Why did he hate Christians, /lit/?

Cos Stoics are worldless people and Christians are other-worldly.

Jews.

This isn't the answer to your questions since I've never read the scholarship on Marcus Aurelius, but JSM does discuss this in one of the examples which illustrate his argument that to censure a dissenting opinion in the interest of the public good is to commit the often-grave error of assuming that the opinion is wrong.
He basically says it was unfortunate because, unbeknownst to Aurelius, he and Christianity had many affinities.

Revolutionary radical jews

>>8752363
Because he was an insane, boy fucking freak.

Because he dedicated his life to protecting Rome, and the Christians were dedicated to destroying it.

>>8752371
https://www.openbible.info/topics/worldly_things

>>8752363
Christians are cucks.

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>>8752363

Maybe for the same reasons I hate Christians.

Read Nietzsche. Christianity says "Blesséd are the meek and weak."

It's fairly obvious how, when taken to its logical conclusion, this sort of thinking hinders Humanity.

1. Those who argue stridently over small matters have not the mental capacity to comprehend, let alone argue over, truly important ones.

>>8752952
Blessed are the meek and weak hasn't been Christianity's motto for 17 centuries.

>>8753096

Times change, kid.

>>8752952
Yet, Christianity WAS Western Civilization for the past several centuries. Nietzsche was retarded.

>>8752363
>Why did he hate Christians, /lit/?
Because he believed in the idea of a benevolent and just Divinity, intimately in relationship to humans; in the idea of the inviolate freedom of conscience; in the ethical principles of compassion, non-judgmentality, forgiveness, honesty, tolerance, acceptance of suffering, moral integrity above all else, and more.

Of course he'd try to free his domain from Christians! He was a true Philosopher King! He simply knew better!

>>8752952
>hinders Humanity.

jesus Christ you guys and all your value-posting

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>>8753115

Western Civilization was Western Civilization IN SPITE of Christianity, not because of it.

>>8753160

My values are transvaluated. Can you say the same?

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>>8753171
unironically still talking about nietzsche in the 21C

going to be a hard landing for you my man

>>8752952
>It's fairly obvious how, when taken to its logical conclusion, this sort of thinking hinders Humanity
>It's the cornerstone of Western Civilization

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>>8753115

>Look at my Christian poem, guys! It's about the war in heaven!
>No, the war in heaven is not in the Bible. I based it on a Greek myth.
>It's still Christian, tho.

>>8752928
t. angsty christian who hasn't read Aurelius

I bet you also hate the Greeks, eh?

>>8752363
Serious answer: you need to look into how Christians behaved at the time.

They were a bit like SJWs, a complete pain in the ass to live with and active misinterpreters of their own supposed beliefs. In particular they were desperate to martyred. I believe several other Roman emperors came to complain about this and were disgusted by it.

“What a soul that is which is ready, if at any moment it must be separated from the body, and ready either to be extinguished or dispersed or continue to exist; but so that this readiness comes from a man’s own judgment, not from mere obstinacy, as with the Christians, but considerately and with dignity and in a way to persuade another, without tragic show.”