..... and there are some Evangelicals Christians out there that my sprinkler system is programed to keep away from my front porch. It works, try it. I don't want to get into the minutia of the Christianity timeline, whether it's continuos or not, but it's been around in one form or another for a long long time. As to whether or not one faction in the Christian fabric thinks well of another, that will give me migraine faster than most things.There is a significantly large segment of evangelical christians who view the catholics as
non-christians. From that perspective Christianity is only as old as Protestantism which makes it
500 years old. Adding to it the time elapsed between Emperor Constantine (who worshiped the
Roman sun god along with Christ) and Paul you get about 700-800 years.