Stoics and Epicureans
may not be as different as you think
We associate one group with suffering pain without too much complaint
the other with seeking pleasure
Neither group was Christian, and
Christians too have had their ideas about pain and pleasure
neither Stoical nor Epicurean
Protestants and Catholics used to be thought very different from each other too
now they live side by side in the suburbs
undisturbing each other with theological controversy
They fought horrific wars in Europe for decades or maybe centuries
I'll have to look that up
even in the 1970s there was religious war
going on
and not between factions of stoics
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