>The “Theft of the Greeks” was a theory propagated by early Christian writers which claimed that anything Christians agreed with in pagan philosophy was actually directly stolen from Moses. They claimed that philosophers like Aristotle actually learnt from Jewish writings and distorted what they learnt to be more polytheistic.Why are Christians like this? There is no evidence to suggest that pagan philosophy has origins in Jewish monotheism (especially since the Old Testament doesn’t actually have anything resembling these ideas).Instead of admitting that they copied the Logos from pagan philosophy and that the guys who came up with the concept of the Logos identified it with Zeus and not some 1st century Judean preacher, Christians will go through mental gymnastics to claim “actually they glimpsed the pre-incarnate Christ” which is laughable.
>>18404510Friendly reminder that the God of the Old Testament is explicitly an anthropomorphic god of the Bronze Age. He is shown as physically sculpting a man from clay, having to call out for Adam and Eve when they hid from him, dining with Abraham, feeling emotions like anger and jealousy, etc. He only takes this more abstract Platonic interpretation from the Gospel of John and onwards. You cannot reconcile the Old Testament with Platonic philosophy if you view literally any of it as historical (which it isn’t, but that’s a whole different conversation), the only way would be to view the entire thing as an allegory. But Christians only view the parts before Abraham as allegory, they genuinely think that the rest of it is literally describing historical events which is problematic since even in these parts, God is shown as being anthropomorphic (especially since Moses literally views his backside at one point).The only way to properly reconcile any literal interpretation of the Old Testament with Platonic philosophy would be to view the God of the Old Testament not as the absolute principle of reality, but as a flawed lesser being. But this is Gnosticism and thus can be thrown out the window since most Christians reject Gnosticism.
>>18404510Saved.
>>18404510They could have easily claimed, seeing as this was divine and universal truth, that it made sense for ascended intellects to have encountered it before. This would corroborated the Christian position, if anything.
>>18404700But their philosophy doesn't align with anything the Old Testament actually says, the God of the Old Testament is clearly an anthropomorphic one and by definition cannot be the Monad>>18404515
>>18404510They made that up to make Greek philosophy kosher for their fanatical Jesus cult
Jews and christians hate the Greeks, they named hell after hellas
this is still alive today when early life scholars insist that acksually everything greek came from the (((Levant))).Contrast this to chads like Farnell that insiteded that Apollo was an aryian gigagod imported by nordic shamans. Nordicism wewuzzery is superior to Oriental wewuzzery because the latter is ALWAYS code for judeo-christian values
>>18404795hell comes from the name of the german goddess of the underworld, schizo
>>18405318Yes, this is what the (((official narrative))) taught you. Good goy.
>>18404510>Why are Christians like this?These are people that attack pagans for their idols while at the same time praying to them. Did you expect anything else but hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance out of such a group? Today's Christians cannot even admit that their religion is practically identical to Greek paganism except with a name swap for Jesus + begrudgingly accepting the OT for legitimacy. The early church was at least honest about the similarities. Their dishonesty has only gotten worse>>18404700>pagan Greeks are the only ascended intellects beside Christianshow weird
>>18405353Catholics aren’t Christian
>>18405357They are in fact the largest Christian denomination. And besides they aren't the only pro idolatry branch
>>18404510Christianity has never been an intellectual movement. Basilicas for example were originally shopping malls.
>>18405357Legit why not just convert to judaism? Is it because judaism actually expects you to follow rules instead of getting sola fide freebies?
