Carismatic Sects - I Don't Know if That's the Right Word, but They've Survived.

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The history of iscristory, catholicism in particular, you can see the papacy trying to push downon these sort of peopl yo. They think of the attitude of both the sonis and the shes towards the mystical branch of islam. And they really do not like christianity. It's a very successful religions, very far ahead of its time. But boy, they have been over. I mean, they were literallyot hundreds of thousands of them were just slaughtered, and they disappeared.

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