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[sophiaserpentia]

Why do I even bother to look in christianity anymore? Half of what I see there literally makes me sick.

Edit. What disturbs me this morning in particular are (a) ignorant comments about homosexuality which never fails to upset me, and (b) willful ignorance regarding anti-Semitism.

For example, it's being discussed that Gibson has taken a scene out of his movie that shows a Jew lamenting that Jesus' blood will be on their heads forever. Comments such as, "But that's in the Bible, so it's historically true and COULDN'T POSSIBLY be anti-Semitic" are what has riled me.

Comments

Re: John's fictions

[publius-aelius.livejournal.com]

Sorry, but it's full of GREEK ideas about the nature of God. Some have even argued that PLATO is the greatest influence on it.

Re: John's fictions

[badsede.livejournal.com]

Many have also argued that it is simultaneously the most hellenistic *and* the most Jewish of the Gospels. Miller et al (The Complete Gospels) argue that it shows that greatest level of intimacy with first century Judaic theology of any of the canonical Gospels. However, at the same time, it shows the highest level of the use of Hellenistic equivalencies to relate Christ - the whole ode to the logos in John 1:1. Interestingly enough, it bears many marks of measures taken to stem the tide of hellenization of Christianity already occuring in the late 1st c. (Pagels goes into this quite a bit).

What it comes down to is that it is the most theological of the 4 canoncial Gospels and that it draws heavily on both Judaic theology and Hellenistic philosophy/theology.