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> The Bible (New International Version, large print) > This of course is the cornerstone of Western culture and no well-educated person can be without a knowle
by rramadass 2mo ago
> The Bible (New International Version, large print)
> This of course is the cornerstone of Western culture and no well-educated person can be without a knowledge of what is in it.
This is just dogma and factually wrong.
The cornerstone of Western Culture is Greek Philosophies/Texts added-to/modified-with Indian/Chinese/Islamic/etc. philosophies/texts.
- magarnicle 2mo agoThe fact you used "cornerstone" like this somewhat undermines your point, since its figurative use originated from the Bible. You might not like it, but you can't deny it's influence.
- rramadass 2mo agoYou are reading things which were not said nor implied in my comment. I merely echoed the phrase used by the OP article (should have used quotes to make it clearer). When you have had great Greek (Classical and Hellenistic) schools of philosophy and later practiced/extended by the Romans which could justifiably be called "cornerstone of Western culture", to point to a single book like The Bible and attempt to place it on the same pedestal is silly. In fact the opposite may be true viz. when western civilization broke away from the shackles of biblical thinking is when the "Scientific Revolution" happened leading to the science/technology driven world that we live in today. Of course the bible had a lot of influence on western culture but one could argue whether it was not more detrimental than beneficial. There is more to be learnt from Lucretius' De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) than from The Bible.