Comments on: Polytheistic Straw Men http://wildhunt.org/blog/2008/12/polytheistic-straw-men.html Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:34:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kirk http://wildhunt.org/blog/2008/12/polytheistic-straw-men.html/comment-page-1#comment-2521 Kirk Sat, 27 Dec 2008 05:48:00 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2008/12/polytheistic-straw-men.html#comment-2521 <i>The welfare of the collective, which in practice was the welfare of the ruling elite, was supreme. There was no theory of individual rights opposed to this arrangement.</i><br/><br/>Oh, he may be confused. I think he might actually be describing the Middle Ages. The <i>Christian</i> Middle Ages. The welfare of the collective, which in practice was the welfare of the ruling elite, was supreme. There was no theory of individual rights opposed to this arrangement.

Oh, he may be confused. I think he might actually be describing the Middle Ages. The Christian Middle Ages.

]]> By: James http://wildhunt.org/blog/2008/12/polytheistic-straw-men.html/comment-page-1#comment-2519 James Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:36:00 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2008/12/polytheistic-straw-men.html#comment-2519 and, frankly, to my mind begging the question of how it is that normative Christians consider themselves monotheists, anyway...<br/><br/>I've rarely met a pew Christian who wasn't actually a tritheist.<br/><br/>It takes rather more theological sophistication than most bother to achieve to square the circle of making three into one.<br/><br/>At least as I've seen it...<br/><br/>James<br/><br/>(who is guilty of his own complexities, making much of the many being zero. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Sutra) and, frankly, to my mind begging the question of how it is that normative Christians consider themselves monotheists, anyway…

I’ve rarely met a pew Christian who wasn’t actually a tritheist.

It takes rather more theological sophistication than most bother to achieve to square the circle of making three into one.

At least as I’ve seen it…

James

(who is guilty of his own complexities, making much of the many being zero. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Sutra)

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