I started reading into Marcus Aurelius and different Hellenistic schools and it's pretty sad how they all got nuked by christcucks. These various philosophical schools were concerned about practical ways to solve life problems and it surprised my how advanced their ideas were. So much so that modern psychotherapy was inspired by stoicism. Even Buddhism and different Hindu schools are eerily similar to these systems.
This shit made me realize how much abrahamic religions have destroyed any chance of humanity ever achieving true independence and wisdom. Since abrahamic theology is literally a mental skinner box to ensure perfect subservience.
>>2202956>I started reading into Marcus Aurelius and different Hellenistic schools and it's pretty sad how they all got nuked by christcucks. Bad example, almost so bad that one thinks this is a bait.
Aurelius’s meditations and stoicism in general was much celebrated within the medieval Christendom and outside it. It was seen compatible with christian moral views. Why we even have those books is because some Christian monks copied them for centuries.
>>2202956Who fucking cares.
Tomorrow perhaps the future, today shut the fuck up.
>>2203252But the hadiths are all made up Bullshit tho
>Muhammad went up to heaven on a winged horse and bargained with god like a street vendor about the number of prayers Kek
>>2202956Christianity was essentially a product of late antiquity's social, economic, and philosophical conditions. It was an ideological response to the material struggles of the lower classes within the Roman Empire and was eventually being co-opted by the ruling elites when it became politically expedient.
Early Christianity, particularly in the teachings of Jesus and his immediate followers, was a movement rooted in Jewish apocalypticism and class struggle. However, Paul/Saul who came from a Hellenized Jewish background reframed Christianity using the language and structure of the mystery cults popular in the Greco-Roman world, such as those of Mithras, Isis, and Dionysus.
Paul's emphasis on salvation through faith, the sacramental role of the Eucharist, and the mystical union with Christ all mirrored elements of mystery religions, which promised personal salvation through secret knowledge, initiation rites, and communion with a divine figure. By universalizing Christianity and downplaying Jewish law (Torah observance), Paul made the new faith more attractive to non-Jews, ultimately paving the way for its expansion throughout the Roman Empire.
This shift was not just theological but ideological. Paul's version of Christianity moved away from the revolutionary and material concerns of Jesus' original message and instead became a tool for integrating lower classes into the existing social order through promises of salvation in the afterlife rather than social change in the present.
>>2203947>>2202999There's not actually any good data on this, i looked after the charity put out that number and fact.
It's all very vague and does not pass the muster, just the usual slapdash assumptions of the children of the upper middle class in the charity industry..
>>2203450>muh paul le falsifierstupid meme
pauline christianity was the natural extension of christ's message, just like leninism was that of marx'
>>2203887I dunno, but if you read the rest of Acts there are multiple instances of Paul coming into conflict with established Jewish communities around the Mediterranean, while seemingly having less friction with non Jewish populations.
If I had to guess Christianity was a threat to existing Jewish power structures. There's an episode where silver smiths whose business was making idols of Artemis tried to get Paul lynched because he represented a threat to their trade, so I imagine for some rabbis and communities this presented a similar threat.
Similarly, while acknowledging that union racism was a part of the failure of a major strike in the early 1900s, unions got a lot of pushback from black churches because they threatened the social power of the black ministers over their congregations, creating perverse incentives for them to oppose integration and labor power.
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