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I think most Christians just make up whatever they feel ought to be a sin based on the vibe.
Nope! Watching a movie about Thor or something is fine. It only doesn’t work when you begin to worship Thor over God, which breaks the first commandment
Chris’s glorious beard though. How can you not?
No. but you could losely apply thou shall not worship false gods. However learning, and worshipping are two completely different things.
Christianity was formed long before there was media, so there are no scriptures that prevent you from enjoying media, and last i checked nothing that prevented you from learning.
The sin is saying someone like Donald Trump is Jesus, and worshipping him in your home and the house of god. That’s what’s sending everyone on a first class ticket to hell. You’re cool tho. Coming from a Catholic with a lotta guilt.
Here’s a list of sins with the biblical citations. You tell me if watching zues documentaries is a sin?
You realize Christianity is not one thing?
It is one thing with a massive amount of variation, like pizza.
Is mormanism the one with pineapples?
Plenty of writers in the early Christian church continued to draw heavily on Greek and Roman mythology as a source for literary analogies—so a background knowledge of classical mythology is necessary to fully understand foundational Christian literature.
Yeah, but Paul kind of ruined Greece via Thessaloniki and Korinthos. Granted, the social hierarchy around the old gods backed by “the one true God for all” Christian narrative sure made it easy to turn common Greeks against their ancient culture and religion.
And they’ve been doing great ever since! cough, cough
Mind giving some sources? I’m not arguing or disputing you, I’m just interested so I can learn here.
If you have the time, I heavily recommend Center Place as a great source for Christians and Atheists alike who wish to learn about schoolary views on Christianity.
It’s like a free seminar lecture. Here is one about Plato and Christianity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLk6sdjAoAo&t=2006
EDIT: My brain somehow went to Greek phylisophy, not mythology. So the above link doesn’t suit the question at all, my apologies. I’ll let it stand non the less, it’s an intresting topic on it’s own.
A source for the ACTUAL question might be this paper The survival of the Greek gods in early Christianity
That video’s position on the stuff in Sirach is actually pretty good
No, although this is a fringe belief among some fringe sects.
Christianity IS ancient mythology.
Ipso facto it’s a sin to be a Christian, per Christianity.
But if you apply logic to any of these devoted superstitions none of them make any sense.
Well your logic doesn’t do much to prove your assertion…
I’m never surprised when someone defends religion while making absolutely no sense.
You really made a good point?
You can’t use logic based on a belief and simultaneously write it off as mythology if you want to be logically consistent. You first assert that Christianity is mythology, but then reference Christianity itself to “prove” that people who believe in it are sinners, framing them in terms of the belief that you just asserted was false. Your whole thing is nonsensical.
Watch this:
Christianity is mythology. None of it is real.
Yet.
There are nincompoops who believe it is real.
And one of the things people who believe that silly mythology is that people shouldn’t worship mythologies.
Deal with it, bro.
Religion kills. Science saves.
But only one is easy to learn.
Dude the edgelord routine is brutal
Good point I think? Enjoy pretending to follow Jesus I guess.
Been a Christian for a long time (1989). I’ve consumed copious amounts of ancient mythology and folklore. People who don’t understand that you can read something that challenges your faith and still follow through with better understanding afterwards is the issue. If you read something and it doesn’t make you think deeper about yourself, faith, world, or whatever what’s the point? Those in the church (Christian or not) that tell you that reading something is a “sin” are probably ones that teeter on the edge of losing their grasp as it is and don’t want you doing the same. Most of them can’t explain why it’s so challenging, they just know it’s there.
I deliberately watch atheist videos a lot, lol. Would read dawkins if I cared to read books more.
Not as far as I know. My mom was Christian and read plenty of mythology, visited Egypt and learned about their ancient gods, it’s my understanding that they just aren’t supposed to worship or believe in other gods. Not that they are supposed to be ignorant of the past or of other current religions either.
I don’t know about more fundamentalist sects, but she was Christian her whole life, well read and into learning about history and religion in general.
Depends on how fundamentalist you are.
When you start freaking out about every little thing in your life is when you should start questioning the usefulness of religion.
That’s the start to understanding that all religions are just made up stories aka mythology
No.
Jesus may have quoted Aesop a few times, although those fables’ earliest recording are around a thousand years later.
However, take for example the Ark of the Covenant:
It bears resemblance to Egyptian arks to their gods, like one found in King Tut’s tomb
To the Israelites when asked to construct their Ark, the concept would have been familiar to them, as it’s something the pagans would have done. Big difference is that the pagans put a depiction of the god on theirs, while the Israelites have angels blowing down to Seemingly Nothing - an unseen God. This still would have been drawing from pagan beliefs and traditions.
Or, take for example, the narrative of Abraham sacrificing Isaac in Genesis 22. The followers of Molech would have commonly sacrificed their children to their idols to show upmost devotion to their god- so God tests Abraham to see if he has the same level of devotion to his God.
However, it is worth noting in both of these cases, God makes a point of doing something differently (unseen God on the ark, cancelling the sacrifice, verse 8 “God will provide for himself the lamb” foreshadowing Jesus)
There’s probably many more examples of this. But it shows the Israelites would have been well acquainted with pagan culture instead of shelter, and even God was willing to adapt it.
Its only a sin if you feel empathy for the other gods.
Depends on your particular brand of cult. The Jehovah’s Witness in my work doesn’t consume any non-approved secular media, so pagan stuff would be out of the question. He doesn’t listen to music or read books apart from the bible and books about the bible from JW perspective. Has seen Terminator 2, randomly.
Did he like it?
Seeing that in sort of a vacuum has to be wild.
