Lord Herbert wrote on Apr 11
th, 2017 at 2:04pm:
polite_gandalf wrote on Apr 11
th, 2017 at 12:53pm:
What needs to be acknowledged here is that christianity - at least in the western world - has become quite progressive on matters related to women and equal rights.
Why O why do you always leave yourself so wide open to needing to be corrected - again and again?
Christianity has absolutely nothing to do with the liberal freedoms we enjoy today, let alone women's liberation.
On the contrary, the churches have been in the vanguard of those who have opposed every freedom we enjoy today, from gay rights to women's lib, from divorce to legal abortions, from sports on Sunday to shops opening on Sundays, from contraceptives and the 'Rhythm Method' ... and a whole stack of laws that were only overturned and junked through the work of secular activists and their sympathisers.
Christianity has for centuries been a yolk upon the back of the public - not a parachute of enlightened thinking.
Herb, you are quite correct. Christianity is not liberal. Christians have been forced to accept the liberalisation of society. But fundamentally, its still the same dumb stuff they have been preaching for centuries. There is only one God, Jesus is God and his son at the same time. When on earth, he had supernatural powers. His mother was touched by an angel to fall pregnant. He rose from the grave. For Christians, any moral values are secondary to Jesus being part of the divine threesome, so there goes monotheism. Its just paganism in convoluted form.
However, I would like to point out that it was Christian missionaries who were responsible for the end of cannibalism in Melanesia and Polynesia, not Western liberalism or law. And if anyone wants to push the line that cannibalism in those islands was only a matter of ritual, they need to read the personal accounts of educated men who witnessed the native's relish for human flesh.
Understandably, the subject is a kind of No-No these days, because we do not want to make their descendants feel bad. But if you can think of a way to embarrass Europeans, feel free, its open season in multicultural circles.