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Lack of belief is agnosticism, not atheism.
Agnosticism is a lack of certainty, atheism is a lack of belief.
I don’t see how “atheism” is “lack of belief“ - as the word clearly means “not-God-ism”.
Most atheists actually believe in God; they just hate him. They never rail against Allah, Buddha, Lord Ganesh, etc... but they've got plenty of venom for Yahweh & Jesus Christ.
I think "American Christianity" has had a lot to do with that problem.
While I’m no Protestant, the general “tone and timbre” of American Christianity, while starkly divided, was actually doing pretty darn bangin at ordering societies up until the 20th Century
It's fundamentalism. There was at least some understanding that religion and science could reasonably coexist with accomodation, and then the Red Scare happened, the Dulles brothers got the bright idea to weaponize religion, and we've been in backslide ever since.
People don't want to listen to it man.
Even when explaining the Jews - the Jews WROTE THE OLD TESTAMENT.
Do you not think it's reasonable to ask where they got this information and how they decided upon it?
But they never look into how the Jews do things. And consider it all "divine" when it's not. It was a bunch of Jews sitting around arguing until they all decided someone had won the argument. The entire jewish religion starts out with Abraham arguing with god and "winning the argument".
This is the basis for their whole religion - this is your old testament. It has nothing to do with divine beings from the sky.
Even when explaining the Jews - the Jews WROTE THE OLD TESTAMENT.
Do you not think it's reasonable to ask where they got this information and how they decided upon it?
But they never look into how the Jews do things. And consider it all "divine" when it's not. It was a bunch of Jews sitting around arguing until they all decided someone had won the argument. The entire jewish religion starts out with Abraham arguing with god and "winning the argument".
This is the basis for their whole religion - this is your old testament. It has nothing to do with divine beings from the sky.
Even if it were true that the OT were ahistorical (a claim I highly doubt), it misses the point entirely.
The OT was written centuries before the Incarnation of Christ, and was positively stuffed with Messianic Prophecy that wasn’t fulfilled until hundreds of years after all the authors had died. No merely-human agency at any level could possibly pull that off. That’s its actual significance
Of course it can be pulled off.
That's like saying "That last domino can't possible fall just because someone pushes over the first domino."
That's like saying "That last domino can't possible fall just because someone pushes over the first domino."
That’s not at all what it’s like; nobody human could possibly have steered events like the God-Man being born in a specific town, to a specific virgin. One doesn’t get to decide things like that about their own birth.
Yeah, they did, because these are narratives being presented within the context of things the narrators could not have witnessed.
Yeah I don’t know what to tell you. Shepherds and peasants and fishermen don’t really have a lot of ability to steer the sorts of narratives that rulers pay to have written down
That would presuppose the lack of a pre-existing oral tradition, which given that the apostles are mostly working-class illiterates, would dismantle the concept of apostolic tradition. I'll trust that's not what you meant to do, because that would be blasphemy to Orthodoxy.
Pretty sure we’re talking past each other; I’m referring to OT Messianic Prophecy
Which came from a bunch of Kabbalah Jews - which 'word for word' come out of the Torah.
So you might want to get interested in how they decided what was in the Torah, and what they mean by "God"
So you might want to get interested in how they decided what was in the Torah, and what they mean by "God"
Kabbalah is younger than islam, but close.
No, it's been around for a longass time.
It got moved across most of asia for thousands of years.
That anthropologist guy was constantly going on about it appearing in pre-history.
It got moved across most of asia for thousands of years.
That anthropologist guy was constantly going on about it appearing in pre-history.
No. One jew who was part of the muslim spanish ruling class "discovered ancient text" as soon as Spanish started kicking out jews with the muslims.
History is so easily manipulated. We all know Aryans came from outer space! Duh!
That would explain why all the nons don't think that Whites are indigenous to any land. We just fell out of the sky one day.
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