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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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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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
For me I didn't learn what the Trinity was until my dad showed me the Matrix when I was 14
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
And I was like, "most things in this are named for the Bible. Neo is Jesus. What's a Trinity?"
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He should've just said the nuclear test site
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