roseweird posted:goodposthaver posted:
ok op you seem like a nice guy. stop reading chesterton. he is........... not good. imo... he gets cheesy. read dorothy day. or even peter maurin. or alasdair macintyre.
or.... the ...bible
BOY
goodposthaver posted:ok op you seem like a nice guy. stop reading chesterton. he is........... not good. imo... he gets cheesy. read dorothy day. or even peter maurin. or alasdair macintyre.
thanks guys I'm open to any book recommendations, i work a whole lot but i read when i can, i'm at the library now in fact so i appreciate the guidance
roseweird posted:paul was faced with the basic contradiction of a religion of forgiveness for sinners which yet had to maintain its evangelistic potential. he was a sinner and preached from his own sin. the truth of paul is in his weakness and the reproof of his failings.
that seems like good way to put it. for all of said failings, it always seemed to me paul's project was in the broadest sense a worthwhile one: striking a proper balance between the religious aspirations of the individual and the larger christian community, against the exultant (proto-Johannine?) vision he saw as overemphasizing the former to the detriment of the latter. i can't say if he did as well as anyone else in that position might have done, though
In personal behavior, the PLPers became virtually puritanical. Phillip Luce wrote about this. "The leaders became so paranoid over the issue of their 'public image' that they told members to shave their mustaches, wear coats and ties, forget the cowboy boots, be careful whom they were seen with, stay away from people who take dope, date only certain girls, attend classes regularly, and watch their language in public."
xipe posted:So have we uncovered what communism needs to learn from arrogant ignoramuses on the internet?
It's about Ethics in Combating Liberalism
cars posted:hi ilmdge
Hello Papa Holesco.
ilmdge posted:Hello Papa Holesco.
i told this guy not to make this thread in the faily planet before he made it
everybody gets one 
The_Boourns_Identity posted:i'm at the library now in fact so i appreciate the guidance
im at the gym
piss posted:The_Boourns_Identity posted:i'm at the library now in fact so i appreciate the guidance
im at the gym
im gay
realsubtle posted:It was pretty funny when gk chesterton did that epic own on dawkins though
chesterton was occasionally good at rhetoric but owning richard dawkins is not the way to show it off. that's like bragging about how hard you beat a 6 year old with polio in a footrace.
2) no
While life is yours, live joyously;
None can escape Death's searching eye:
When once this frame of ours they burn,
How shall it e'er again return?
Outlining his ideas in a blog posting on his website Mr Atwill writes: "Christianity may be considered a religion, but it was actually developed and used as a system of mind control to produce slaves that believed God decreed their slavery."
Mr Atwill says that acts of insurrection by Jewish sects, who were awaiting the arrival of a so-called 'warrior Messiah' in Palestine, were a perpetual problem for the Roman Empire and that after the Empire had exhausted all traditional means of dealing with the problem they resorted to psychological warfare.
"They surmised that the way to stop the spread of zealous Jewish missionary activity was to create a competing belief system," Atwill told PRWeb.com
"That's when the 'peaceful' Messiah story was invented.
"Instead of inspiring warfare, this Messiah urged turn-the-other-cheek pacifism and encouraged Jews to 'give onto Caesar' and pay their taxes to Rome."
Mr Atwill continues: "Although Christianity can be a comfort to some, it can also be very damaging and repressive, an insidious form of mind control that has led to blind acceptance of serfdom, poverty, and war throughout history.
To this day, especially in the United States, it is used to create support for war in the Middle East."
Elsewhere, Mr Atwill also writes: “In fact he [Jesus] may be the only fictional character in literature whose entire life story can be traced to other sources. Once those sources are all laid bare, there’s simply nothing left.”