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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Certainly Paul was be-bopping all over Ancient Rome writing letters and starting churches within 50 years of his death.  And his writings and behavior are much too organized to believe he was schizophrenic.   So, where did this theology come from?  Was there some group of crazy people who made it all up, including a central figure who never existed?    [/quote]

Did someone say he was schizophrenic?  I think some people liked the message, and wanted to belong to the various church communities (like today), but the Christians were a minor and inconsequential sect for 300 years until the emperor Constantine converted.  Read A.N. Wilson's biography of Paul as to why he did it (he was convinced the Christian god could deliver military victories which, of course, included booty for him and his men)..  That was Christianity's big break.[/quote]

Yeah -- the stuff you don't learn in sunday school![/quote]

you must be protestant.. i certainly learned this in 9th grade church history, or maybe even 8th grade. constantine had a dream or wife/ or mother, helen had a dream about fishes and greek letters.. etc and its called "pauline" christianity bc PAUL came up with it. Im pretty sure pauline christianity, a summary was the title of one of our textbooks.  Did you drop out of sunday school in 5th grade??  And one of the major histories written about Augustus' reign does mention a messiah in Judea who caused all sorts of trouble .. most people think this was Jesus (pubh) he lived like all teh prophets lived and then died, like they did. Evangelical atheist are so tiresome. [/quote]

I learned this in my Protestant high school.

You’re right, it’s so tiresome when evangelical atheists find a new tidbit in some atheist media, something they had never heard before because they’re usually totally ignorant about Christianity, and they think it’s going to shatter all our world views. [/quote]

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