The True Meaning of Easter - Fulton J. Sheen Audiobook

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  Wemdu
  March 14th, 2021
  

  thanks so much

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  CaptainZero
  March 14th, 2021
  

  Pagan fertility holiday. A more true meaning than the Christianity cult’s story. Sorry. Stories, since there are multiple, contradictory accounts of the “rebirth” of Christ in the compilation.

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  caesar963
  March 15th, 2021
  

  

  Not even remotely true, Cap, ole buddy, which accounts for the Synoptic agreeing on the essentials. Only ideological cults - properly understood - impose a single, doctrinaire, monolithic version. As we know. Real human beings recall events with nuance and complexity, using their own experiences to inform discrete textures. An exclusive, undifferentiated construct would not help the Christian case one iota.

  The power of its witness and spread - against all possible odds and persecutions - is historically undeniable.

  As for that cool fertility hol idea, that’s what the logicians refer to as the genetic fallacy, or the fallacy of origins. One of the snazzier fallacies, of great renown.

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  argonaut
  March 16th, 2021
  

  You’re not using the ‘genetic fallacy’ correctly caeser. If the captain was saying that easter was a pagan fertility holiday in a prejudicial fashion, that would be correct. He was merely noting its historical context. Chin chin.

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  caesar963
  March 16th, 2021
  

  Chin chin yourself, Jason! I think I’m still on the secure terra that I luvs. On the one hand, attempting to interpolate or impose the pagan fertility hol theory into a specifically Jewish context can be said to be prejudicial and ahistorical. This would have been totally anathema to the Jews, Saul/Paul of Tarsus chief among them. Transcendent abstraction framed their perception, in this regard.

  Although we do have to consider - at least for a comedy instant - that the Captain was being absolutely objective, non-prejudicial, and wholly well-disposed to religion here. And basing his assertions on genuine erudition. At least for a comedy instant.

  You see this stuff permeating what I like to call “interweb skulrship” - essentially the Youniversity of Youtube.

  Adler helpfully categorised the genetic fallacy as “the substitution of psychology for logic.”

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  argonaut
  March 17th, 2021
  

  Im not sure i really got your drift in your answer. And whether the previous poster was prejudicial or not - speaking personally, i prefer not to judge the poster in the manner you have. I was merely noting that you used the term incorrectly.

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  caesar963
  March 17th, 2021
  

  That’s fine - happy for any opportunity to clarify. Prejudicial on two fronts. Simply put: if you read the Captain’s post you can reasonably construe actual prejudice in the assessment. This would be entirely consistent with the other posts from the same source; so it’s not what you’d call a rush to judgment. Otherwise, there’s a few of us (we happy few, we band of siblings) who try to dial down the rampant hostility through the application of questionable humour. But humour has borders, we find.

  The additional prejudice - the fallacy of origins itself - is grounded in the ahistorical assumptions regarding First Century Jewish intellectual categories. Their thought was, by definition, not based around pagan deities & their operation in the natural world. Their conception of G-d was characterised by transcendent abstractions - that the creator was wholly & completely unknowable, and not defined or controlled by such rites (fertility, etc.). Such procedures and ideas would have been entirely “anathema” - meaning blasphemous in this context - or abomination. Their custom was balanced on morality, law, and Covenant.

  Intriguingly enough, on a reading of Classical intellectual history (Greeks & Romans) it’s quite doubtful that the pagans themselves invested any credence in such rites. St Paul persuaded them with philosophical argumentation, and this is the tradition which then took hold.

  So: ahistorical. However, this is consistent with all who take a “light-touch” or excessively casual approach to historical knowledge. They merely project simplistic, superficial psychological categories onto to the agents of history. It doesn’t really take you very far in terms of historical insight. The factual record for them then becomes “Fake Nooze!” It’s so hot right now on the internet.

  Happy St Patrick’s Day!

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  asdege34
  March 21st, 2021
  

  Good stuff, thank you

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  argonaut
  March 22nd, 2021
  

  

  @caesar there are none so blind as thosr that cannot see. I will agree to disagree, thank you.

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  caesar963
  March 23rd, 2021
  

  

  Fair enough - but that ole chestnut can be applied in all directions. The test is the application of factual history, and sustainable argumentation based thereon. That’s the fun of this kind of thing.
  Thanks again.

  The True Meaning of Easter - Fulton J. Sheen

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