Originally posted by Capt_Fantastic
You consider them faults, I consider them strengths.
You consider bias "strength"?
You consider making exaggerated, and in s me cases wrong,
statements "strenght"?
Originally posted by Capt_Fantastic
Where did I say that all pagan religions were as advanced as those that were the most advanced? My point is that Jews and Christians after them decided to be one of those less advanced religions. They worked out because they were propogated by ignorance. They feed on their followers stupidity. And, there was never any greek influence on the early christians. The Greek empire was no more. They had been absorbed by the Roman empire.Every culture has it's foundations in other societies. The Egyptians being an anomoly, because they developed for the most part, independant of other cultures. Egypt, just like Greece, was a group of city states that were unified under one flag. This is when so many ideas from different aspects of one super culture became one group of ideas or philosophy. Egypt, was intertwined city states unified by Menes and became the longest lasting culture in history.
My point about the christians is that they made a concerted effort to deny that they were influenced by other cultures and religions. FFS, it was based on the Jewish culture and religion, which in turn was based on an amalgam of other religions in the region. That's why we have contradictory teachings in the old and new testaments of the bible. My point is that they continued with the theme of theri followers stupidity. All religion is based on fear. Fear of the unknown, fear of god and fear of what is in the world around us. I wonder, what is there to fear?
You knowledge of history is clearly as weak as your ability to
argue.
I stated they were influenced by the Greeks, as in the Greek
thinkers and philosophers. That is still possible regardless of
which empire was ruling the area.
And if you want to get technical, there was no "Greek Empire",
only a Macedonian one.
Ancient Egypt was a collection of city-states? Ridiculous! What
Menes, or Narmer, united was not "city-states", but two tribal
kingdoms, Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt. Egypt was never
in its entire history, broken into city-states.
"Feed on their followers stupidity"? Ah yes, we are all sheep,
save the atheist intellectuals giants like yourself!
"All religion is based on fear. Fear of the unknown, fear of god
and fear of what is in the world around us." you're just turning
out those cliches like sausages, aren't you? But wait?! Where's
the "most wars are the result of religion" statement?! How can
you miss that one!
Originally posted by Capt_Fantastic
Absolutely they were. Their mission was to crawl out of the desert and spread to every corner of the Roman Empire.
"crawl"? You mean like how you did from underneath the
slimy rock you came from? That kind of crawl? Or some
other thing?