>>17799178
Christ’s truth isn’t judged by sinners twisting His name. Judge it by the saints, martyrs, and cathedrals that outlast your edgy whining.

>The same God who stayed silent while the world bled?
>muh problem of evil
Boo-hoo, God didn’t hold your hand through history’s shitshow. Free will means humans fuck up, retard. God’s not your nanny. He gave you a Church, Scripture, and reason. Use them or keep crying about suffering like a nihilist bitch. Nishitani’s “nothingness” doesn’t answer evil either; it just tells you to vibe with it. Lame.

>Clinging to a cosmic daddy figure doesn't make you courageous
Says the guy hiding behind Eastern mysticism to dodge commitment. Kneeling to Christ takes more balls than your spineless “everything is nothing” cope. Catholicism built civilizations. What’s Nishitani got? Some navel-gazing essays for pretentious losers. Get on your knees and face reality, or keep jerking off to void. Your choice, coward.

The “Trilemma” is only a problem if you start from the assumption that pagan gods were ever divine in the first place. There’s a fourth and far more coherent option:
>Option 4: The pagan gods were either demons masquerading as gods, or figments of corrupted human imagination. Christianity didn’t just defeat them, it exorcised them.
This isn’t cope. It’s the historical reality acknowledged by the early Church, the Fathers, and even many pagans themselves as their temples were abandoned or cleansed. Read Augustine, read Lactantius, even read Tacitus and Plutarch if you want to see how hollow and self-contradictory late paganism had become.

>why didn’t the gods stop Christianization if they were real?
Because they weren’t. Or if they were spiritual entities, they had no power before the Name above all names. Christianity spread not by brute force (at least not initially), but because it spoke to something deeper than transactional temple cults and fertility rites could offer. It gave meaning, salvation, and a God who entered history.

>but muh cultural genocide
Every religion replaces another. Paganism supplanted older animisms, and Christianity, in turn, fulfilled and overcame paganism. If the gods of Europe couldn’t preserve their temples against a carpenter’s son and twelve fishermen, maybe that tells you something.

But I’ll bite: if modern neopagans reject all three options, what’s their answer? How do you square a belief in powerful gods with their total disappearance from history for over a thousand years?

Matthew: Water
Mark: Fire
Luke: Air
John: Earth