1.1 History - eviltoast
  • philomory@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    For those wondering, this is from “Science: Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness”, by the inestimable Zach Weinersmith.

    • pruwyben@discuss.tchncs.de
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      11 months ago

      I think you meant estimable (worthy of great respect), not inestimable (too great to calculate), although I guess they both work.

          • DroneRights [it/its]@lemm.ee
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            You know that joke atheists tell Christians where they say “We both agree that most gods don’t exist, I just believe in one less than you. You and I aren’t so different.”? Well, that joke is more accurate than the atheists realise. The monotheism of the pre-roman Christians and Jews is very different to the monotheism of today.

            Ancient Christians and Jews believed in the gods of every culture, but they only worshipped one. That’s how every culture treated foreign gods, back then. The Romans transformed the world forever when they used religion as a tool of cultural genocide through syncretism. As Roman polytheism was replaced by Roman Christianity, it became the custom to deny the gods of foreign religions. This was a new thing, back then.

            Anyone who studies history knows that Europeans have been copying Rome ever since Rome fell. The colonisers of the new worlds copied Roman techniques of cultural genocide, by denying not just the power or worthiness of indigenous gods, but their very existence.

            White modern atheism exists in the wasteland left in the wake of Christianity. The difference between a Christian coloniser and a white antitheist is one god. That’s insignificant. The antitheists are simply carrying on the traditions of Christianity, rather than attempting to actually move beyond a roman Christian worldview and learn from the way human thought worked before Christian genocide.

              • DroneRights [it/its]@lemm.ee
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                11 months ago

                My absurd worldview? I guess you think the Encyclopedia Brittanica is absurd too

                https://www.britannica.com/summary/monotheism

                The monotheism that characterizes Judaism began in ancient Israel with the adoption of Yahweh as the single object of worship and the rejection of the gods of other tribes and nations without, initially, denying their existence.

                Oh, and Stanford

                https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/monotheism/

                Most mainstream Old Testament scholars believe that the religion of the early Israelites was neither monotheistic nor polytheistic but “monolatrous.” While the existence of other gods was not denied, Israel was to worship no god but Yahweh.

                Maybe just read some encylopedias if you want to know more about the history of monotheism

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                  11 months ago

                  No they don’t claim antitheism is colonial white people stuff.

                  First your own cited sources contradict you: you said that ancient Christians believed also in other gods but ancient Judaism was before that. Also in those sources you find that this happend in ancient Israel.

                  I don’t think the people there would be described as white.