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Kind of don’t want to stop reading it but life happens

sometimes the problem is you!

“In the religious version, you’ll often hear that when this happens, one group heads to a good place, and the rest of humanity heads to a bad place. (The people who tell this version of the story are always in the good group, coincidentally enough.) And so your job is to get as many people inside the tent/club/religion/group as possible so that when that day comes, you can all escape together and go somewhere else.”

We all need to know that something else is going on...

...Christendom was born, and while this religion has (thankfully) been dying for the last several hundred years, it has been the dominant face of Christianity for the last fifteen centuries".

...The persecuted church became the persecuting "Church Triumphant, since it now had the political authority to persecute heretics and unbelievers. The Roman Empire was retitled the "Holy Roman Empire", and Christ was its triumphant emperor...

"The thing is, if you're going to help run an empire, you've got to be willing to use the sword"... Whereas the persecuted church of the first three centuries believed it was called to refrain from violence and serve the world. Y carrying the cross, the politically empowered church of the fourth and fifth centuries believed it was called to conquer the world for Christ, wielding the sword whenever necessary...

Waiting for almost 7 years for this book and so far it has been great! A lot of