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This is Anthony the Great, Anthony of the Desert, considered the original desert father, and erroneously believed to be the father of Christian ascetics. I fear he would be proud of the work of some of these parents who say Christian children do not need more than an 8th grade education in this day and age. 🙄 I knew he was extreme, but this is a whole other level of extreme. So much for the image of him reading the scriptures in a cave.

I think this is still quite true. If they would stay to themselves, if they would abide by separation of church and state, they would tear each other apart and would die out. Perhaps that is exactly why they cannot abide a separation of church and state. They know with a separation of church and state, they will never survive.
#TheClosingOfTheWesternMind #CharlesFreeman #history #philosophy #theology

There was not even a consensus on what salvation meant. The church fathers disagreed strongly on who was being saved, from what, and for what!
purpose.
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Well, this certainly isn‘t something anyone is teaching in theology/religion class. I would imagine the vast majority (if not all) of those people who claim to be practicing the original version of Christianity aren‘t even aware of this.

I‘ve been listening to this audiobook for a few days now. I‘m quite enjoying it, but I feel like this one would be more fun with a group or at least a partner, because there is so much to discuss here!
#CharlesFreeman #TheClosingOfTheWesternMind #philosophy #theology #history

This book reminds us that Christian orthodoxy was determined by weird, sad, repressed men who wanted to exert control over others. Long-live paganism! #audiobook

This is an interesting spin on the topic of Christianity overriding reason and logic. Anti-semitism is much older than Constantine, but this book seems to posit that it developed (gained a stronger hold?) with the rise of Christianity. @TheBookHippie your earlier post on the anti-Semitism of the passion story has really got me thinking about this, and now here it is. I really can‘t wait to read this book now.