Re: You should cast your bait at orthodox Christians :)
Submitted by Gerald from New Zealand on July 31 1999 at 19:05:14
In reply to You should cast your bait at orthodox Christians :) Submitted by Heather on July 31 1999 at 14:42:15
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Yes, I have. I am not pariculaly attacking the creed, eventhough there are many dogmatic aspects of that which are debatable. No, my problem with Nicea is that they threw away the baby with the bathwater. The great conflict that happened at Nicea was expressed by two groups a/ the spiritually minded and b/ the dogmatic believers. The latter won and and on that was founded the church as we now know it. In their zeal to destroy everything connected with the spiritual minded, many books and accounts of Jesus' life were declared heratical and destroyed where ever possible. What then followed was a witchhunt in which many thousands of the spiritual minded were murdered. The excuse that was given was that they were heretics. Read the book by Eileen Pagels on Gnosicism. I was horrified to read that book, as my own spiritual affiliation lies much closer to the gnostics than to the what I call the orthodox church. To disregard the process of spiritual development as the main purpose of the church is in my opinion the worst disaster that happened to the church and the western civilisation. Love, Gerald. |