and it's crazy how many otherwise educated people ignore it.
The Bible is one of Western civilization's foundational books
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Links for the summer children here:
Why the liberal West is a Christian creation
Christianity is dismissed as a fairy tale but its assumptions underpin the modern secular world.https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2019/09/why-the-liberal-west-is-a-christian-creation
Tom Holland: Why I was wrong about Christianity
It took me a long time to realise my morals are not Greek or Roman, but thoroughly, and proudly, Christian. -
Right. It's amazing how many people don't believe in a siIly god-mythology.
It's quite understandable for a society to reject ancient religious scripture. However, it's also quite self-destructive for a society to reject its foundational ethical system without providing a secular alternative.
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Right. It's amazing how many people don't believe in a siIly god-mythology.
It's quite understandable for a society to reject ancient religious scripture. However, it's also quite self-destructive for a society to reject its foundational ethical system without providing a secular alternative.
there a lots of secular alternatives it's just that we don't agree on them, mostly we tolerate them, but that may be changing. We didn't agree on the religious alternatives in the pst either, but nor did we tolerate alternatives, we just tended to get burn those we termed unbelievers.