Darn. I'll try to make it more extreme. Oh, that's silly. I'll let it stand.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
*%$#[f word]!! DONT talk about Socrates!! That bastard is the 1st minister in my country and he is the worst thing i ever found!! Jesus! I hate him! If you want to see Portugal to get destroyed, come and see Socrates and his f******* politics we hate him!! die m$%#"$&#$! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!, now i am more relaxed!
Wow, you must dislike him very much Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!, what is the public oppinion on him? Why did he win election? You also realise that you stray from the discussion topic?
It's ok for me, I have my doubts as to why they made it a sticky anyway, but I'm still curious if the public oppinion on him are as furious as yours, or are you a loner? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
You infered from a fictional discussion between Socrates and the leader of one religion, that therefore philosophy is greater than all religions?
Theres too much overlap between religion and philosophy to really distinguish them from each other most of the time.
If you ask me, which of course you are not, I really believe that few people clearly understand that there is a HUGE difference between religion, philosophy, metaphysics and spiritualism. Certainly lines do get crossed but all four have very distinct and definable differences.
Stop putting words in my mouth! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! (I am Jesus Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! )
In addition to the twelve main gods and the innumerable lesser deities, ancient Greeks worshiped a deity they called Agnostos Theos, that is: the Unknown god. In Athens, there was a temple specifically dedicated to that god and very often Athenians would swear "in the name of the Unknown god" (Νή τόν Άγνωστον Ne ton Agnoston).[1] Apollodorus, Philostratus and Pausanias wrote about the Unknown god as well.[2] The Unknown god was not so much a specific deity, but a placeholder, for whatever god or gods actually existed but whose name and nature were not revealed to the Athenians or the Hellenized world at large.
I think Jesus would win a logical argument against Socrates- I think it poorly represented Jesus- being all-knowing and stuff. But it does bring out an interesting point: how much of Jesus is His life and how much of it is church doctrine? I was also amazed on how little information there is on Satan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satan
Of course he would have. He is trained in reason and logic and rhetoric, which Jesus wasn't. If he were, he wouldn't have done what he did.
@jmpet -- And I think that even a first year philosophy student would be able to tear anything Jesus could say apart. To put it simply we just plain know more now than Jesus, or Socrates for that matter, could ever have dreamed possible. Hell, most grade school students know more these days than the greatest of scholars did two thousand years ago.