RE: Christianity; the World's Most Violently Persecuted Religion
December 13, 2024 at 8:34 pm
(This post was last modified: December 13, 2024 at 8:35 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
One of the very first apologists provides an example of the aggressive approach to rationality as an item - in trying to establish that christianity is a rational ideology and addressed to emperor pius justin questions why pagans would prosecute christians for believing in the same things the pagans do, and posits that anyone who has ever spoken rationally was speaking christian, as they were connected to the logos.
This is how it started...and it has not gone well since!
This is how it started...and it has not gone well since!
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