RE: Existence of Marcion questioned?
March 4, 2022 at 1:34 pm
(This post was last modified: March 4, 2022 at 1:48 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
More than just a visit. He joined the clergy, made a huge donation, had the donation given back, had his words declared heresy, and then..we're told, accepted that judgement and the terms that the church imposed (which was to bring back every wayward soul he'd misinformed) and the only thing that stopped him from completing that task - was his death. Consider all of the absurdities hiding between the lines at every point of that later christian version of events.
It's extremely difficult to cut through early christian bullshit. They were making a new world, and to them - that definitely included making a new history - so they had to lay it on pretty thick. There's absolutely no doubt that they were eager revisionists, and it's more than a little concerning that there may have been no suitable target, in mere reality, for that revisionism. So..when you don't have a villain, you make one. Just like when there was no god-man, christians made one.
Tell you what they really liked about him, though, was his magic book. They gave him the boot, and kept that.
It's extremely difficult to cut through early christian bullshit. They were making a new world, and to them - that definitely included making a new history - so they had to lay it on pretty thick. There's absolutely no doubt that they were eager revisionists, and it's more than a little concerning that there may have been no suitable target, in mere reality, for that revisionism. So..when you don't have a villain, you make one. Just like when there was no god-man, christians made one.
Tell you what they really liked about him, though, was his magic book. They gave him the boot, and kept that.
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