red pill on early christian spread plshttps://twitter.com/randall_roark/status/1012343887954837504 …
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Yes, but what became Orthodoxy was far more interesting than most heresies and you can generally evaluate another's intelligence by whether thought they had stumbled on occult knowledge when they first read the Wikipedia page of the Gospel of Thomas.
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I think Orthodoxy succeeded where many "heresies" failed because it managed to integrate so many drives and impulses which were the leading ideas of many primitive forms of Christianity while always keeping them secondary and in a fixed locus, without having them take over.
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I think you are precisely right. What distinguished Orthodoxy from heresy, and what made it more interesting, was that it attempted to reconcile so many of the divergent tendencies of primitive Christian practice and belief.
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(But this ultimately meant handing the religion, despite all its protests, over to Platonism and Greek philosophy).
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Monotheism, unlike Jewish henotheism, introduces a drive to unity so powerful that only Plato's theology, rooted in polytheistic plurality, is able to resolve it and allow the coexistence of different forms of religion within christianity, & of christianity within the world.
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I believe that protestantism was basically just the attempt to root out this Platonic foundation and replace it with what was supposed to be its "ethical" core.
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The doctrines of Sola Fide and forensic salvation, the insurmountable rift which comes to separate salvation from sanctification, indicate that Protestants were no longer able to see how the temporal was immanent to the eternal, the absolute in the gradation.
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