Might also be worth throwing out that “And then he came back… as a spooky magic ghost!!!” is some Grade-A evangelical cope.
So much of modern Christian dogma was just gossip and philosophical conjecture prior to the Council of Nicea. Christians hadn’t even settled on whether Jesus was the legit Son of God until 300 years after he was pulled off the Cross.
Go pick through the Gnostic texts. That shit is wild. You’ve got people hypothesizing that Jesus was a trick sent by Satan to lead people away from a second occluded messiah. You’ve got all sorts of wild speculation about the nature of human souls and God as this layered being that emanates down to the mortal plane. It reads like the weed-smokers favorite parts of a D&D splat book.
There’s a reason modern Christians stick to some Dutch-Irish guy taking a power walk to Jerusalem and getting crucified for it over the “I licked the wrong frog, now lets talk about neo-pagan metaphysics” shit we had going on during the 100s-era AD Christian Era.
Neopaganism can coexist with Christianity and vice versa. Just pious Christians tend to have pious, very unhealthy egos that stray too far into the superego and id far longer than staying in ego and haven’t had the necessary ego death the Christ/Osiris/Odin stories symbolize.
Might also be worth throwing out that “And then he came back… as a spooky magic ghost!!!” is some Grade-A evangelical cope.
So much of modern Christian dogma was just gossip and philosophical conjecture prior to the Council of Nicea. Christians hadn’t even settled on whether Jesus was the legit Son of God until 300 years after he was pulled off the Cross.
Go pick through the Gnostic texts. That shit is wild. You’ve got people hypothesizing that Jesus was a trick sent by Satan to lead people away from a second occluded messiah. You’ve got all sorts of wild speculation about the nature of human souls and God as this layered being that emanates down to the mortal plane. It reads like the weed-smokers favorite parts of a D&D splat book.
There’s a reason modern Christians stick to some Dutch-Irish guy taking a power walk to Jerusalem and getting crucified for it over the “I licked the wrong frog, now lets talk about neo-pagan metaphysics” shit we had going on during the 100s-era AD Christian Era.
Neopaganism can coexist with Christianity and vice versa. Just pious Christians tend to have pious, very unhealthy egos that stray too far into the superego and id far longer than staying in ego and haven’t had the necessary ego death the Christ/Osiris/Odin stories symbolize.