[Coco] Re: So far OT I'm in the Twilight Zone (Was: =?iso-8859-1?q?Republishing=09Magazines?=)

[Ward Griffiths]

On Sunday 28 December 2003 05:39 pm, jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
> Yeah
>
> It is one of my four or five favorite subjects. History and ancient
> biblical texts are fascinating and yes is a bitoff topic. It is
> interesting to study the beginnings of religions that started almost
> 2000 years ago and are now still with us. Some real interesting
> debates went on in the early formation of Christianity as to doctrine
> and theology. Many think that it emerged smoothly and united. Well it
> did not. Major conflicts existed almost from the beginning and the
> actual first slpit of the Christian Church came around the 5th
> century when the Eastern Orthodoc Church and the Catholic Church
> split. The Eastern Orthodox Church is made up of the Russian, Greek,
> Armenian Orthodox and a few others that remain. While getting my BSEE
> I had to take some advance social science courses and the college
> that I attended had some religion courses so I found them more
> interesting than studying evolutionary practices of monkees and such.
> They were an easy "A" also. Helped the old GPA.

The split between the Eastern and Western churches was far from the 
first, it's just the first one that had enough members on either side 
to make an extermination of the heretics impractical.  Lots of other 
folks who disagreed with the powers that were got wiped out root and 
branch during the several previous centuries.  As most other schisms 
were (in the west, anyway) until the combination of the printing press 
and Martin Luther made possible the next major split.  (No, I'm not a 
christian, but like most atheists I've wound up studying religion and 
its history more than most preachers).

This is way off topic.  I'm gonna fire up a Coco and play some Megabug 
for a while.
-- 
Ward Griffiths				wdg3rd at comcast.net

The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe.  They
hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and burden to the
soul.  They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their
unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the
risk to innocent people.           -- Terry Pratchett, _Witches Abroad_