File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9910, message 478


Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 15:05:07 -0500
From: Sandi & Scott Spaeth <vespags-AT-stlnet.com>
Subject: Re: [Christian Anarchists]


At 05:09 PM 10/20/99 -0400, Unka Bart wrote:
>
>By "if you accept the OT," one assumes that you mean that one accepts it as
>the literal truth.  I don't.  Nor do I know anyone who does.  I've met 'em,
>but wouldn't invite them in for a drink, much less get to know them better.
>

Most of the Christians I deal with have a sort of uneasy relationship with the
old testament, it's there, it "sets the stage for the coming of Christ", but
they don't like to think about it much (unless it's to gay-bash with
Leviticus).  But even though they don't think about it much, they admit that
they basically accept it (including there being light prior to the existence of
a light source in genesis), with the quick rejoinder that "but Jesus gave us a
new covenant".


>But that's beside the point.  What does the OT have to do with your JaP
>idea one way or the other?  They seem unrelated, to me.
>

Because the nature of the universe didn't suddenly change.  Either there is a
capricious, jealous god who demanded a blood sacrifice of his one "innocent"
offspring because his Plasticine men didn't behave as he thought they ought to,
or there isn't.  If there isn't, Jesus was just a slightly insane humanist
philosopher, not the divine embodiment of all that is good and just.  It
doesn't affect the right or wrongness of his principles, but it puts yet
another nail in the cross of making a religion out of him.

Cheers,
Scott
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