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03-16-2010, 12:44 PM | #492 (permalink) |
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They are really just celebrating human sacrifice, with the hope that you might do the same. Then they will express their joy in song as they celebrate every drop of blood that was spilled/every lash that was taken on your behalf for the good of God's Almighty Kingdom. Go to an Easter service and you will experience an interesting spectacle of sadomasochism.
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03-18-2010, 12:48 AM | #493 (permalink) | ||
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So I hoped that helped you in some way. Maybe I could explain it better, I don't know. It's hard to condense two thousand years into one paragraph. I know it might sound strange and many people would disagree.
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03-18-2010, 07:18 PM | #495 (permalink) | |
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It is a religion of human sacrifice. It may seem like I am attacking things as if I am taking what they said as literal, but really think about what is going on. What do you do with virtue? You sacrifice it for the less virtuous. |
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03-18-2010, 07:43 PM | #496 (permalink) |
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Virtue is sacrifice, you don't sacrifice virtue... And the whole death/rebirth thing is pretty universal... you have to suffer to perfect yourself, so it goes. Insofar as God is love and love is outside of space and time, no, God can't die. But insofar as love can find a human shell and turn it into something divine that shell can and probably will die.
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03-18-2010, 08:03 PM | #497 (permalink) | |
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03-19-2010, 12:50 AM | #498 (permalink) |
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I assume by "rational basis" you mean it can be logically deduced from a set of axioms, and I suppose whether or not self-sacrifice=virtue is a valid statement depends on the set of moral axioms you're working with. What set of moral axioms are you working with? (I mean, if your behavior is at all rational (systematic) it must reduce to moral axioms, right?)
We can see if the notion of self-sacrifice conflicts with your axioms, and if it does, we can see if your axioms are consistent with each other, and if they are, we can ask whether they are unquestionably valid or assumptions. And if you don't have any axioms, then this conversation is more or less meaningless. |
03-19-2010, 09:13 AM | #499 (permalink) |
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Is rationality the only thing you have to fall back on? No matter what argument, what sphere of conversation or how badly you're losing you can always throw out that same old gem. How is it that you haven't learned that there is no such thing as rationality, no such thing as logical conclusions or reasoning that isn't completely and irrevocably subjective. It's impossible to separate the two, and that's the great fallacy of objective reasoning. Your rationale is based on naive absolutes that remain untested by even your methods, be they metaphysical or scientific, because of the infallible logic that they are "inherent in nature, therefore they don't have to be tested." You're like a broken record, and my ears are beginning to bleed.
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03-19-2010, 01:41 PM | #500 (permalink) | |
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Good Friday is the memorial of Christ's crucifixion, Easter is the celebration of his resurrection. There is nothing sad, or mournful, or "sadomasochistic" (which is pretty laughable in the first place) about Easter, that's why there's such a huge rebirth and reincarnation theme with it. It has nothing to do with drinking Christ's blood (you're referring to transubstantiation, correct?), at least not in the Protestant sense. And in the twenty Easter sermons I have heard not one of them has dipped toes in calling the crucifix a figure of self-sacrifice. I will admit it's a bit patronizing how the consumer industry has taken advantage of it, but Easter comes NOWHERE near how pathetically materialistic Christmas has become. By most standards Easter is still a fairly laudable religious holiday.
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