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peeters on April 3, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Archaeologists discover 'Gate to Hell'

> according to http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/gate-to-hell-f..., it was in the 6th century AD

...Wouldn't that fail a reasonable definition of "early Christian"? At that point Christianity had been the state church of Rome for 150 years.

pohl on April 3, 2013 [–]

...Wouldn't that fail a reasonable definition of "early Christian"?

There may be a reasonable definition of "early Christian" that it fails, but it certainly wouldn't fail all reasonable definitions of the phrase.

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