The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5
=> Re: the operative phrase......
| Re: the operative phrase...... |
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pancho
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...since virtually no one has ever lived according to "Christian principles" there have to be other reasons for its survival, although it's been falling on hard times for 500 years. There is nothing in "secular" teachings which calls for people to be unkind, to murder, to be cruel, to steal etc.....so the prohibition against these things can hardly be attributed to Christian teachings because EVERYONE teaches that to their children and all societies depend upon it....the only thing unique about Christian teaching and which you can get nowhere else, is the joy you feel when someone else is killed for your sins, and you get heaven as a result. That's it and that's all of it.,...the rest of the stuff is shared by countless other sects and by non-religious folk as well. I taught my children not to lie because it is unbecoming to do so, it is an admission of weakness, of duplicity and other less than honorable character traits...they never heard about hell, they never heard about heaven, or god for that matter except to say that these were all a part of humanity's infancy and we know better now....and that was enough...no threat of punishment, no reward...just do the right thing for its own sake. Christianity isn't like that...it teaches "right" by threats and bribes...and it needs a Satan to make it all work. The Church NEEDS Satan, or none of it works......Gibran wrote a wonderful short story/poem about just that...about a priest finding a mortally wounded Devil and rejoicing because now sin would be at an end, that is until the Devil reminded him that he is the one who keeps people going to Church and behaving...after which the priest is last seen carrying the Devil on his back, desperate to save his life. --------------------- |
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