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I just ran across this statement on the Fars news website from Iran. Just one more indication that there was syncretism between Islam and a pre-existing sect of Ali/Hussein worshipers which became known as Shia Islam under Ismael I of the Safavvid Empire who imported Ali veneration beliefs to Persia...

I had postulated that veneration of Ali existed in some gnostic or syncretic sect unrelated to, and preceding Islam, which was later accommodated by the Abbasid regime. But the idea of a full blown Islamic caliphate in Damascus in conflict with a leading Islamic leader so far away in Kufa so soon af...

You mean until the time that Christian doctrine alleges the crucifixion of Jesus........don't you??

No, that is not what I argued. Jacob Frank simply attributed to his daughter Eve the female spiritual force that he believed had existed in the (Jungian?) Madonna Mary figure.

I don't know who you have been talking to among either Karaites, Samaritans or Rabbinic Jews, but you have not done a very good job. Besides, the stories regarding Saducceism refer back to Hasmonean times. In any case, according to your own position you don't know whether Rabbi Akiva even ever exist...

The article seemed to have been written by some high school senior, and did not seem very funny at all. Rather dumb. The comparison with the view of 4th century emergence of Christianity is equally dumb. I thought the article was quite funny. You do recognize of course that your theories are very si...

Why does the self-righteous Mr. Huller take it upon himself to call people names and engage in argumentum ad hominem because some people challenge some precious traditional theories about the origins of Christianity??

You are incorrect. The Saduccees accepted the entire written Torah but did not accept the concept of the Oral Law. Thus, they collided with the rabbis about many laws, not the least of which was the libation on the altar in the Temple on Sukkot as performed by the King who tended to the Saduccees an...

Do any reputed scholars ever refer to the contemporary Roman Catholic regime as "Neo-Catholic" or someone like Pope Francis as a Neo-Catholic leader since the contemporary teachings stray from traditional Catholic doctrines?

You hit the nail on the head. The fact is that acceptance of historical realities that cannot be proven empirically, especially in the case of mutually antagonistic groups who advocate the same history, depends on FAITH. Plain and simple. FAITH. Let's say it together. FAITH in the historical claims ...