I view 'Christianity' as a Slave Religion. The Philosophy strikes me as 'survival'. Not to mention the concept of a 'Man-God', the 'Miracles', and the idea of 'Resurrection'. If you view it objectively, it's like some Fable a lost Tribe in the upper Amazon would embrace. What's incredulous, you have people in the 21st century thinking it is true and real.
I'm reading 'The Age of Reason' again.
"The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a work by English and American political activist Thomas Paine, arguing for the philosophical position of Deism. It follows in the tradition of eighteenth-century British deism, and challenges institutionalized religion and the legitimacy of the Bible. It was published in three parts in 1794, 1795, and 1807."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Reason
He's a Deist, and that's it. He was in a French Prison during the (their) Revolution as he finished writing it.
I should read Thomas Paine.. Thanks.
I should read Thomas Paine.. Thanks.
His Dad was a Quaker. He had a 'Quaker' leaning. But in the end, the Quakers refused to let him be buried in a Quaker cemetery.
Really? How awful.. I had no idea.. My maternal grandmother grew up in a Quaker home. I know very little about them.