RE: I wouldn’t be a Christian
November 11, 2018 at 3:17 am
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2018 at 3:40 am by The Grand Nudger.)
We're sitting here discussing how the already syncretic christians further injected classical western philosophy into their religion, aren't we? The things that christianity is made of, are western traditions. It's not the other way round.
It didn't go underground when christians were influential..they literally burnt it -to- the ground...then, at some point (many individual points, in truth), realized that this may have been a big "oops" moment. Consider the regional differences in christianity, consider the syncretic history of all faiths transported from one place to the next. They are always molded to better suit the prevailing cultural paradigm of the new believers. No one throws away their entire culture and worldview..they make the new faith concordant with their culture and worldview. Christianity, for it's part, had already been made concordant, aquinas just gave it another coat of western paint.
Hellenism was not what happened to greek culture when judaism influenced it, it's what happened to judaism influenced by greek culture. Out of that, and with further snycretic elements...a bunch of nutbars arose (most of which are now defunct) and the ones which came to power and became the religion we now know were the ones that most efficiently and easily embedded themselves within the apparatus of authority in the culture of the time.
The jews weren't wrong when they called the christians pagans and heretics, lol. Christianity, both as we know it today -in- the western tradition and as it formed then.... had nothing to do with the cultural paradigms of the ane, and everything to do with the prexisting beliefs of n. mediterranean and w. european peoples. AKA..."The Western Tradition", which predated christianity, and from which christainity is comprised and arose.
Now, ofc, they spent the next thousand years swearing they invented everything from puppies to sliced bread, and regardless of the absurdity in this claim it became a part of the conceptual framework of "the west" as history was memory holed.
It didn't go underground when christians were influential..they literally burnt it -to- the ground...then, at some point (many individual points, in truth), realized that this may have been a big "oops" moment. Consider the regional differences in christianity, consider the syncretic history of all faiths transported from one place to the next. They are always molded to better suit the prevailing cultural paradigm of the new believers. No one throws away their entire culture and worldview..they make the new faith concordant with their culture and worldview. Christianity, for it's part, had already been made concordant, aquinas just gave it another coat of western paint.
Hellenism was not what happened to greek culture when judaism influenced it, it's what happened to judaism influenced by greek culture. Out of that, and with further snycretic elements...a bunch of nutbars arose (most of which are now defunct) and the ones which came to power and became the religion we now know were the ones that most efficiently and easily embedded themselves within the apparatus of authority in the culture of the time.
The jews weren't wrong when they called the christians pagans and heretics, lol. Christianity, both as we know it today -in- the western tradition and as it formed then.... had nothing to do with the cultural paradigms of the ane, and everything to do with the prexisting beliefs of n. mediterranean and w. european peoples. AKA..."The Western Tradition", which predated christianity, and from which christainity is comprised and arose.
Now, ofc, they spent the next thousand years swearing they invented everything from puppies to sliced bread, and regardless of the absurdity in this claim it became a part of the conceptual framework of "the west" as history was memory holed.
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