Atheism is not a religion but it has to be if its goal is to prevail over theism.
Theism is innocent without clergy, without organized religion.
If , therefore, the class of the priests is eradicated, theism can harm no one.
There was no priesthood in ancient Greece. The gods were serving the political masters and not the non-existent High Priest. If it was not for the idealist philosophers who paved the way for Christianity’s theocratic priesthood, most probably the no-clergy religious system may have had spread along with the democratic political system.
Communists were proved unhistorical and naive on the subject of religion because they tried to kill the gods along with the priesthood and thus they failed completely.
The oldest recorded historical events are the Egyptian ones. There the king would prevail over his enemy, the clergy, by substituting the clergy’s gods with his own (last and most well known incident that of Akhenaten). In ancient Egypt it was the clergy that came out the victor eventually while in ancient Greece it was the king, who went one step further by keeping the gods of the clergy as his servants.
If communists had bothered to study the history of the gods (Yaroslavky’s theory is no better than Campbell’s) they would have found out that the figure men have been worshipping for 40,000 years is an anti-god (the Virgin) without being the satan.
The perfect god to turn atheism into a religion!
Christianity is Greek, my friend. Blame the ancient Greek philosophers not the Israelites.
As for the civilization of the Middle East... thank God, the net offers lessons of history free of charge. Try some!
Theism is innocent without clergy, without organized religion.
If , therefore, the class of the priests is eradicated, theism can harm no one.
There was no priesthood in ancient Greece. The gods were serving the political masters and not the non-existent High Priest. If it was not for the idealist philosophers who paved the way for Christianity’s theocratic priesthood, most probably the no-clergy religious system may have had spread along with the democratic political system.
Communists were proved unhistorical and naive on the subject of religion because they tried to kill the gods along with the priesthood and thus they failed completely.
The oldest recorded historical events are the Egyptian ones. There the king would prevail over his enemy, the clergy, by substituting the clergy’s gods with his own (last and most well known incident that of Akhenaten). In ancient Egypt it was the clergy that came out the victor eventually while in ancient Greece it was the king, who went one step further by keeping the gods of the clergy as his servants.
If communists had bothered to study the history of the gods (Yaroslavky’s theory is no better than Campbell’s) they would have found out that the figure men have been worshipping for 40,000 years is an anti-god (the Virgin) without being the satan.
The perfect god to turn atheism into a religion!
(January 3, 2012 at 9:28 pm)SleepingDemon Wrote: The entire middle east was centuries behind every other culture on the planet. They still are. From the middle east spawned all of the abrahamic religions, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.
Christianity is Greek, my friend. Blame the ancient Greek philosophers not the Israelites.
As for the civilization of the Middle East... thank God, the net offers lessons of history free of charge. Try some!
"Culture is memory"
Yuri Lotman
Yuri Lotman
