mjeshurun's review
2.0
Other than a better understanding of Christian history, I can't say I got much philosophical value from reading this.
Simply repeating a message many times does not grant it the virtue of validity.
There are many contradictions in the nature and goodness of Christ. On the one hand he is supposed to suffer for all humans and grant them forgiveness through his suffering and eternal kindness and love. On the other hand, God, Christ and the angels are discribed as the punishers that will usher the Apocalypse.
The whole story just feels pre-structured to fit descriptions in the Old Testament scriptures about the Messaih in order to be able to say, "hey look, the old testament prophecies have been achieved in Jesus Christ, so forget the old faith and follow us now".
This all just sums up to weak storytelling seemingly aimed at getting the masses to financially support and blindly follow the teachers of this supposedly "only true" faith.
Simply repeating a message many times does not grant it the virtue of validity.
There are many contradictions in the nature and goodness of Christ. On the one hand he is supposed to suffer for all humans and grant them forgiveness through his suffering and eternal kindness and love. On the other hand, God, Christ and the angels are discribed as the punishers that will usher the Apocalypse.
The whole story just feels pre-structured to fit descriptions in the Old Testament scriptures about the Messaih in order to be able to say, "hey look, the old testament prophecies have been achieved in Jesus Christ, so forget the old faith and follow us now".
This all just sums up to weak storytelling seemingly aimed at getting the masses to financially support and blindly follow the teachers of this supposedly "only true" faith.
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