You tell 'em.
This is what happens when pop culture meets Christianity.
This is what happens when the Discovery Channel or the History Channel attempts to interpret Christianity. People walk away badly misinformed, but thinking they've learned a lot. Bad information is more dangerous than no information at all!
Google: Didache. Sort of a handbook the early Christians used to standardize practices.
Better yet, if you are really serious about early church history, go ask an Orthodox Christian priest for more information.
They have a saying in the OC: "How many Orthodox priests does it take to change a light bulb." "CHANGE?!" I learned more about Christianity than I suspected I would when I made the (small) step from being an evangelical protestant to an orthodox christian. It's like...Christianity Lite versus Christianity. And I never knew.
I was a member of an apologetics group that investigated humanism, Islam, Wicca, Buddhism, New Age, etc., ad nauseam, and by chance we made contact with an Orthodox priest. Long story, that.
Suffice it say my intention was never to do anything other than "kick the tires."
***This is what happens when the Discovery Channel or the History Channel attempts to interpret Christianity. People walk away badly misinformed,****
My Brother-in-law (If you know him he probably owes you money) knows more about Christianity than anyone! If you don’t believe it just ask him! He gets all his info from the History Channel and Discovery Channel.
When you talk with him you realize how the Philistines felt when they were slain by the jawbone of an ass.