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Silicon Valley has a problem with conservatives. But not the political kind
- PaulHoule 8y agoYou know I heard a really good sermon on the radio by an Evangelical preacher the other day about the apostle Paul and the book of Romans that he wrote. One term he used consistently was that Paul (my namesake) opposed "the culture" of him time. That is, he did not like Roman civlization, he did not really did that there was a temple to Apollo and Neptune but what destroyed the legitimacy of it all was there was a temple just as big across the street to the living Emperor. Similarly he was no big fan of the sexual morality of the classical world. At the time, early Christianity was a "counter-culture" than the Catholics took over and became the "culture", then Martin Luther is reading Romans while sitting on the can and decides there has to be a permanent counterculture, that the movement has to be "born again" with each generation. See also: the Jesus Freaks, origin of the contemporary anti-abortion movement, etc. (I am not a Christian, but I am the resident Christian Apologist and Range Safety Officer for my coven)