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  • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Indeed. Wasn’t one of the commandments to avoid false idols and stuff? And wasn’t one of Jesus’ things about you being able to directly pray to god or something? Just saying, the church is and always has been a scam, a political institution used to better control the masses, especially applicable in large population nations and empires (like the Roman Empire), loosely based on ideas of some guys’ teachings. And that’s the case for all organised religion.

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      1 year ago

      there are stories that in the Councils to determine which gospels to include in the New Testament, one of the first gospels to be deemed heretical was one where Jesus argued against the establishment of a church …