yogiman
That's an unrelated answer. Please be more to the point. What's the problem?
In order to take the myth of the -beast- serious, first of all I should believe in the new testament with it's anti-christ.
That's an unrelated answer. Please be more to the point. What's the problem?
In order to take the myth of the -beast- serious, first of all I should believe in the new testament with it's anti-christ.
Which people? In case the target group is spoonfed and bored christians? The new testament was written in hebrew and greek. Northern-europe and a large majority of north-america should be pagan. And would it not be fair to think of the jews?
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In order to take the myth of the -beast- serious, first of all I should believe in the new testament with it's anti-christ.
About the New Testament, to paraphrase Dion Fortune (sans racism) the Western Mystery Tradition is uniquely suited to those with a Western mindset.
I take the myth of the beast ( a symbolic representation of a dynamic detected ) seriously as a symbolic and analogous representation of a dynamic unfolding.
One view (church) is from the past (fear of the church collapsing and a new power taking its place) - from the past, as it is now not just portended but happening.
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the christians and catholics do (or did) take it literally. And even I have problems with this imagery.
And on basis of what do you take it seriously?
Is it no rule of life that things come and go?