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Or the conflicts of the Early Church, or the brutality of the state-controlled Church of the Roman Empire, or Charlemagne, or the Crusades, or colonization in America, or the Thirty Years' War, or... (lemmy.world)
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[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

My parents' church went at it from a 'the saints are demons' angle. Something about how praying to the saints for intercession was somehow in violation of the 'no gods before me' commandment. But this was the NAR, which is just fuckin weird to begin with.