[lit-ideas] Roman Superstitions
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A to Z.
-- and the Lamb's self-sacrifice.
In a message dated 5/22/2014 4:20:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes in "The Missing Link": This post failed to fit
in
the thread from which it descended, and so, in order to survive, has adapted
itself to this thread.
O. T. O. H., there is a current controversy on the idea of 'superstition'
and 'sacrifice' under the thread, "The Missing Link", to which J. M. Geary
contributed with a poem by a Danish author.
D. McEvoy: "But does "closely" not come close to suggesting that the
Europeans' God is just as much an ignorant superstition as the gods of human
sacrifice?"
O. Kusturica: "Well, it wouldn't necessarily entail suppositions about the
existence of European or Aztek gods. Humans might be worshiping true gods
in false or superstitious or immoral ways."
It seems to be that the implicatures of 'superstitious' are notorious. The
Ancient Romans, for example, thought that the Greeks were superstitious,
while the Christians later thought that the Ancient Romans were
superstitious. And Geary thinks that Elvis Presley was superstitious.
Geary has written on the idea of 'sacrifice' in Christianism. The idea is
that Jesus Christ got _sacrificed_ -- hence the symbolism of the lamb.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_of_God
From the outset, the book of Revelation is presented as a "revelation of
Jesus Christ" and hence the focus on the lamb as both redeemer and judge
presents the dual role of Jesus: he redeems man through self-sacrifice, yet
calls man to account on the day of judgment.
The chain of being allows for a few missing links, even if Darwin was
obsessed with just one.
Cheers,
Speranza
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