Frank
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Brian Ross wrote on Mar 7 th, 2017 at 11:14pm: Frank wrote on Mar 7 th, 2017 at 5:16pm: Brian Ross wrote on Mar 6 th, 2017 at 9:46pm: Frank wrote on Mar 6 th, 2017 at 8:55pm: Brian Ross wrote on Mar 6 th, 2017 at 5:55pm: rhino wrote on Mar 6 th, 2017 at 1:06am: Brian Ross wrote on Mar 6 th, 2017 at 12:10am: rhino wrote on Mar 5 th, 2017 at 11:39pm: Middle eastern culture is abhorrent, and the religion they invented is part of their culture. Thats the reality. You really shouldn't condemn Christianity like that, Rhino. Tsk, tsk. If Christianity was majority practised in the middle east they would have perverted it to their culture. Christianity is a "Middle-Eastern religion", Rhino. It is a product (at least initially) of the society in which it was founded - a Middle-Eastern one. Palestine was in the Middle-East IIRC. Tsk, tsk. Don't be stupid Brian. Are you claiming that Christianity isn't a Middle-Eastern religion, Soren? Really? http://www.ancient.eu/uploads/images/285.png Yeah, really, you pompous buffoon. Christianity is least practiced in the Middle East, its remaining practitioners are persecuted there more, in a more deadly fashion, than anywhere else. In any case, Christianity pre-dates the term Middle East by many, many centuries, you doctor of drongo. What was your doctoral thesis on, Brian? I don't have a Doctorate (PhD), Soren. However, I do have a Doctor of Divinity. And guess, what, we studied Christianity, extensively. Guess also what? Christianity originated in the Middle-East. It is a religion that is representative of Middle-Eastern ideals and beliefs. It's history until about ~300 CE was based primarily in, where? Oh, the Middle-East of course. Funny that. There was no 'Middle East" when Christianity came into being, and not for another 18 hundred years, during which time it was anything but a Levantine religion, thanks to Muslim ethnic cleansing. A Roman religion, a Roman version of Judaism if anything, until the reformation. It's no accident that the one of the Universal Roman (ie Roman Catholic) pope's titles is an originally Roman religious title, Pontifex Maximus. Even Byzantium and its founding emperors Constantine, Justinian saw themselves as 'Roman'. What crazy institution would confer an honorary Doctor of Divinity on you, a mere tendentious buffoon??
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