RST 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fausto Sozzini, Joseph De Maistre, James George Frazer
3 Mar 2017
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St. paul c. 5-c. 67: dominant writer of the new testament, only author of the new testament we can identify historically. I(cid:374) the gospels, ea(cid:272)h o(cid:374)e see(cid:373)s to retell the stor(cid:455) of jesus" life a(cid:374)d death fro(cid:373) differe(cid:374)t. No(cid:374)e of the(cid:373) e(cid:448)er use the (cid:449)ord (cid:862)i. (cid:863) the(cid:455)"re (cid:374)ot e(cid:455)e (cid:449)it(cid:374)ess a(cid:272)(cid:272)ou(cid:374)ts: ne(cid:448)er (cid:373)et jesus a(cid:374)d he"s upset a(cid:271)out this, religious genius and amazing thinker and teacher. May be b/c he is less religious than he sounds: machiavelli. Religion is a form of crowd control and propaganda for obedience. Romans were crazy and religion kept them in control: says pretty much the same stuff as grotius that blood will atone, co(cid:374)(cid:272)lusio(cid:374) is that the solutio(cid:374) is jesus" sa(cid:272)rifi(cid:272)e a(cid:374)d this (cid:449)ill keep (cid:272)i(cid:448)il order. James frazer: anthropologist, talking about this as an insight to the nature of human society. John often talks about how jesus came into this world to show us the light.
