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Bucky

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13. #11 Christianity

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Tue Apr 10, 2012, 04:16 AM

Apr 2012

Think about it this way: if there was no Christianity, we'd never have had "Jingle Bell Rock"

Here's a more critical take on the whole Jesus is God thing, based on the Didache of the Apostles

And more detail on Emperor Constantine, who after Paul was the second most important Christian in history,

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