File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9910, message 376


From: "Andy" <as-AT-spelthorne.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [Christian Anarchists]
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 12:30:18 +0100



-----Original Message-----
From: Sandi & Scott Spaeth <vespags-AT-stlnet.com>


>At 05:56 PM 10/20/99 +1000, Ben Blumson wrote:
>>
>>
>>Christianity on the other hand cannot go down well with anarchism. I think
>>it's basicaly true to say that christianity is a slaves morality and i
think
>>it's basic concepts are reveal that.
>>
>
>You can argue that either way.  Certainly the behavior of the vast majority
of
>Xtians support your point, but if you start with Christianity's central
tenet,
>to take Jesus into your life and consider him your personal savior, you can
>then move onto the question, is it Jesus the physical man who is important
or
>Jesus the embodiment of a set of principles (love, compassion, intolerance
for
>moneychangers, etc), and if you adopt the principles, you have in a way
>accepted Jesus and so on and so forth.  Unfortunately, you're still stuck
with
>the OT being a big bag 'o shite, and the disciples being only marginally
>better.
>
>cheers,
>Scott



Yes - I'd go with that. Plus that you have to separate belief in those
principles from organised religion. I tend to pray at moments of stress -
e.g. penalty-shoot-outs against the Jocks, before my son's hospital
operation etc etc. How many of us are really as rational as all these old
19th century positivists were?  In any case atheism is as much a belief as
Xtianity. Plus over here, the churches are quite congenial places - the
worst effects of evangelism have yet to take hold big time. The fact remains
that Xtians have played a part in libertarian thought and movements, as have
other religions. If anyone hasn't read Peter Marshall's Demanding the
Impossible and can bear to give money to Harper-Collins, that's where the
easily digestible chunks on Tolstoy, Gandhi, the Ranters,  + those US
Catholic geezers whose names escape me can be found.

Andy


   

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