06-19-2008, 10:09 PM
Question:
On the DR show (NPR) I heard the author of "Snow falling on cedars", David Guterman, talk of "naasticism".
He said naastics (sp?) were an early branch of xtianism that believed yahveh was a subdiety of the real God, and ywh was preventing us from transcending him and seeing the real God. Naastics used to say "evil" also came from ywh. The propah church threw them out.
Now is this naastics a corruption of naastik? (I know the philosophy of naastik is not the philosophy of the naastics, but I cannit help thinking of a good old borrowing/stealing theme that has been the second defining characteristic of the churh (the first being killing off the heathen).
On the DR show (NPR) I heard the author of "Snow falling on cedars", David Guterman, talk of "naasticism".
He said naastics (sp?) were an early branch of xtianism that believed yahveh was a subdiety of the real God, and ywh was preventing us from transcending him and seeing the real God. Naastics used to say "evil" also came from ywh. The propah church threw them out.
Now is this naastics a corruption of naastik? (I know the philosophy of naastik is not the philosophy of the naastics, but I cannit help thinking of a good old borrowing/stealing theme that has been the second defining characteristic of the churh (the first being killing off the heathen).