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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (16148)	1/25/2004 8:13:55 PM
From: briskit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 28931

But getting back to the imagery of the "Tree & the Garden"...what do you possibly think the interpretation of that metaphor is ? Kierkegaard (Becker and Brown in modern times) connects the story with our consciousness of individuality and mortality (from "you shall surely die"): the punishment of this higher evolutionary status is the awareness of our impending death. Now for our part we develop character traits and modes of coping which repress the terror of this awareness so that we can live our daily lives. But this awareness potentially also connects us to "spirituality" and our relationship to God, at least when our repressions and denials do not completely close us off from the possibility of God and self-awareness. Repressions and denial pre-occupy us with other distractions, duty fulfillments, roll-playings, etc. that keep our minds occupied. On the subject of "the Christ" I believe that is a through- going Hebraic concept. The "annointed one" goes way back to King David and beyond. Christ is a greek word, but has almost no interpretative help from Greek ideas or literature. I'd like to see references or links if you have them, though. TIA

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (16148)	1/26/2004 2:21:23 AM
From: Greg or e	Respond to of 28931

((("The Greeks and the Hellenes also gave you the idea of the Christ")))) Sorry but you are wrong. Christ means anointed it comes from the Hebrew word Messiah. Christ is the anointed one, the Messiah of Israel. ((("You left out one other possibility ..... the alternative one of martyrdom and willing great sacrifice for the better good of the whole"))) I think you have missed the point of existentialist angst. If there is no God then there is no difference between good and evil and the very thought a greater or "better good" is a meaningless statement. I still maintain that I have not seen this world-view lead to anything but despotism or despair. Do you know of any specific examples to the contrary?