What do you think: Christianity as a teaching is about?

Pinball1970 said:
I know what Passover is! It is a Jewish festival not a Christian one was my point.
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Так и Библия состоит из Ветхого и Нового Завета. Христос говорил, что он "пришёл не нарушить Закон, а исполнить". Это всё авраамические религии.
 
C C said:
It's the power of make-believe and the fear of social stigma. Some individuals would rather die than be branded as one who reneged on duty to family, community, state, gods, ideology, etc.

With respect to the potency of make-believe... Even atheists or non-theists can genuflect to, worship, or strictly follow invented concepts, principles, and abstractions of cycles and patterns in nature. The difference is that they don't go the extra step of personifying those rules, ideas, etc as humanoids or other creatures. As theists and the spiritual-oriented have done for millennia.

Robert M. Lefkowitz: ". . . abstract concepts were not used; in order to talk about something, it had to be 'concretized', typically by being anthropomorphized. The Greek gods, then, were not 'gods' in the way we understand the concept; they were concrete embodiments of abstract concepts like 'courage' or 'beauty' or 'duplicity' reified as people." --On Eric Havelock's "The Muse Learns to Write"
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Чем в таком случае не устраивало язычество? Чего в нём не хватало?
 
ольга said:
Так и Библия состоит из Ветхого и Нового Завета. Христос говорил, что он "пришёл не нарушить Закон, а исполнить". Это всё авраамические религии.
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There was no New testament or old testament in Jesus time. Just scripture which would have been some of the older texts of the OT, probably Isaiah, I would have to check.
My point is Judaism and Christianity are profoundly different.
 
Pinball1970 said:
There was no New testament or old testament in Jesus time. Just scripture which would have been some of the older texts of the OT, probably Isaiah, I would have to check.
My point is Judaism and Christianity are profoundly different.
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Христианство вообще отличается от других религий. В нём основой являются принципы гуманизма. Бог есть Любовь - это христианство. В других религиях Бог карающий, справедливый, всезнающий.
 
ольга said:
Christianity is different from other religions. It is based on the principles of humanism. God is Love - this is Christianity. In other religions, God is punishing, just, all-knowing.
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All religions think they're different. All religions think theirs is the one that's all about love. All religions think every other religion is all about punishment.

All religions teach that the grass is browner on the other side of the fence. They are, after all, in the business of recruitment and retention.
 
DaveC426913 said:
All religions think they're different. All religions think theirs is the one that's all about love. All religions think every other religion is all about punishment.

All religions teach that the grass is browner on the other side of the fence. They are, after all, in the business of recruitment and retention.
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А вы считаете, что религии ничем не отличаются?
 
ольга said:
А вы считаете, что религии ничем не отличаются?
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They are all derivatives and change over time. I was not interested how different Christianity was when I was a believer, I wanted to find out if any of it was true.
I decided that very little of it was true, that was my personal journey.
 
Pinball1970 said:
They are all derivatives and change over time. I was not interested how different Christianity was when I was a believer, I wanted to find out if any of it was true.
I decided that very little of it was true, that was my personal journey.
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А в кого/что вы верили?
 
DaveC426913 said:
All religions think they're different. All religions think theirs is the one that's all about love. All religions think every other religion is all about punishment.

All religions teach that the grass is browner on the other side of the fence. They are, after all, in the business of recruitment and retention.
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Well, of the Abrahamic traditions, Jews--at least the atheistic/apatheistic variety (which is the majority, in the US at least)--accept that God is a fucking prick. That's a pretty substantive difference.


Edit: Whoever edited that little clip left out his characterization of the Christian relationship to God, which might be perceived as insulting perhaps, but accurate IMHO, i.e. cowering, acting like some fucking dictator who smites you for no reason is somehow benevolent and all that.
 
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ольга said:
Do you think that religions are no different?
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I think, in the sense you are talking about, they are the same.

Every religion teaches that itself is about all the good things. Every religion implies that all the other religions are about the bad things. In this sense, I don't see Christianity being any different.
 
DaveC426913 said:
I think, in the sense you are talking about, they are the same.

Every religion teaches that itself is about all the good things. Every religion implies that all the other religions are about the bad things. In this sense, I don't see Christianity being any different.
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Только под "хорошим" все подразумевают разное. Вообще, осуждать другие религии не есть хорошо. Нужно уметь мирно сосуществовать. Если конечно чья то религия не учит отрезать головы несогласным.
 
DaveC426913 said:
As much as this God of yours can, yes.
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Ну, Бог не говорит, что мы просто исчезнем("потому что ты из праха взят, и в прах возвратишься"). Он даёт нам надежду на вечную жизнь. А вы никакой надежды не даёте. В лучшем случае у вас мы просто навоз для будущих поколений. Грустная перспектива.
 
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