I also come with a certain amount of anger towards St Paul because I had a friend who killed himself by throwing himself out of a college window after going to an evangelical event and getting in a bad state over the writings of Paul. So, in a way, I am in the odd position of needing to forgive St Paul. The death of this friend was one of the key triggers which lead me to challenge my Christian, or Catholic, background. — Jack Cummins
But hey, that would mean that logic has some benefits too — 3017amen
The relationship between Christianity and sex/sexuality is interesting. — Jack Cummins
But hey, that would mean that logic has some benefits too
— 3017amen
Maybe it has indeed. And what better place to find that out than a prestigious philosophy forum like this? — Apollodorus
course, I realise that Paul was just a preacher. In a way, he is an extremely interesting one because he began as a non believer and had a dramatic conversion experience. — Jack Cummins
I realise that Paul was just a preacher. — Jack Cummins
However, there does appear to be more certainty about him having written some of the texts than about wrote authors the Gospels. — Jack Cummins
many people do worry that they are evil. — Jack Cummins
eternal hell — Jack Cummins
The 'Gentile Christianity' of Paul (re: the Christ) had completely vanguished the rival 'Jewish Christianity' of James (re: the Nazarene) by the time the Church had been established in Rome which, I think, set the table, so to speak, for sanguinary millennia of anti-Judaic persecutions and pogroms (e.g. "blood libel") ... culminating in the Shoah. — 180 Proof
Pauline Christianity is inherently anti-Judaic as shown by how the "Church fathers" legitimized the antiquity of "the Christ's" lineage by coopting ancient Hebrew scriptures as surpassed (read: incomplete, inferior) "revelations" – repurposed as the "Old Testament" – and appending the OT on to the NT "good news" wherein "the Jews" are depicted as "guilty of deicide" – the evergreen tree of Christendom's, anti-Judaic antisemitic fruits. — 180 Proof
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