RE: What has Christianity truly contributed to humanity
July 28, 2023 at 12:49 pm
(This post was last modified: July 28, 2023 at 12:59 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
This should be an easy comparison, though we're still in the grips of theocratic revisionists, the great us has been shattered even in the minds of american christers. We've become comfortable, or more comfortable, with the idea that the things that the us has laid claim over were not, in fact, actually products of americana. A world without the us would not be a world without cars or planes or "freedom". That we had no exclusivity on them, that we did many (or even most of them) for reasons we no longer acknowledge or would accept, and that the whole time we gaslit anyone with ears to listen about them. That we routinely failed, even on our own jingoistic terms.
Now, personally, I can still believe in an american greatness, just as I'm sure christians can still believe in a christian greatness. The difference, apparently, is that I don't need the lies to prop up my own beliefs, beliefs which hold even in the face of the truth plainly spoken. Took what, 2-300 hundred years to get there, christians have had more than twice as long and don't seem to have made it halfway yet. Incapable of even considering a reality where they've been propagandized into believing that a bunch of bickering warlords and criminal enterprises were...somehow...the light of civilization through tough times which happened for no particular reason whatsoever.
Thank GOD christianity was here to save us from our christian world! Just like they saved all those pagans.
There's a perfect analog in contemporary us politics for it, too - that neatly combines both examples.... where people who vote against a thing go home and loudly crow about all the money they got for their constituents..and wouldn't you know it, they keep telling us that the reason they had to vote against the thing they very much want credit for is "because christian". This, is how I see that. Whatever, we have no choice but to drag you retrograde fuckers along with us, but we don't have to grovel and defer to your bullshit in the process.
Now, personally, I can still believe in an american greatness, just as I'm sure christians can still believe in a christian greatness. The difference, apparently, is that I don't need the lies to prop up my own beliefs, beliefs which hold even in the face of the truth plainly spoken. Took what, 2-300 hundred years to get there, christians have had more than twice as long and don't seem to have made it halfway yet. Incapable of even considering a reality where they've been propagandized into believing that a bunch of bickering warlords and criminal enterprises were...somehow...the light of civilization through tough times which happened for no particular reason whatsoever.
Thank GOD christianity was here to save us from our christian world! Just like they saved all those pagans.
There's a perfect analog in contemporary us politics for it, too - that neatly combines both examples.... where people who vote against a thing go home and loudly crow about all the money they got for their constituents..and wouldn't you know it, they keep telling us that the reason they had to vote against the thing they very much want credit for is "because christian". This, is how I see that. Whatever, we have no choice but to drag you retrograde fuckers along with us, but we don't have to grovel and defer to your bullshit in the process.
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