Christianity has a long history of going astray. And when it goes astray, most often, some group of peoples split themselves from the main body of whatever is the established Christian theology at the time. Also, as often as not, the people responsible for the nastiness eventually die or are overthrown and some semblance of sanity returns to the original sect. <\/p>\n
The first schism was between the RC church and the eastern rite. Luther, Calvin, others through the years either saw a church going astray, or wanted to bend it’s followers to their own means. Even now, even within individual parishes, congregations, there are people who dislike the actions of their spiritual leaders, and wish to return to the teachings of Christ and away from a purely materialistic culture, or away from what they consider heretical beliefs. Many of those peopel are total nutbags, but far greater numbers of them are prople just trying to be decent to one another. <\/p>\n
So: Do you think Christianity is self cleansing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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