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RE: Who was the worst Christian in history?
May 1, 2022 at 8:37 am
(May 1, 2022 at 3:32 am)Nomad Wrote: (April 30, 2022 at 3:46 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Admittedly, Jesus was a common name. Saul did not change his name; Paul is the Latinized form of it.
What I meant was which one of the four authors of the "Pauline" epistles are you saying is the worst?
The scholarly consensus is that Paul wrote 7 letters with the others being of unknown authorship.
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RE: Who was the worst Christian in history?
May 1, 2022 at 11:54 am
(April 30, 2022 at 8:18 am)Jehanne Wrote: (April 30, 2022 at 7:51 am)Foxaire Wrote: The very first one who started this whole mess.
That would have been the Apostle Paul; Jesus of Nazareth was fully Jewish.
It is not amiss to measure someone who is not Christian himself with the putative standards of Christianity and conclude Christian are ignorant hypocrites to venerate him.
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RE: Who was the worst Christian in history?
May 5, 2022 at 4:28 pm
(April 30, 2022 at 11:14 am)The L Wrote: Or maybe Saint Augustine. His 'philosophy' of Heaven and Hell is responsible for a lot of the crusades.
Saint Augustine - yes
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RE: Who was the worst Christian in history?
May 5, 2022 at 4:32 pm
If you think like a Republican, the title of this thread could be "The BEST Christian in History" and many of the answers would be the same.
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RE: Who was the worst Christian in history?
May 6, 2022 at 2:37 am
(May 1, 2022 at 8:37 am)Jehanne Wrote: (May 1, 2022 at 3:32 am)Nomad Wrote: What I meant was which one of the four authors of the "Pauline" epistles are you saying is the worst?
The scholarly consensus is that Paul wrote 7 letters with the others being of unknown authorship.
The scholarly consensus is mostly a bunch of christian apologists. In this case I don't have much meas for it.
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RE: Who was the worst Christian in history?
May 6, 2022 at 6:09 am
Pope Sixtus IV, founder of The Spanish Inquisition. (Okay, cue the Monty Python sketch.)
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RE: Who was the worst Christian in history?
May 6, 2022 at 7:08 am
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(May 6, 2022 at 2:37 am)Nomad Wrote: (May 1, 2022 at 8:37 am)Jehanne Wrote: The scholarly consensus is that Paul wrote 7 letters with the others being of unknown authorship.
The scholarly consensus is mostly a bunch of christian apologists. In this case I don't have much meas for it.
More complicated. The scholarly consensus is actually a negotiation between a widely referenced reductive school that only left four, and christian apologists. Those four, written by someone..but paul in contemporary scholarship is a literary convention, explicitly so..not a man. The character of paul as described even in just the four, or seven, is believed to be pious fiction (or fraud, if you prefer).
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RE: Who was the worst Christian in history?
May 6, 2022 at 10:09 am
(May 6, 2022 at 2:37 am)Nomad Wrote: (May 1, 2022 at 8:37 am)Jehanne Wrote: The scholarly consensus is that Paul wrote 7 letters with the others being of unknown authorship.
The scholarly consensus is mostly a bunch of christian apologists. In this case I don't have much meas for it.
Granted, there is a selection effect here, just as in Islamic scholarship. Still, among the minority of nonbelieving New Testament scholars, the number 7 seems to be a near-universal consensus.
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RE: Who was the worst Christian in history?
February 28, 2023 at 1:33 pm
Are you asking, who is the very naughtiest boy? :-)
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