Atheists Guide to Theology, Part one.
When the the early Christians assembled "The Bible" out of scraps of babble and apocryphal anecdotes, they felt the need to argue about it incessantly.
The human social framework is hierarchical in nature and when one Homo-Sapien rises to a position of influence, other potential alphas will summarily challenge him and if they are unsuccessful in their attempt at domination, they will split off to form their own hierarchical unit. However, they must create some reason to mask their true reason for doing so since plain ego is not an acceptable reason for committing hubris. Usually it will pivot upon some picayune aspect of the established credo and creating drama sufficient to evoke a schism so that the followers and their free labor and donations can transfer their zeal to align with that of the dissenter who then becomes know as the Heretic.
Such is the case with the hotly debated principle in the 5th century CE at a hootenanny grandly called "The First council of Ephesus" where the main subject of discussion centered around the mythological character of Jesus and whether he was a god, a human or both. This pointless argument generated a slew of fancy new words that people could write down as part of their dogma in establishing their respective turf in fairyland.
Under the heading of the subject "Christology" are such noble sounding doctrines such as Nestorianism and its challenger, Monophysiticism which breaks down further into Eutychianism and Apollinarianism.
Here we can see in the early christian hysteria and impressive beginning to an alphabet soup resulting in a profusion of conjuctive Syllabolism describing a confabulation of arbitrary and condictual Polyterminism.
Not to be outdone by the self-proclaimed divine leaders of early Christianity, the Rev. Barky conforms to the definitive doctrine of Nullachristology - or as Shakespeare averred;
Much ado about nothing.
The human social framework is hierarchical in nature and when one Homo-Sapien rises to a position of influence, other potential alphas will summarily challenge him and if they are unsuccessful in their attempt at domination, they will split off to form their own hierarchical unit. However, they must create some reason to mask their true reason for doing so since plain ego is not an acceptable reason for committing hubris. Usually it will pivot upon some picayune aspect of the established credo and creating drama sufficient to evoke a schism so that the followers and their free labor and donations can transfer their zeal to align with that of the dissenter who then becomes know as the Heretic.
Such is the case with the hotly debated principle in the 5th century CE at a hootenanny grandly called "The First council of Ephesus" where the main subject of discussion centered around the mythological character of Jesus and whether he was a god, a human or both. This pointless argument generated a slew of fancy new words that people could write down as part of their dogma in establishing their respective turf in fairyland.
Under the heading of the subject "Christology" are such noble sounding doctrines such as Nestorianism and its challenger, Monophysiticism which breaks down further into Eutychianism and Apollinarianism.
Here we can see in the early christian hysteria and impressive beginning to an alphabet soup resulting in a profusion of conjuctive Syllabolism describing a confabulation of arbitrary and condictual Polyterminism.
Not to be outdone by the self-proclaimed divine leaders of early Christianity, the Rev. Barky conforms to the definitive doctrine of Nullachristology - or as Shakespeare averred;
Much ado about nothing.
Labels: Apollinarianism, Christology, early christianity, eutychianism, much ado about nothing, nestorianism




2 Comments:
When I think about how much literature is out there, because of, as you said "scraps of babble and apocryphal anecdotes" it boggles my mind, but you are right, Much ado about nothing. It's just drama.
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Universitatus Committeeatum e plurbis unum, I hereby confer upon you the honorary degree of Th.D. Doctor of Thinkology.
The multiplicative permutations of bullshit never cease to amaze me. It's like a "divide by zero" equation, or simply put, truth is finite, bullshit is infinite.
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