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not really, stoicism was a thing and also humility was in the spirit of delphic maxims: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphic_maxims https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
by seydor 3y ago
not really, stoicism was a thing and also humility was in the spirit of delphic maxims: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphic_maxims https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphic_maxims
I m no expert but i think what christianity brought was forgiveness, and the inclusion of women, the poor and the meek
- p3rls 3y agoWhy stop there-- they popularized the babylonian slave morality, took mental illness's apparitions as genuine theophanies, brought the classic christian cognitive dissonance to the masses, enshrined platonic and priestly neet nonsense as law, and basically destroyed the west as a civilization (which augustine blamed the pagans on in 410, very humble)-- lots of stuff really