The Christian church has adapted many pagan ideas over the centuries.

几个世纪以来，基督教会已经采用并改编许多异教思想。

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The tradition, dating back to 300 B.C., was later incorporated into the Christian church.

这个传统可以追溯至公元前300年，后来被纳入基督教会。

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It was used primarily as a vehicle for teaching religion and was generally presented in Latin, the language of the Christian Church which had considerable influence in Italy at that time.

它主要用作宗教教学的工具，通常用拉丁语表达，也就是当时在意大利影响相当大的基督教会语言。

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Most of the Americans who supported these efforts were conservative rural Americans who believed in the traditional ideas of the Protestant Christian church.

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The Christian Church might have stepped into the breach and imposed obedience and uniformity, because before terribly long, all of the West had been Christianized.

这时基督教试图接管国家,宣扬服从和统一的思想,因为很早以前,基督教在西方就根深蒂固了

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Instead of looking at the documents from the outside, let's look at what would an early Christian church look like if you were just to stumble upon them? A little imagination.

这次我们不再客观地看文本，我们来看看一个早期基督教会的样子,如果你无意间进了教会，想象一下。

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Eventually, after a series of religious wars, the Christian church confessed its negation of Christian charity.

WSJ: Joseph Loconte: The Easter Message of Religious Freedom

You have just imagined the relationship between the Christian Church and her seminaries.

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Luther, he pointed out, had always wanted the Christian church to unite.

ECONOMIST: Richard Neuhaus