Roman Catholic Church. It would still be centuries before a nascent capitalism would launch the colonial era.“JesĂșs, 3000 años antes de Cristo: Un faraĂłn llamado JesĂșs is a non-fiction book written by [Llogari Pujol Boix and Claude-Brigitte Carcenac Pujol], first published in April 1994. It explores historical and philological parallels between the life of Jesus of Nazareth and ancient Egyptian mythology, particularly the attributes of Osiris and the pharaohs.”
I do not deny that older myths were co-opted and renamed by the early Christians. They copied and distorted everything, and also faked everything.
” Catholicism is just the religion of the Europeans, invented by the Roman Empire using a distorted version of African mythology, which was used to colonise other peoples.”
There seems to be confusion here with two different epochs.
Catholicism, by which I suppose you mean Trinitarian Orthodoxy (Nicaean, Athanasian, Christianity), was not invented by the Roman Empire. It was adopted by it; then discarded in favour of Arianism for a brief spell, and was finally enforced as the state religion in the 390s by Theodosius. This was also not the time of Roman expansion, but was approaching the end of Roman power.” All the pictures and images were made by European artists.”
Not so. What about the Copts, Ethiopians and Armenians, who separated in the 5th century? They have a rich iconography.
” The whole area of the Middle East was part of Africa; it was to be called northeast Africa.”
When?
” At present, the USA government and its fake historians want to negate the whole history of the African peoples and the African slaves and insert their Christian white nationalistsâ stupidities and the so-called replacement theory; the real replaced ones were the Asian natives.”
Agreed, but what has this to do with the ancient world? White racism was a product of the Atlantic slave trade, 1,500 years later in the Early Modern period.
” The religion of the natives was based on nature; nature and themselves were the same, showing that most religions were attached to a mode of production, as it was written in the book How Gods Were Created, a book written based on the materialist conception of history.”
Yes, but again, relevance to the ancient era?
