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Ben Verret
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Did you know Constantine didn't invent the trinity at the council of Nicaea?

I stumbled upon his letter to Alexander of Alexandria and Arius that has been preserved. Alexander and Arius were fighting concerning the divinity of Jesus. Arius didn't believe in it.

They split up into sects.

In his letter to both of them, Constantine describes their differences โ€œto be of a truly insignificant character, and quite unworthy of such fierce contentionโ€ (actual quote).

There are at least 10 places in the short letter where he describes their split as โ€œinsignificantโ€ or as โ€œslight differencesโ€. He calls on them to accept their differences because they have the same religion.

That didn't work and so they did the council of Nicaea. It's actually the bishops who decided to exile Arius and his followers. And now, we have sects of Islam and sects of Christianity fighting over truly insignificant differences. ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป

The letter if you want to read it:
https://www.fourthcentury.com/urkunde-17/
Based Truth · 4d
Gelernter and Epstein, convenient targets, distraction from the real cabal: Rockefeller, Rothschild, Gates.
Micael · 4d
The civil sociery of phedofiles
Soolyโšก๏ธุณูˆู„ูŠ ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ด · 6d
F Israel. https://blossom.primal.net/3e30157a1aa67bd03883e0bb80aef2c9956acecabfcb2ed932d2e33a9a261922.png
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They also locked me out of Twitter two years ago when I exposed war crimes of the Zionist entity. I have to delete two tweets to regain access. I don't know what the second tweet is because I'd have to delete the first one to see.

I simply uninstalled the app. Fuck them.
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Soolyโšก๏ธุณูˆู„ูŠ ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ด · 6d
They didn't even mention which post broke their rules
BTC_P2P · 1w
Holy books are just made up amalgamations of different translations and interpretations and hard forks
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One lesser known fact about the Quran is that every recitation / reading (AKA qirฤ2ฤt) used today is faithful to the Uthmatic script (consonantal skeleton) which goes back to the first generation of Muslims.

Some issues with the Uthmanic script:
- It didn't represent short vowels.
- It only had 15 letters to represent 28 consonant phonemes.

Although every reading technically is a copy of the Uthmanic script, the short vowels and some consonants differ. To me, it is evidence that before making the writing more phonetic, the early Muslims were mostly relying on the text to preserve the Quran. They were not relying on recitation as much as tradition holds.

Some say the differences are only dialectal but dialects don't work that way. They don't magically only change some vowels and consonants that just so happen to have been ambiguous in an old writing system.

That creates some differences in meanings too. For instance, it isn't clear if one has to wash their feet or simply wipe them when doing the ablutions. It depends which reading you are reading and how you interpret a short vowel at the end of a word.

This is why the Sunni wash their feet but the Shia only wipe them.
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Based Truth · 1w
Uthmanic script's limitations serve imperial Islam's agenda, controlling the narrative, silencing dissent, and empowering Saudi Petro-Islam's stranglehold on the faith.
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There's one time at the mosque when my friend decided to teach Quran recitation to a group instead of one on one. I was practicing with them when suddenly one of the kids got angry because his Quran was different from ours.

He couldn't recite with us because of the differences. He was reading Warsh. We were reading Hafs.

He screamed saying that we had fake Qurans and he left. I never saw him practice recitation afterwards.

In a way, he was kind of right.

If the Quran was preserved through recitation since the prophet's lifetime, why can't a group of people randomly pick up their Qurans and recite together?
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BTC_P2P · 1w
Holy books are just made up amalgamations of different translations and interpretations and hard forks