/lit/ - Literature

>>22779160
this dude is so totally mindbroken. Maybe we can trick him into making mustard gas, next.

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>>18625520
>Do we still have texts defending Paganism against Christianity from an intellectual standpoint?
Yes,
>>18629525
>nytimes.com/2018/06/08/books/review/catherine-nixey-darkening-age.html
>>18625678
>The Christians, Celsus wrote, 'do not want to give or receive reason for what they believe, they make use of the principles “Do not inquire, believe ”and“ Your faith will save you ”». For learned men like Celso and Galen, that was incomprehensible; in philosophy Greek, faith was the lowest form of knowledge.
>Celso was not only irritated by the lack of education of those people. It was much worse than, in fact, celebrate ignorance. They declared, he wrote, that "the wisdom is abominable and ignorance a good ', a quote almost exact from the book of Corinthians.

>As Celsus pointed out, Jesus was not the only one who had claimed to have risen. Did the Christians believe that these other stories of rising from the dead were "Tales, and such seem", but that they had found "a outcome of your most congruent and convincing drama »?

>Celso attacks the tendency for only a reduced number of people witness some of its most miraculous moments.
>Executed, then, he was seen by the whole world; risen, by only one; which should have been at otherwise.
>The witnesses offered by the Bible are, for Celso, unreliable. Of the resurrection he says: «And who saw All this? An angry woman, as you say », and another person, who invented these "rumors". Therefore, the Resurrection was due to "a certain predisposition of spirit" or perhaps to "a delirium". To Celsus, the statement that Christ He was divine seems to him a logical impossibility. How can be immortal a dead man? .
>The idea that Jesus came to Saving sinners is also treated with indifference. What preference is that for sinners? -question-. So did He not send it to the sinless? How bad is it to not have sinned?


>The Greek rhetorician Lucian, who described Christians as "those wretches,"
>he wrote the satirical account of one of those men, a charlatan (as Lucian saw him) who lived in Greece called Peregrine. Desperate for fame this pseudo-philosopher grew his hair long and traveled the empire preaching platitudes.
>Lived off charity, earned one reputation among the credulous, and eventually committed suicide jumping into a bonfire to "be useful to mankind indicating to him how death should be despised ».
> Luciano, who was watching, did not learn to despise the death, but yes to despise the "damn stench of singe" of an old man burning to death.
>Prior to die, Peregrine had hesitated, stopping next to the you call and deliver a sermon. While he lingered, some of those gathered implored him to be saved, while others - "the most courageous," as he approvingly describes them Luciano— shouted: «You have just decided to fulfill your purpose.

>"As for me," Luciano said, as I know you can imagine - how I was laughing »
Cathrine Nixey ; The Darkening
pg 60 - 74