i pivoted from a deep loathing for christianity to quiet distrust and fleeting respect once i learned a little history and realized how truly awful society was before they came along with their brand of nonsense.
usually its the opposite for everyone. why? because the ones that pratices it uses it to impose it onto everything and everyone. what why do you think society was better with christianity, you sound like one yourself. POCs, lgbtq+ have all been affected by christians in a very negative way. indigenous americans fared the worst.
sure ill try a bit, but I’m no scholar! before christianity, society was brutal and cut throat. imagine walking down the road to visit your family member and passing by literal abandoned infant corpses left to rot in the elements, picked clean by animals or bedding left empty from slavers finding free inventory. christians were the first ones to say “hey…maybe we shouldn’t leave babies abandoned?”
in the early days, christianity was not a dogmatic religion coopted by power as everything becomes it seems. it was a small movement of people who believed different, and frankly better. at the time, THEY WERE THE ATHEISTS. when christianity first began, the world was FULL of gods, gods literally ruled over society as pharaohs and emporers. they said actually…all those gods aren’t real and those rulers are manipulating you for power. THAT’S why they crucified him. It wasn’t because their religion was so crazy or anything–it was because they were SPECIFICALLY saying “no–you are not a god. you are but a man” to the god-kings and that’s something i can get behind.
I really don’t mean to offend you with this, but it might offend you. I think you’ve read some very pro-christian history. The world very much wasn’t the way you are putting it here. There were codes and laws long before Christianity, or Judaism which it’s based on, ever came around. We have law codes from ancient Assyria, and codexes of laws from Babylon. Those both predate Christianity and Judaism, and that’s only in the near east. The far east already had civilizations with laws, and so did the Greek and Roman empires which existed at the same time as when Christianity was developing.
yes they did have laws, and one was that infant exposure was ok. laws do not equate to morality. frankly not sure why you’re talking about laws at all when societies you cite openly treated murder as a spectator sport.
i pivoted from a deep loathing for christianity to quiet distrust and fleeting respect once i learned a little history and realized how truly awful society was before they came along with their brand of nonsense.
usually its the opposite for everyone. why? because the ones that pratices it uses it to impose it onto everything and everyone. what why do you think society was better with christianity, you sound like one yourself. POCs, lgbtq+ have all been affected by christians in a very negative way. indigenous americans fared the worst.
dick sucking atheist here bud.
and I’m talking about 2000 years ago. not 250.
Can you explain what you mean by this? The way I see it, Christianity has been nothing but a negative on society. How did it improve anything?
sure ill try a bit, but I’m no scholar! before christianity, society was brutal and cut throat. imagine walking down the road to visit your family member and passing by literal abandoned infant corpses left to rot in the elements, picked clean by animals or bedding left empty from slavers finding free inventory. christians were the first ones to say “hey…maybe we shouldn’t leave babies abandoned?”
in the early days, christianity was not a dogmatic religion coopted by power as everything becomes it seems. it was a small movement of people who believed different, and frankly better. at the time, THEY WERE THE ATHEISTS. when christianity first began, the world was FULL of gods, gods literally ruled over society as pharaohs and emporers. they said actually…all those gods aren’t real and those rulers are manipulating you for power. THAT’S why they crucified him. It wasn’t because their religion was so crazy or anything–it was because they were SPECIFICALLY saying “no–you are not a god. you are but a man” to the god-kings and that’s something i can get behind.
I really don’t mean to offend you with this, but it might offend you. I think you’ve read some very pro-christian history. The world very much wasn’t the way you are putting it here. There were codes and laws long before Christianity, or Judaism which it’s based on, ever came around. We have law codes from ancient Assyria, and codexes of laws from Babylon. Those both predate Christianity and Judaism, and that’s only in the near east. The far east already had civilizations with laws, and so did the Greek and Roman empires which existed at the same time as when Christianity was developing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_(infant)
yes they did have laws, and one was that infant exposure was ok. laws do not equate to morality. frankly not sure why you’re talking about laws at all when societies you cite openly treated murder as a spectator sport.
You got some really flawed logic here. Just hecause pre-monotheism wasn’t perfect time doesn’t mean christianity invented morality.
I’m not engaging with you because you are putting words in my mouth and assuming my stance on things. cheers