(November 17, 2011 at 7:55 am)fr0d0 Wrote: @ tango: I already conceded that some people got it horribly wrong. That is why, in my view, only Christianity has the answer, because all of the others fall short of a coherent model, as you have (presumably) shown.I regret to have to remind you that Christianity is based on the God of the Hebrew tradition who is no different from the gods of the Greek or the Sumerian tradition.
There are gods of the people and gods of the theologians and scholars.
In Christianity the only popular figure is Virgin Mary who does not belong to the divine family.
In my country (Greece) she is the most loved one and she is also the one with the most temples devoted to her. She took over from goddess Athena.
Christianity is the religion of the philosophers, the scholars and the state. Not of the people. The people keep loving the Mother they have been loving for 40,000 years now.
On the other hand, Christianity is already a religion of the past.
Try to have a conversation with a theologian and you will find out that he has already moved on to a God more spiritual, more remote and more obscure, to a god who is not of our universe (I know the term in Greek but not in English).
Christianity is based nowhere and belongs to nobody. The Creator God of Christianity is the God of the Old Testament who is a God of Hatred. The son who is the god of love was supposedly a Hebrew but is believed by most Christians (the authors of the gospels included) to have been preaching in Greek.
If you start analyzing Christianity you will end up very disappointed. There is no official “Love each other”. Not even a single word of Christ (supposing that he existed) was saved because of the enormous blunder of translating his words to the then language of the elite: the Greek.
