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>Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves not one man alone, but what is worse, as many masters as he has vices.
Best line in all of Christian writing and it's not even from the Bible

>> No.22737741

>>22737716
Nietzsche was right, religion of coping slave cucks

>> No.22737855

It only makes sense if the king is addicted to gambling or BBC cuck porn.

>> No.22737860

>>22737741
False dichotomy

>> No.22737868

>>22737716
This reads like Young Hegelian slop.

>> No.22737886
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22737886

>>22737716
It's a good one. But Romans 7 says much the same and has great prose too.

>> No.22737895

>>22737741
Nietzsche died a drooling retard and every regime that adopted his ideals got its shit kicked in by Christians and Communists.

>> No.22737896

>>22737716
>Saint Augustine
Letting it go to his head a bit isn't he? If he was humble he'd still put Augustine of Hippo on the cover.

>> No.22737897

>>22737741
>his family were honestiores, an upper class of citizens known as honorable men, Augustine's first language was likely Latin.
>Manichaean friends introduced him to the prefect of the City of Rome, Symmachus, who had been asked by the imperial court at Milan[20] to provide a rhetoric professor. Augustine won the job and headed north to take his position in Milan in late 384. Thirty years old, he had won the most visible academic position in the Latin world at a time when such posts gave ready access to political careers.
Doesn't particularly sound like a slave to me

>> No.22737902

Oh for sure you've read every line by a Christian and your judgment means a lot

>> No.22737911

>>22737897
Thomas Aquinas grew up in a castle. His noble family was very influential at the time and wanted Thomas to get into politics. They bought a prostitute to get him to fail his vow of celibacy but he chased her away with a torch.

>> No.22738220

>>22737895
You're the retard, no regime adopted "his ideals"

>> No.22738246

>>22738220
The axis did.

>> No.22738250

>>22737716
>as many masters as he has vices.
This is unironically very insightful and I'm an atheist.

>> No.22738268

>>22737895
>Nietzsche died a drooling retard
Sure, but Christians both live and die as drooling retards.

>> No.22738388

>>22738246
The axis was as far from Nietzsche as Harry Potter is from The Bible.

>> No.22738418

>>22738388
No true Scotsman cope

>> No.22738770

>>22738418
Thank you for your deeply insightful counter-argument.

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22738773

>>22737716
>LoveGod
>Love your neighbor as yourself.
>Forgive others who have wronged you.
>Love your enemies.
>Ask God for forgiveness of your sins.
>Jesus is the Messiah and was given the authority to forgive others.
>Repentance of sins is essential.
>Don’t be hypocritical.
>Don’t judge others.
>The Kingdom of God is near. It’s not the rich and powerful—but the weak and poor—who will inherit this kingdom.

These are the teachings of Christ as written in the Bible.
If you do not follow these teachings in your everyday life you are not a Christian.
If you cherrypick parts of the old testament to undermine these teachings you are not a Christian and are guilty of vanity.
teachings of Christ take presidence over all other types of knowledge.


"....One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”
“The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[e] 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”

Mark 12.28

>> No.22739130

>They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.
what a plagiarist hack

>> No.22739382

>>22737716
don't be beguiled by the ostentatious flourishes of pagan rhetoric. Let your yes be yes, and your no, no. Any more than that is from the evil

>> No.22739406

>>22737897
No shit, obviously the people at the top (those who profit from spreading the bs) are always wealthy bourgeoisie, actual slaves were too busy to write pretending diary desu. Same way how modern liberalism, also a religion of the weak and stupid, is helmed but overeducated wealthy elites.

>> No.22739442

>>22737716
Hmm, yes, good criticism of idealism?