Message from @Death Strike's Bat
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it is still in palestine today
they are not extinct
yes but it is not what it was
their beliefs and practices are extinct
they still use jesus' tomb as a church
christianity is just the final form of roman imperial religion
the european forms, yeah
in the middle east too
they are by their nature bastard religions
they just kept their local oriental orthodox approach to christology
this makes the palestinians more pure christian
while european churches are mixed
how are they more pure christian?
they lack the european influence
they are the same thing in practice
I mean oriental Christianity to be clear
as far as I can tell they are a fully maintained Christian community since the original religion in Palestine
so why did they adopt the greco-roman christianity?
in all but esoteric christology that doesn't matter?
palestine was a roman province at the time of its creation
why did it spread back from greeceand italy and the balkans?
why not the other way around?
I do not follow, why did it spread from palestine to europe?
they adopted the imperial religion
oh
not t heir local christianity
no, rome converted nearly 400 years after it was created in palestine
their local christianity was destroyed and overwhelemd
yes but they adopted the religion that rome made up around 315 AD
they just made it up
so you are saying you believe the original one is gonenow
of course it's gone
I would not know, I do not deeply study palestinian religion
so oriental christiantiy is just a splitoff of roman christianity?
look at early christian art vs later roman and meieval christian art
christianity was not split then
I mean whenever it split
1054 or whatever
why does christ suddenly get a halo?
like the emperor?