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mmoa_writes at 01:18pm on 17/04/2007
mmoa_writes at 01:18pm on 17/04/2007Am I alone in saying that I dislike Theodosius I?
Stumbled upon this little beauty attempting to find out more about Serapis (thanks, sannion!), as it would happen. I find it interesting that there was an attempt to excommunicate him from the Church, but that was only because he planned to murder many Thessalonians after an assasination of one of his officers. So negative points to the Christians in terms of the tolerance they themselves so ardently desired (what happened to 'shaking the dust off one's feet'?).
*sighs*
It's very sad. Christianity, being more of a philosophy-religion much like Buddhism, should never have as many dark patches on it's history as it does. No Way endorsed by humans is perfect, of course, but even so. There's something that's just not right.
Having mentioned Buddhism, it occurs to me that early Buddhist preachers were also pretty keen on abolishing the old religions that they encountered, before they got round to the handy trick of melding. I wonder if that is to do with the naure of philosophy-religions as opposed to religions such as the Polytheistic cults, Judaism and Islam (the latter of which only became the spokesperson for general looniness comparatively recently), which seem to be based on practical, more human ways of coming to understanding than the simply philsophical.
*thinks*
Oh, I don't know. I really ought to get on with my work. History can wait.
Stumbled upon this little beauty attempting to find out more about Serapis (thanks, sannion!), as it would happen. I find it interesting that there was an attempt to excommunicate him from the Church, but that was only because he planned to murder many Thessalonians after an assasination of one of his officers. So negative points to the Christians in terms of the tolerance they themselves so ardently desired (what happened to 'shaking the dust off one's feet'?).
*sighs*
It's very sad. Christianity, being more of a philosophy-religion much like Buddhism, should never have as many dark patches on it's history as it does. No Way endorsed by humans is perfect, of course, but even so. There's something that's just not right.
Having mentioned Buddhism, it occurs to me that early Buddhist preachers were also pretty keen on abolishing the old religions that they encountered, before they got round to the handy trick of melding. I wonder if that is to do with the naure of philosophy-religions as opposed to religions such as the Polytheistic cults, Judaism and Islam (the latter of which only became the spokesperson for general looniness comparatively recently), which seem to be based on practical, more human ways of coming to understanding than the simply philsophical.
*thinks*
Oh, I don't know. I really ought to get on with my work. History can wait.
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