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  • I found the history of the early Church to be solidly supporting of the Orthodox view.

    Not to be a dick, but that’s because they did their absolute best to kill heretics and dismantle their belief systems by destroying their literature.

    The early church had a lot of ideas about Jesus and his purpose, but the gnostics and other groups were all suppressed by the Orthodox Church and we only know about their beliefs through the lens of their interlocutors.

    History is written by the victors, if the Orthodox Church is responsible for early church history they’re going to give you their version of it.














  • The more I go along, the more I’m convinced that you can’t honestly be on the political right and truly follow the teachings of Jesus.

    As someone that was raised in a religious right wing home and is now a moderate left atheist, I have a feeling it’s because a lot of these people choose their beliefs first, political or otherwise, and then attempt to twist and interpret the Bible in any way they can to reduce the cognitive dissonance that occurs when you inevitably run into contradictory information between the teachings of Jesus and the reality of right wing politics.