"Marcion, the Heretic the Church Follows" – A Historically Supported View
"Marcion, the Heretic the Church Follows" – A Historically Supported View A few years ago, I came across an English-language book titled *Marcion, the Heretic the Church Follows*. The work introduces Marcion, a figure who broke away from Christianity and whose father was the Bishop of Sinope. During the Bar Kokhba revolt (132–135)—when Roman authorities banned the Jewish religion—he traveled widely to collect books containing Jewish texts found among Christians and burn them. In his work on the history of the Church, the atheist author Raoul Vaneigem portrays Marcion as the person who transformed classical, original Judeo-Christianity into a neo-pagan Greco-Christianity (Chapter 11: "Marcion and the Hellenization of Christianity" – Raoul Vaneigem: *The Resistance to Christianity: The Heresies at the Origins of the 18th Century*, 1993). If you are interested in the topic, read the full article on the blog: https://klasszikuskeresztyenseg.blogspot.com/2026/09/markion...