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Originally Posted by Marulus
For a believer, roots of religion and/or faith are in God. The fact that it came through the intermediary of this or that tribe or people is of secondary importance. When seen through spiritual glasses, those things look differently.
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Yes, the ethnic identity of the prism that relayed us the Divine light is less than secondary. Reason and Faith aren't Indo-European's exclusive property.
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Originally Posted by Errigal
Two quick thoughts on the "Jesus was a Jew" argument:
1) He and the Apostles were Hellenized Jews. "I am the Word" (or Logos/Reason) is key to His teachings.
2) The Jews of 0-33 AD were likely quite different from the Jews of only a few centuries later, let alone the Jews of the modern era.
Like a military officer joked to me about his career: "the first ten years in the army are character forming and the next ten years are character deforming". The first 2,000 years of Jewish history appear to have been character forming and the last 2,000 years have been character deforming.
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True. If we draw a simplistic line of the Abrahamic religions, Judaism is the rise, Christianism is the peak (I mean, the higher degree of Truth), and Islam is the fall...
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Originally Posted by Errigal
It is before I was born, but I would even say the 1950s and most of the 1960s were still culturally healthy times before the Christian churches began their mass cultural suicide attempt.
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You could have said it in three words, instead of four:
Second Vatican Council.