/lit/ - Literature

>>6262529
>Christianity as a belief system didn't exist until the First Council of Nicaea technically

To you, Christianity is just another religion that was "started" at Nicaea. To Christians, Christianity began with Christ Himself and His apostles. We're on two completely different wavelengths.

>>5066045
Upon entering college, the realization that other people did not particularly care about me challenged my relativistic mindset. My realization was not a criticism or a negative thing, only an awareness of people’s tendency to view me in basically the same way I viewed them: inconsequential from a practical perspective. I realized that my relativistic philosophy trapped me inside my own subjectivity; any judgement I made became merely a reflection of myself rather than of an external objective reality. I had become master of my universe only to discover that the reality I created could not satisfy me. Furthermore, I became uncomfortably aware that I often employed rationalizations to excuse my behavior whenever I felt judged by someone else. My relativistic philosophy dictated that whenever there was conflict between two perspectives, both parties were “right” because the definition of “right” was relative to each individual. Yet I felt that in certain situations (particularly those that involved me directly) one person had to be “right” and the other person “wrong." Thus no matter how much I agreed with relativism in theory I found it utterly unsatisfactory in practice.