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What is your favorite story arc?
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Thursday January 19 2017, @09:05PM
The Gnostic Gospels are pretty interesting because it gives a different view on the events of Jesus's ministry. There's a lot more eastern mysticism reflected in them. To me it's an interesting window into the philosophical foment before the canon was developed.
In the West our view of Christianity is much more monolithic than it really was. There was the Catholic Church, then the Reformation, and that's pretty much it. Maybe some people are aware of the schism between Rome and Eastern Orthodox churches. A handful know that even centuries later in southern France there was a major splinter movement called Catharism that persisted for a very long time before Rome managed to hang all of them as heretics.
But if you go to Turkey (where the early church took root) and the Middle East and visit holy sites it's quite clear how much disagreement there was on the exact message and form of Christian worship. In Cappadocia you can walk from one cave church with its iconography to another 50 yards away and see a completely different set.
For me, somehow, seeing things through that rawer, more unrefined, less codified form was much more spiritual than walking through St. Peter's.
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