Recent content by Paul1979

Really, when did I ever say that? When have I objected to that? What I don't agree with is your style of Christianity. What I see is a lot of Fundamentalism and not a lot of intellectual thought. It is pure emotional response I see. No one can take on what I am saying and simply refer to what...

You know what, I wasted enough time with you.

What do you mean by that?

That is basically what is called existential Nihilism. The Death of God is a very interesting topic and it does explain why the West is the way it is. The Reformation in Germany and the processes after it, it destroyed Germany by the time the late 1800's, which is why I argue that Protestant...

Either I am not explaining myself properly or people here are just reading into their own presuppositions on certain words I am using, which causes confusion as to what I am actually saying. I am beginning to think everyone is confusing what I am saying because we are talking past each other...

Read the book Not By Bread Alone by Robert Sugenis. He goes into detail as to the biblical origin of Catholic Communion.

This has nothing at all to do with what I am arguing. God in my argument, simply means The Highest Value. That Value being the Highest Value of European Culture. That stems from Nietzsche and his argument for the Death of God. Which may make this more sense if you were to read the Parable of...

My argument stems from trying to understand the Death of God. I argue that it is an event that is 3500 years in the making. But, concerning Europe and this thread, it starts with the Renaissance and what followed was the Reformation and then the Enlightenment. I argue that the Renaissance was...

I get what you are saying. But that is not WHAT I am referring to. The Nihilism I am using stems from Nietzsche, it is an expansion of his argument. Nihilism as the Devaluation of Values, and that the Devaluation of Values stems from the Death of God (which Nietzsche defined as the Highest...

I am so glad you kept yourself so civil in this discussion.

As I told the other guy, I have been studying this for over 10 years and what is unfortunate is that most people do not have the proper understanding of what Nihilism really is. People who do not know philosophy post the dictionary definition and it is woeful misstates the actual meaning.

I take it you have never read Nitzsche? Heidegger? Gianni Vattimo? Ever read anything on the concept of the Death of God? If you have not, you are absolutely misunderstanding what I am arguing.

You are just posting definitions.

Do you understand Nihilism? Your understanding is just off the popular understanding of Nihilism.

The Bible is probably one of the most studied book in the world. Most people who study it, tend to focus on certain authors or certain perspectives to shape their worldview of the Bible. I have met people where I shared some of the books I have read and they were unaware of them and it helped...