Posted on 02-Jan-2002 22:39 GMT by Christian Kemp | 174 comments View flat View list |
Today, I tracked over one hundred attempts of abuse on ANN. I've been working on the filters and editing mechanisms for over four hours. Maintaining ANN is turning into real work, and all I see are tasks that I despise. This one individual, and the general attitude on ANN lately, is alienating visitors and making this site a horrible place to be. Most of what I see is insults and blind advocacy... I'm tired... And I can just see the negative comments again, in reply to me posting this...
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MOTD 02/01/2002 : Comment 135 of 174 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Smithy on 03-Jan-2002 21:50 GMT | In reply to Comment 128 (William F. Maddock): >Actually, there *was* some truth in what he said. Constantine *did* corrupt
I wouldn't call it "corrupt". The Christian church of that time was not even remotely like what we have today. Equally, Paganism of that time is nothing like today's Paganism. The two were jointly merged and called Christianity.
Another interesting fact is that Christmas was originally a Pagan festival. The original Christians had a festival to celebrate the birth of Christ at another time of the year - however, the two festivals were merged! The result was to celebrate the birth of Christ, at the time of year when the Pagan festival was! Constantine had to appease the millions of Pagans in the Empire so he couldn't simply foist Christianity on everyone, so he decided to take 50% of both religions and join them together. |
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