supporttheunderdog wrote:GreekIslandGirl wrote:Oceanside50 wrote:...why not teach the word s of Socrates instead of baby Jesus'?
The elite institutions do just that. But Jesus' teachings are an extension of Hellenism.
Do not confuse Modern Christianity with teachings of Jesus. Orthodox Christianity as we know it and its close relative, Roman Catholicism, are the inventions of committees, principally after about 320 AD based principally on the later works of Saul of Tarsus, and where alternative ideas about the nature of the Christian god and Jesus eg the so called Arian Heresy, Gonsticism, were rejected.
...interesting, i imagine Christ as the second coming, a follower of an original path, having something to do with Simon, who was beheaded and whose followers were brutally slaughtered to end the first Jewish uprising against the Romans, the first to rise up from the dead (with an idea that would not die). in that there was already a community of Jews who were "reformed" and who lived in a Roman(Greek) world, and who were prepared to put this rabbi to death, the links to the original thinking of the gens were surely broken, it became "necessary" to depend on an elite, rather than oneself for the guidance a "God" can offer.