On Aug 20, 2010, at 9:00 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Aug 20, 2010, at 5:04 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
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>> Of course, what the
>> church does is turn Paul into a theorist, when in fact he was way
>> more
>> interested in concrete "organizing."
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> And he has a rep, like Lenin's, of turning Jesus's charming message
> into a rigid doctrine.
Paul is like Stalin--a police agent infiltrator who succeeded in gaining control and totally perverted both the theory and the practice of his victims. As for Jesus's "charming" doctrine--Jesus was a Jewish revolutionary who brought "not peace but the sword." The only reason the disciples put down their swords at Gethsemane was that a Roman cohort was lurking behind the Temple police that Judas had been sent to lure there.
Beware "organizers" like Paul, St. Just, Stalin, Obama & co.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures."
Herakleitos of Ephesos