RE: Maybe there's something like a god out there.
June 5, 2020 at 6:12 am
(This post was last modified: June 5, 2020 at 6:17 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Aaaanywho, we're teetering on the edge of some serious historic revisionism, I think.
Asserting that christian culture and christian culture alone produces the contents that it borrowed from other cultures at the outset - which was then affected and modified by contact with yet more culture as it spread through europe, and even more in contemporary christianity as culture and christendom became truly global. All while ignoring that history and culture chugged along in other areas of the world with their own homegrown advocates for any given idea with a western christian counterpart.
Then there's the nagging suspicion that our myopic view, already significantly divorced from facts, is a case of presentism in a single dominant culture. If we ask these questions in 2020, as westerners, ignoring all of the above....our answer may be different from a chinese person considering the same in 2050, or even a pagan european at the borders of christendom in 700ad. Personally, I think that it's a very poor attempt at appropriation.
Julian Apostate said it best and said it first, at the very dawn of christendom. If christians thought that pagan traditions were evil, then they should stop teaching them to their children. They have magic book, let them use that instead of the classics. Even the christians of that time realized that this would be deleterious to their movement.
Asserting that christian culture and christian culture alone produces the contents that it borrowed from other cultures at the outset - which was then affected and modified by contact with yet more culture as it spread through europe, and even more in contemporary christianity as culture and christendom became truly global. All while ignoring that history and culture chugged along in other areas of the world with their own homegrown advocates for any given idea with a western christian counterpart.
Then there's the nagging suspicion that our myopic view, already significantly divorced from facts, is a case of presentism in a single dominant culture. If we ask these questions in 2020, as westerners, ignoring all of the above....our answer may be different from a chinese person considering the same in 2050, or even a pagan european at the borders of christendom in 700ad. Personally, I think that it's a very poor attempt at appropriation.
Julian Apostate said it best and said it first, at the very dawn of christendom. If christians thought that pagan traditions were evil, then they should stop teaching them to their children. They have magic book, let them use that instead of the classics. Even the christians of that time realized that this would be deleterious to their movement.
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