RE: Would Jesus promote punishing the innocent instead of the guilty?
August 13, 2020 at 7:29 am
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2020 at 7:30 am by Belacqua.)
(August 13, 2020 at 7:00 am)Grandizer Wrote: The thing with Christianity is that there are a few twists
As far as I can tell, everyone on this thread is in nearly complete agreement.
We all acknowledge that Christianity (like any organized system of thought) took ideas from older groups and from its environment. And we all agree that main themes, like the resurrected god, occur with variations in different places.
The point of contention seems to be some vague degree of originality. How different does a thing have to be to be original?
I think what's happening is that Fake needs to work hard to keep any vaguely positive-sounding adjective as far away from Christianity as possible. So if someone says that the Christian combination of old ideas was original, that sounds too good. It can't be original if it is to conform with his axiom that everything about Christianity is negative. Or if someone says that Christianity is unique, this is unacceptable.
But every religion is unique, in that it has to be sufficiently different to distinguish itself from its neighbors. And every religion is original, in that it re-sorts the available ideas in a manner that appeals to a different set of people, or appeals in a different way.
The Christian dying God is not the same as the others. None of them is the same as the others. They're all a little different. None of them is simply a re-naming of an older version.
Why this is the least bit objectionable I don't know.
