Why waste time on this moron? Re: Dick and the original church
Helen Willis hhiwater@BRIGHT.NET
Mon, 27 Apr 1998 07:35:34 -0700 (00893705734, 354497B6.4370@bright.net)
D. T. Billings wrote:
>
> >
> > DICK
> > How? Easy. I just type out the words on my somewhat noisy
> > keyboard. Basic Christianity must learned from Catholicism
> > since that was the ONLY Christianity until Martin Luther
> > started his competing church and then married a nun. The
> > advanced Christianity about Jesus can come only after the
> > basic Christianity is understood.
>
> TOD
> Any moron with a basic knowledge of Christian history knows that the
> Catholic church was not the "ONLY" form of Christianity until Martin
> Luther broke from the church, nor is it "basic" Christianity, and it most
> certainly was not the first sect of Christianity. This honor goes to the
> Jeruselem Church, alledgedly founded by Peter and James (the brother of
> Jesus), the church that Paul broke ties with due to his teaching the
> abrogation of the Torah.
>
> Not to mention the Gnostic Ebionites, founded by Cerinthus, which also
> predate the formation of the Catholic church. They were consequently
> persecuted out of existence by the Catholic church, an eradication that
> didn't occur until the tenth century, as is evident from the records of
> Saadia, a Jewish philosopher.
>
> There were so many (mostly quibbling) sects of Christianity in the first
> century, that anybody that says that the Catholic church was the only
> sect of Christianity until Martin Luther doesn't even have a firm grasp
> of the New Testament, much less Christian history in general.
>
> Now go ahead and bombard me with insults, but that will not change
> history and your ignorance of it. I know I had said I wasn't going to
> correspond with you any more, but when somebody shows such a gross
> ignorance of a subject, that is implicit taunting in its own way.
HELEN:
Not that I want to encourage anymore wasted time on this idiot, but why
does anyone think there is anything to be gain by someone this ignorant
of Christian history and this unwilling to admit his obvious ignorance?
He obviously has not heard of the Coptics, Arianism, Orthodoxy,
Nestorianism, Catharism, and probably a bunch of sects and schisms I've
not thought of. No doubt he will now claim a PHD in the history of
religion. Any discussion with this moron is a complete waste of time! Is
there anyone left on this list that question this?
Helen
hhiwater@bright.net