RE: Question for Theists
July 17, 2023 at 9:22 am
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2023 at 9:29 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Its not reasonable to expect a social movement that spans the globe and centuries to be consistent over time or distance. It's gone through the same changes that the societies which have hosted it have, and syncretism never stopped. To put it even more bluntly, the religious movements that stopped changing for any significant period of time are the ones that ceased to exist, often replaced by a time and region appropriate version of abrahamism.
When I talk about christianity here in the states (and broadly across the west) splitting off into two distinct and post-christian christianities..that's not criticism, that's a sign of their continued success and relevance. That people still think they can take the stories and make them useful, make them fit to a contemporary ideology...whether that's stone cold authoritarian hate or wishy washy new age healing and tolerance.
When I talk about christianity here in the states (and broadly across the west) splitting off into two distinct and post-christian christianities..that's not criticism, that's a sign of their continued success and relevance. That people still think they can take the stories and make them useful, make them fit to a contemporary ideology...whether that's stone cold authoritarian hate or wishy washy new age healing and tolerance.
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