(November 11, 2018 at 4:09 am)Khemikal Wrote: the notion that -christianity- shaped us..rather than us shaping christianity. Particularly in light of the fact that we -know- that we've been shaping christianity and continue to shape christianity.
You write as if "we" and our culture are pre-Christian. You and I and our culture are post-Christian.
Christianity did shape "us," in part. In that every one of us came from a dominantly Christian place and time. The fact that before that pre-Christian ideas were adopted into Christianity doesn't mean that somehow a pure culture of "us" continued.
The incorporation of these ideas means that there is no us and them. There is only different expression of the same ideas.
