RE: Where is god now?
September 7, 2013 at 10:58 am
(This post was last modified: September 7, 2013 at 10:59 am by Minimalist.)
The story - even as the fucking church tells it - is that "paul" spread the gospel to the gentiles.... not surprising since by the time this shit started spreading the political situation had left the jews a stateless/reviled people.
No one wanted to be like the jews by the mid 2d century.
The far more reasonable story is that "paul" was a second century literary creation, conceived of by Marcion and later stolen by proto-orthodox writers to convey their own message of "do what the fuck the church tells you to do."
Celsus also wrote:
The desire for market share seems to have been as big in Celsus' time as it is now.
No one wanted to be like the jews by the mid 2d century.
Quote:"You are fond of saying that in the old days this same most high god made these and greater promises to those who gave heed to his commandments and worshipped him. But at the risk of appearing unkind, I ask how much good has been done by those promises have done either the Jews before you or you in your present circumstances. And would you have us put out faith in such a god? Instead of being masters of the whole world, the jews today have no home of any kind."
Celsus, c 180
The far more reasonable story is that "paul" was a second century literary creation, conceived of by Marcion and later stolen by proto-orthodox writers to convey their own message of "do what the fuck the church tells you to do."
Celsus also wrote:
Quote:Christians, needless to say, utterly detest one another; they slander each other constantly with the vilest forms of abuse, and cannot come to any sort of agreement in their teaching. Each sect brands its own, fills the head of its own with deceitful nonsense.
The desire for market share seems to have been as big in Celsus' time as it is now.
