Or a pile of nonsensical contradictions? If you believe it would be a coherent philosophy, what might it be like?
2006-10-26 17:11:27 · 11 answers · asked by RabidBunyip 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think that loving one's neighbor as oneself is certainly a worthwhile philosophy. What humanitarian could disagree with it? However, it's simple (at least at surface level), and doesn't require a Ph.D. to understand. So it may not be heavy, ponderous intellectual fare, but as an ideal to strive toward, it's a good one.
2006-10-26 17:15:37 · answer #1 · answered by thaliax 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Since the majority of Christianity has nothing to do with "supernatural elements", but has for lack of a better term, those elements as an icing on the cake....then you'd pretty much have what you already have.
What you call "supernatural" is nothing more than God's power...not the manifestation of some magic. It remains coherent, simply because it forms the basis of life on this planet.
2006-10-27 00:18:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, philosophy is more than half of what drives the religion. There are many people who will never recieve the chance to experience a miracle, or realize God working through the closest of friends or even strangers who help them around them. But the philosophy of doing good and helping others, of following the commandments and such is what cause many good things to happen to day and the philosophy still causes many lives to be better. Take Confucious, who took the philosophy of christianity and applied it to his life along that of many other faiths.
2006-10-27 00:16:03 · answer #3 · answered by dacoofoo247 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it would be a worthwhile philosophy, if you stick to the New Testament. Too much wrath in the Old. And I'm not a Christian either; I just think Jesus was a pretty swell guy with some nifty ideas.
2006-10-27 01:06:54 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm, Buddhism is a rational philosophy.
Christianity is something else. It does not directly and rationally attempt to transform the human mind like Buddhism. It does it through external 'people' (Jesus and God). Instead of training the mind to be perfect, it rides along with the perfect.
So I guess in this way it is a philosophy; It's a 'How to ride along with the perfect' philosophy.
And I mean that with absolutely no disrespect.
2006-10-27 00:25:42 · answer #5 · answered by Bad Buddhist 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
coherent? no way - eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, yet we must turn the other cheek
Jesus isn't all love and forgiveness either, even he talks about the fate of sinners at the apocalypse, talking about casting them into a furnace of fire where there will be "wailing and gnashing teeth" and he goes on and on about these wailing and gnashing teeth describing them in detail as if hee derives some pleasure out if - sicko
what ever happened to mercy and forgiveness, that loving embracing god? you know? kinda dissapeared in those verses
2006-10-27 00:51:42 · answer #6 · answered by damnitjannet09 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
christianity will never be a coherent philosophy.
if we stripped it of all its supernatural elements, we leave god father out of the movie and stay with his witch, gay, wine drinking son, who liked to hang out with a bunch of good for nothing old guys.
nope....not a good philosophy at all.
2006-10-27 00:21:50 · answer #7 · answered by peaceful light 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's a FACT, Jack!
No philosophy here.
What gets me is how people pick on Christians, because
they KNOW there is a God, or they have heard of Him. They JUST don't want to obey someone, besides themselves.
2006-10-27 00:13:23 · answer #8 · answered by bettyboop 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even Ghandi said that if everyone acted on the principles found in Jesus' 'Sermon on the Mount', the world would be a much better place. And he wasn't Christian.
2006-10-27 00:13:42 · answer #9 · answered by Epitome_inc 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You wouldn't be left with anything.
2006-10-27 00:14:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋