/lit/ - Literature

>>16342324
But what one point which I do wish to press you on to hear a reply, is how charitable you are that Christianity may end on this Earth for those few of Heaven but not any other man for the next whatsoever thousand years.

>I have no moral responsibility, it's just up to God
Very Christian aren't you.

>>16342336
Only a fool lies, and all this is an attempt to put words in my mouth and slander me. It has no relation to my argument, I said none of this.

>If one would lay hand on the characteristic mark of Christianity, distinguishing it from all mono-theistic religions, it lies in nothing less than the upheaval of Law, of Kant's 'Imperative,' in whose place it sets free Inclination. In its own pure form it therefore is the presentation of a beautiful morality, or of the humanising of the Holy; and in this sense it is the only æsthetic religion.
- Schiller

>We have nothing here to do with the astoundingly varied attempts of speculative human reason to explain the nature of this Son of the God, who walked on earth and suffered shame: where the greater miracle had been revealed in train of that manifestation, the reversal of the will-to-live which all believers experienced in themselves, it already embraced that other marvel, the divinity of the herald of salvation. The very shape of the Divine had presented itself in anthropomorphic guise; it was the body of the quintessence of all pitying Love, stretched out upon the cross of pain and suffering. A—symbol?—beckoning to the highest pity, to worship of suffering, to imitation of this breaking of all self-seeking Will: nay, a picture, a very effigy! In this, and its effect upon the human heart, lies all the spell whereby the Church soon made the Græco-Roman world her own.
>the Saviour's birth by a Mother who, [218] not herself a goddess, became divine through her virginal conception of a son without human contact, against the laws of Nature. A thought of infinite depth, expressed in form of miracle.
>but the mystery of motherhood without natural fecundation can only be traced to the greater miracle, the birth of the God himself: for in this the Denial-of-the-world is revealed by a life pre-figuratively offered up for its redemption. (3) As the Saviour himself was recognised as sinless, nay, incapable of sin, so that he could no more suffer, but only feel for others' sufferings; and the root hereof was necessarily to be found in a birth that issued, not from the Will-to-live, but from the Will-to-redeem.
- Wagner

>Christ, through his unimaginable suffering, atoned for ALL the sins of ALL mankind
>yet suffered a typical execution of the time
>there were even two blokes next to him going through the same thing
What am I missing here?
>even got the mercy stab for a quick death instead of dying of thirst and rotting on the cross for days
I guess 'all the sins of mankind' wasn't that much