Historicity of Jesus - 2

[Husky]

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<b>Significance of Eighteen</b>
28/07/2009 03:52:40
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Raju Puducode 28/07/2009 21:22:47
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I wont be surprised if Christians claim that they wrote <i>Mahabharatha</i> also similar to their claim to Gayathri mantra, yoga, Vedas & Upanishads.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Replacement Theology. Myth -> History (<i>western</i> definition) - which implicitly involves de-deification - is something the catholic church is very much interested in, which is why it's moved off mythification and has been pushing partial historyfication* instead (on the matter of the Hindu lit and epics) for at least some years now. It's a conscious 180 on their part. "History" is national history, is secular history, and secular history can be appropriated: christian history. Can't let christians in India have no history and no culture, after all.

- Christianism needs to steal - "retain" - culture for Indian christians.

- Can't steal/appropriate "culture" unless it is first secularised. Becomes "Indian", belonging to "all Indians".

- Can't secularise, until they take the most Hindu part of its essence out of it