RE: Good exists - a Catholic comments
August 19, 2023 at 11:54 am
(This post was last modified: August 19, 2023 at 12:02 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Many believers want a new christianity. One that aligns with their contemporary inclusionist ideologies. That's probably better than the crime against humanity that their old faith was, or it would be, if they could be upfront and honest about it, even with themselves.
This has always been a problem for christianity. It couldn't bring itself to lose the borrowed ladder of judaic mythology - because who would listen to them? So they carried it along, and successively added to the problems of their movement with each syncretic hop across the map into new territories and new indigenous beliefs, which they could never fully eradicate...no matter how hard they tried.
FWIW, I think christianity ran out of juice when it ceased to be a subversive populist movement and became an arm of the state. So...right around the time when early christian founders courted warring roman families in the empire games for fun and profit. AKA, the founding of the catholic church in mere reality. The RCC was a sellout before it was cool. The fights over patronage then had the same purpose and character that the fights over subsidy now do. At least in this, catholicism has never changed.
This has always been a problem for christianity. It couldn't bring itself to lose the borrowed ladder of judaic mythology - because who would listen to them? So they carried it along, and successively added to the problems of their movement with each syncretic hop across the map into new territories and new indigenous beliefs, which they could never fully eradicate...no matter how hard they tried.
FWIW, I think christianity ran out of juice when it ceased to be a subversive populist movement and became an arm of the state. So...right around the time when early christian founders courted warring roman families in the empire games for fun and profit. AKA, the founding of the catholic church in mere reality. The RCC was a sellout before it was cool. The fights over patronage then had the same purpose and character that the fights over subsidy now do. At least in this, catholicism has never changed.
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