I assume this is fine for the rules since punching Nazis is kinda the whole gist of 196. Also there’s no real rules to follow 🤷‍♀️

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    I was surprised to learn that Constantine is seen by many thought leaders in the protestant christian communities as a corruptor. Opinions of Constantine makes a fascinating litmus to start separating those who see religion as a source of power from those who see it as a calling to better the world. Not that most lay christians have a clue who he is, or his role in standardizing christianity to the Roman system of government, let alone the structural implications of the move

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      A theologian I spoke to pointed out that even Martin Luther didn’t revert the changes Constantine wrought, like the holy day being on the sabbath instead of Sunday to commemorate Easter every week. I guess roughly 1200 years of habits are hard to break, when Constantine only had a few hundred years to contend with, and there were so many sects of a very different Christianity even then (Nestorians, Syriacs, Copts etc).

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        That gnostic shits really cool too and the beliefs were so fucking varied. Even had the “our God is evil for making a physical world in universe made for spirituality” types.

        Demiurge intensifies