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Title: Your opinion of the Khlysty? Post by: Scam of God on July 12, 2009, 06:21:08 PM Khlysty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khlysty)
I am quite fond of them. It's an idea remarkably simple in its brilliance: if atonement is a prerequisite for salvation, then the only possible sensible attitude to take towards sin is that it ought to be indulged in, so as to put God to some use. It's a vastly superior system to the banal asceticism that Christian 'scholars' have incrementally advanced and termed "innovation" for the past twenty-five centuries. Title: Re: Your opinion of the Khlysty? Post by: Gustaf on July 17, 2009, 06:46:03 AM Khlysty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khlysty) I am quite fond of them. It's an idea remarkably simple in its brilliance: if atonement is a prerequisite for salvation, then the only possible sensible attitude to take towards sin is that it ought to be indulged in, so as to put God to some use. It's a vastly superior system to the banal asceticism that Christian 'scholars' have incrementally advanced and termed "innovation" for the past twenty-five centuries. "The central idea of Khlystys' ideology was to practice asceticism." Huh? Title: Re: Your opinion of the Khlysty? Post by: Scam of God on July 17, 2009, 08:45:13 AM Khlysty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khlysty) I am quite fond of them. It's an idea remarkably simple in its brilliance: if atonement is a prerequisite for salvation, then the only possible sensible attitude to take towards sin is that it ought to be indulged in, so as to put God to some use. It's a vastly superior system to the banal asceticism that Christian 'scholars' have incrementally advanced and termed "innovation" for the past twenty-five centuries. "The central idea of Khlystys' ideology was to practice asceticism." Huh? A strange sort of asceticism, they'd routinely engage in ritual orgy before purifying themselves through grueling fasts. Title: Re: Your opinion of the Khlysty? Post by: Gustaf on July 18, 2009, 04:38:33 AM Khlysty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khlysty) I am quite fond of them. It's an idea remarkably simple in its brilliance: if atonement is a prerequisite for salvation, then the only possible sensible attitude to take towards sin is that it ought to be indulged in, so as to put God to some use. It's a vastly superior system to the banal asceticism that Christian 'scholars' have incrementally advanced and termed "innovation" for the past twenty-five centuries. "The central idea of Khlystys' ideology was to practice asceticism." Huh? A strange sort of asceticism, they'd routinely engage in ritual orgy before purifying themselves through grueling fasts. So, you think engaging in orgies and then whipping yourself afterwarsd as punishment is a sound attitude to life? I must disagree... Title: Re: Your opinion of the Khlysty? Post by: John Dibble on July 19, 2009, 05:37:39 PM Khlysty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khlysty) I am quite fond of them. It's an idea remarkably simple in its brilliance: if atonement is a prerequisite for salvation, then the only possible sensible attitude to take towards sin is that it ought to be indulged in, so as to put God to some use. It's a vastly superior system to the banal asceticism that Christian 'scholars' have incrementally advanced and termed "innovation" for the past twenty-five centuries. "The central idea of Khlystys' ideology was to practice asceticism." Huh? A strange sort of asceticism, they'd routinely engage in ritual orgy before purifying themselves through grueling fasts. So, you think engaging in orgies and then whipping yourself afterwarsd as punishment is a sound attitude to life? I must disagree... I'm with Gustaf on this. Just have the orgies and skip the whipping... unless you happen to be into that sort of thing. Title: Re: Your opinion of the Khlysty? Post by: Associate Justice PiT on July 20, 2009, 03:44:30 AM Khlysty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khlysty) I am quite fond of them. It's an idea remarkably simple in its brilliance: if atonement is a prerequisite for salvation, then the only possible sensible attitude to take towards sin is that it ought to be indulged in, so as to put God to some use. It's a vastly superior system to the banal asceticism that Christian 'scholars' have incrementally advanced and termed "innovation" for the past twenty-five centuries. "The central idea of Khlystys' ideology was to practice asceticism." Huh? A strange sort of asceticism, they'd routinely engage in ritual orgy before purifying themselves through grueling fasts. So, you think engaging in orgies and then whipping yourself afterwarsd as punishment is a sound attitude to life? I must disagree... I'm with Gustaf on this. Just have the orgies and skip the whipping... unless you happen to be into that sort of thing. Capital idea, I must say. I would be interested to see how the Christian Fundamentalists would react to the establishment of a Khlysty monastery in rural Kansas by a group of people interested in practicing S&M. |