Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

Paul for having reprimanded Peter?... What would
be thought today of a man who intended to live at
our expense, he and his woman, judge us, punish
us, and confound the guilty with the innocent?
Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire (1776): The Messiah himself, and
his disciples who conversed with him on earth,
instead of authorizing by their example the most
minute observances of the Mosaic law,... [should,
like Paul,] have published to the world the abolition
of those useless and obsolete ceremonies.
Juan Josef Hoíl, The Book of Chilam Balam
of Chumayel (compiled by Hoíl in his native Mayan
language 1782, 3rd Spanish edition by the UNAM
1973): Only in the crazed times, through the mad
priests, did it happen that sadness entered into us,
that ‘Christianity’ entered us. Because these same
‘Christians’ were those who brought here the true
God; but this was the beginning of our misery, the
beginning of the taxes, the beginning of ‘alms’, the
cause from which arose hidden discord, the
beginning of the battles with firearms, the
beginning of the outrages, the beginning of the
plundering of everything, the beginning of slavery
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