Thread 520350428

I think the Abrahamic faiths have no place in Western society.

Ancient Greek philosophy shared fundamental worldviews with what we call Eastern traditions. The Greeks embraced cyclical time and cosmic cycles rather than linear progress, believed in reincarnation (metempsychosis) across Pythagorean, Orphic, and Platonic schools, and saw material reality as illusion or shadows of true reality (Plato's cave as maya). They understood human life as governed by fate (moira) that even gods couldn't escape, emphasized contemplative wisdom over material achievement, and developed non-dualistic metaphysics in Neoplatonism remarkably similar to Advaita Vedanta. The Greeks were culturally hybrid, absorbing influences from Egypt, Persia, and the Near East, making them far more "Eastern" in outlook than the modern Western narrative admits.

The shift from ancient to modern Western thought occurred primarily through Christianity's adoption of Jewish theological frameworks. Jewish concepts—linear time moving from creation to redemption, free will and individual moral responsibility, a real material world imbued with meaning rather than illusion, good versus evil as cosmic struggle, and history as purposeful progression—fundamentally replaced Greek cyclical and fatalistic worldviews. What we call the "Western mind" today—individualistic, progress-oriented, morally dualistic, emphasizing agency and world-transformation over acceptance—derives not from Greek philosophy but from Jewish theology transmitted through Christianity, then secularized through the Enlightenment while retaining these underlying cosmological assumptions.

>>520350428 (OP)
>>520351020
What we should really do is re-enable editing and allow Christianity to syncretically evolve with the new forms of spirituality bubbling up in contemporary western society. Which is not really as heretical as it may seem, given that the development of Christianity in Europe involved just such a process of assimilation and Christianization of pagan beliefs, with a similar thing happening in Latin America over the past 500 years

>>520350428 (OP)
Friday is not a rest day in Islam. It's a day where there is an obligatory congregational prayer for men.

>>520352022
That's how you get music and crazy dancing in church and call it worship.

>>520350428 (OP)
Abrahmic religion are for men.
Go and get raped by moose you motherfucking paygan tranny

>>520352426
>you're a jew,
>you're a larpagan,
>you're an atheist,
>you're a jeet,
>that's not real christianity,
>Those weren't jews those were israelites,
>modern jews and ancient jews are not the same.
>reddit

>>520352271
The purpose of experimentation is to try new stuff and see if it works, not all innovations have to be successful. Plus there's something to be said for how wacko Evangelicalism has retained a more robust faith community than dour, thin-lipped mainline Protestantism

>>520350428 (OP)
Meaningless nonsense. I could write a book stealing half the Bible and changing the other half but it still wouldn’t mean I have any claim to Abraham. You can make as many fake references and post as much illogical “scripture” as you want.

>>520350428 (OP)
And yet you keep championing the importation of muslims and giving money to Israel.

>>520352426
zuttsaar….

>>520352786
Christians are the reason we are sending money to Israel.