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Before you decide, Pikachu wants to brainwash you

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The Christians, imitating our ways, erect temples and build great houses in which they assemble for prayer
[Porphyry of Tyre, perhaps expecting the Christians to worship while floating in midair, ignore each other, and ignore God too]

The question is not, "Was Christianity created new and unique?" or, "Did it evolve from other ancient pagan religions?" The question is, "Is it true?"
That's a subject Pikachu studiously avoids all through his page; instead he repeats the same stuff over and over again -- sometimes 4 or 5 times -- to the point of nausea.

It's all stuff we'll see again, so we'll skip on this one, other than a few comments.
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Pkachu says, if you like him, you grew up thinking Christianity began with Jesus. If by that he means, all of what Jesus brought was in every sense 100% unparalleled, unique, and never heard before -- well, while we lament Pikachu's tremendous ignorance, it's hardly right that we should now pay the price for his frustration at being wrong. Educated Christians know that what Jesus brought was a new covenant that expanded on the old one in the OT; not many new ideas (great moral teachers seldom do that anyway), new rituals and sacraments only in terms of meaning, not accessories; a concept of God prefigured again in Judaism (but also containing ideas universal to all religious people), and a concept of peoples' relationship to God rooted in the same covenantal, client-patron relationship YHWH had with the Jews in the OT. What Jesus brought was not "new" or "unique" in a conceptual sense, and this has never been claimed by any informed Christian.

Meanwhile we're still paying the price for Pikachu's frustrated ignorance.

  
 

The next time you're with Lurch
ask yourself:"Isn't it a good idea to learn more about my faith? Those that don't will end up like Pikachu -- angered by the shattering of delusions that they themselves invented, apart from what is true in reality."Next time you're in church...

When they get to the part about about one God, and his Son who died, was reborn, ascended into Heaven for the salvation of mankind remember Pikachu's corrective whuppin' here on Tekton.

You'll know you've seen just one more pagan copycatter sunk deep into the dirt by real scholarship taken from informed sources.

Uhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

OK, get a move on, let's go