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Ardainian Hebrew Israelite (ardainianright@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 02:00:13 JST Ardainian Hebrew Israelite I don't think the moderns really "get" traditional religion because of how much their view of it is through the lens of democratized American Protestantism, which is based around personal interpretation of holy texts, something that's only really feasible en masse after the invention of the printing press. Traditional religion is centered around rite and ritual, and while holy texts are important for preserving and transmitting knowledge, they cannot by themselves give you a full understanding of the nature and spirit of faith. Reading Confucius's Analects you constantly see reference to the importance of the Rites, which must be performed faithfully in the proper spirit to gain understanding. The core of the Catholic faith is the Eucharist rather than the Bible. Many pagan religions also emphasize worship rituals and the like moreso than any formal written theology. It would be impossible for religions based in such a world to achieve mass adoption if they were primarily text-based as opposed to being based around ritual and tradition.
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≠ (amerika@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 02:09:07 JST ≠ Pagan rituals tended to be based around nature and the seasons.
The personal nature of dualism came about through the Christian idea of moralism separating pure/Heaven from impure/Earth.
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Ardainian Hebrew Israelite (ardainianright@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 02:09:07 JST Ardainian Hebrew Israelite @amerika
Kind of. Catholic sacraments still very much integrate the physical with the spiritual, albeit not in the same nature-centric way. Protestantism is what really clears out a lot of the material intermediaries with the divine. Catholicism may be distinct from traditional paganism but it strove to make itself accessible and comprehensible to pagan converts, and is one of few remaining bridges to that bygone world. -
≠ (amerika@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 02:26:35 JST ≠ I could never get on the "bash the prots" train, and it reeks to me of Right-wing false hope like anarchy and "freedom."
It is fundamentally the same religion. The Catholic rituals are more physical, but the Protestants seem more attached to nature as a parallel to the gods (especially Calvinists).
Catholicism never went as far to recognize the inequality of souls, which is why it went so third world in the last century.
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Ardainian Hebrew Israelite (ardainianright@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 02:26:35 JST Ardainian Hebrew Israelite @amerika I'm not trying to bash them, I'm trying to highlight how profoundly different the Protestant religious tradition is from all the other ones that came before it to better understand the ancients. And modern Catholicism I'm not convinced actually still understands the full significance of its tradition, even as it says it does in order to distinguish itself from Protestantism. -
Ardainian Hebrew Israelite (ardainianright@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 03:49:59 JST Ardainian Hebrew Israelite @amerika Catholicism is the one that has more focus on monasticism and a contemplative life. I don't see how Protestantism is more like Buddhism. Then again I don't have that deep an understanding of comparative religion. -
≠ (amerika@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 03:50:00 JST ≠ It all seems very disconnected now, but the essence of Catholicism seems to be almost a direct fetishism of the Christ mythos.
Protestantism, like Buddhism, seems to be more focused on internal balance and clarity.
Then there's the various evangelical, prosperity gospel, and fundamentalist sects... who seem to miss the mark.
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Ardainian Hebrew Israelite (ardainianright@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 03:54:10 JST Ardainian Hebrew Israelite @amerika Though I suppose you could argue the idea of comparative religion and picking and choosing sacred texts and doctrines and practices as opposed to encountering it as a holistic way of being is part of the problem. -
≠ (amerika@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 04:23:59 JST ≠ I would agree with that, and might add: I am distrustful of religious texts generally.
Written things get misinterpreted.
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