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The Pagan Christ: Is Blind Faith Killing

The Pagan Christ: Is Blind Faith Killing Christianity? by Tom Harpur

The Pagan Christ: Is Blind Faith Killing Christianity?



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Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Page: 256
ISBN: 9780802719386


Most Christians These monsters of our history books knew that people would kill for a chance to blindly follow or serve “one” who believes himself to be a savior or a God Hero. Folk magical practices, awareness of deities at wells etc do not a religion make, especially when most of the folk doing this named themselves Christians and would attend Christian churches. One might apply the term to those who follow cult figures like the Jonestown people, but the ordinary Christian like myself is by no means blind in faith. Torture and killing was routine. I do however, believe that neither Pagans nor Neo-Pagans should allow academic historians to define our faith for us, especially in light of the depth of lack of academic integrity we have already witnessed . Neither left nor right, neither liberal (or modernist) Christianity nor fundamentalism. This is something that is a threat to democracy. (Also, did you know there's a lot of logic to support the idea that most of the Christian holidays we celebrate today were totally co-opted from the early Pagan festivals? I listened to my mother, but it was the exemplary life she led helping others through her faith that convinced me that faith was not something that enslaved .. Witch hunting is another example of conflict based on religion - those suspected of practicing pagan beliefs were tortured and killed. Sadly Christianity subsumed or killed most of these traditions. Most western Christians today do not realize that they are programmed into the belief of a messianic leadership. In a damning It told the story of a philosopher, astronomer, teacher and mathematician called Hypatia who was ultimately killed by the christians in Alexandria under the tutelage and leadership of the… Read more The point I made (and the point of the movie) relates to the way in which blind ignorance is sometimes validated by faith no matter who the perpetrators are and no matter when the acts of violence occur. I was taught about Christ as a child. This “blind faith” phenomenon appears in times of great peril or perceived danger. More info here & here & here — thanks, Jennifer!) So it's sad Blind faith in an authority figure and being told how to practice, when to practice and who I should and shouldn't love and accept just wasn't sitting well with me so I went without.

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