Daystar Christianity is not enslaving if practiced by the whole community to the contrary it is liberating. True though the ideal conditions of spiritual behaviour were never put in place. Many of the ancient Greek philosophers were also very much against abandon to bodily passions:"Being a slave to fleshly desires is worse than being a slave to a tyrrant" says Pythagoras.
The farce called Christianity
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BabaYaga
Those tract parodies are awesome! (the anti-tract link)
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daystar
Daystar Christianity is not enslaving if practiced by the whole community to the contrary it is liberating. True though the ideal conditions of spiritual behaviour were never put in place. Many of the ancient Greek philosophers were also very much against abandon to bodily passions:"Being a slave to fleshly desires is worse than being a slave to a tyrrant" says Pythagoras.
I'm sure you can understand that some people can feel liberated while also not being truly free. Some people prefer to have their hand held, to be told what they can and cannot do. They feel better when they don't have the responsibility of judging right and wrong for themselves.
Now, I'm not suggesting complete abandon to bodily passions. Self-discipline is desirable. However, the blanket, superstitious "thou shalt nots" are only liberating in that it frees a person from having to judge for themselves the rightness or wrongness of a thing.
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hooberus
The real "farce" is the pagan copy-cat claim. Even secularists have come out against many such claims (for example see the section on "Dying and Rising Gods" in the Encyclopedia of Religion). Also look up the sections on the individual pagan gods (eg. Horus, Oriris, Attis) in encyclopedias, and you not find many of the so-called parallels. The copy-cat claims tend to rely on: 1 Post-christian sources (eg. the use of a thrid century crucified "Orpheus Bacchus" amulet) ; 2. Terminological equivocation (eg. being shot in the foot by a hunters arrow being labeled as "crucifixion); 3. Unjust dismissal of legitimate historical sources 4. Fallacy of false cause; 5. Poorly documented (or completely undocumented claims).
http://www.tektonics.org/copycat/copycathub.html
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/crj0169a.txt