By James O'donnell
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Before montheism, The Romans had many Gods. They had a God for everything, except premature but I hear even that one was coming quickly.
63 Check out these books by Walter Burkett, University scholar of the ancient world.
72 Killing animals for God, and other pious and ignorant rituals attest to the delusions of man in this plague we call religion. Everybody knows exactly what to do to be "holier than though." And now, to prove I'm holier than you, I'm going to kill you too. Pretty darned ludacris if you aske me.
78 Tertullian AD 200 (Which is now annoyingly 200 CE) was one the early stuanch chroniclers of Christian montheism.
Tertullian was another big name of early Christianity. These are the people who help shaped the Christian mythology.
The Romans, had no concept of dyimg for gods. To them that was ridiculous. They wanted the Christians to just get in line and put on thr sprimkle of blood or whatever dumdass ritual was being done and.call it.a day. They, the Romans, knew they didn't believe it. That was fine. They went through the motions.to appease the curremt people im power. Not only would the Christians refuse to go along, they would begin to.speechify. Theybwould haughtily preach about how great and pious they were and how this other religion is nonsense. Stop! You're both right. It's all self servimg nonsense.
"Take me to chuch I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies."
94 Josephus on Augury. Josephus tells of am army on the match stopped by an Augur who is staring at a bird in a tree. The General says,"What's the holdup here?" The Augue explains, "I'm watchingt that bird to see which way he flies. That direction must also be our direction for surely this bird knows the future. The General shoots the bird dead with an arrow and as the bird falls to the ground he turns to the Augur and asks, "Then why couldn't he predict that?" This is such a great story.that illustrates wonderfully the complete insanity of claiming to see into the future. From sacrifice to augury to haruspicy and oracles to the "Psychic Friends Network to the Long Island Medium and to organized religion, its all a show people. These are the conventions of man and not the work of "Gods." Wake up!
101 Some earlynworks are lost amd are omly kmown through quotations in the works of others. Celsus, who wrote arond the year 170, is only know from quptes in the rebuttal by Origen. He has some truthful things to say about the Cult of Christianity then surfacing in Rome. Definetly worth a read.
109 The two maxims on the wall at Delphi were "know thyself" and nothing in excess." Thats some pretty sage advice.
The author says the Cristians invented the Pagans in a sense. They used the word Paganni, wich roughly translates to our "baxk woods hick," to denote those who beleived in the old ways. Its only with the triumph of Christianity that the pagans as a unit were born. Interesting concept.
193 FOM Nicean Council of 380. This is wherentthe Nicean Creed comes from? I though the one in 325 was the olny one.
So Theodosiius ascends the throne and prefers "homoousios." That he believes God and Jesus are of "the same" devine spark. Which leaves Arianism and its doctrine of "homooisisios" or simialr in devine spark. There is leterally one iota (greek word for I) of difference. But it is these subtle difference that cause schisms and much suffering.
For the first time,under Theodosius, the "word Catholic used consistently as a proper adjective."
"It took time but the Creed [the Nicean Creed] and the term homooisisios [of the same] won out."
In the 5th Century "questions of Christology" would lead to "Nestorianism and Monophysitism" for.close variants of orthodoxy.
Books
Apuleius The Golden Ass
George Frazier The Golden Bough
Hamlets Mill
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