RE: I wouldn’t be a Christian
November 11, 2018 at 4:39 am
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2018 at 4:48 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Not only was this not a particularly christian belief, it's not a christian belief (christians believe in forever, and an eternal god with no beginning)...but it was a belief of many of the pagans that christian civilization eradicated. If you google linear time, you will be flooded with names of pre christian philosophers, and even a cursory glance of european mythology will be bursting with beginnings of time and ends of days left right and center. Meanwhile, you will find no reference to christian theology of any kind in contemporary studies of time...while you will find reaffirmations of those bits of classical philosophy previously mentioned.
When you say that christianity shaped our western culture and ideology, but can only come up with a single example that doesn't actually fit...what are you really saying? Chiding would be too harsh, consider this me suggesting that you apply your own thoughts on how christianity was so effective in enforcing the primacy (and exclusivity) of it's assertions that we non and post christians can sometimes find ourselves saying something for no reason other than it being what christians said.
Like, for example, that western ideology or culture is based somehow or meaningfully shaped by christian theology. Yes, they said that forever..but apart from that, is there any reason that -you're- saying it?
When you say that christianity shaped our western culture and ideology, but can only come up with a single example that doesn't actually fit...what are you really saying? Chiding would be too harsh, consider this me suggesting that you apply your own thoughts on how christianity was so effective in enforcing the primacy (and exclusivity) of it's assertions that we non and post christians can sometimes find ourselves saying something for no reason other than it being what christians said.
Like, for example, that western ideology or culture is based somehow or meaningfully shaped by christian theology. Yes, they said that forever..but apart from that, is there any reason that -you're- saying it?
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