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| In fact you may remember the one text I posted at OD from a pagan perspective on this issue. I dont know, perhaps WM would be interested in reading it. |
The point here is that Petr's source says:
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| "no real pagan is an opponent of Christ. No, a real pagan doesn't even notice Jesus, but continues his life as if He didn't even exist." |
Hypatia was killed by Cyril for the large numbers of conversions she effected among Christians. Was she not a "real Pagan"?
Julian became a living symbol of pagan regeneration whose example inspired Westerners from the Renaissance to the modern day: he inveighed against Christians in his famous "Against the Galileans"? Was he not a "real Pagan"?
Celsus pointed out dozens of elementary errors in Christianity, as well as larger philosophical stumbling blocks. Was he not a "real Pagan"?
Porhyry's "Against the Christians", burned by the Church (they seem to have gotten all of them) ran to fifteen volumes. He was regarded by the Early Church as unanswerable, hence the burnings. His devastating attack on the pseduepigraphal nature of the book of Daniel and its dating is still accepted today. Was he not a "real Pagan"?
Petr is lying by using an argument he can't explain and doesn't understand.
If Julian, Hypatia, Celsus, and Porphry are not "real Pagans", who is?
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| Some pagans have directed attacks at Christianity, and still do today. Hell Id even argue that attacking Christianity is a mainstay of much of the pagan movement today, which is a somewhat pathetic IMHO. |
It is pathetic. We're like a hospital that takes your castoffs, the people you've spiritually mutilated with your Jewish evil and Jewish nonsense, a falsehood that no man of decent blood can take into his heart without either splitting his mind or succumbing to evil.
As I have said, the bulk of the population get along by using their natural theology and ignoring the Bible when it becomes inconvenient.
At any rate, we attempt to provide healing and re-connection to the Divine for those your murder-cult has spiritually mutilated. So, yes, it is a sad, pathetic situation.
Why am I not suprised by a man who loves his Church and not God, would have no care for those so harmed by the dogmas he affirms constantly?
WM
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