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Old January 26th, 2011 #87
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Christianity is an inaccurate, or maybe meaningless term, from an analytical perspective.

There is Paulism, and then there is Augustinianism.

Paulism, or early Christianity, was essentially non-rabbi approved judaism centered on a spiritual guru, spread amongst the gentiles, with Paul acting as a sort of Muhammad character. In fact the great divide didn't come til much later, a result of unresolvable differences between gentile judaism and rabbinical judaism.

Christianity however became "Aryanized" or "Romanized." St. Augustine, "the doctor of the Church" as all the churches revere him, was a big time student of Greek philosophy, and infused it into the cult. From the time of Augustine until Luther, this was the focus of Christianity. Morality. Augustine himself said that the bible should only be taken as metaphorical, and also something to the effect that Christianity was not a religion for serious thinking men. Luther though, was an Augustinian. His beef with the Church was essentially moral.

The bad part is that he shifted the focus of the Church being a communion (communion meaning people coming together) on moral teachings and a family ritual, into a bible reading religion.

So today what we see in not only evangelism, "the baptists," but Catholicism as well, is a 180 degree return to Paulism. Most of these Christians today really are accurately, judeo.