posted by fausto @ 4/14/2006 04:49:00 PM
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the Socinian
Socinian n: 1: an adherent of an early Protestant movement that denied the divinity of Christ and held rationalistic views of sin and salvation. 2: an adherent of similar theological views, esp. : a a Christian who rejects orthodox Christian doctrines of the divinity of Christ, the Trinity and original sin; b a Unitarian. 3: an occasional journal of liberal religion, liberal politics, outdoor recreation, and other musings.
Friday, April 14, 2006
About Me
- Name: fausto
- Location: Boston, Mass., United States
I was born on December 25. So was my little brother, three years later. We each agree that one of us is the Antichrist. We just don't agree which one.
4 Comments:
Oh yuck. Mel Gibson's Supermasochistic Terminator Jesus. I like the two-word review one wag published in a U.S. magazine,
"Steak tartare."
*shudder*
The very reasons I don't identify with Christianity - blood, gore, and martyrdom. No thanks.
Much as I admire Michelangelo, I think Gibson's "Pieta" captures the horror and revulsion of Good Friday more accurately.
We may enjoy religion most when it seems warm and fuzzy and optimistic and comforting, but would such a religion really emcompass the totality of human experience?
This religion doesn't "emcompass the totality of human experience", it glorifies the negative, the cruel, the bloody, the masochistic, the mean. It worships torture.
Not all forms of Christianity do that, obviously, but this form seems to.
How 'bout some "fair and balanced"?
Yes, UU goes overboard the other direction, sometimes refusing to acknowledge the Shadow, but we can fix that without tipping the other direction.
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