(August 2, 2018 at 12:02 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(August 2, 2018 at 10:10 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: What's the very best example of how Paul's writings underpin Western thought?
Ephesians 6
Quote:5 Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ;
Motherfucker loved the power structure.
Theists do not want to face the fact that their currently held beliefs were written by scientifically ignorant humans in an age of tribal dictators, which is what a king is.
Even in polytheism, it was expected to blindly support your local ruling family, and when you defeated your enemy, even in polytheism it was quite common to to murder the defeated, and even if you didn't you took their prisoners as slaves, and their women and children as property.
