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Old 03-13-2008, 10:59 AM
Connie
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I heard a different account of the history of Christianity in Ireland. I think I got it from an online history of Christianity but I'll have to check. This story is that Ireland was one of the very first places in Europe to be Christianized, as early as the 2nd century, before the Catholic church had corrupted the gospel, and that they were a very strong church that sent out missionaries to the mainland, and that apparently this situation prevailed for many centuries until the corrupted Roman church had taken over most of the churches that had been established in Europe, but that even then the Irish church resisted for a long time. When it was finally Romanized, for some reason it stuck harder there than it did in other places. I think I got this from Philip Schaff's History of the Christian Church which is online. All of Europe was pagan before it was transformed by the gospel, Ireland was certainly no worse than any other place.