The dirty truth about the Bible is that while Jesus might have been Christianity's Marx, Peter and Paul were its Lenin and Mao. Once the rubber hit the road, you got a lot of realpolitik and compromise with world powers in order to fit the church hierarchy neatly within the confines delimited by Roman Liberals.
It's true, Chuds conveniently ignore much of John. (and the others really)
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The dirty truth about the Bible is that while Jesus might have been Christianity's Marx, Peter and Paul were its Lenin and Mao. Once the rubber hit the road, you got a lot of realpolitik and compromise with world powers in order to fit the church hierarchy neatly within the confines delimited by Roman Liberals.
The Pauline Epistles and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race