Thee Last Supper
Thee definition of critical rationalism is the view that religious belief-systems can and must be rationally criticized and evaluated although conclusive proof of such a system is impossible. If you don not have full on blind faith, known as fideism or you are not the type that has to prove your belief system with rationalization, which is a strong rationalist, then you are a critical rationalist by default. I believe my self to be a fideists’ with critical rationalist traits if I understand what I’ve read correctly. I believe this because I tend to use blind faith as my shield against questions about my religions ins and outs I may not be able to answer at the time. However, I realize that education on my faith will not necessarily give me the ability to proof any on my points.
I wish I could spend my time explaining why I thing I am a fideist but my assignment was to write on critical rationalism. So I will explain my traits. Sometimes I don not mind trying to prove my case but I am having problems gathering the evidence and even then the evidence may not proof anything to anybody, especially if they don not care for the point I am trying to proof.
I have a personal example. I believe the last supper speech gave birth to Vampire-ism. If I were a complete critical rationalist it would be my business to proof it to myself if I wanted to convince anyone else about it. Somewhere in the New Testament it states drink this wine it is my blood and eat this bread it is my flesh. Now, I know even in present times I could probably get stoned for this at the worst or argued down at the least. “That’s not what he meant!” “You’re not supposed to take it literally!” “That’s blaspheme and sacrilegious!” My point is and has been for a while now that the concept of living forever after consuming the real or fake blood of a very powerful immortal that could rise from the dead was G_d’s gift to Yesus long before Hollywood got their filthy little hands on it and ran away with the idea.
51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
52 Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
53Yesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. 57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” 59 He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
Many Disciples Desert Yesus
60 On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?”
61 Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Yesus said to them, “Does this offend you? 62 Then what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! 63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit[e] and life. 64 Yet there are some of you who do not believe.” For Yesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him. 65 He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.”
Tags: Critical Rationalism, Fideist, Reason + Religious Belief
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