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Mystery and memory at Easter : Comments
By David Cusworth, published 8/4/2012The ancients did not write stories as factual history, but yet they can be true.
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Posted by Daffy Duck, Monday, 9 April 2012 12:05:32 PM
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One has only to read outbursts like yours Daffy to understand that something pretty powerful, whatever it was, happened in Palestine two thousand years ago. It might have been subjective, but as your diatribes demonstrate, the subjective rules minds and behaviours. And the Christian "subjective" has been, and continues to be, a force for good and modernisation in the world.
Posted by GrahamY, Monday, 9 April 2012 3:11:59 PM
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Anyone care to work out how many delusional people died of starvation while the so-called "messengers of god", the man made myth, peddled their fairy tales of superstition and madness?
Posted by Marilyn Shepherd, Monday, 9 April 2012 3:15:09 PM
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"But the Easter story is related by multiple sources from different points of view;"
So is the death of Socrates. "it also had an impact on many people over the years;" So had the death of Socrates. "and it has the power to reach individual lives now." So had the death of Socrates. So have many other stories and myths. The difference is that religious myths are used as a means of telling other people what they ought to do, and an excuse for punishing them when they don't do it. Stories are fine: it's when they get connected up with imaginary superbeings that the harm is done. Posted by Jon J, Monday, 9 April 2012 3:33:29 PM
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John J, I'll be timed out if this continues, but happy to reply. I, too, read of the death of Socrates, and didn't find much hope in it. You probably observe that I do find hope in the Easter story. Linking that to some supposed harm seems rather a stretch. We are engaged in an exchange of ideas, are we not? (certain contributions notwithstanding...)
Posted by Cuz, Monday, 9 April 2012 4:47:39 PM
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Cuz, are you attempting to deny that the faith you chose to endorse, or re-endorse, as a result of your personal epiphany has been the cause of massive bloodshed, slaughter, murder and misery? Do you really need links to the innumerable deaths, the appalling suffering, the overweening folly and extravagance that has been committed in the name of your faith? You can find plenty of modern examples here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism And all because someone had a brainstorm and imagined they were receiving morse code from the supreme ruler of the universe. Posted by Jon J, Monday, 9 April 2012 5:04:22 PM
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http://www.sydneycathedral.com/events/easter-convention-0
Further evidence is readily available on almost any right-wing Christian blog, especially those associated with the USA Gospel Coalition and publications such as the American Spectator.
Christianity altogether is now a chaos of market share seeking corporate cults and Barnumesque propagandists that rule and control nothing more than chaotic herds of self deluded whats-in-if-for-me religion consumers.
The myth of the presumed cultural superiority of official Christianity, and Islam too, has now come full circle. These essentially political world religions are not only now waging global wars with one another (like so many psychotic inmates of asylums for the mad, each confronting the other with exclusive claims of personal absoluteness), but the public masses of religion bound people, who, all over the world, for even thousands of years, have been controlled in body and mind by ancient institutions of religiously propagandized worldly power, are now in a globalized state of grossly bound religious delusion and social psychosis.