File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9811, message 138


From: "John T. Duryea" <jtduryea-AT-dmv.com>
Subject: Re: god
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 14:33:49 -0500


>Dear Mr. Schaefer,
>
>  I think you missed my point yet again.  I did not set out to demonstrate
>the truth of Christian Dogma but merely to point out that Christian Dogma
>as articulated by the Nicene Creed explicitly claims that God did die.
>Therefore, the claim that it is impossible for God *as understood by
>Christian dogma* to die is not true.  Now, you may deny Christ's divinity,
>that Jesus of Nazareth was indeed truly God, but that is a seperate matter
>altogether.
>
>Paul S. Rhodes
>

Separate.

hmmm... might not a physiognomic sceptic from the perspective of his
historical sense wonder whether the other Christian Dogmas *not* articulated
by the Nicene Creed were the eventual losers not because of any lack
regarding their inherent "truth", but rather, their opposition possessed
more vigorous leaders who did not stoop to enshrining the victory of their
dogma with more powerful force of arms.  Needless to say, the victors in
actual fact, burned the libraries of the losers.

One might also ponder the miraculous total break between the Old and New
Testament.

 As Nietzsche points out, God had a real stroke of genius when he decided to
speak in Greek. What better than a late language, full of hair splitting,
sophist rhetoric, as a vehicle to meld decadent neo-platonicism with a
primitive sect and thereby get lost in a labyrinthian dogmatic debate as to
the nature of the trinity.

 John T. Duryea



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