RE: Paul's Writings Underpin Western Thought
August 2, 2018 at 4:13 pm
(This post was last modified: August 2, 2018 at 4:15 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Which, to be fair..was also a trend in classical pagan thought. It's a conversation that's been going on since the inception of the written word (and, in all likelihood..far longer, 50k years or thereabouts, at least - the earliest commentators didn't spring forth from a clam like venus anymore than "paul" did).
There's a reason we call it "the western tradition"...and it sprang up centuries before "paul" or "jesus" were a twinkle in some cons eye. Both judaism as we now have it and later christianity were the beneficiaries of that tradition..not it's originators.
More than that..the same conversation has been had elsewhere, wholly apart frm the western tradition or from the mere presence of christianity as an influencer. People the world over have wondered the same things and come to the same (and disparate) conclusions....and yet we find ourselves here considering the infantile proposition that some pious fucking fraud in the second century had a eureka moment.
There's a reason we call it "the western tradition"...and it sprang up centuries before "paul" or "jesus" were a twinkle in some cons eye. Both judaism as we now have it and later christianity were the beneficiaries of that tradition..not it's originators.
More than that..the same conversation has been had elsewhere, wholly apart frm the western tradition or from the mere presence of christianity as an influencer. People the world over have wondered the same things and come to the same (and disparate) conclusions....and yet we find ourselves here considering the infantile proposition that some pious fucking fraud in the second century had a eureka moment.
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