File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9910, message 439


Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 01:48:11 +0100
From: Erik <anarchie-AT-buelinckx.net>
Subject: Re: [Christian Anarchists]


At 17:42 -0400 20-10-1999, Shawn P. Wilbur wrote:
...>
>Spiritual christianity, and christian anarchy, are possible to the extent
>that christians can live in and with their non-knowledge of important
>things like the nature and "will" of god, to the extent that christian
>belief can be reactivated as a set of difficult (probably "impossible"),
>positive ethical practices, most of them boiling down to something about
>"love" (and don't that just open as many questions as it answers...?)
>
>I think folks like Blake, or cousin Abeizer Coppe, or Ammon Hennacy -
>heretics all, of course - or the early Quakers, all show some ways in
>which a libertarian christianity might play itself out.
>

But isn't libertarian xtianity only possible if you only take from xtianity
the general humanistic values almost everyone can agree on. If so, why the
need for xtianity ? Why not just being libertarian or anarchist ?

Anarchism for me has always been a humanist belief (although i'm not happy
with my choice of the word belief here, since i'm too cynic to belief in
beliefs). So let's say it's a sort of humanistic framework wherein society
and individual relationships could be understood today and hopefully worked
out one day.

XTians take the "love thy neighbour" and the like out of the teachings of
Christ (while in fact the humanism in this was there earlier).

Unka Bart's bouddhism is indeed very much human centered (inward to reach
out), but isn't this mainly rephrasing these humanist approach ?

Sufi's ?
etc

>From the last weeks posts i didn't get any new light on these questions.
Maybe the socrateses among you could ask some better questions to help
me/us out here.

Erik



   

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