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To: Dat

So does Islam.


14 posted on 05/24/2024 11:00:20 AM PDT by Orosius (“Wake America Up Again )
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To: Orosius
It does, but it also values warfare and taking an active role in creating victims (I am being a bit provocative there).

In ancient Rome and Greece being a good person was a bit more of an active thing tied to how much power you had or could exercise. In Christianity there is a sort of inverse relationship, such as in the verse "the first shall be last" sort of way.

In almost all other cultures there was a warrior ethos baked into their religions. I suppose in the Middle Ages there was a bit of that in the Christian West, but we mostly abandoned it and I don't think it fit particularly well. Violence is a part of any civilization but Christianity in principle has tried to tame that impulse that I think our relative modern commercial and legal cultural supremacy can be attributed to trying to minimize it, at least in theory.

15 posted on 05/24/2024 11:27:41 AM PDT by Dat
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