RE: Whose view of the O T is authoritative? Jewry or Christianity?
January 1, 2012 at 9:56 pm
(This post was last modified: January 1, 2012 at 10:03 pm by Greatest I am.)
(January 1, 2012 at 7:22 pm)Zen Badger Wrote: The important thing to remember is that the purpose of religion is to keep the populace subservient and submissive. In that light christianity is more authoritative since it makes people feel guilty just for being alive. Think of humanity being born into sin, you're fucked from the start.
And people that have the mindset that they should be forever begging for divine forgiveness are so much easier to control and manipulate.
You forgot----and get $$$$$$$ out of.
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DL
Quote:(January 1, 2012 at 8:40 pm)TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote: I thought Jews were the one who built up an entire philisophical way of thinking based upon guilt?
Not that I know of. No guilt in man's elevation, only in his fall.
Quote:Also, isn't it Catholics who ascribe to "original sin?"
Yes. There is the guilt we are talking about.
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DL
(January 1, 2012 at 8:51 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I suspect that both are wrong.
Jews see Eden as a myth and in that sense there is no right way or wrong way of seeing it.
Christians are inflexible and to them it was definitely wrong for man to become as Gods even as scriptures urge us to be just as perfect as God is.
How that can be done without the knowledge of good and evil is never laid out or explained.
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DL
(January 1, 2012 at 9:11 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote: It depends on which one you ask..and which sect...and which country the sect lives in....and what extra community that sect lives in...and whatever splits or branches may have come about from those branches.
...just sayin...
And well said.
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DL
