>Christianity was "just what the greeks taught, but dumbed down".
What Christianity means to me
I was recently having an ethics debate where someone said that Christianity was "just what the greeks taught, but dumbed down". I heartily disagreed, and I wanted to put my reasons to text while I still remembered them. Christianity is the ethics of the great Greek classics, for sure. It owes…weev.livejournal.com
I don't remember the ancient Greeks condemning infanticide or slavery.
or being monotheistic
Although I like saying it I am extremely for this. A soul is dead when it wishes nothing more for their peers to be dead. Misanthropism is anti-Christian, and so is racism, sexism, and every -ism out there. The most important thing as Christians to do is to love and keep steadfast in the faith. Hatred is the language of the devil. Nuff said
I thought we depicted God with a human figure because of how the Book of Genesis, and some of the other books of the Bible, describe His appearance. Most notably is the verse in Genesis, in the first chapter:
Yeah I don't necessarily object to depicting Jesus as a white man or anything. What I've stated is part of a bigger point about the social individualism and narcissism that runs rampant in western civilization as a whole. And I tie that down to western Christianity. Because the fundamental fault of western Christianity is the idea that the outer logic of things is more important than the inner essence of things. There's always a desire to make the faith fit into what they conceive as reality. The Eastern Church, in contrast, took refuge in the traditions and canons of the church before human logic or reason, making it immune to change. In the West, there was first philosophy within the faith (Scholasticism), then reformation within the faith (Protestantism), and then finally, philosophy *outside* the faith (Enlightenment). From this point onward, all sorts of vile and wicked ideologies came out of western civilization, whether it's communism, capitalism, nazism, feminism, marxism, neo-paganism and whatever else one can think of. None of these things came out of Eastern Orthodox civilization, all of it originates from the West. This is why, from our perspective, Catholicism is often referred to as the oldest form of Protestantism. Because it was the first to introduce the idea that a man could be above the Holy Canons and traditions of the church. Protestantism merely takes the next logical step and distributes that right to everyone, and then the enlightenment takes the other logical step, and gives the "right" to reject the faith entirely. Leading to what you see today : rampant individualism and spiritual emptiness everywhere.
Roman Catholic
TSMT , Do you know what language is understood by all? Love. Love is the most powerful power there is. Love transcends all language barriers and cultural ones. It is understood by every animal and everything that is sentient.
I, myself, am Gnostic, and the "all gnostics = evil heretics" mentality held by some Christians irritates me, but they're still better than materialist reddit atheist furfags, wiccans, and other such LARPagans.
All gnostics are evil heretics doebeit.
Don't you also need to learn aramaic and greek for other parts of the new testament thoughie
Why
I could go on a long rant here about it, but all you need to do to understand the kinds of shit these people believe is to read 114 of the heretical Gospel of Thomas. It literally promotes trannydom and gnostics generally regard such texts as credible. They get too heavily influenced by ancient Greek Philosophy and Zoroastrianism. One example is Marcionism, Marcion promoted a narrative that rejected the Old Testament entirely and made a distinction between the "God of the Old Testament" and "God of the New Testament" where OT God was the evil creator of the material universe whereas the NT God was the benevolent God. Gnosticism did not immediately die out after the Patristic Era but resurfaced itself occasionally in the form of Paulicians, the Tondrakists etc etc. It gets a bit difficult to explain since Gnosticism itself is a broad term covering a lot of different stuff that could very well be different religions of their own and not mere interpretations.
Interesting. Is the Gospel of Thomas not in the Bible?
No, it was never included in the canon. There are plenty of early books like it that were rejected. The early Church existed without a proper Biblical canon for several centuries. But some of these texts were still held in high regard even if they didn't necessarily make it into the Bible, for example the Didache is still considered valuable today. The Gospel of Thomas on the other hand is a straight up gnostic book written by who the hell knows who.
lolno, it's fanfiction made up by some copt in the mid-1st millennium
bumpoed
uh yeah its called christianity
