RE: Paul's Writings Underpin Western Thought
July 26, 2018 at 5:30 pm
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2018 at 5:50 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 26, 2018 at 11:15 am)The Industrial Atheist Wrote: Paul didn't say people can't have slaves. He just said they were equal under god. While he did say you can't have sex with people you aren't married to,(shitty to unmarried people but would prevent some rapes) he didn't say you can't rape your child wife. Which I'm sure happened.Muslim Magic Book tries to thread that needle as well. All may be equal before god...but neither ideology was willing to go to bat against the prevailing norm of chattel slavery man-to-man at the time of their inception. To much risk, no reward. Assuming..for the lulz..that god talked to all the nitwits who claim a direct line...they heard god say "and quit the slavery shit"....and thought to themselves.."let's ease that one in when we have a little purchase." - simply failing to record the lord of the cosmos enlightened stance on the autonomy of all human beings.
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(July 26, 2018 at 5:01 pm)SteveII Wrote: What does Paul say that would be so different than the philosophies that come before him?Nothing. A fact opined upon at length by the earliest christian apologists whenever some pagan asshole decided that the whole story was entirely too ludicrous. "-but what are we saying that you haven't heard before?"
Quote:What parts of the uniquely Christian worldview have been assumed even by the secular western mind?You got that half backward. The amount of detritus that christianity soaked up from The Western Mind™ was sufficient as differentiation from eastern and near eastern religions such as the one it makes a claim to pedigree from. Most importantly..the western plurality of divinity, dormant for a thousand years..would re-lay the groundwork for secular authority. In the longer view of history..the primacy of theocracy in the christian sense was a short aberration.
Those items you mentioned above were directly lifted from the hellenic element of christendom. Not likely to be the most salient in your own christianity (that would be pagan european syncretism).....but still.
Undercutting the central contention of this giggle worthy claim that christianity is unique...would it actually matter if it were.....? No, OFC not.
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