<b>Think it over
Truth can kill the West</b>
By M.S.N. Menon
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<b>It is very clear that early Christianity was Qumranian. James was a Jew, but a revolutionary, </b>which explains the revolutionary nature of his doctrines. <b>He believed in ahimsa (non-violence) and said that âthe Kingdom of God is within youâ âan idea purely Hindu-Buddhist. </b>They could not have come either from Greece or Jewish sources. <b>But Pauline Christianity was anti-James. St. Paul gave it a new direction. </b>Christianity, as it exists today, may turn out to be the greatest deception on the Christian world.
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<b>Christianity's debt to Greece</b>
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Man can acquire knowledge of the 'divine', Aristotle concluded, by a process of abstracting the 'universals' from sensible things, ie by deducing them from the sense-data through the application of a reasoning process. In this way Aristotle opened the way for the study of nature and its laws. He further concluded that man, 'a political animal', could achieve this intellectual project only within a [U]rational man-made society whose institutions would embody, so to speak, the 'universal' laws of the cosmic order.[/u]<b> The prevailing political doctrine in the years of Christ was that where Greece had failed with its minuscule city-states, Rome was to succeed in extending the rational order over the whole imperial world. </b>This was accepted by the Christians.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Truth can kill the West</b>
By M.S.N. Menon
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->EXCERPT:
<b>It is very clear that early Christianity was Qumranian. James was a Jew, but a revolutionary, </b>which explains the revolutionary nature of his doctrines. <b>He believed in ahimsa (non-violence) and said that âthe Kingdom of God is within youâ âan idea purely Hindu-Buddhist. </b>They could not have come either from Greece or Jewish sources. <b>But Pauline Christianity was anti-James. St. Paul gave it a new direction. </b>Christianity, as it exists today, may turn out to be the greatest deception on the Christian world.
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<b>Christianity's debt to Greece</b>
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Man can acquire knowledge of the 'divine', Aristotle concluded, by a process of abstracting the 'universals' from sensible things, ie by deducing them from the sense-data through the application of a reasoning process. In this way Aristotle opened the way for the study of nature and its laws. He further concluded that man, 'a political animal', could achieve this intellectual project only within a [U]rational man-made society whose institutions would embody, so to speak, the 'universal' laws of the cosmic order.[/u]<b> The prevailing political doctrine in the years of Christ was that where Greece had failed with its minuscule city-states, Rome was to succeed in extending the rational order over the whole imperial world. </b>This was accepted by the Christians.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->