I started wondering about this for no particular reason I can think of. Who’s idea was it? Was it supposed to be symbolic of something? Did they just start passing out pamphlets at rallies titled: “Forget everything you THINK you know about public greetings!”?

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        Both are mishmash and attributed to how the Romans legacy still fucks with shit

        If you are unaware, Christianity was a Jewish sect that became a mainstay religion because of the Roman Emperor Constantine turning the Romans into Christians

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          Everybody knows that it was a fulfillment of Judaism 😂 tell us something we don’t know

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          By the time of Constantine Christianity was big already. They just stopped fighting it and embraced it, better to be the one controlling it that the one steamrolled by it.

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            Perhaps, like the Romans, some people just enjoy lying about weird foreign cults that worship the wrong things.

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          nah man. it was invented by the Flavians as a way to pacify Judea. it just got out of hand. get up to date with the cool new conspiracies.

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            Another day, another wild conspiracy theory to try and explain away the New Testament 😴