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The initial post is teeming with errors, inaccuracies and fallacies.
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I would say more of the latter.
Tennyson has taken the information from wikipedia (see the source of the image and also check
Saint Maurice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia), and where he says:
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Originally Posted by Tennyson
Already in Medieval times the Church elevated Negroes to sainthood.
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He hides (by means of not mentioning) that:
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Sometimes St. Maurice is represented as a black Moor. However, Jean Devisse points out that it was not until 1240 that St. Maurice appears as a black man. Prior to that, he had been depicted as a white man. [5][6] Because of this discrepancy, Maurice is depicted as possessing characteristics of different ethnic groups, depending on when a given image was produced. The images of Saint Maurice at the Cathedral of Magdeburg are images in which Maurice is depicted as a black man.
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That is to say that he was elevated to the altars a few hundred years before even being depited as a Black man.
What little is know of St. Maurice is that he was a Coptic Egyptian. I wonder why then Tennyson does not
accuse of the same to Protestants for venerating a Middle Eastern Anatolian, such as was St. Nicholas (aka Santa Klaus:
Saint Nicholas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).
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Today, the Catholic Church is a major force pushing for open borders.
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Except for those of us who reject such things as ecumenism (with the exception of an approach of the Eastern and Western Churches), as multiculturalism.
I refuse to get identified with sects who use the fallacy and the defamation as a model of proselitism.
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It will take time to address them all but I will make a point of doings so over the weekend.
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I'll look forward to what Plethon and you have to say in the matter.
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