[lentulusgracchus]

The West is Hellenistic-Christian.

The most fundamental ideas -- such as privacy, modesty, personal space (your bathroom e.g.) -- are Judaic. They go back to the cleanliness and godliness of the temple priests, the Levites and Zadokites (Sadducees), whose ablutions and customs of cleanliness were taken up by the Essenes and transmitted by them to the proto-Christians. Greco-Roman ideas like, say, mass public latrines and baths with full nudity and sexual activity in the alcoves (exedrae) have been repudiated in our culture, and the recrudescence of "Greek" sexual mores is almost exclusively homosexual and decayed.

[stripes1776]

The most fundamental ideas -- such as privacy, modesty, personal space (your bathroom e.g.) -- are Judaic. They go back to the cleanliness and godliness of the temple priests, the Levites and Zadokites (Sadducees), whose ablutions and customs of cleanliness were taken up by the Essenes and transmitted by them to the proto-Christians. Greco-Roman ideas like, say, mass public latrines and baths with full nudity and sexual activity in the alcoves (exedrae) have been repudiated in our culture, and the recrudescence of "Greek" sexual mores is almost exclusively homosexual and decayed. Trying to

That characterization of ancient Greek and Roman culture is extremely distorted and frankly wrong. Those culture were highly moral, developing moral philosophy and intellectual disciplines that make ancient Jewish culture look quite primitive. Christianity never took root among Semitic cultures, whether Jewish or Arabic.

Without the Hellenistic inheritance, there is no West.

[dennisw]

good take!!

[dennisw]

That’s also the difference between paganism and real religion. When homosexuality gets the stamp of approval and they get their gay marriage this is a slide backwards into paganism. A roman emperor married his horse, anything goes