Opinion of this meme

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The exclusivist Augustine would hate progressives trying to syncretise Christianity with Platonism.

While I am glad someone grasped half the jest, it is fairly important to recognize that Augustine is in some sense responsible for treating Christianity as a system of closed propositions actively hostile to the majority’s tradition of universal reconciliation.

*(The other half is a jest about Richard Carrier.)

I love to go to my mainline church in suburban America and worship Sobek, the great crocodile-God of ancient Egyptian legend. We often offer up mummified crocodile eggs to Him the Pointed of Teeth. Plus the donuts after the service are pretty good.

I was speaking of two phenomena; the first, a bizarre sympathy to New Age religions as well as Buddhism, and the second, a denial of Christian doctrine about the Virgin Birth, the deity of Christ, the reality of hell, the resurrection, etc.

What do New Age-y/Esoteric Christians have in common with the Ancient Egyptian religion?

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What do New Age-y/Esoteric Christians have in common with the Ancient Egyptian religion?

Very little. That was a reference to some rather horrible NT “scholarship” I’ve begun to read by Carrier and others.

Has this anything to do with Atenist priests moving to Palestine?

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Has this anything to do with Atenist priests moving to Palestine?

He has plenty of videos online, but in some of his earlier work he suggests that Horus was born of a virgin who was visited by an angel, had twelve disciples, sent out seventy-two disciples, was crucified, and rose to life three days later, and that these stories predated Christ by a thousand years. In reality, they date some thousand and eight hundred years after Christ, to a bizarre group of historians.

Oh that, well I always thought that was a bit of a stretch, but there are some common motifs from Sumerian and Ancient Egyptian religion that are present in the Bible, but the Horus=Jesus theory is pretty wrong.

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Oh that, well I always thought that was a bit of a stretch, but there are some common motifs from Sumerian and Ancient Egyptian religion that are present in the Bible, but the Horus=Jesus theory is pretty wrong.

Robert Price, otherwise a rather horrible scholar, is fairly decent at outlining the sort of Jungian comparative analysis of the New Testament and presenting why, in fact, the Gospel writers only clearly show relating the story to the OT and not, say, to mystery Greco-Roman religions or Homeric epics. He is utterly wrong about the implications of this, FTR.

I have no idea what he has written about in terms of Jungian archetypes nor to any attempts at linking Biblical writings to Greek stories and religious practices.

May you give us a bit more detail or perhaps give us some book titles for further review.