(urth) What's So Great About Ushas?

[brunians at brunians.org]

The people who came up with Christianity, way back when, thought the World
was like this. Everybody did, more or less, irregardless of religion.

They did right up through about 1500 or so, in the West. Maybe even a
little later. Then the whole thing got thrown out and the terminology
reinvented.

There may have been people in the old days, epicureans and so forth, who
held minority views about how the World was made up, but they were just
that.



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> brunians at brunians.org wrote:
>> I am referring to the hierarchy of the great chain of being, as is David
>> Duffy. This is an underlying assumption of the Christian worldview,
>> although many modern Christians choose to deprecate it.
>>
>> In this hierarchy, the World is assumed to be a living being, possessing
>> an intelligence and a spirit as are all of the various levels of the
>> World.
>
> I've been a lifelong Christian, and this is the first I've heard the
> Great Chain of Being explicitly said to have a place in Christian
> doctrine. It certainly is not part of the Apostles's, Nicean, or
> Constantinoplean Creeds, or any other definitive statement of Christian
> belief I've seen.
>
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> Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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