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countryLover198 Inactive Member |
...someone like Jesus could create a new religion like christianity??
i'm wondering and i'm waiting for answers,if you canthanx!
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mark24 Member (Idle past 5225 days) Posts: 3857 From: UK Joined: |
quote: Well somebody did! Mark ------------------Occam's razor is not for shaving with.
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John Inactive Member |
quote: Of course, these are called 'cults' which is exactly what Christianity was called in its inception. A man named L. Ron Hubbard did just what you suggest not too terribly long ago. Rev. Moon did the same. ------------------http://www.hells-handmaiden.com
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Some people consider that John Smith did that also.
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John Inactive Member |
quote: Yes indeed-ie... forgot about him... but so as not to slight anyone I want to make it understood that I am not using the term 'cult' derogatively. ------------------http://www.hells-handmaiden.com
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Me Inactive Member |
[QUOTE]Originally posted by John:
[B][QUOTE]Originally posted by schrafinator: [B][QUOTE]Originally posted by John: [B][QUOTE]Originally posted by countryLover198: [B]...someone like Jesus could create a new religion like christianity?? B][/QUOTE] A man named L. Ron Hubbard did just what you suggest not too terribly long ago. Rev. Moon did the same. [/B][/QUOTE] Some people consider that John Smith did that also.[/B][/QUOTE] [/B][/QUOTE] As also did Mohammed. However, for what it's worth, our current Christian religion is based on the Catholic religion, which was developed by the Romans as a state religion a while after Christ. I don't think Christ said a lot about the Trinity, and less about the Virgin Mary (though someone might wish to correct me!). Much of the religion was developed to incorporate other beliefs which were also current at the time. You could say it evolved... So I am not sure if Christ would recognise much of it if he saw it today. I think that's what happens with most successful religions.
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Tranquility Base Inactive Member |
Whatever the case the Bible and Judaism/Christianity is unique on this planet in myriad aspects.
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Andya Primanda Inactive Member |
OK then, should we start applying evolutionary explanations to religion? All religions start as a cult, and if it survived its first ordeals and gained a lot of followers and political power, then it may survive and thrive. Later the established religion underwent separations (speciation?) and such. That is how we have all the religions today.
Oops i forget to put God in...
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John Inactive Member |
quote: Yes, and it also shares much with other religions. How does unique equate with accurate anyway? (assuming, of course, that this is where you are going with the statement.) ------------------http://www.hells-handmaiden.com
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blitz77 Inactive Member |
quote: Kind of wrong there. Catholicism says that the head of the church is the pope, and base many of their teachings on the leaders teachings rather than the bible. That is why the Protestant group came into being. They 'protested', as they based their teachings on the bible. And so the church split up.
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gene90 Member (Idle past 3852 days) Posts: 1610 Joined: |
[QUOTE][B]Some people consider that John Smith did that also.[/QUOTE]
[/B] I've never heard of John Smith but I'm sure there are lots out there. Perhaps you mean Joseph Smith, Junior, born in Sharon, VT, founded the LDS church in Palmyra, NY, murdered with his brother Hyrum while unjustly imprisoned (for treason) in the jail of Carthage, Illinois, on 27 June 1844. I wonder about people who start religions that so offend their neighbors that the neighbors want to do them physical harm. I wonder more about the supposed hucksters who the neighbors find so offensive that the governor of the state authorizes an Extermination Order, encouraging any member of the group to be killed on sight. Finally, I wonder most about hucksters that spend months in jail dungeons and give up their own lives for the religions they found. The idea that Smith deliberately misled people is unlikely. I think it is obvious that he at least believed in what he did. [This message has been edited by gene90, 08-22-2002]
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Me Inactive Member |
quote: Wow - this response took my breath away! In the context (Muslim, L Ron Hubbard and Rev.Moon), does anyone doubt that all Christian sects are based on Catholicism, spinning off for various doctrinal reasons? I was talking about all the sects - did you think I was just talking about Protestantism (which is only about 1/4 of all Christian faiths)? The context clearly shows, in any case, that the Catholic Religion I was talking about was the early Roman development of Christianity. I think it was being called Catholic by about 500, well before the first major split with the Eastern Orthodox just after 1000. My point was that the religion which Jesus started was not the same as the one we know now as Christianity - so even if one man starts a religion it may not remain the same. Perhaps I should have said 'derived from' the original Catholic religion, but I think 'based on' is quite accurate.
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Peter Member (Idle past 1509 days) Posts: 2161 From: Cambridgeshire, UK. Joined: |
I thought Henry VIII created protestantism because the
pope wouldn't allow him to divorce.
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nos482 Inactive Member |
quote: Jesus didn't create the religion of Christianity. Paul did many years after Christ had died on the cross. The only difference between a mainstream religion and a cult is who is in power.
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nos482 Inactive Member |
Originally posted by gene90:
I've never heard of John Smith but I'm sure there are lots out there. Perhaps you mean Joseph Smith, Junior, born in Sharon, VT, founded the LDS church in Palmyra, NY, murdered with his brother Hyrum while unjustly imprisoned (for treason) in the jail of Carthage, Illinois, on 27 June 1844. That is the claim of all who want to assert martyrdom. Christ actually did break the law of the time. I wonder about people who start religions that so offend their neighbors that the neighbors want to do them physical harm. I wonder more about the supposed hucksters who the neighbors find so offensive that the governor of the state authorizes an Extermination Order, encouraging any member of the group to be killed on sight. Finally, I wonder most about hucksters that spend months in jail dungeons and give up their own lives for the religions they found. The religiously deluded most often think that they have the absolute TRUTH on their side about god and that they mistakenly think that people will automatically believe and accept whatever they say because of this. The idea that Smith deliberately misled people is unlikely. I think it is obvious that he at least believed in what he did. Maybe the first person he should have worried about misleading was himself. I suppose that Koresh and Jones actually believed what they were doing was their god's will as well. [This message has been edited by nos482, 09-10-2002]
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