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iris27

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14. I'm tempted, but given that my mention of Easter being named for Eostre sent her off on
Mon Dec 12, 2011, 06:48 PM
Dec 2011

a tangent of noting that most Romance languages' name for Easter is a derivative of "Passover", I don't think I'd get very far.

Still, nice to meet someone who follows Arian thought! I've looked much more at the history of the other "U" in the UU name, but you're right, the Unitarians were originally so named specifically as a different philosophy from Trinitarianism. Intriguing!

I grew up Lutheran, which is a very nerdy denomination, and in my parochial high school, we studied the Council of Nicea and all the different "heresies" that the council set out to crush, Arianism being one of them. I find it interesting that so many RW fundamentalists don't know that the books chosen for and left out of the Bible they find so inerrant were chosen based on a political agenda, basically, "We believe X and want to stomp out Y and Z other Christian beliefs, so the only books that can be included in the canon must support our ideas and not theirs."

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