---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <emptybill@...> wrote:
Simone Weil was a Platonist. She was not particularly enamored with the Roman Catholic Church but found affinity with a form of Christian Platonism. That’s because of the historically inherited conglomerate – a term that actually descriptive of the bastard shotgun wedding of Christianity and Platonism. Weil was, in essence, a serious contemplative with typical French political affections. Since my karmic predecessor spoke fluent French, I might have met her (before WWII). Haven’t explored that faint possiblity. However, if so, it would only reveal the personal since that predecessor was not enabled for such things – at least as far as I know. Okaaayyyyy... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raphita@...> wrote: Re "Anyone considering these passages, who either sees or believes in supra-material intelligences will conclude that YHVH was not a deity (theos/theon) but rather an evil demon (kakodaimōn). ": The second-century theologian Marcion declared that Christianity was opposed to Judaism and loathed the Old Testament. Marcion did not claim the Jewish Scriptures were false but au contraire should be read as literally true, showing that YHWH was not the God spoken of by Jesus. In a similar vein, French philosopher Simone Weil (who was an anti-Jewish Jew) was incensed that the New Testament was packaged up with the Old Testament in The Bible. The two books she always carried with her were the New Testament and The Gita.
