There's a whole discussion to be had about how Judaism in the 2nd Temple was very heterodox
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
And Christianity is basically the Essene tradition of Judaism that survived by mutating and jumping into proselytizing non-Jews heavily
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
And rabbinical Judaism is the Pharisee branch of Judaism (Jesus' nemeses who are unfairly tarred with a broad brush in the Gospels)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Who maintained their identity by strongly rejecting a lot of ideas that the Essenes embraced that later became Christian
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
A lot of metaphysical/mystical purity stuff - water baptism, demonology, a comfort w quasi-polytheism
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Wait since when is Christianity in any extant form at all tolerant of quasi-polytheism?
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
All the time. Christian folk religion is syncretic
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
Hrm, I guess. I just have mostly had contact with hard-monotheist, Calvinist Christians who really believe evil is a giant Xanatos Gambit
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @loudpenitent and
From a Jewish and a Muslim POV the Trinity is a form of soft polytheism or at least dangerously close to it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Christians of course disagree but then the actual definition of the Trinity is one of the least understood things in religious history
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I mean even Christians agree that saying a human being is divine is blasphemy and leads to directly to polytheism
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Jesus is just the exception bc for him it was true
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