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  • REallyN [she/her,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Scientology was created as a scam and the guy who made it pretty much admitted so. Christianity seems to have started as some kind of legit spiritual movement.
    The cultish behavior of the first could be compared to like....paying for condolences before the reformation or something, but that came later.

      • sam5673 [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        Oh yeah those early Christians and their sweet sweet persecution by the Romans. They got it made

              • sam5673 [none/use name]
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                4 years ago

                You will note that throughout this time Christians had little power and were actively persecuted by the Roman state. So while he was arguing in favour of the legitimacy of the church the church was rather than being a wealthy powerful political force a group facing violent persecution from the most powerful empire on earth Paul was also very influential in promoting the Christian ideal of racial equality and was not one of the apostles