Author: Robert Raese
Date: 02:56:23 04/27/01
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On April 27, 2001 at 01:20:06, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On April 26, 2001 at 18:38:53, Robert Raese wrote: >>IMHO :) > >human rights, and dignity and pride is one of them, >is not to be solved by the concept of individuality. > >your concept maybe works for the old testament, but - >as a christian - i learned about other NEW concepts. > >individuality leads IMHO not to a better world, but to >a capitalistic world. ah, now i see... old testament vs. new testament... yes i am familiar with this way of thinking, i have read much in the bible... now i see better what you were saying the other day about quality vs. quantity. you identify "the world" with materialism, greed and self-centeredness, and "the spirit" with love, unity, and quality.... but in those explanations you did not mention the foundation to it all... GOD! so i missed your deeper meaning by taking you for a humanist. :) ok. "be in the world but not of the world"... don't sell your soul. i bet you like the story of jesus making a whip to drive the moneychangers from the temple... why is this only time we see jesus angry? why does he act out his anger with violence? why the whip? even if it is only a story, i find it an interesting story because it is so different from other portraits of jesus. especially interesting to me is the detail of jesus making the whip himself. thus, it was premeditated violence... yet it was righteous!? remarkable. i notice jesus also says publicly that the pharisees are "vipers and whitewashed tombs"... he wasn't making much peace THERE, was he? :) do you have some thoughts on this?
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