brucejoel99
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« on: December 30, 2019, 05:12:45 PM » |
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I'm Jewish, so Christianity almost seems like cultural appropriation to me: this thoroughly Hellenic religion claiming the Jewish scriptures as its own in order to provide itself with a sense of history & legitimacy. Yeah, sure, Christianity may have started with a man who was executed for claiming to be the Jewish messiah, but it went off the rails very quickly after that. Thanks to Paul, the self-proclaimed Apostle who never met Jesus, we've ended up with this bizarre amalgamation of Hellenic mystery cults, Greek philosophies like Neoplatonism, & Paul's personal theology which were loosely grafted unto the Jewish scriptures & the life of a failed messianic candidate.
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