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~tetris

Hey!

Confessional Lutheran

I went down a deep rabbithole just now trying to work out what this is, and I stumbled upon the **tree of all religions**¹ where I think found you at the 2pm position:

    Ancient Israelite Religion (~1 BC)
    |_ Christianity (~1000 AD, up to the Great Schism)
       |_ Western or Roman Catholic Church (~1500s, up to Martin Luthor Reform)
          |_ Unnamed Lutherian Branch (~1820s)
            |_ Unnamed Lutherian Branch2 (~1980s)
               |_ Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference

(I hope I got it right...) I love these kind of trees and hierarchies because they're driven entirely by ideology, and it's like watching the operating system distro wars of the 1990s-2010s play out, as they split off from one branch or root due to one reason or another on a hill that someone is willing to die on.

It's a rich tapestry of decision making weaved into fabric of humanity

¹: http://the40foundation.org/world-religions-tree.html

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