Why didn't Western philosophies develop into religions with claims to supernatural like the Eastern ones did?
Why didn't Western philosophies develop into religions with claims to supernatural like the Eastern ones did?
Owen Ortiz
Colton Barnes
Because the romans killed the spiritualists of europe > the druids.
Blake James
About tree fiddy.
Caleb Davis
No they didn't. Romans did not ban any religions aside from Christianity.
John Bennett
They did?
If you read all the ancient greek "philosophies" you'll find plenty of supernatural claims about gods/reincarnation/etc.
Hunter Johnson
Isn't Gnosticism kind of like that?
Leo Taylor
>Platonism
Jonathan Lopez
What is religious about platonism?
Owen Ramirez
Souls
Reincarnation
Transmigration
>Wait a minute, why do these sound like Eastern religion?
Because quite a few historians claim India had a huge influence in early Greek philosophy. This includes both preSocratic and postSocratic, uptil the rise of Christianity.
The vehicle for that was two folds. Persian Empire in the presocratic Greek and Alexander's invasion into India as the second.
Asher Moore
Well christian theology takes roots in aristotelism and platonism
Daniel Cooper
Wrong. Christian theology takes roots in Jewish myths. Aristotelianism and Platonism are simply there to smooth out the surface.
Carson Wood
Stoicism is like that
Austin Bennett
But it did.
Without the greek philosophies, there is no such thing as Christian Theology, ergo no christianity as a religion, rather than some random doomsday cult.
Jaxson Thomas
I'm pretty sure Jesus did his theology without relying on the Greeks.
Nathaniel Gutierrez
Jesus never wrote any theology. That was done later after he died, by his apostles, namely Mark and Luke
Jordan Adams
The Bible is just a pure Jewish myth retold.
The necessity of Greek philosophy is purely a fluff and has no real thrust to the idea.
Dylan Lee
>The Bible is just a pure Jewish myth retold.
*The Old Testament is just a pure jewish myth retold
FTFY
Cameron Fisher
Idk user, Logos is a pretty big deal
Lucas Reed
Ok. Thanks for clearing it up.
Oliver Peterson
T. OP
Jackson Parker
Yeah, no. The Torah is mostly SUMERIAN, the later theology of Moses is Egyptian, only the "historical" books of the OT are purely Jewish, the NT is helleno-judaic and the later Christian works are almost wholly Greek.