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**Stasher11** · 12-06-2009, 03:18 AM

There has always been an element of Christianity that has claimed the end times or the Rapture where right around the corner. And for the 2000 years they've been saying it, they've been wrong. There's much truth and beauty to be had in the New Testament. None of it is in The Book of Revelation.

Christianity has always been an apocalyptic religion, from its very beginning. It was born in a time and place (the Roman Empire in the first century AD) where things were falling apart. The Dutch have a great term that describes it well, "The world turned upside-down."

Christianity was just one of many mystery cults that became popular in that time and place. Partially though Darwinian selection (it absorbed traits of all the other cults in came into contact with) and partial through the actions of Constantine several centuries later, it emerged as the dominant religion in the region.

12-06-2009, 03:18 AM	#19
Stasher11 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 505 Senior Member	There has always been an element of Christianity that has claimed the end times or the Rapture where right around the corner. And for the 2000 years they've been saying it, they've been wrong. There's much truth and beauty to be had in the New Testament. None of it is in The Book of Revelation. Christianity has always been an apocalyptic religion, from its very beginning. It was born in a time and place (the Roman Empire in the first century AD) where things were falling apart. The Dutch have a great term that describes it well, "The world turned upside-down." Christianity was just one of many mystery cults that became popular in that time and place. Partially though Darwinian selection (it absorbed traits of all the other cults in came into contact with) and partial through the actions of Constantine several centuries later, it emerged as the dominant religion in the region.
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