Talk:Christianity

Time of the Angels
The idea of Christianity being a single Church in the 51st century certainly isn't something you can take for granted (as the article currently does). The Church was continually dividing and reuniting in the early centuries, until the first permanent schism, between the Roman and Syriac Churches, in the 5th century. All branches have continued to split since then (the Roman splitting into Western Catholic and Eastern Orthodox, then the Anglican and Protestant Reformation splitting from the Catholic Church, the immediate splintering into about a dozen different lines of Protestantism, and those lines continuing to fork and diverge to his day). While it's not completely inconceivable that in another 3000 years some amazingly successful ecumenical movement will somehow united all of these Churches into one, there's no indication at all in the show, or anywhere else, that such a thing has happened.

In fact, there's no evidence at all that the Clerics from Time of the Angels are even Christian. They don't mention Jesus, and they have no Christian iconography. All we know is that they are a "church", that they pray, that they have faith, and that they all take sacred names (some of which seem to have Christian heritage, but others don't). The first two are common of just about any religion that would call themselves a church, and the last one is something that isn't actually true of Christianity today.

So, I'm going to remove the newly-added paragraph. --Falcotron 15:31, April 25, 2010 (UTC)