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Friday, April 5. 2024

The Dawkins piece on Christian culture


We linked it here.


As I often explain, there are cultural differences.  Western civilization has Christian foundations, regardless of individual attitudes. It's not about whether you go to church.



Posted by Bird Dog at 14:43 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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It very much is about whether you go to church. If no one goes to church then eventually no one knows or cares about the religion. The Christian foundation will crumble and be replaced with something else, something not as good.

It's one reason that God commanded the Jews to observe the Sabbath and why skipping Sunday Mass is a mortal sin.
#1 jack walter on 2024-04-05 16:48 (Reply)
White supremacy claims and wokeness are irrational responses to the phenomenal success of western civilization which comes mostly from a white, Judeo Christian culture and which produced capitalism and the revelation of God-given rights, among other essentials of progress and the modern technological world.
#2 Peter on 2024-04-05 17:54 (Reply)
Only partly correct: Western civilization is founded on two cities: Jerusalem and Athens and I suspect more on the latter than the former, though this is certainly not widely acknowledged. If you consider that logic, geometry, aesthetics, history, moral philosophy, political theory, lyric and epic poetry, tragic and comic drama, music theory and a host of other things are part of Western civilization, then they all came from Athens.
#3 Bryan on 2024-04-06 11:36 (Reply)

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