[ **up: [[Religions]]** ] --- # Christianity > “According to the Bible, Christians were first called so at Antioch (Acts 11:26).”[^1] --- [[Jesus was born in spring or autumn (not winter).|Jesus was born in spring or autumn (not winter).]][^2] [[Much Christian ritual, myth and structure is modelled on the pagan religions it evolved from.|Much Christian ritual, myth and structure is modelled on the pagan religions it evolved from.]][^3] [[The Trinity is not found in the Bible.|The Trinity is not found in the Bible.]][^4] [[2024-0223. The doctrine of the Trinity was introduced by Gaulish Bishop Saint Hilary of Poitiers in the third century.|The doctrine of the Trinity was introduced by Gaulish Bishop Saint Hilary of Poitiers in the third century.]][^5] --- ## Separation from animals [[2025-0325. The 'separation from animals is centrally part of Judeo-Christian heritage.'|The 'separation from animals is centrally part of Judeo-Christian heritage.']][^6] [[2025-0325. 'Modern Christianity demands individual moral responsibility, therefore separation from the collective responsibility for nature. Yet, this is quite recent in history ...'|'Modern Christianity demands individual moral responsibility, therefore separation from the collective responsibility for nature. Yet, this is quite recent in history; Christianity in Medieval times up to the nineteenth century held nonhuman animals morally responsible for ‘crimes’ such as thefts, chattering in church and even murder! (cf. Evans’s ‘trials of animals’).']][^7] --- ## Church building (historical) [[“Every building should therefore be erected in a magically pure place, which is to say one without a supernatural owner, whether it is a spirit, a demon, or a dead soul.”|'In the case of a religious edifice, it is obvious that the entities that would find lodging there would refuse to be neighbors to creatures of another religion, who were considered to be demons and pagans. Every building should therefore be erected in a magically pure place, which is to say one without a supernatural owner, whether it is a spirit, a demon, or a dead soul.’]][^8] [^1]: ‘Christian’, *[['Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable', 1999.|Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable]]*, Millennium Edition, revised by Adrian Room (London: Cassell, 1999), p. 239. [^2]: Philip Carr-Gomm, *[[Carr-Gomm. 'Druid Mysteries', 2011.|Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century]]* (London: Rider, 2011), Chapter 3. [^3]: Philip Carr-Gomm, *[[Carr-Gomm. 'Druid Mysteries', 2011.|Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century]]* (London: Rider, 2011), Chapter 3. [^4]: Philip Carr-Gomm, *[[Carr-Gomm. 'Druid Mysteries', 2011.|Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century]]* (London: Rider, 2011), Chapter 3. [^5]: Philip Carr-Gomm, *[[Carr-Gomm. 'Druid Mysteries', 2011.|Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century]]* (London: Rider, 2011), Chapter 3. [^6]: Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes, ‘[[Rivera-Fuentes. ‘Gender and Hybridity’, 2000.|Gender and Hybridity: The Significance of Human/Animal Characters in Magic Realist Fiction]]’, *Animal Issues*, vol. 4, no. 1 (2000), p. 32. [^7]: Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes, ‘[[Rivera-Fuentes. ‘Gender and Hybridity’, 2000.|Gender and Hybridity: The Significance of Human/Animal Characters in Magic Realist Fiction]]’, *Animal Issues*, vol. 4, no. 1 (2000), p. 32. [^8]: Claude Lecoueux, *[[Lecouteux. 'The Tradition of Household Spirits', 2000.|The Tradition of Household Sprits: Ancestral Lore and Practices]]*, trans. by Jon E. Graham (Rochester, VA: Inner Traditions, 2000), p. 19.