How does Christian propaganda supercede Judaic myth?

Answer 1

What is this, a trick question?

Answer 2

The same way that the atheist mythology supersedes the ability of atheists to cognitively realize their own error in rationality.

Answer 3

In the number of believers.

Answer 4

Titus 1:14 addresses the subject of Jewish myths.

From verse 10, it says, in part, "For there are many rebellious people, mere talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision group. They must be silenced, because they are ruining whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach—and that for the sake of dishonest gain... Therefore, rebuke them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of those who reject the truth."

If you look at analyses of how mythology works, there is the combinatorial mechanics of eschatalogical reminiscences (from web page below) and the mythopoeic performance of the "symbols and myths, both catching all of their innumerable redundancies and re-reading their multiple meanings." Redundancies are important, I think.

To make my point clear before I begin my argument, neither the Jewish nor the Christian cultures, as presented in the Bible, have a dramatic performance component to them. There are no musicals, drama troupes, make-up artists, mime artists, paid dancers etc. The Kingdom of God itself is explained by means of this parable, for example: "A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come." (Mark 4) The mythopoeic element of interpreting the reminiscences of the judgement-minded hierarchy is missing from Christian doctrine. Admittedly, a fair percentage of Christianity does operate according to the mythological educational method which is condemned in Scripture. (2 Timothy 4:3-5) This happens when people adopt a "currency ethic" (there is a price for mythology) which is represented by money. Ecclesiastes 7:12 says: "Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this: 'Wisdom preserves the life of its possessor.'"

Now to the question of the "redundancies" mentioned in the web page below that form part of the "method acting" required for the mythopoeic performance of stories treated as snapshots of public behaviour, as if a public liturgy. According to this article, it has to do with "evanescent imaginativeness" and "kaleidoscopically dynamic basis of imaginativeness." The expression "diverse lusts" in Titus 3:3 literally means "various colours/variegated pleasures." Imagination means: "the product of imagining; a conception or mental creation, often a baseless or fanciful one, ability to face and resolve difficulties; resourcefulness: a job that requires imagination, the power of reproducing images stored in the memory under the suggestion of associated images (reproductive imagination) or of recombining former experiences in the creation of new images directed at a specific goal or aiding in the solution of problems (creative imagination), synthesis of data from the sensory manifold into objects by means of the categories, a plan, scheme, or plot." This reminds me of epitome, which in computer graphic terminology means: "condensed digital representation of ordered datasets, such as matrices representing images, audio signals, videos, or genetic sequences." An epitome (Greek epitemnein—to cut short) is a summary or miniature form, also used as a synonym for embodiment. This reminds me of a scripture I was looking at this morning in 2 Timothy 3:13. "But evil men and seducers shall wax [prokopto - to beat forward, to lengthen out by hammering (as a smith forges metals), metaph. to promote, forward, further, to go forward, advance, proceed, of time: the night is far spent, metaph. to increase, make progress; from kopto - to cut, strike, smite, to cut from, cut off, to beat one's breast for grief] worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived."

Therefore, there seems to be a link here (assuming that people use words precisely, either consciously or by habit or by study environment, and I base my analyses on the idea that they do) between hedone and dynamic. In fact, when I searched on the internet, Epicurean philosophy refers to this idea. "I think that Epicurus ... seems to hold that lively, "kinetic" activities (e.g., work, sex) produce lively feelings (e.g., joy, ecstasy, fun=euphrosune) and are therefore bad, while tranquil activities (e.g., communing with friends, philosophizing) produce tranquil feelings (aponia=lack of pain, ataraxia=lack of confusion) and are therefore good. Thus Mr. Shelton's claim that "kinetic hedone is the means to the end of katastematic hedone" (Shelton 1995, 10) cannot be right. If it were, "kinetic" pleasures like work and sex would be instrumentally good and therefore of great value in leading one to aponia and ataraxia." "Euphrosune" (fun, joy) appears in the Bible at Acts 2:28. It says: "Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance." It is the prophecy of Psalms 16 applied to Jesus. As for "katastematike", it does not appear in the New Testament, but "katastello" does. It means "to send or put down, to lower, to put or keep down one who is roused or incensed, to repress, restrain, appease, quiet." It appears in Acts 19:36 - "Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly." This was a speech to quiet a confused assembly roused to chant incantations to Diana of the Ephesians. What had happened was that "Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana" had "called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, 'Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.'" He also said, correctly, that Paul preached that gods made with hands are no gods at all. His emotional appeal, though, was that "the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised... whom all Asia and the world worshippeth." This goddess was apparently served by hierodules - female temple slaves who have sex in the role of the goddess they worship. For one reason or another, there seemed to be an enormous sense of loyalty to the benefits that these sorts of practices would bring to the local community and business ethic.

The word "propaganda" was not originally pejorative, apparently. It is derived from "propagate", and means something along the lines of establishing growth by means of cuttings taken. Considering that Jesus is the true vine (John 15:1) and his Father is the gardener, the problem with Christian propaganda would seem to be the appropriating of the Christian narrative for the purposes of a man-made mythology. To this end, Christianity seems to have borrowed ancient triad worship ideas associated with building construction (see Genesis 11) which have always had a dominant impact on the world scene, according to the Bible. Nimrod follows in the tradition of Cain, whose fruit offering was not acceptable to God, and apparently spawned the life-death-rebirth ideology, which has been applied to Christ as if myth.

James 3:15 says that "this wisdom [of bitter envy and strife] descendeth not from above, but [is] earthly, sensual, devilish." The Jewish myths remind me of the workings of nature, although this is repeated in the New Testament. Sensuality refers to breath as evidence of appetite or desire.

Myth has not gone away. Democracy is based on the myth of the social contract. Mache defines myth as the psychic images and mythology is the words that provide coherence. If the Hebrew God is a Creator God who personified the act of creation, what is creativity? The point is that there is more than one ethic in existence. 2 Timothy 4:3-5 mentions not only mythology, but evangelism. They are distinct. Evangel - good angel. An angel is a messenger. A demon is a distributor of fates and fortunes.

To supersede is to sit above or upon. Jehovah's Witnesses believe, and I agree in the main, that the great harlot of Revelation 17 and 18 is what they term "false religion" - apostasised Christianity being the most culpable component. They term any Christian religion that believes in the Trinity and the immortality of the soul etc. as apostasised. I don't believe that the Old Testament is myth. I think the Jews inherited a record of achievement by those who really did the agricultural and animal care work and took this appreciation for their God into the realm of scripture (eg. King David). I agree with Nietzsche that Christianity has, in the main, made people sick so as to make them well by treating them as if they are in a menagerie. The word for "take captive" that describes Satan's actions towards humans in 2 Timothy 2:26 is that which describes animals being hunted and caged. Satan means "resister" or "adversary." According to the Bible record, the Jews were the ones taken captive by neighbouring nations who introduced them to animalistic ideas. Christianity, on the other hand, has taken the captor's role.