Hippies and christianity

What do you think about this:
Was early christianity ment to be like the hippy movement?
I think it was, at least the way Jesus (whoever he was) imagined it.
Later on people distorted it into something as stiff as the reoligion christians have now.

What do you think?

 

I spit on Christianity. Christianity preaches that people who are not Christians are going to "hell", and if you like to say that peace and love and respect go hand-in-hand with hippies, then there is no way that Christianity could be a part of the hippie movement. The Old Testament preaches conversion for non Christians, and if they don't convert you are supposed to kill them. The Crusades and the Salem "witch" hunts come long after the old testament, but are proof that if even it is nowhere in the New Testament, the religion continues to preach the persecution of non-followers.

 

You know what, we're living in the NEW testament, not the old. The bible says we will sell all of our goods, and move together into communities. Jesus was the first hippie in my opinion. Any TRUE christian comes together in love, kindness and the love of christ.


what more beautiful thing is there than love?

 

I am not talking about christianity as a religion, but I am talking about Jesus and his friends as they lived. Jesus never said aynthing about going to hell if you are not christian. He never used the word "christian". The christian religion was invented by people later on. I was talking about his way of life, his philosophy and what he had in mind.
I share your opinion on christianity as a religion. I don't have the negative feelings as you do though. I just find them silly, contradictory and brainwashed by centuries of propaganda. I respect Jesus christ as a great philosopher and thinker. Christianity today has little to do with Jesus christ and his philosophy. Its all twisted.

 

And about the old testament. Call me crazy but I think It just about a few poeple getting confused a lot in some kind of contact with alien intelligence or something.
I don't buy gods that "land" with smoke and fire, and gods that are in one place at a time, and gods that know rage. On the other hand, if NASA was to land on some planet with primitive people, they would call us gods, and writte "holy texts" about us.

 

And yea, a nice thought. Jesus was the first hippie. And allso the first communist. A true one of course, not like those idiots in Russia.

 

I don't believe in Jesus. There are no records of him ever living until decades after his death. IMO, he's as much bs as "god". I used to respect "him" altho never following any religion, but not anymore.

 

I think Jesus was a hip cat who smoked a lotta grass.

 

There is mention of Jesus In roman texts from that time. Jesus is belived to be a real man in history outside Christian and Islam religion.

 

That doesn't stop him from being a hip cat who smoked a lotta grass.

 

I doubt Jesus smoked Marijuana. Allthough he does sound like someone who took 6 tabs of Acid. But I doubt that even more. I think he was just a very intelligent man, very calm and very wise. Or he was an alien who was sent to bring peace in a violent human world (Remember how he floated off into the clouds in the end, perhapse there was a spacecraft up there). If he was a son of god, then there was no up and down for him. God is no more up than he is down. In fact he is the essence of "up" and "down" and essence of everything else that IS. Yet in every religion people just keep looking towards the sky.

 

I said it to the man that said there is no record of him not you.

 

Actually there have been recipies found for the annointing oil which Jesus would have used and all of them contain cannabis extract. Just a fact I thought I'd throw out.

 

I think that is possibly the most bizzare statement I've seen in a long time.... A religion begun some 2000 years ago be meant to be like a social phenomina from just 40 years ago. *
So no

There are perhaps some coincidental details; rejection of authority and such. But as I say it is coincidental.

Incidentally both ended up warped into something I reject/mock.


* That's probably just me being anal about bad phrasing.

 

Perhapse I was not clear enough. I should not have used the word "movement", but hippy "teachings". Hippies are not just a reaction to Vietnam, tradition etc. It is a way of life which is closer to our human nature, and this hippy philosophy is something that you can't really bind to a certain decade, because it is not so much a social movement, as it is a state of mind. Hippies are all about freedom, not about 60's or whatever.

Just like Jesus' teachings have nothing to do with that time. They are ment to be a guide for ever in life. Hippy philosophy is timeless in the same way.

So I see nothing strange in comparing the two.

 

I see your comparison, and I see it to be true.
What is said about Jesus is that he would be the original hippie.

Or perhaps Lord Buddha?
He was around before The Christ.

 

Christianity... ROFL!

 

Yeah, yeah...
'Tis a very funny subject...

Hey man, who is that with Nico in your sig pic?

 

Well all those people were living on a higher level than the crowd (I mean Jesus, Budha, Hippies...). When one listens to his soul and gets in touch with the universe around him, he gets to similar truths, so of course they all ended up speaking similar things. Its a proof that their ways are more than just nonsense.

 

Yeah, exactly alpha.
That is why The Christ and The Buddha both spoke of the same things.