Joined: Dec 11, 2005 Posts: 256 Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA!
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 4:42 pm Post subject: What RELIGION are you?
Are you guys atheists, Agnositcs, Buddhists, Pagans, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Taoists, or some concoction of your own?
I am a Neo-Platonist, which is a kind of classical Greek Paganism. I grew up a Christian (my parents are missionaries), but now my only interest in Christianity is in shutting it down (as a part of my own missionary efforts to convert people to Neo-Platonism.
Joined: Dec 11, 2005 Posts: 256 Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA!
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 7:03 pm Post subject:
scyth wrote:
I don't belive in religion but what's a neo-planist out of curiousity?
It is natural religion -- the theories of God-man relations developed by the Neo-Platonist philosophers -- Iamblichus, Proclus, Prophyry, Plotinus -- based on their readings of the metaphysical works of Plato. It basically teaches that divine judgment is corrective and that his punishments correct, transform, and heal, integrating humanity into the "One" -- God.
It teaches that there is no heaven, no hell, no divine penalties for the violation of the divine law, no Christian atonement, no living forever -- just an eternal world where all humans are the students, and God is a wise teacher whose wrath transfigures us. Divine judgment is pedagogical. This is why we believe that Christianity is a noxious theory -- it teaches humans to avoid the very thing that would most bring them to joy -- the operation of God's infinite judgment.
Such an understanding of divine judgment is particularly helpful for people with social anxiety disorder, and this is why I think all people with social anxiety disorder should become Neo-Platonists. But my approach to Christianity is like a bull in a china-shop, I admit.
Joined: Dec 11, 2005 Posts: 256 Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA!
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 8:33 pm Post subject:
I just think that this theory that there is a divine penalty for the violation of God's law that God would render upon the non-believing sinner or Christ as his substitute is the most mind-twisting cognitive system that has ever been devised. It just makes me furious to think of how many lives have been blighted by the chain letter that we call the Bible.
Joined: Jan 21, 2006 Posts: 23 Location: United State of America
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:29 pm Post subject:
hey zipper i get what you mean about peoples lives being ruled by the bible and not doing what they love because of the fear that they will go to hell, my parents and entire family are very religious but i don't know what i am im somewhere in the middle
My religion is Baha'i.
It believes in the Oneness of all religions and that all religions came from one God.
It also believes in the oneness of humanity.
I like unity. and the idea of World Peace.
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