Post B6fbGdkz97gWI4ppaK by toiletpaper@shitposter.world
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 (DIR) Post #B6fZE3ipx2p22lTIf2 by sun@shitposter.world
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       you're not really "not a christian at all" if you live in the Western Hemisphere. Secular morality is downstream of Christianity. Even if it's not, it's a response to it.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6fZWsaLaART0NTUwq by georgia@netzsphaere.xyz
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       @sun atheists HATE when you say this!!
       
 (DIR) Post #B6fa8zDLNt5wZJszey by newt@stereophonic.space
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       @sun Africa is full of Christians, yet somehow they don't share this morality.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6faVtr9TGg0bzQpqy by sathariel@diclonius.princess.wedding
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       @georgia @sun atheism is just the development of monotheism, a natural development imo
       
 (DIR) Post #B6fbGdkz97gWI4ppaK by toiletpaper@shitposter.world
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       @sun When you learn about pre-Christian Scandinavian/Germanic cultures it starts to become pretty clear that a lot of that managed to remain status quo throughout the Christian era too. We don't really have a pure culture in that sense, but an amalgam of the various cultures that contributed over millennia. Even something like knightly chivalry which seems endemic to western European culture, is arguably an import from the Alan (Iranian-speaking people from the Eurasian steppe) cavalry units who were brought there by the Romans as mercenaries and left behind when Rome abandoned the colony.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6fbIN5w4B1LC2SZay by sun@shitposter.world
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       @toiletpaper of course, syncretism is the norm
       
 (DIR) Post #B6fc6nCPHjbydLWsgC by 0orpheus@raru.re
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       @sun Brook Ziporyn has a great book called "Experiments in Mystical Atheism" that talks about this and how a lot of the New Atheist movement was essentially Christianity rebranded "without God" versus a true construction of a non-theistic morality and world system. Highly recommend it and any of his other books/talks.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6gJfOEAPu9fLl620O by newt@stereophonic.space
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       @joey @sun most Christians live below the equator. Just like there isn't magic soil or magic passport, magic faith doesn't seem to make people civilised either. Must be something else at play here...