(April 22, 2018 at 1:18 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: The truth is Christian virtue had never been some abstract standard conceived out of nobility of spirit, and next to which real people fall short to various degrees. It was always a tissue depliciously conceived to corral the gullible and empower the unscrupulous and the opportunistic.
It never set out virtue, it merely unscrupulously borrowed the Good name of existing virtues to serve the ends of the most loathsome and disreputable human scum in history,
Except when one points out the outlier that is Stalin, it's "he didn't commit atrocities because of atheism" all of the sudden... Christianity has been around for 2000 years, what you describe has existed since time immemorial and has nothing to do with "religion" but is a product of human nature which is not at all inherently virtuous, hence the saying "absolute power corrupts absolutely".
