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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
The funniest thing is that Jesus the Christ states in the Bible that the followers were not supposed to start a religion, just spread his ideas.
The moment ideas get codified into a set of religious rules the whole shit is ruined. Jesus was actively fighting against religion.
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Nope. The Gospels explicitly state that Jesus Christ started an institutional Church, and established it through His Apostles. Further, a great deal of historical evidence post-100AD testifies to the reality that Christianity was never a rouge, anarchistic, loosely organized group but rather was a consistently well-structured, liturgical Church with clergy, rites, and resources. Apostolic Succession isn't a myth, and while Jesus and His Apostles may indeed just be mythological creations, there is solid evidence of the Catholic/Orthodox Church continuing unbroken since the second century..
Ok. That was almost preaching, but I don't care if you chose to be Catholic or not so much as feel the need to clarify for the sake of historical accuracy
folks are free to accept, believe, or feel however they like, I just want to make sure their facts are well-informed to make their decisions.