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To: maryz

“Too bad you don’t have a clue about what he meant.”

Then I’m sure you will explain, yes?

“Any comment on the pagan “dying god” who rises again?”

You’ll have to be more specific, any references/sources would be helpful.


8,513 posted on 10/04/2010 11:33:42 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change; OLD REGGIE
Then I’m sure you will explain, yes?

I was going to, but it would be like trying to explain a sphere to a Flatland-er.

Maybe another time. For now, suffice it to say that Calvinism has a strong anti-human streak (which they shouldn't object to, since they pride themselves on it). Probably why they see no point to the commandment to "Love thy Neighbor as thyself," which is of course "like to" the greatest commandment and flows from it.

8,515 posted on 10/04/2010 11:49:42 AM PDT by maryz
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To: count-your-change
You’ll have to be more specific, any references/sources would be helpful.

The Golden Bough is by far the most famous source. IIRC, there's some in Jessie Weston's From Ritual to Romance. Among the "dying gods," Baldr, Osiris, Dionysius and Adonis spring to mind. If you have access to C.S. Lewis's God in the Dock, the essay "Myth Became Fact" goes into the issue.

8,519 posted on 10/04/2010 12:01:03 PM PDT by maryz
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