RE: Proof of Jesus through Personal testimony. Christianity over other faiths
January 23, 2018 at 2:33 pm
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2018 at 2:39 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Adding to the above (since I guess it's on us to make this thread worth a shit in OPs absence), in the exceedignly rare case that we actually can point to a real flesh and blood figure (or at least some amalgam of real personalities) as the frame upon which the divine flesh was draped....the specifics turn out to be downright hilarious.
Cargo cults are an instructive example..because they arose in recent and well recorded history as a direct consequence of pacific island hopping. The US navy was building remote supply dumps. Now, this was the origin of the Tom Cargo movement...nothing too wacky there (lol). What's more interesting..are the John Frum and Prince Philip movements. They arose out of the same actual event..us navy supply dumps. John Frum was said to be an american god - a conglomerate of people molded into a singular divinity. However, taking that as a base of belief, the Prince Philip movement fixated on the Duke of Edinburgh as a divine being, and this was strengthened by the colonial apparatus.....and the fact that they believed that Prince Philip was "John Frum"..the american god's.. brother.
Parse that shit, lol, the next time someone wonders whether a divine icon was based on a real person, or that the overall context of the religious narrative has some kernel of history to it. That's what it looks like...when it does.
Cargo cults are an instructive example..because they arose in recent and well recorded history as a direct consequence of pacific island hopping. The US navy was building remote supply dumps. Now, this was the origin of the Tom Cargo movement...nothing too wacky there (lol). What's more interesting..are the John Frum and Prince Philip movements. They arose out of the same actual event..us navy supply dumps. John Frum was said to be an american god - a conglomerate of people molded into a singular divinity. However, taking that as a base of belief, the Prince Philip movement fixated on the Duke of Edinburgh as a divine being, and this was strengthened by the colonial apparatus.....and the fact that they believed that Prince Philip was "John Frum"..the american god's.. brother.
Parse that shit, lol, the next time someone wonders whether a divine icon was based on a real person, or that the overall context of the religious narrative has some kernel of history to it. That's what it looks like...when it does.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
