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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by today20201014 on Monday March 29, 2021 @02:58PM (#26626630)
I can understand the belief that Eastern Orthodoxy is more of a "trunk" than more recent "branches", but what about core ideas that predate Jesus? e.g. the immortality of the soul was reasoned by Plato (Republic, circa 350BC); heaven and hell have been portrayed by Virgil (Aeneid, circa 19BC). Aren't these the "trunk", and the Hebrew Bible and Jesus another branch?
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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by nikolay on Monday March 29, 2021 @03:15PM (#26626868)
Trees have roots, too.
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