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   of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Aug-2025 10:46:14 JST of nothing
   >Jesus himself was a traveler and student in India also: he was a Celtic yogi.
   mmhmm yeah
   Jesus's Celticness and his yoginess and his Indian-travelledness were so important that nobody cared for thousands of years. Overlooked by the New Testament, irrelevant to the church fathers, forgotten by tradition - but a gay twitter influencer delivers it to you as secret knowledge of incredible import. You should change your feelings about H1Bs and indians over this. You should consider geopolitics with Jesus-went-to-India on the scale, weighing things slightly.
   
   Here's a funny thing: there's a whole Oriental Orthodox Church with its headquarters in India, traced to St. Thomas the Apostle, who travelled to India in 52 AD.
   Christian trying to blunt hostility to India: btw in 52 AD...
   gay twitter influencer trying to do that: Jesus was a yogi and had all kinds of breathwork teachings but nobody wrote that down.
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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Aug-2025 10:46:10 JST djsumdog

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     > traced to St. Thomas the Apostle, who travelled to India in 52 AD
     
     I visited the St. Thomas Basilica in Madras back in the 1990s while on a mission trip, where he was said to be martyred and buried.
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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Aug-2025 10:57:19 JST djsumdog

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     • Forestofenchantment
     Never heard of them. I had to look that up.
     
     I've recently been reading up Manichaeism, Valentinism and several other early belief systems from the 1st to 3rd century AD. It's interesting how many iterations early Christian/Abrahamic faiths went through before Constantine basically canonized the version of Catholicism that has lead to modern Christianity (ignoring all the heresies, some with over a million followers, who were slaughtered before Martin Luther and Protestantism made the first truly successful breakaway).
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     Forestofenchantment (forestofenchantment@furville.drinkanddrive.africa)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Aug-2025 10:57:20 JST Forestofenchantment

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     • djsumdog
     @djsumdog @apropos Did you find Prester John over there, by any chance? We Euros have been looking for him for quite some time now.