In light of this information they were able to give us answers to questions regarding the modernism of Christianity, and give us a good understanding of the continuing diversity of the Christian movement. According to Ferguson, the specific accusations against Christians were incest, cannibalism, and atheism. A Christian atheist of the second century was someone who did not observe or follow the traditional religious practices, of the Roman culture. Christians insisted that there was only one God. The Romans could not understand the communion or Eucharist and assumed there was cannibalism happening.
Although classical Greek and Roman writers considered the Celts to be violently insane, warfare was not an organized process of territorial conquest” (“European middle ages,” par.6). The society of the Celts was hierarchical and class based; for example, their society was led by a King. The other different groups were the Warrior Aristocracy, the Intellectual class, the Poets, the Jurist, and th citizens. There is no accurate religious forms the Celts had, for the Romans and Greeks wrote their own view of the Celt's religious practices. While the Romans and Greeks thought of them as animals, a later person named Whales wrote his Christian view of the Celts.
Some of these will include a compare/contrast of Christianity and other forms of study such as Epistemology, Metaphysics and Philosophical Anthropology. Entwistle also describes five different disciplinary relationships: enemies, spies, colonialists, neutral parties, and allies (Entwistle, 2010). This is for the purposes of understanding the nature of how these relationship contribute to the understanding of the integration of psychology and Christianity. Antagonists, or enemies are secular or Christian because both hold an opposing the view that there is no integration of psychology and Christianity. Members of the Christian faith who have a background in psychology would be the Spies who are only interested in the “benefits of their own religious system” (Entwistle, 2010, p. 182).
Robert Harsh, for example, declares in ‘Exposing the Lie: Inherit the Wind’ that "Christians, particularly William Jennings Bryan, are consistently lampooned throughout, while the skeptics and agnostics are consistently portrayed as intelligent, kindly, and even heroic. I simply cannot escape the conclusion that the writers of the screen play never intended to write a historically accurate account of the Scopes trial, nor did they seriously attempt to portray the principal characters and their beliefs in an unbiased and accurate way." Another perspective of critical sentiment is voiced by Carol Inannone in ’First Things’ when she states that "Inherit the Wind reveals a great deal about a mentality that demands open-mindedness and excoriates dogmatism, only to advance its own certainties more insistently... A more historically accurate dramatization of the Scopes Trial might have been far richer and more interesting - and might also have given its audiences a genuine dramatic tragedy to watch. It would not have sent its audience home full of moral superiority and happy thoughts about the march of progress." And so the film has had its share of controversy and
The CE/BCE notation has been adopted by numerous authors and publishers wishing to be neutral or sensitive to non-Christians[9][10][11] because it does not explicitly make use of religious titles for Jesus, such as "Christ" and Domin- ("Lord"), which are used in the BC/AD notation, nor does it give implicit expression to the Christian creed that Jesus was the Christ. [9][12][13][14][15] Among the reasons given by those who oppose the use of Common Era notation is that it is selective as other aspects of the Western calendar have origins in various belief systems (e.g., January is named for Janus),[16] and claims that its propagation is the result of secularization, anti-supernaturalism, religious pluralism,
Another possibility is that if the person were open to the idea of there being a divine then they could of just imagined some of it happened such as they could of just of been experiencing an unnatural vison caused by gases in the air but as they were open to the idea of it being caused by a divine source they automatically assume that is the case although this argument can be quickly disproved by the fact that atheists and other none believers have had visons that have converted them to a religion. The philosopher Swinburne would argue that as the idea of god is real to the person who has experienced the vision then he must be real and according to his principle of credulity it is reasonable to believe that the world is probably as we experience it meaning as we have had an experience involving god he is probably real. Although this argument can be used against Swinburne by saying that if an atheist has experienced a world without god then therefore according to the principle of credulity god probably doesn’t exist based on that
Those who believe in the gnostic doctrine know that some claim to have touched Jesus when he arose, but sometimes Jesus ordered people not to touch him (6). This led some to believe that Christ did not physically rise from the grave, he just appeared to look physical to those who were in a time of high emotion and who may have been hallucinating. Some Gnostics believe that the only way anyone could have ever come in contact with Christ would be through dreams, trances, or spiritual illuminations. However, this point of view was condemned as heretic by the orthodox Christians, mostly for political reasons (6). Belief in the physical
It also owed to foreign influences. The transcendentalists rejected the theory that all knowledge comes to the mind through the senses. Truth, rather, transcends the senses and can't be found just by observation. Associated traits included self-reliance, self-culture, and self-discipline. ﻌRalph Waldo Emerson- transcendentalist poet and philosopher; urged American writers to forget European traditions and write about American interests.
Often the term "myth" is being misused to mean a supposedly dead religion and its teachings along the lines of saying that Zeus is a myth and Jesus is not, when Zeus is just as real to his worshippers as Jesus is to his. It has become a way to say, your religion is less valid than mine. I guess it's the way someone looks at religion in order to say all religions are a myth. No, I don't think all religions are a myth, because one has to be the truth. I'm catholic, and I really hope mine is true religion.
The people also did not have any right of seeking his removal even if they were dissatisfied with him. Such a doctrine would have been suitable in a theocratic or highly Christian state. The France of the late eighteenth century had become far more secular and the ideas of philosophers like Rousseau captured the imagination of the bourgeoisie. Rousseau was one of those who rejected the divine source of political power and argued that people in any society were the true source of all political power. He further asserted that those who held political power did so by agreement and permission of the nation which was the owner.