I subscribe to Mahayana Buddhism myself. Yogacara.
Out of all the religions, faiths, beliefs, and spirituality I have studied all over the world, for me Buddhism is the most sensible or logical one.
I’ll see what I can find for you over the weekend. I am pretty good at finding stuff.
Yes, people either know things or they don’t, it’s not enough to tell people things directly, they have to discover things for themselves.
For the Talmud as it is known today contains none of those christian or rather anti christian passages which the original had.
But happily or unhappily the Jews themselves have taken care that “the expurgated passages in the Talmud” did not become lost to their co-religionists by publishing them anonymously in pamphlets. Professor Dalman of Leipsic, one of the few Christian scholars who are entitled to be heard even in Talmudicis, has published in a convenient form all these passages contained in the oldest editions of the Talmud and Midrash.
As an aside “The Jews hate us, because we say that Christ is already come, and because we point out that He, as had been prophesied, was crucified by them”
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Christianity to me is just a heretical form of Judaism. The word Christianity wasn’t even devised until a few centuries after Rabbi Yeshua was supposedly crucified.
Was Christianity a device used by the Catholics, to renounce and rebuke the spread of Judaism within the Roman provinces?
Rome, after all, could not afford anymore Slave uprisings than they already had and could contend with…
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According to some conspiracy theories, Christianity was created for Judaism to gain influence over its European pagan neighbors.
Christianity became the ultimate form of political, economic, social, and religious control of the entirety of Europe.
Yes that is certainly possible. Just as it is possible that communism/Marxism was deliberately created by Jews (Marx was Jewish as was his teacher Moses Hess, the “communist rabbi”) to destabilize the political and social-cultural fabric of non-Jewish European peoples who had historically persecuted them, with the goal of eventually weakening them so much as to become slaves to the Jewish one-world state run out of Jerusalem.
Lots of things are possible. I am more interested in what can be reasonably argued for, or at least what I can claim to demonstrate. Speculation and theory of what is possible has its very important place in philosophy and the structure of the mind, but let’s not confuse that particular area and its own vantage for the entirety of the philosophical-mental project itself. We want truth, not merely possible truths (and yes we want possible truths as well, of course).
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Karl Marx was irreligious, he was the Bobby Fischer of philosohers.
Most Jews are atheists. So what?
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Just saying there are some dissenters from that side of the aisle where not everything is as obvious as it seems.
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Christianity in its earliest beginnings, was a sect, among a number of varieties of Judaism in the Roman empire. It is also clear that at a certain point they develop a consciousness which takes them outside of the social orb of Judaism. They are no longer part of the Jewish community, they are a separate community. It is apparent at least from the time of the Emperor Nero, that outsiders also view them as distinct. So that when Nero is looking for scapegoats upon whom to put blame for the fire in Rome he zeroes in on the Christians.
According to the prophecy of Daniel, God’s covenant with the Jews would cease 34 AD, the Jewish leaders reject the Gospel and it goes to the Gentiles. So the Gospel is carried by the Gentiles. Any Jew that wants to be grafted into the vine can be grafted in, but he has to acknowledge Jesus and therefore become a Christian.
There is a Rabbinic Curse, which you will find in Talmudic Law (page 978, section 2, line 28) and it reads
“May the bones of the hands and the bones of the fingers decay and decompose of him who turns the pages of the Book of Daniel, to find out the time of Daniel 9-24-27 and May his memory rot from off the face of the earth forever”. … Wow these guys mean business!
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You are confusing Catholicism with Christianity.
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Just imagine… and this place is ostensibly for philosophizing… yikes.
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Perhaps you would feel more energised pontificating about Nietzsche’s philosophy,
"Become who you are! " “There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
or maybe not. Yikes!
Well, it was the first official church of Christianity starting with Constantine. Not only that but all the many different denominations overtime in history have never changed their stance towards non-believers, so…
Well, certainly Jews and Christians disagree heavily on the book of Daniel quite contentiously. Still, it matters not to me as I am neither Christian or Jewish [I see both as just different variations of the same singular religion. ] as I myself am Buddhist.
I do not particularly like Abrahamism whether it is Judaism, Christianity, or Islam. I like far eastern religions a lot more.
Nietzsche had some interesting things to say about Christianity.
I really do appreciate it. Having you finally prove that you are not worth reading. Thank you for validating your own philosophical worthlessness. We will not interact again.
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We will not interact again.
"Become who you are! " “There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.” FN
from his book, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”,
You obviously did not connect the above to his book, yet you did say you read it.
Thank you for validating your own philosophical worthlessness.
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