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Long Mark - who added it and when? Hypotheses on how to explain the textual variations include: *Mark intentionally ended his Gospel at 16:8, and someone else (later in the transmission-process) composed the "Longer Ending" as a conclusion to what was interpreted to be a too-abrupt accoun...

Lying for God John Chrysostom, 5th century theologian and erstwhile bishop of Constantinople..... "Do you see the advantage of deceit? ... For great is the value of deceit, provided it be not introduced with a mischievous intention. In fact action of this kind ought not to be called deceit, bu...

@outhouse your comments about Apollonius (post 960).

[quote=""joedad""] auctor sancti mendacium - seller of holy lies nulla ecclesia fraudibus - church fraud industry nos etiam eius - crusade of lies pia simulatione - pious fraud Google Translator Google translator can be fun! can't resist: scriptorum historiae falsum - church writ...

[quote=""Davka""]Re-reading the thread title, it seems that the entire period between the 4th century through the 16th century has been exposed as a forgery. As far as I can tell, that makes this the 9th century. The entirety of the Dark Ages, the Late Middle Ages, and the Renais...

Genocide by any other name. * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albigensian_Crusade The Crusade or Cathar Crusade (1209–1229) was a 20-year military campaign initiated by Pope Innocent III to eliminate Catharism in Languedoc, in the south of France. http://xenophongroup.com/montjoie/albigens.htm Bézi...

[quote=""mountainman""] Criminal History of Christianity [/quote] Too bad this publication is not available in English (yet). About the only English translation seems to be the synopsis of the 13th and 14th Centuries Synopsis: Christianity's Criminal History, Volume 7 13th and 14...

[quote=""Stavian""]Which branch of Christianity are we even talking about here? Many of the branches/variations are mutually exclusive and many are quite new (recently invented, have not "persisted through history").[/quote] Every branch of Christianity can trace its or...

[quote=""SLD""]So is Christianity's persistence still then explained by fear? If not of the power of the state, then the power of society in general to ostracize others? But why do so many people continue to follow it in the wake of massive scientific education? [/quote] To under...

Crimes of Christianity - Chapter IV - PIOUS FORGERIES G. W. FOOTE and J. M. WHEELER, August, 1887. "But credulity is not the only charge which those early ages have to sustain. They certainly cannot be pronounced free from the influence of pious frauds... It was an age of literary frauds . Dec...