From the land of the pharaohs ... the Coptic Museum in Cairo. Photograph: Reuters
Posted on 05/11/2011 6:54:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Attacks on churches, communal divisions -- Cairo has recently seen conflicts between some Muslims and Coptic Christians. But who exactly are the Copts and how did they come to be in Egypt? Part of the answer lies in Coptic art... in the 19th and 20th centuries excavators such as William Flinders Petrie developed truly scientific archaeological techniques and looked beyond the tombs of the kings into the buried worlds of Egypt's past. Petrie, who excavated at Fayoum, looked not just for treasures but pottery and cloth.
Egypt's climate preserves materials that usually perish, including wood, papyrus, and cloth. Even shoes from ancient Egypt's later period under Roman rule have survived. Another stunning type of material discovered by early 20th-century archaeologists was Coptic woven art. Early Christians in Egypt buried their dead with finely woven clothes and shrouds that have survived along with Biblical papyri, paintings and sculpture. In 1910, the Coptic Museum in old Coptic Cairo opened to show such relics released from the earth...
So to return to that question I asked above, exactly who are the Copts? The answer is clear from this connection. Coptic Christianity dates back to the first couple of hundred years after the lifetime of Christ. The people who converted to Christianity were the ancient Egyptians, as well as Jewish, Greek and Roman inhabitants of Egypt. This is even clearer when alongside the art of Coptic Egypt you consider the Coptic language preserved in ancient papyri and manuscripts and still used in the Coptic liturgy today... In the British Museum in London is the Rosetta Stone... the French scholar Jean-Francois Champollion... studied Coptic as part of his quest, because he rightly saw that it was descended from ancient Egyptian. That is, the language of the Coptic liturgy is the language of ancient Egypt.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
From the land of the pharaohs ... the Coptic Museum in Cairo. Photograph: Reuters
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They smoke a lot of Pot!
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What Coptic Christians?
You may be confusing Coptic Egyptians wih the Ethiopian version.
Mostly the Ethiopian version does ganga and not all all by any means.
Most famous of them:
http://orthodoxhistory.org/2011/05/11/30-year-anniversary-of-bob-marleys-death/
“You may be confusing Coptic Egyptians wih the Ethiopian version.
Mostly the Ethiopian version does ganga and not all all by any means.
Most famous of them:
http://orthodoxhistory.org/2011/05/11/30-year-anniversary-of-bob-marleys-death/";
Maybe, I thought it was the Egypt bunch but the info came from some Pot heads so who knows?
I know a Coptic Christian.
He is one funny dude.
Seeing that Copt is just the ancient Greek word for Egyptian this is not much of a surprise. The other Egyptians are descendants of Arab migrants into Byzantine Egypt, plus the descendants of the Copts who converted to Islam. This group was substantial, since many Copts were Monophysite and were persecuted by Orthodox Christianity.
Their survival is a tribute to the religious tolerance of Islam. How many Islamic communities survived in medieval Christian Europe? As for modern times, a Europe that murdered six million Jews less than a century ago is in no position to vaunt its tolerance.
Ouch! Oh dear me...
First of all, that medieval Islam was sometimes more tolerant than medieval Christianity is a given.
After all, Reformation era Christians murdered each other by the millions, and on weekends went after Jews and Muslims.
But that was then.
And your comparison of today's Muslims to Nazi Germans is totally apt -- indeed some have argued that the Holocaust began with Muslim demands to their ally Hitler that if he wanted Middle East oil, he'd first have to get rid of his Jews.
And this is now:
The inheritors (if not progenitors) of the Nazi Holocaust -- radical Islam -- have worked since WWII to drive all non-Muslim populations (Jews, Christians, Hindus) out of Islam dominated countries.
In Egypt, for example, Copts were reduced from about 15% of the population 100 years ago to now maybe half that.
In short, Islam is becoming as intolerant as medieval Christianity used to be, while Christianity is today far more tolerant than Islam ever was.
Well then: Can I become a Coptic? I already have the rolling pape's.
I remember the Zion Coptic Church in Miami, they had their church on Star Island in Biscayne Bay.
Just to be clear, the italicized portion of my post was the last paragraph of the article posted; not my words.
“Well then: Can I become a Coptic? I already have the rolling pape’s.”
LMAO
You can just go to Pennsylvania to hear it spoken. Surely you’ve heard of the Keystone Kopts?
We've gotta go to Pennsylvania, boys!
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