[Cronos]

Cronos: Even the Naimans were in contact with the CAtholicos of Ctesiphon-Selucia

Quix NOPE. Here and there, eventually. And power has a way of consolidating more power.

So you don't believe that the Naimans were in contact with the Catholicos of Ctesiphon-Seleucia?

[Quix]

I wasn’t there.

Neither were you.

I’m enormously skeptical of this

OUTRAGEOUSLY ILLOGICAL AND UNHISTORICAL PRETENSE

that a homogeneous, seamless line of authority goes from Jesus to Peter to succeeding Popes.

I think that’s one of the biggest farces and most outrageous deceptions of the last 1600 years or so.

I think it’s also an outrageously unlikely assumption that any of the far flung clusters of tribal and extended family sized groups of Christians would have been regularly in contact with power centers . . . or that they would have submitted wholesale thereto.

I think that is absurd to the max.