12-11-2010, 12:00 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-11-2010, 12:13 AM by HareKrishna.)
[quote name='dhu' date='11 November 2010 - 06:25 PM' timestamp='1289479641' post='109184']
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
Cioran, E. M.
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Sorry dhu ,
Emil Cioran is considered the biggest romanian philosopher.Yes he claim that human soul is pagan in its esence and that religions like christianity are temporary anomalies and that paganism will be restored.But Cioran was an atheist ,not pagan.
And despite the efforts of his friend to make him repent and become a christian,he remain an atheist all his life.
Cioran explains that early Christian apologetics are simply a set of libels camouflaged as treatises. But there was one thing that made Christianity different: hatred. Without that hatred, this new religion would merely have traded in "the old gods for a nailed corpse."
Cioran is not the first to criticize Christianity. But he then goes on to defend Paganism. He explains that under Paganism, fervor is shared among Goddesses and Gods. Only under monotheism does this fervor degrade into faith and aggression. People, being capricious, would shift from one God to another if given the chance. And Pagan Goddesses and Gods do not demand to be worshipped, just respected: in general, one does not kneel before them but merely hails them.
As Cioran states, the human soul is naturally Pagan. And thus he has a conclusion:"We humans will return to Paganism. The only thing Christianity had going for it was hatred, and that is no longer going to be there to sustain it. We'll ask the Goddesses and Gods to return to us."
Cioran claim that Saint Gregory's oration against Julian the Philosopher "makes you feel like then and there converting to paganism".
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
Cioran, E. M.
[/quote]
Sorry dhu ,
Emil Cioran is considered the biggest romanian philosopher.Yes he claim that human soul is pagan in its esence and that religions like christianity are temporary anomalies and that paganism will be restored.But Cioran was an atheist ,not pagan.
And despite the efforts of his friend to make him repent and become a christian,he remain an atheist all his life.
Cioran explains that early Christian apologetics are simply a set of libels camouflaged as treatises. But there was one thing that made Christianity different: hatred. Without that hatred, this new religion would merely have traded in "the old gods for a nailed corpse."
Cioran is not the first to criticize Christianity. But he then goes on to defend Paganism. He explains that under Paganism, fervor is shared among Goddesses and Gods. Only under monotheism does this fervor degrade into faith and aggression. People, being capricious, would shift from one God to another if given the chance. And Pagan Goddesses and Gods do not demand to be worshipped, just respected: in general, one does not kneel before them but merely hails them.
As Cioran states, the human soul is naturally Pagan. And thus he has a conclusion:"We humans will return to Paganism. The only thing Christianity had going for it was hatred, and that is no longer going to be there to sustain it. We'll ask the Goddesses and Gods to return to us."
Cioran claim that Saint Gregory's oration against Julian the Philosopher "makes you feel like then and there converting to paganism".