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On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 23:44, John Beimler wrote:
> quotation from Chris Hedemark <chris AT yonderway.com> [on 030202 22:49]:
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> > On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 10:35 PM, K. Jo Garner wrote:
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> > > * The Christian Church turned Imbolc into Candlemas, a celebration
> > [snip]
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> > One can already call the accuracy into question; there is no Christian=20
> > celebration of Candlemas (though the Catholics may have some ritual=20
> > like this)
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> Chris, even though you might not want to believe it, the Catholic
> Church was the original christian church.  And guess what, although its
> not celebrated on Feburary 1, but the second, there is a Canldemas
> (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03245b.htm).
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> Peace.
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> john

John,

Actually, the Roman Catholic Church (which is what everyone means
when they say "the Catholic Church" these days) was *not* the=20
original church.  They may claim that Peter was their founder,
but in fact, one of the various Roman Emporers decided to covert
to Christianity and marched his entire army through a river and
declared them baptised.  Before that, the Romans were doing a=20
good job of killing the Christians.  The Roman Catholic Church,
by virtue of the power of the Roman empire, basically swallowed
(or killed) all other variations of Christianity (all the while
changing some of the basic doctrines).

The original Christian Church was a rather informal thing set up
by the remaining disciples.  I don't believe any analog of it
still exists today.

Cheers,
Tanner
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