Christianity: a success story from the start?
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How Many Years in Purgatory Is It?
A good Christian does with a bit of help from their friends and loved ones is slowly navigate their way across purgatory. So you have to start defining the punishment for sin. And this becomes the key device for articulating a new vision of what it means to be a good Christian. It's so completely different from the pre-Constantinian Christian vision of a small self-selecting group of people who have to live perfect lives now.
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