File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9808, message 154


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




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