Many here like to say "Jesus was Jewish!" you know, but it can be said that the center of western spirituality is the total and absolute rejection of Judaism. Assuming everything is flatly secular and there are no miracles, something about Jesus spoke directly to the hearts of Westerners (most of whom might not have even known what a Jew was) that a Jew would totally reject and replace Judaism, that they made Jesus deified. The founder of Christianity was born into Judaism and then, in reaction to his Jewish upbringing and education, according to his own words, 'fulfilled' everything spoken of in its scriptures. After the death and resurrection of the central figure of Christianity, 'Judaism' ceased to exist. Anyone continuing to call himself a Jew thereon was technically a Protestant, because after this point in global history as we enter into the common era, especially from a Western perspective, any Semitic monotheist religion is best defined by its relation to Christianity.This is similar to today where Western 'Atheists' are technically likewise a Protestant sect of Christianity; they're 'anti-Christian,' and define themselves by their relation to Christianity. In China, the religious beliefs we held were Marxism and Mao Zedong Thought. Nowadays it is an unstable cacophony of those two as the foundation plus a reseeding of the mainstays of Oriental religions. The myriads of pagan folk beliefs, the garden varieties of Chinese Buddhism, and some faint but still detectable awareness of the three "Huihui."Muslims and Jews came by the silk road, then came Christian missionaries (I think?). I think the Chinese attitude towards these is still much like it was hundreds of years ago, and can truly be called 'atheist.' They were all grouped together under the label "huihui" because of the serene Chinese indifference to outsiders.
>>84430012Only more evidence that the silk road was the beginning of the end for humanity
>>84430012Incoming tantrum. You are correct btw. Modern Judaism is defined by its reaction and rejection of Christianity. It's really not the same thing as the religion of the old testament.
Jews are from the serpent seedline They larp and make ridiculous unfounded claims that they are of family Israel in the Bible when they are not. Synagogue of satan. Judea, Babylon, Nazareth, Galilee, some basic understanding of lineage, history, maps, genetics, etc. goes a long way to clearing this up. The jews today bear the star of Repham, a pagan symbol. They are pagans. They worship moloch, baal, ishtar, el, all those nasty villains. Judaism is literal devil worship.There's also that whole thing about killing Jesus.
>>84430120I've listened to a lot of talks on metaphysics and church history to familiarize myself with Western religion. According to one bishop's lecture, the word "Satan" carries a special meaning of something or anything that "hates the Cross." And I mean 'the Cross' in the abstract sense of self-denial and mortification for the salvation of others. Peter was called Satan by Jesus because he attempted to stand in the way of Jesus' Cross. He assumed Jesus would be a kingly and worldly God, and it must have reminded Jesus of the temptation he felt in the desert when Satan made his third suggestion that a Cross wasn't necessary and he could fast-track his results by politicking his way into the earthly kingdoms and governments. Just yapping away now. I always imagine Peter as a really strong and powerful man of great physical courage. When he struck off the ear of the man who was accosting his leader, that's a really committed slash. That's not the kind of skilled jab to a vital from a trained fencer. He was probably intending to split his head like firewood, or like a fishing net or some other boating paraphernalia, but missed. Peter was like a loyal retainer to a Samurai lord in the Hagakure. But the idea of the reality of his Lord not having a temporal end, but an eternal one, and thus must use eternal methods, probably baffled him completely.
