Later Christians, and eventually the Chinese, struggled with the question whether Jesus and Confucius were gods. Jesus appears to have been at least confusing on the matter during his lifetime, while Confucius never made such claim but was turned into a deity when this thought was eventually merged with Taoism and the Chinese version of Buddhism, for po…
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