RE: Religion is evolving
October 31, 2015 at 9:54 pm
(This post was last modified: October 31, 2015 at 10:00 pm by Regina.)
Secularism.
If Christianity had not been reigned in by secularism, it would still be burning people at the stake.
I think it's a common theme in the 21st century to attribute the West's "democracy" and "freedom" down to Christianity, and the Christian Right-wing have played right into this with their savvy co-opting of traditionally leftist language when opposing Islam, LGBT rights movements or reform they dislike. "Freedom of speech" is their favourite. It's important to realise that all these modern concepts of women's rights, children's rights, freedom of religion or lack thereof, free speech, these do not come from Christianity or any other religion. These are rights that have been hard earned through centuries of stripping back religious privilege.
Religion (Christianity in particular) has appeared to "evolve" because it simply has less room to be a rich man's plaything when he wants a power trip. It's not gone though, that religious challenge against human rights is still happening in many countries in the 21st century, and it's being brought back to The West with an Islamic face.
If Christianity had not been reigned in by secularism, it would still be burning people at the stake.
I think it's a common theme in the 21st century to attribute the West's "democracy" and "freedom" down to Christianity, and the Christian Right-wing have played right into this with their savvy co-opting of traditionally leftist language when opposing Islam, LGBT rights movements or reform they dislike. "Freedom of speech" is their favourite. It's important to realise that all these modern concepts of women's rights, children's rights, freedom of religion or lack thereof, free speech, these do not come from Christianity or any other religion. These are rights that have been hard earned through centuries of stripping back religious privilege.
Religion (Christianity in particular) has appeared to "evolve" because it simply has less room to be a rich man's plaything when he wants a power trip. It's not gone though, that religious challenge against human rights is still happening in many countries in the 21st century, and it's being brought back to The West with an Islamic face.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
