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"Gets to be the issue of AUTHORITY, POWER, CONTROL over all Christendom . . . EXTRAPOLATED, shoehorned into existence from that vague metaphorical passage about Peter."
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I have been reading about the early years of Christianity and one of the things that is so clearly a myth is this idea that Rome had authority and control. Prior to the emergence of Rome as the preeminent power Christianity was congregational in structure and religious services were very different.

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I have been reading about the early years of Christianity and one of the things that is so clearly a myth is this idea that Rome had authority and control. Prior to the emergence of Rome as the preeminent power Christianity was congregational in structure and religious services were very different.
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YUP.

I think maybe it was Jr High or some such when even just a cursory reading of history made that abundantly clear.