m II wrote:
Day Brown wrote:

And ignorant to boot. The treaty of Tripoli, signed by President John
Adams, and ratified by 100% of the US senate says "The United States
is not a Christian nation." How did we become one?


You haven't. Judging by the invasions, torture chambers and death camps,
I'd say you are the farthest removed thing from Christianity.
Who getsta define the term? From what Gibbon has to say, hypocrisy
characterized the church even from the days of the martyrs. For example,
Commodus, of all people, hadda call out the legions to stop the
followers of Bishops Athenasius and Arian from butchering each
other in the streets of Carthage. Each was utterly convinced the
other had the definition wrong.

Then, too, when Polemus circulated his criticism of well known
pagan prophets and clerics, people were just appalled. Only the
Christians did that sort of thing. Hence we have "polemic".

Would you care to outline for us who the true Christians are?