Roots of modern Christianity

[muckefuck]

"I have heard tell that there is a paradise, and I believe it. I have heard tell that there is a hell, but, that, I neither believe nor deny. I believe that there is a paradise because that is a good thing, from what I hear, but I do not believe nor deny hell, because that is an evil thing." (Testimony of Grazida Lizier of Montaillou, as translated by Dr Nancy Stork and reproduced here.)

Comments

[alfaboy.livejournal.com]

so... if it's pleasing, it's not a sin?

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

What's your take on this? Self-serving twisting of doctrine to serve one's own desires or an interestingly englightened viewpoint given the time/culture?