RE: the nature of sin
April 29, 2020 at 5:47 pm
(This post was last modified: April 29, 2020 at 5:48 pm by Belacqua.)
(April 29, 2020 at 4:21 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: Since I don't believe in this "sky tyrant" you'll be unsurprised to find that I don't follow this school of thinking.
Neither do I. Neither do a surprisingly large number of Christians. "Sky tyrant" is not an accurate description of the God of Dante, Aquinas, Augustine, Boehme, Blake, etc.
Quote:Sins are the product of the priesthood. A grab bag of basic societal ethics, ancient tribal prejudices, and a variety of rules designed to control the laity.
Some Christians work that way. Others have a far more systematic and coherent view of goodness and how we depart from it.
Quote:His "Comedy", the "Divine" was added almost a century later, was a systematic description of Hell, complete with all the best bigotry that our species has to offer.
That's true about the title.
About a third of the Comedy is a description of hell. What part specifically did you find bigoted?
Quote:It's a condemnation of humanity that nobody has every penned a systematic description of heaven.
Dante's Paradiso, cantos 30-33 give a systematic description of heaven. And there are many others.
It's not accurate to say that nobody has ever penned one.
