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I think you're getting downvoted for suggesting that all the great world religious traditions were comparable in their influence on Western civilization, the ci
by lambdaphagy 4y ago
I think you're getting downvoted for suggesting that all the great world religious traditions were comparable in their influence on Western civilization, the civilization that the author knows best, is part of, and writes about.
In point of fact, the West draws primarily from the Hebrew messianic tradition and Hellenic philosophy. The influence of other systems of thought, while not literally zero (notably in the case of Islam) is just not comparable to that of Athens and Jerusalem. However valuable these other traditions might have been, they didn't shape the West like these two.
- photochemsyn 4y agoI think I'm getting downvoted because some people don't want to come to grips with the actual argument, and persist in grasping onto their benighted picture of history because it helps them to perpetuate their own modern-day mythology, if you follow?
- Brian_K_White 4y agoI didn't downvote it, but I'll say I don't think it applies or really makes much sense as a response to the article, and I have no religious axe to grind wrt anything in that comment. (atheist and recognize that much valuable thinking has been done by theologians).