Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 01:27:17 -0600 From: Cyprus <sadecamus-AT-sprintmail.com> Subject: Re: Christ/Christianity (was Re: Just ignore them) >Ah, but maybe you are missing something here also and alas - for you >would not say, would you, that Jesus' message was one of violence, nor >Gandhi's for that matter, yet their non-violence inflicted such a wave >of violence that we are still bending under its winds - and suffering >from their own self-abolition. The type of Jesus, like the type of the >Buddha was indeed that of passive nihilism, a message of love and >acceptance. Whether this message employs overtly violent means, or is >just as violent with the use of non-violent approaches, alters nothing, >either to the message or the type. > >Lambda C If memory serves, doesn't Christ say something about not coming to bring peace, but the sword? In hoc signo vinces, ya know. We Catholics can be a very violent bunch, as I am sure you know. Toodles, Paul S. Rhodes p.s. Please, make peace with Mr. Callihan. I am frankly dismayed that I find myself in alliance with you against him. ___________________________________________________________________________ ...the question comes all to this; which is the nobler being of the two, that which by a lazy contemplation of four inches round, by an overweening pride, feeding and engendering on itself, turns all into excrement and venom, producing nothing at last, but flybane and a cobweb; or that which, by an universal range, with long search, much study, true judgement, and distinction of things, brings home honey and wax. --Jonathan Swift iterum simile est regnum caelorum homini negotiatori quaerenti bonas margaritas inventa autem una pretiosa margarita abiit et vendidit omnia quae habuit et emit eam. --Matthew 13:45-46 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when he found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it. --KJV Translation --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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