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Ritual traditions & the sacrement in the 21st Century

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Christianity was always the course of the enlightened, and starting shortly after the Word of Saint Stephen had retold the Crucifixion of Jesus and his victory in death. Christs gospels lived and became the greater course of Jews under Roman occupation, then the Romans too. Converts lining up to receive the Holy waters touch of Yoḥanan ha-mmaṭbil, had forceful knowledge of the natural worlds grace there, and not that by a cruel blade taking their head away in death. Jerusalem was different these times, a place which would succumb to the invaders as the most Enlightened spoke peaces offerings, and ignored martial practice of war. Artistic form was something that this livelihood conveyed and the Muslims learnt against their grievance, a truthful beautification of architecture. In turn omitting anything representing the living, and by purity of geometric forms alone, the Great Mosque was built where once stood King Davids Palace and Temple. Christianity was a differe...