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> [..] as the highs of repressive christian moralism in the mid 20th C. What makes you pick the mid-20th century as the high point of repressive christian mora
by eikenberry 2y ago
> [..] as the highs of repressive christian moralism in the mid 20th C.
What makes you pick the mid-20th century as the high point of repressive christian moralism? That doesn't seem even close to the high point if you look back further in history.
- bryanrasmussen 2y agoI'm supposing they mean as the highs of (repressive christian moralism in the mid 20th C.) and not as the highs of (repressive christian moralism) in the mid 20th C.
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- shadowvoxing 2y agoIt's a cheapshot at Christianity. That's all it is.
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- spiderfarmer 2y agoYou're right. He should have mentioned the Victorian era (1837–1901) as a clear precedent of repressive moralism. Though there are still echoes of it today, where Christians want to ban any sort of criticism of their morality.
- mjburgess 2y agoI was specifically thinking of the censorship of mass media which took place in the west from the 20s-90s, which enforced a "family values" kind of christian moralism. Prior to the 20s, mass media wasn't particularly censored (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Code_Hollywood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Code_Hollywood): USA : * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hays_Code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hays_Code * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commiss... UK : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Chamberlain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Chamberlain > From 1737 to 1968, the Lord Chamberlain had the power to decide which plays would be granted a licence for performance; this meant that he had the capacity to censor theatre at his pleasure. UK : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_nasty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_nasty > To assist local authorities in identifying obscene films, the Director of Public Prosecutions released a list of 72 films the office believed to violate the Obscene Publications Act 1959.