RE: I wouldn’t be a Christian
November 8, 2018 at 8:47 am
(This post was last modified: November 8, 2018 at 9:03 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Thomas Aquinas made his nut by proposing an even greater syncretism between pagan philosophical traditions and catholicism.
Aquinas didn't come up with anything, he took the (then)newly rediscovered stores of classical philosophy and sought to make them concordant with his beliefs. We can refer to those positions of others which aquinas assumed if we wished to understand "western thought" - aquinas is only required to understand christian thought, and..specifically, how christians sought to make their silly religion less silly by affirming pre-christian pagan traditions , lol.
Christian thinkers are emphatically -not- the only thinkers we have (nor are christian luminaries particularly relevant to our current academic traditions), and those thinkers cribbed their shit verbatim from the people they exterminated. There's some history for ya, to examine.
(just because it;s fresh on my mind from other threads)
The idea that there is good and there is bad predate christianity, christian thought, and christian thinkers. Christian thinkers and christian thought referred to their predecessors in justifying this position for themselves, and the current incarnation of this idea is the majority position of academia..but is entirely stripped of any theological underpinning..because we recognize that those underpinnings were garbage.... even on their own terms.
I don't actually have to know anything about christianity, christian thought, or christian thinkers to understand this subject. Christianity added nothing to this subject, and christinaity is absent from this subject in the present. Europe went full retard for a thousand years......that's the long and short of christian thought. Thankfully, we came to our goddamned senses (I mean that literally, god damns your senses, lol )
This is just a microcosm that follows the same pattern as the religious macrocosm, and yet another part of the reason why I wouldn't be a christian.
Aquinas didn't come up with anything, he took the (then)newly rediscovered stores of classical philosophy and sought to make them concordant with his beliefs. We can refer to those positions of others which aquinas assumed if we wished to understand "western thought" - aquinas is only required to understand christian thought, and..specifically, how christians sought to make their silly religion less silly by affirming pre-christian pagan traditions , lol.
Christian thinkers are emphatically -not- the only thinkers we have (nor are christian luminaries particularly relevant to our current academic traditions), and those thinkers cribbed their shit verbatim from the people they exterminated. There's some history for ya, to examine.
(just because it;s fresh on my mind from other threads)
The idea that there is good and there is bad predate christianity, christian thought, and christian thinkers. Christian thinkers and christian thought referred to their predecessors in justifying this position for themselves, and the current incarnation of this idea is the majority position of academia..but is entirely stripped of any theological underpinning..because we recognize that those underpinnings were garbage.... even on their own terms.
I don't actually have to know anything about christianity, christian thought, or christian thinkers to understand this subject. Christianity added nothing to this subject, and christinaity is absent from this subject in the present. Europe went full retard for a thousand years......that's the long and short of christian thought. Thankfully, we came to our goddamned senses (I mean that literally, god damns your senses, lol
)This is just a microcosm that follows the same pattern as the religious macrocosm, and yet another part of the reason why I wouldn't be a christian.
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