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Originally Posted by antediluvian
A lot of great things? Do you know how many great thinkers were murdered by the Catholic Church or the precursor to it? How many innovations were likely repressed? I can't accept that early Christianity had many great things about it. It oppressed civilization from growing for a time. Early Christianity solidified it's base of power within Rome by purging what it deemed heretical to their beliefs.
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As the poster Monster pointed out, early Christianity refers to when the religion first started, before Rome made it its official religion. After Rome made Christianity its religion is when the violence and oppression started.