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08-19-2007, 06:39 AM | #31 | |
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imperially sponsored: render unto caesar in the first instance. Tax propaganda at the heart and soul of the holy fraud. In the second instance add some propaganda for the new and strange fourth century Roman god. Best wishes, Pete |
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Independently of his name being "new", was there in essense something really new and strange about Christianity for the Romans? They were familar with sons of gods, incarnate gods, self-sacrificial gods. Christian ethics did not differ from that of many philosophers. Jupiter was already the "Deus Pater"...
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