neologist wrote:SN95 wrote:neologist wrote:The pagan ideas you are referring to are not supported by the bible. As I said, the obfuscation of truth by the clergy has been for their benefit, not yours or mine.
The bible supports, emphasizes, and mimics just about every major pagan belief there ever was.
Actually, the priestcraft has obfuscated truth to the point where that would, indeed, seem so.
I agree that the clergy has obscured the truth to the point that we will most likely never know the true origins of Christianity. What I do not understand is why you still revere the bible, the very instrument created by and used by the institution you despise so much. You and I have both discussed the collation of the bible, it's origins, and the political agenda behind it. However, for some odd reason you can find no truth anywhere else but in this book which excludes hundreds of credible works, is blantantly erroneous, and subject to the whims of political rulers who have subservience as their numer one agenda.
If, as some assert, we are to take the bible as divine inspiration then we must then assume the man responsible for the bible's collation was also divinely inspired. It was he (Emperor Constantine) who decided what belonged and what did not. Not God, not Jesus, and not any of the disciples. This man, murderer of his own wife and child, is whom you choose to look to as your sole path to spiritual enlightenment. Why?