This is why I’m against any “rational” tampering with today’s mainstream Western worldview, even where I’m to the left or to the right of its political aspects. Any attack on “Liberal hypocrisy” that has indeed taken root in the last 50 years and largely replaced Christianity is short-sighted simply because this system is likely the only thing really holding our civilization together.
Would you have taken the same stance when dealing with say 18th and 19th century Anti-Christian thinkers in their own time? If not, why?
I very likely would; hell, the effects of Christianity’s all-around decay in the late 19th century—which was hastened on purpose by those people—are probably among the best evidence for the case I’m making. For starters, I’d quote this at them—and Dostoevsky too, and similar stuff by other thinkers who bemoaned the course that materialist civilization was taking.
I’m taking my chances on mind-killing here, but I’m (ethnically) Jewish, and my reflexive take on Christianity is “unreliable” rather than “holds civilization together”.
In the interests of avoiding the obvious… WWI was committed by Christian nations.
I believe (without having done a bunch of research) that a lot of the “tear it down” in current culture comes ultimately from seeing the hope of civilization’s steady improvement was inaccurate after the governments of Europe couldn’t find a way to avoid killing millions of each other’s citizens.
Would you have taken the same stance when dealing with say 18th and 19th century Anti-Christian thinkers in their own time? If not, why?
I very likely would; hell, the effects of Christianity’s all-around decay in the late 19th century—which was hastened on purpose by those people—are probably among the best evidence for the case I’m making. For starters, I’d quote this at them—and Dostoevsky too, and similar stuff by other thinkers who bemoaned the course that materialist civilization was taking.
You biting this bullet in spite of it violating tribal attire has made me take your argument much more seriously.
I’ll spend some time thinking about it in the next few days.
I’m taking my chances on mind-killing here, but I’m (ethnically) Jewish, and my reflexive take on Christianity is “unreliable” rather than “holds civilization together”.
In the interests of avoiding the obvious… WWI was committed by Christian nations.
I believe (without having done a bunch of research) that a lot of the “tear it down” in current culture comes ultimately from seeing the hope of civilization’s steady improvement was inaccurate after the governments of Europe couldn’t find a way to avoid killing millions of each other’s citizens.