You speak of rejecting Christianity per se, and then reference only the accidents of Christianity.
That some Christians behave in certain ways you consider off-putting is accidental (non-essential) to the nature of Christianity.
That Christianity has its roots in one tribe that you dislike (a tribe that is so unlikable because it is defined in terms of its rejection of Christ) is accidental to its nature.
You peddle unsubstantiated Jewish lies about Mary like a shameless polemicist.
The fact of the matter is that any proper judgment of Christianity per se must be done on the basis of what defines the essence of Christianity, and this is nothing less than the doctrinal teachings of authentic Christianity, as contained with the Tradition, Scripture, and Magisterium of the faith. You have presented no such objections to these essential elements here.
Astrology has its inklings of truth, since it is a part of the perennial philosophy, although the modernized corruption that purports to deterministically predict one's behaviour on the basis of an astrological sign is a laughable perversion. Don't be fooled into thinking Christianity is somehow at odds with this particular portion of the sophia perennis - the correspondence between the twelve tribes of Israel in the Old Covenant, and the twelve apostles chosen by Christ under the New, with the twelve signs of the Zodiac, is no mere coincidence.
Other faith traditions all have their own truth, and those born into those traditions bear no fault for finding what wisdom in those traditions that they can. But those who have been made aware of the fullness of Truth in Jesus Christ, and who nonetheless turn to pagan wisdom, or consult the "I Ching" in preference to Holy Scripture...these types risk everlasting fire, if not demonic possession in the interim.
You should learn about the essence of Christianity before rejecting it. It is deeper than can possibly be realized in this life - though much depth can be known nonetheless.
Some of these posts are just exemplary of such shameless ignorance, so much so that I lose the motivation to even deal with them. If they're going to reject Christianity they should at least try to do it well, as if they weren't less than the fly on the floor, caught in the wax fallen from the candle that lights the candle which are those brilliants minds of the early Fathers and Scholastics.
PS, this man is so enlightened, he just takes up holy texts that are millennia old, have been at the center of millennia-old traditions, centuries of rigorous academic study by brilliant men, countless PhDs, texts that still captivate the world and have steered the whole of mankind through the arcs of its history...and he just skips through the parts he doesn't like because they don't matter.
One can barely imagine this level of self-satisfied stupidity.
Jews seek to remove spiritual knowledge from Gentiles and keep it in the hands of the Jewish elite as a major part of their indoctrination program (lorddreadnought.livejournal.com), they forced Christianity aka the Hebrew religion onto populations world wide that were quite happy with what they had, as part of their constant war on non Jewish culture.
In attrition against the Roman Pantheon they similarly foisted their claim to be "God's Chosen Ppl" - a concept I reject in its entirety - onto an unwilling populace, which brought with it "Scribes & Pharisees" who morphed into Popes, Bishops and Priests.
They never stopped there either, forced conversions to Christianity aka the Hebrew religion were ongoing for hundreds of yrs, culminating in the Inquisition where the Inquisitors a la Torquemada (encyclopedia.com) were themselves Jews, despite the Jews are attempting to turn it all around and claim they were the victims.
Look at the history of settlement during the colonial era, whole towns were planned and built all of which had Christian spires reaching into the sky, it all had to be financed .. read of the "Saints (catholicireland.net)" who established chapels on even the most remote (i.postimg.cc) Hebridean Islands.
Consider the cost of quarrying the stone conveying it onto the Island. and having skilled dry stone builders erect it all .. the towns didn't last long what with war, weather and drought they were abandoned after only a few yrs in a lot of cases, then were stripped and torn down.
Ok the J's sold shares in lands they did not own, the ones who played the game who went there to lord it over the natives were sold out, the Boers in South Africa are a case in point .. Jews are the only ones interested in promulgating the Jewish religion.
they forced Christianity aka the Hebrew religion onto populations world wide that were quite happy with what they had, as part of their constant war on non Jewish culture.
Lmao they didn't force anything. The Christians didn't exactly go around threatening to cut off the heads of those who didn't convert; that is the way of the heretic Muslims. No, instead the Christians bore witness to their faith, often in the ultimate way, by sacrificing their lives, and those "contented pagans" were so impressed that they happily and freely discarded their inferior models of ultimate reality for the most perfect model that exists - authentic Christianity.
In attrition against the Roman Pantheon they similarly foisted their claim to be "God's Chosen Ppl" - a concept I reject in its entirety - onto an unwilling populace, which brought with it "Scribes & Pharisees" who morphed into Popes, Bishops and Priests.
St. Paul used the Pantheon (Acts 17:23-31 (biblegateway.com)) to convert some of those of Athens - again, freely (Acts 17:33 (biblegateway.com)), including the Areopagite.
forced conversions to Christianity aka the Hebrew religion were ongoing for hundreds of yrs, culminating in the Inquisition where the Inquisitors a la Torquemada were themselves Jews, despite the Jews are attempting to turn it all around and claim they were the victims.
Now your ignorance is manifest. The Inquisition was only concerned with those who claimed to be Christians, but lied, much like those Christ referenced who "claimed to be Jews (in a non-derogatory sense), but do lie" (Rev 3:9 (biblegateway.com)). Most of these "conversos" were lying Jews. This was the Church dealing with a problem almost of her own creation - so effective at conversions had she been, that many were insincere, and were using their fake acceptance of Christianity to disguise their continued subversive behavior. These had to be rooted out. This was not a matter of forced conversions, nor did this take place to any significant degree earlier in history, and the Church has always condemned such a method.
You continually conflate Christianity with Judaism, but they are fundamentally different things. The Hebrews did not proselytize on behalf of Christians. Christians spent a century after the death of Christ attempting to build their church under the rabid persecution of Rome. Take Nero, for instance. The martyrdom of early Christians was extensive, which should shed light, even before all other considerations, as to the difference in nature between Jews and Christians.
If you refuse to recognize these two as fundamentally different categories, then I say you don't understand either of them, and there is no worthwhile conversation to be had here.
There are several absurd claims here that don't make sense logically or historically. The pharisees became Catholic priests?
Further, the way we ought to understand 'chosen people', as in God's chosen, happens at two levels: the level of covenant, and as the people of Israel and those within the Davidic kingdom.
From the covenantal perspective, we are simply pointing out that the Jews were the members to several chosen epochs of covenant from the Adamic to the Noahide to the Mosaic.
In terms of Israel, of course we mean the twelve tribes.
However, Christ, as the bearer of the keys to the kingdom of heaven, was the fulfillment of covenantal law, the eternal lord of the Davidic kingdom, and made Israel the spiritual kingdom of all people who would come to the Father through him...effectively a new covenant for all of mankind.
But things are not so simple as to be exhausted by a Poal comment. The relationship between Jews and Catholics has always been complicated. But on the whole, the Church of Rome has always affirmed that the Jews were condemned by God; however, and for various reasons, the Church also said that Christians did not have the right to abuse or slaughter them.
This hardly makes Catholicism a Jewish religion. See the Christian language on Jewish perfidy.
As far as the claims about the Inquisition, @PS addressed them. The conversos were a matter of major controversy in the Renaissance. Christian Catholics had for decades been attempting to gain an understanding of the old testament which was commensurate with the Jews', not for the least reason that Jews were tremendous debaters and Catholics wanted to beat them. With time, they actually began to and legitimately converted a number of Jews.
However, the Jew rarely lets any crisis go to waste. Jews within the Catholic Church proved to be pretty troublesome.
On your claims about a Jewish pantheon, this doesn't even make sense. Neither Judaism or Christianity worship a pantheon. The Jews recognize a succession of prophets and elect people, but only one God. Christians recognize the same patriarchs, with the defining addition of Christ as messiah and a succession of his apostles and saints.
The elevated status Catholicism affords to Mary, for example, doesn't even figure theologically, morally or culturally into any possible Jewish religion. Moreover, I barely need to speak about the difference in the dispersive effects of these two worldviews, meaning the difference that happens in culture between Christianity and Judaism. You need only look to the intellectual and artistic explosion that came into Europe, particularly as a result of Christianity with a Platonic lens - after the Renaissance. The Europe so many people here speak fondly of as the father or mother of the West's inheritance would not have happened without Christianity.
Stop pissing on that legacy by calling it Judaised. It's unwarranted self-flagellation.
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