Chalcedony cover with Venus and Cupid sleeping in a shell, with silver gilt swan as Jupiter by Giovanni Ambrogio Miseroni 16th C. CE
"A religion, in its formulated essence, is seldom the real religion, the practice and belief. Creeds which in their formulated essence are alien to a people may be accepted by the people. But the true nature of the people asserts itself.
This I preface to my observations on the difference between Jew and Gentile because I anticipate the commonplace allusion to the similarity of our creeds, to the identity of source and to the origin of the founder of your religion. Christianity (the reality, not the credo) is not a variant of Judaism, whatever Christ or his chroniclers may have intended. Your nature is the same today as it was before the advent of Christianity.
And if not religious, this difference certainly cannot be in the nature of a philosophy or a Weltanschauung. It is true that a man's nature dictates his philosophy and Weltanschauung , even as it does his religion."
-Maurice Samuel, You Gentiles 1924
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| A chalcedony cover carved with Venus and Cupid sleeping in a shell, with silver gilt mount in the form of Jupiter as a swan. By Giovanni Ambrogio Miseroni (1551-1616). |
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