I know exactly what the concept is and Christianity as the formalized religion has little to do with Jesus the radical Jew. Just as Christians took the worst of the Old Testament and ran with it, the books of the New Testament outside of the story of the Gospels form a handbook any Communist could admire--and did, of course. The roadmap for crushing the soul into guilt-ridden compliance.
I know exactly what the concept is and Christianity as the formalized religion has little to do with Jesus the radical Jew. Just as Christians took the worst of the Old Testament and ran with it, the books of the New Testament outside of the story of the Gospels form a handbook any Communist could admire--and did, of course. The roadmap for crushing the soul into guilt-ridden compliance.
Your idea of Christianity as “crushing the soul into guilt—ridden compliance” is so completely void of understanding as to be laughable if not so heartbreaking. “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.” Forgiveness in and through Jesus Christ is the only way we escape the guilt of our wrongs. So much time and effort spent on trying to explain away our Creator, His great love for His creation and His rescue and redemption of it.
Again, you miss the point. That Jesus was a radical Jew is almost immaterial* to the truth (in Gato's second sense). And where does one imagine that communism is an offshoot of Christianity? Jesus encouraged spiritualism over materialism, whereas communists are uber-materialists.
*Almost immaterial, because clearly he was killed by his Jewish brethren for being a radical Jew (in an echo of the Cain & Abel story).
I know exactly what the concept is and Christianity as the formalized religion has little to do with Jesus the radical Jew. Just as Christians took the worst of the Old Testament and ran with it, the books of the New Testament outside of the story of the Gospels form a handbook any Communist could admire--and did, of course. The roadmap for crushing the soul into guilt-ridden compliance.
Your idea of Christianity as “crushing the soul into guilt—ridden compliance” is so completely void of understanding as to be laughable if not so heartbreaking. “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.” Forgiveness in and through Jesus Christ is the only way we escape the guilt of our wrongs. So much time and effort spent on trying to explain away our Creator, His great love for His creation and His rescue and redemption of it.
Nonsense. It is a brutal chain on the spirit.
Funny, my spirit is free!
Limited hangout.
Again, you miss the point. That Jesus was a radical Jew is almost immaterial* to the truth (in Gato's second sense). And where does one imagine that communism is an offshoot of Christianity? Jesus encouraged spiritualism over materialism, whereas communists are uber-materialists.
*Almost immaterial, because clearly he was killed by his Jewish brethren for being a radical Jew (in an echo of the Cain & Abel story).
Try to read with understanding.
And the evangelizing to the Hellenic world transformed the ministry of Jesus into a cult marketable to everyone.
Is missing the point your favorite pasttime?
You poor kid.
Suggest you do the same: read with understanding, or an open heart.
There is no dogma since the creation of civilization that has not caused endless suffering and cruelty.
If one needs a dogma in order to have a sense of a higher and meaningful power I'd suggest that's where the constricted heart lies.
Baloney.
https://cc.catechismclass.com/files/pdf/The_255_Dogmas_of_the_Catholic_Church.pdf
255 endless suffering and cruelty?
Major reach.
You never read world history? How strange.
The greatest genocides and purges occurred under godless regimes, demoniacs, communists and Freemasons
Look up: 20th Century
No greater mass killings:
Mao
Stalin
Pol Pot
Hitler
Truman
Wasn’t the Catholic Church ordering fire-bombing, carpet bombing, atomic bombing, chemical weapon attacks and killing fields.
Those were freemasons, atheistic communists, and other demoniacs.
Communism is a perfect example of a religion. Its leaders learned well from every religion preceding it.
Christianity has had no shortage of killing fields throughout the history of Christendom. Every religion has had its killing fields, large or small.
You know that.