/lit/ - Literature

>>16436440
>Pagan Rome: Lasts for over 900 years
>Christian Rome: Lasts for less than 90 years
>Justinian closes down the Academy of Plato
>Justinian plague ravages the empire 12 years later
I think you're wrong.

>>15663801
The Gods took care of them. Traitors and the like all got various ingenious Sisyphean tasks to do for the rest of eternity..

>>15387126
>There was something divine about a lot of greek philosophy.
You're right about that.

>>15322989
Aquinas leads to Zeus, not Jesus. Just like Aristotle before him. Catholics will never understand that.

>>15003864
>There is beauty in God's mystery.
That is true but the problem with Christianity is that everything we do know about the Christian God is not beautiful.
>Primitive Christianity cunningly appealed to the imagination of a world of superstitious slaves (eager for some mode of escape that meant not the giving and receiving of battle-strokes). It organized them for the overthrow of Heroic Principles; and substituted for a genuine nobility based on battle-selection, a crafty theocracy founded upon priest-craft, hell-craft, alms-giving, politicalisms and all that is impure and subterranean. It is a doctrine at once disgraceful in its antecedents, its teachers and in itself. Truly has it been called ‘the fatal dower of Constantine,’ for it has suffocated or is suffocating the seeds of Heroism. Both ancient and modern Christianism and all that has its root therein is the negation of everything grand, noble, generous, heroic, and the glorification of everything feeble, atrocious, dishonorable, dastardly. The cross is now, and ever has been, an escutcheon of shame. It represents a gallows, and a Semite slave swinging thereon. For two thousand years it has absolutely overturned human reason, overthrown common sense, infected the world with madness, submissiveness, degeneracy.

If we gonna find beauty in the mystery of God then why not find it in those gods that are wholly beautiful and not just mysteriously so? I for one will go with the old gods.