[lbo-talk] RE: Evil Bible

[C. G. Estabrook]

I think the hatred and contempt of the body is a Manichean theme that
crops up in Christianity whenever it becomes "spiritualized" and is just
as frequently ushered out.  (The struggle is apparent in e.g. Augustine.)
But the central Christian doctrine is the resurrection of the body.  The
"immortality of the soul," beloved by fundies, is not mentioned in the
early creeds.  --CGE

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, joanna bujes wrote:


> On OT and NT, Dwayne writes:
> 
> "The two collections of books scarcely belong together."
> 
> There's no question that the NT is way better than the OT. But it is
> still permeated with hatred and contempt of the body, which is why I
> can't stand religion. All organized religions that I can think of
> share that hatred and contempt.
> 
> Joanna
> 
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