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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
The New Testament was decided on in the 5th century and made sure it only contained what a handful of men decided. It has been discovered that actual followers of Jesus who worked with him had their writings ignored and destroyed. In favour of writings by people who lived long after him.
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Yes, exactly what I said. Christianity was nothing until Constantine, 400 years later, decided it would be great to kick out all those pesky priests of pantheistic religions and concentrate all power and revenue under the smartest, best, most just ruler he knew - himself!
He then killed thousands of people in his family and everywhere else and for that he's a church father!
Just like Mao, Stalin, and numerous other homicidal maniacs in our time, he used an "ideology" to justify killing and torturing men, women, children, his own family, etc.