Creation or evolution?It is indeed a very popular debate nowadays that rarely finds a satisfying answer.That is because both theories address the same matter but with a different prospective thus confronting them is very difficult.
Christians and all other followers of the Judaic based religions point to a superb creator of the universe,who in his own image created man. Atheists and evolutionists point to science as the only logical force able to explain our evolutionary existence in this pale blue dot,all alone for now in the universe.Let's assume that they are both right.It's only a matter of perspective.
This debate goes a little further and is actually a result of a cultural schizophrenia of the western world.Our way of thinking,of interpreting reality is based on the Hellenic (ancient Greek) system of thought but our spiritual and theological belief is based on the Jewish system.Is one better from the other?One can argue but probably not,they are just different.So we selectively inherited all of the Greek way of thinking discarding only their theological belief system which was updated with the new religion of Christianity.So what happened?
The short story is a global collision of interest. Christianity begun as a dogmatic revolt to the strict and powerful Jewish religion,attempting the fulfillment of an ancient Egyptian prophecy,the return of the Messiah .But what actually happened was the first global ethical revolution.First Christian fathers attempted a merge between Judaism and all other major religion that dominated at the time,only to deliver a powerful message of equity and individual freedom.So in the first two or three hundred years history is marked with revolts of people demanding their freedom,revolts drenched in blood by the Roman legion.When the entire empire faced a total collapse fearing the first true ''French revolution'' this new religion took on an new form and became Christianity as we now it today,the first mass based religion.
We must only focus to the origin of the cultural schizophrenia.You have to bear in mind that the Greek world was a lot more advanced that what we actually commonly think.It was in the Roman times with the human sacrifices in the Colosseum and the arenas,with the prisoners of war and the campaigns that gave us the picture that we hold today about slavery and individual rights in those societies. But the truth is that in the Greek world,who's system of thought we use, it was no more different that the world we live today.You and I are slaves and our dreams and hopes is to gain our freedom only by beating the capitalistic economic system,so that we won't have to work again.Few among us are Aristocrats ,who we call rich and have the luxury of being in a superior social position. Imagine if someone today spread the message that all the wealth must be redistributed and that the rich ,who have more shall give to the poor so that everyone is equal.Such a system rised and failed and is called communism,but this is an entirely different story.So in a theological prospective we have a belief system constructed under extreme circumstances,departing from Judaism and twisted in a way to sue a political power.
Is Christianity wrong?The answer is no.It carries a powerful and true message of love and a codex of strict and moral ethics .What we must understand is the origin of thought.In early days everything begun as religion.The earth and the moon,the Sun and the stars all were deities.Eventually the Greeks begun to separate the cause from the result creating science.So for example you had the myths, were facts and religion were merged together but at one time they were separated creating history.We in the western world kept up this way of thinking creating an advanced scientific and technological society. Theologically we took another path and adopted a religion different from our way of thinking,which results in an extreme difficulty to address questions which merge science and religion such as evolution or creationism.
Nevertheless in ancient times and through thousands of years of theological evolution ,religion was pretty much imposed the way it is nowadays.You had a mass based religion,a simplified version that everyone could understand and a deeper,secret one to which only the mentally matured were initiated.Back then it were the Thracian,Kabeirian or Eleysinian mysteries that took men and women away from the mainstream religion to show them the true meaning of things,the meaning of life.During Christianity there were and are many more secret societies who do the same,Opus Dei,The Priory of Sion,the Knights Templar or even the Freemasons are some few examples.
Let us then go back to the source of our way of thinking and see the matter in a different way.Is man created or is it just a mere coincidence of a naturally controlled process?The answer is both,because for the Greeks the one god was everywhere,it was nature itself. The polytheistic system,which later was branded as the twelve Olympic god system was a segmentation of the major virtues of the divine,found in nature as a divine product.The creators of science were not atheists,on the contrary the most excellent scientist were denominated priests.If man is a part of nature,thus a part of the divine, it evolves with it as we know that nature evolves.The goal of science is to explain,in our way of understanding how and why everything works within this divine nature .And the answer is as simple as this.
The short story is a global collision of interest. Christianity begun as a dogmatic revolt to the strict and powerful Jewish religion,attempting the fulfillment of an ancient Egyptian prophecy,the return of the Messiah .But what actually happened was the first global ethical revolution.First Christian fathers attempted a merge between Judaism and all other major religion that dominated at the time,only to deliver a powerful message of equity and individual freedom.So in the first two or three hundred years history is marked with revolts of people demanding their freedom,revolts drenched in blood by the Roman legion.When the entire empire faced a total collapse fearing the first true ''French revolution'' this new religion took on an new form and became Christianity as we now it today,the first mass based religion.
We must only focus to the origin of the cultural schizophrenia.You have to bear in mind that the Greek world was a lot more advanced that what we actually commonly think.It was in the Roman times with the human sacrifices in the Colosseum and the arenas,with the prisoners of war and the campaigns that gave us the picture that we hold today about slavery and individual rights in those societies. But the truth is that in the Greek world,who's system of thought we use, it was no more different that the world we live today.You and I are slaves and our dreams and hopes is to gain our freedom only by beating the capitalistic economic system,so that we won't have to work again.Few among us are Aristocrats ,who we call rich and have the luxury of being in a superior social position. Imagine if someone today spread the message that all the wealth must be redistributed and that the rich ,who have more shall give to the poor so that everyone is equal.Such a system rised and failed and is called communism,but this is an entirely different story.So in a theological prospective we have a belief system constructed under extreme circumstances,departing from Judaism and twisted in a way to sue a political power.
Is Christianity wrong?The answer is no.It carries a powerful and true message of love and a codex of strict and moral ethics .What we must understand is the origin of thought.In early days everything begun as religion.The earth and the moon,the Sun and the stars all were deities.Eventually the Greeks begun to separate the cause from the result creating science.So for example you had the myths, were facts and religion were merged together but at one time they were separated creating history.We in the western world kept up this way of thinking creating an advanced scientific and technological society. Theologically we took another path and adopted a religion different from our way of thinking,which results in an extreme difficulty to address questions which merge science and religion such as evolution or creationism.
Nevertheless in ancient times and through thousands of years of theological evolution ,religion was pretty much imposed the way it is nowadays.You had a mass based religion,a simplified version that everyone could understand and a deeper,secret one to which only the mentally matured were initiated.Back then it were the Thracian,Kabeirian or Eleysinian mysteries that took men and women away from the mainstream religion to show them the true meaning of things,the meaning of life.During Christianity there were and are many more secret societies who do the same,Opus Dei,The Priory of Sion,the Knights Templar or even the Freemasons are some few examples.
Let us then go back to the source of our way of thinking and see the matter in a different way.Is man created or is it just a mere coincidence of a naturally controlled process?The answer is both,because for the Greeks the one god was everywhere,it was nature itself. The polytheistic system,which later was branded as the twelve Olympic god system was a segmentation of the major virtues of the divine,found in nature as a divine product.The creators of science were not atheists,on the contrary the most excellent scientist were denominated priests.If man is a part of nature,thus a part of the divine, it evolves with it as we know that nature evolves.The goal of science is to explain,in our way of understanding how and why everything works within this divine nature .And the answer is as simple as this.
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