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Please, my dear EEVBlog fellow, stop quoting what others have said or written.
Though I can only speak for myself, I believe that everyone over here would rather prefer you to be telling us what YOUR viewpoints are and WHY (just as I did with the
72 promised virgins, the
Holy Communion and the
Circumcision, for example), than rehashing what some
ancient heavily doctored epistles some
ancient murderers have written to some
ancient exiled minorities.
Explaining myself:
- Ancient heavily doctored epistles: All the
Councils of Christian bishops and
Holy Synods were actually dogfights between the heads of the Christian Church, while trying to revise the "Holy Scriptures" in a way that they do not disagree with the official dogma, and to establish the Christianity holly books by choosing which of them were acceptable to be preached and which were not. If you have heard of the
Biblical apocrypha, they were the rejected books that should not be revealed to the public because their contents were not aligned to the
Dogma or because they contained information that should be concealed. An example of concealed information is everything about
the Essenes and the extra-biblical life of Jesus that the Dead Sea Scrolls revealed.
- Ancient exiled minorities: The Corinthians, Thessalonians, Ephesians, etc. that the Apostles were addressing to were NOT the native citizens of these Hellenic cities but the
Jewish minorities living there, after they had
fled Judea (since the third century BCE) and settled at the Mediterranean nations that gave them shelter. For example, when Paul the Apostle was given a podium in Pnyx, Athens, to speak to the Athenian Hellenes, they all laughed at him when he begun telling them about the promised life after death his new religion was preaching; and he did never attempt to address the Hellenes again, after that unfortunate incident...
- Ancient murderers: A brutal murderer, under the command of the ruthless Pharisees, was
Saul of Tarsus, aka
Paul the Apostle. Saul was a fanatic member of the Pharisees and a brutal murderer who was protected not only by the Pharisees but by the Romans as well, since the Pharisees were using him to hunt down and murder their (Jewish) opponents, and protected this valuable asset they had by paying generously the Romans to protect him. Not to mention that there are numerous respectable scholars who have associated Saul to the burning of Rome. In a few words, Saul never ceased to be the (more than willing) hired knife of the Pharisees, who used him later to spread the new religion through the Jewish diaspora.
That newly-found religion should be called
Paulism or
Saulism instead of Christianity, since more than half of its scriptures are attributed to Saul, whose masters never ceased to be the ruthless and manipulating Pharisees.
-George
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