1Treaty of Tripoli
The US founding fathers formally said,"the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion" in the Treaty of Tripoli.
2. There was more time between the start and finish of the Great Wall of China than between the start of Christianity and present day.
3. St. Augustine, in the 4th century, wrote that Christians should not interpret Genesis literally because if science proved it otherwise, Christian witness would be gone.
4. Vladimir the Great of Russia was confronted with the choice of converting Russia to Christianity or to Islam. He eventually chose Christianity, because of Islamic teaching on alcohol, saying, "Drinking is the joy of all Rus'. We cannot exist without that pleasure."
5. In the second Matrix movie, Agent Smith's license plate is "IS 5416", which refers to Isaiah 54:16 from the Bible: "Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy."
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6Cathar
There was a religion in medieval Europe called Cathar. It was a splinter of Christianity, and they held beliefs such as women and men being equal and homosexuality being tolerated.
7. A man named Clyde Lott in Nebraska is breeding red cows and sending them to Israel in hopes of a pure red heifer being born there. Such an event will allegedly prompt Jews to build a Third Temple, which fundamentalist Christians believe will usher in Jesus' Second Coming.
8. Laws mentioned in the bible required farmers to leave parts of their fields unharvested for strangers, a practice that still exists in parts of the world.
9. David Barrett is an aeronautics engineer who resigned abruptly after seeing a vision of Jesus. He then spent 40 years single-handedly compiling the first and only complete list of Earth’s 10,000 existing religions and 33,830 denominations of Christianity. This led him to all 238 countries on Earth.
10. There is a version of the Bible translated into Hawaiian Pidgin called 'Da Jesus Book'.
11Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses don't celebrate birthdays because the only two accounts of birthday parties in the Bible resulted in murder.
12. The keys to the holiest site in Christianity (Church of the holy Sepulchre) are held by a Muslim family that opens the church every morning. Meant to keep the peace between the denominations, this arrangement has been in place since 1187 A.D.
13. In 1974, fundamentalist Christians in Kanawha County were so upset over "immoral" books like "Autobiography of Malcolm X" being introduced to local schools they dynamited a school, attacked school buses with shotguns, and planted a bomb at a school board member's home.
14. The Buddha's story appears in Christianity as the legend of St. Josaphat and in Islam as the legend of Budasaf.
15. Christianity, Islam, and Judaism all worship the same Abrahamic god. Their religious texts also feature many of the same figures, histories, and places. Jesus is also a Muslim prophet.
16Marcus Aurelius
Unlike most bronze sculptures of Roman emperors, the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius was not melted down during the Middle Ages because Europeans of that time thought it was a statue of Constantine, the first Christian emperor of Rome.
17. In 1950, Pope Pius XII confirmed there was no conflict between Christianity and the theory of evolution, and the Church supports the idea of theistic evolution.
18. One of the scholars (John M. Allegro) who translated the Dead Sea Scrolls was convinced that Christianity was based on an ancient psychedelic mushroom and fertility cult.
19. Indonesian President Sukarno ordered a Christian Architect to build the largest Mosque in the country. He also ordered it to be built next to a Cathedral and a Church as a symbol of the national religious harmony and tolerance. (Indonesia has the world largest Muslim population).
20. There have been 8 Christian Prime Ministers in Japan even though the Christians make less than 1% of Japan's population.
21George Washington
George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson were Christian Deists and did not believe that Jesus Christ was divine.
22. A mason in 1700's Jerusalem left his wooden ladder behind after doing some work on a church (Holy Sepulchre) and now it can't be moved without the agreement and permission of six different Christian leaders.
23. Irish Monks and Scholars were instrumental in contributing to the spread of Christianity in Britain and continental Europe. Irish missions had such a profound influence in Germany and the Frankish Empire that Ireland became known as the ''Isle of Saints and Scholars'' to continental Europeans.
24. There is a "cult" (Eastern Lightning) offshoot of Christianity in China that believes Jesus is currently living in China as a Chinese woman.
25. Saladin was a legendary leader of the Muslims during the Crusades, allowed Christians who wanted to leave Jerusalem to leave peacefully and those who wanted to stay, to worship freely. He even restored a church that was burned to the ground.
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Gotta love stupid people – never does it mention unicorns or any of that *in the original language,* those are mistranslations only found in a few incorrect ENGLISH translation, the Bible was NOT written in English, for gods sake if people did basic textual criticism they would know that. So tired of ignorant people who can’t even read Hebrew.
The Bible wasn’t written in Hebrew either. It was in Aramaic. Ignorance is relative.
Hahaha!! How did Jesus make coffee? Hebrews it
The original Jewish texts were in Hebrew and the rewritten in Ancient Greek in Alexandria, Jesus would have spoken Aramaic, Greek and Hebrew but most of the New Testament letters were written in Greek. There may have been a tiny fraction of some New Testament writings in Aramaic (if at all) as it was more of a working class language of the near east
Hi Rashid. The Bible was written in three languages. The Old Testament in Hebrew. The New Testament mostly in Greek with some sections and possibly Matthew originally in Aramaic.
The letter affirming that evolution and god can coexist is just a claim until a god is proven to exist.
Constantine, was the emperor of east what is now called Istanbul was once the City of Constantine, named after Emperor Constantine and the land was called Constantinople.There were 7 emperors the last was in Spain just before Columbus. People not familiar with language come up with translation mistakes.
Because one cannot see God, God doesn’t exist. There for one can’t see air, there for air doesn’t exist. How are you breathing. Unicorns’ monsters etc. are not found in the Bible I read put together, as a collection of books 4th century. Years of translation fix. When child sees an elephant for the first, it’s a monster.
Obviously you haven’t been to LA in the 70-89s… the air was extremely visible! đŸ˜œ