FAITH or Reason? Stoicism vs Christianity (no Illusions)

Описание: Imagine standing between two of the most powerful traditions ever created to guide human life.

One teaches self-mastery through reason.
The other teaches surrender through faith.

Both promise strength.
Both confront suffering.
Both claim to offer a path to peace.

But beneath the shared language of virtue, discipline, and meaning lies a divide that reshaped Western civilization.

In this video, we place Stoicism and Christianity side by side and examine where they truly converge and where they become impossible to reconcile.

Using the ideas of Marcus Aurelios, Epictetus, Seneca, Chrysippus, Augustine, C.S. Lewis, and Søren Kierkegaard, we explore how these two systems explain human failure, emotional life, moral duty, death, and salvation.

🔥 You will see why Stoicism builds inner fortresses, while Christianity opens the soul to transformation.
🔥 You will understand why both demand responsibility, yet define strength in opposite ways.
🔥 And you’ll discover why these traditions feel so similar on the surface, but lead to radically different destinies.

✅ What you’ll learn:
✔ Why Stoic reason and Christian faith speak to the same human pain
✔ The true difference between Apatheia and Agape
✔ Self-reliance versus grace, and why neither is emotionally neutral
✔ How each tradition faces death without illusion
✔ Why modern people feel torn between these two paths

Watch until the end and decide for yourself:
Is strength built from within, or received from beyond?

📌 VIDEO CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Introduction: The Apostle and the Philosophers: When Faith Faced Reason
02:34 - The Ruler of the Cosmos: An Impersonal Logos vs. a Personal God
06:08 - What Went Wrong with Humanity: Error of Judgment vs. Original Sin
09:53 - The Ideal Inner State: Stoic Apatheia vs. Christian Love
13:12 - Where Strength Comes From: Radical Self-Reliance vs. Divine Grace
16:23 - Why We Owe Each Other Anything: Sympatheia vs. Love of Neighbor
20:05 - Facing Death Without Illusions: Memento Mori vs. Eternal Life
23:26 - Philosophical Cousins, Divergent Destinies
26:46 - Stoic Conclusion: The Same Human Thirst, Different Wells

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