We discussed how we felt that Gnosticism was an unnecessary religion. It seems rather pessimistic and for the most part just a religion against religions. It didn't make any sense to us that the Gnostic people could believe God made the earth yet they considered themselves superior to him.
I'd say it's more a religion against earthly existence, and in that regard not fundamentally different from any other religion that proclaims the point of existence to be transcendence to another world.
ReplyDeleteThey considered themselves superior to the creator, who for them was NOT the God they worshipped.
This is an interesting concept of people thinking God made the earth but wanna believe they are superior. It feels to me like a contradiction of belief.
ReplyDeleteQ. Zen expresses a nonprogressive vision of ?
A. Awakening
Q. What do you think of the statement that zen pops you into enlightenment?
I found this topic a little hard to grasp while discussing it in class. Everyone has their own religion, it's just hard for people to understand it if it's vastly different from another. We discussed earlier in the year about atheism and christianity. If one is an atheist they aren't really open to understanding christianity as a religion. People are going to believe what they want and I think people should take more time to understand that.
ReplyDeleteQ. The founder of Zen in China was called the ____________
A. Bodhidharma
Discussion: Briefly discuss what Bodhidharma said "consciousness-only" which means that consciousness is real but its objects are constructed by it, and unreal.