XPost: alt.religion.christianity, alt.christian.religion, soc.culture.african
XPost: soc.history
> wrote:
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>>The excavators=92 biggest discovery was a massive building 60 feet long
>>and 40 feet wide resembling the ancient Roman style of a basilica.
>>Developed by the Romans for administrative purposes, the basilica was
>>adopted by Christians at the time of Constantine for their places of
>>worship. Within and near the Aksumite ruins, the archaeologists also
>>found a diverse array of goods, from a delicate gold and carnelian
>>ring with the image of a bull=92s head to nearly 50 cattle
>>figurines=97clearly evidence of pre-Christian beliefs.
>>
>>They also uncovered a stone pendant carved with a cross and incised
>>with the ancient Ethiopic word =93venerable,=94 as well as incense
>>burners. Near the eastern basilica wall, the team came across an
>>inscription asking =93for Christ [to be] favorable to us.=94
>>
>>In the research paper, Harrower said that this unusual collection of
>>artifacts =93suggests a mixing of pagan and early Christian traditions.=94
>>Ring
>>A gold and carnelian ring depicting a bull's head from the excavation
>>site. (Ioana Dumitru)
Robert scratches his head and asks:>
>Since when was a Bull part of the Gospel Message?
What a shame, robert is victim of his now familiar reading comprehension
problem once again.
No such claim to that effect appears above.>
>What this signifies is the RCC early adoption of pagan beliefs being
>incorporated into their church doctrine.
Correction, what it demonstrates once more is robert's ignorance of church
history and his willingness to invent it on the fly, no?
The rcc as now known did not appear until aftrr 1000 AD, long after the
time of this church.
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