>>19525899I'd like to believe in him and Christianity but:
1) I happen to be a Greek and thus (long) descended from people who possessed a lot more rich culture than some semitic tribes in Phoenicia and were (are) part of the much higher European civilization. It would feel like a betrayal for me to abandon and/or laugh at these traditions for some Middle Eastern sophistry.
2) The Israelite God before Yeshua' time is a combination of the Levantine Yahweh and El a levantine chief deity. Both of whom originally belonged to polytheistic religions. So already you can observe a "man-made" fusion by default. Plus, it gets even worse if you subscribe to the theory of the Israelites taking inspiration from the monotheistic Persian Ahura-Mazda and his doctrines.
3) The post-Jesus God, and really Christianity as a whole, is again a fusion and syncretism of the pre-Yeshua Israelite religion + Yeshua's teachings + Hellenic philosophy (Platonism) + European folk religions (holidays, the high altar, etc). This brings EVEN less credibility to Christianity for me.
And that's without even touching how much compatible Christianity is with open/closed-borders, nationalism, nationstates and all the issues that plague the Western world nowadays (other than degeneracy, which Christianity preaches against).
>tl;driwanttobelieve.jpg, but the more I look the less convinced I become.
