The punchline doesn’t really work. Even Roman Catholicism has reimagined itself every few hundred years, often suffering a considerable splinter in membership. The current state of the Catholic church, arguably the oldest denomination of Christianity, would be unrecognisable to the Nicean council.
This “cartoon” is insulting. The institution of “church” Christianity in itself is a total bite off from Paganism, so if anything, Paganism has been around since humanity has been on this planet.
Of course, the Egyptian Empire itself only lasted some 3,000 years.
Hinduism for some bit longer than that, and Brahmanism even a bit older yet.
However, I’ve been saying to people for some while, that we shouldn’t be afraid to borrow from all the Christian books on organizing, planting, and running a church, as they’ve had the past 1800 years to make just about every mistake possible, and they’ve figured out how to avoid some of them.
The punchline doesn’t really work. Even Roman Catholicism has reimagined itself every few hundred years, often suffering a considerable splinter in membership. The current state of the Catholic church, arguably the oldest denomination of Christianity, would be unrecognisable to the Nicean council.
This “cartoon” is insulting. The institution of “church” Christianity in itself is a total bite off from Paganism, so if anything, Paganism has been around since humanity has been on this planet.
Of course, the Egyptian Empire itself only lasted some 3,000 years.
Hinduism for some bit longer than that, and Brahmanism even a bit older yet.
However, I’ve been saying to people for some while, that we shouldn’t be afraid to borrow from all the Christian books on organizing, planting, and running a church, as they’ve had the past 1800 years to make just about every mistake possible, and they’ve figured out how to avoid some of them.