Christianity, the religion for anti-intellectuals.

[Hume]

“It is no exaggeration to say that the history of western populism – spiritual and political – began with Paul.” He is “the cultured despiser of culture”, “a learned fanatic of the highest order”, who “held up as spiritual models innocent children, uneducated workmen, and lambs with vacant eyes, forever enshrining reverse snobbery as a Christian virtue”.

Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know by Mark Lilla review – the enduring power of stupidity

A New York scholar’s study of our long history of acclaiming the fool and ignoring the facts is timely and terrifically witty

www.theguardian.com

 

[Hume]

“Paul made possible the transformation of the Gospels’ beautiful moral ideal into an anti-intellectual ideology that was enshrined permanently in the Christian scriptures and has since passed into our secular societies. That ideology has attracted a certain sort of mind ever since – one with a death wish.” As Nietzsche put it: “There was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.”

 

[Yakuda]

“It is no exaggeration to say that the history of western populism – spiritual and political – began with Paul.” He is “the cultured despiser of culture”, “a learned fanatic of the highest order”, who “held up as spiritual models innocent children, uneducated workmen, and lambs with vacant eyes, forever enshrining reverse snobbery as a Christian virtue”.

Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know by Mark Lilla review – the enduring power of stupidity

A New York scholar’s study of our long history of acclaiming the fool and ignoring the facts is timely and terrifically witty

www.theguardian.com

A Harris voter calling others anti intellectual^^^^

 

[Neoclitorus]

“It is no exaggeration to say that the history of western populism – spiritual and political – began with Paul.” He is “the cultured despiser of culture”, “a learned fanatic of the highest order”, who “held up as spiritual models innocent children, uneducated workmen, and lambs with vacant eyes, forever enshrining reverse snobbery as a Christian virtue”.

Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know by Mark Lilla review – the enduring power of stupidity

A New York scholar’s study of our long history of acclaiming the fool and ignoring the facts is timely and terrifically witty

www.theguardian.com

yes.

reverse snobbery.

sign me up.

the snobs are always the genocidal maniac nazi green eugenicists.

 

[Neoclitorus]

“Paul made possible the transformation of the Gospels’ beautiful moral ideal into an anti-intellectual ideology that was enshrined permanently in the Christian scriptures and has since passed into our secular societies. That ideology has attracted a certain sort of mind ever since – one with a death wish.” As Nietzsche put it: “There was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.”

yes.

because you're evil, you despise morality and human cooperation.

you love to sew dissent not unity.

you are evil.

 

[Yakuda]

yes.

because you're evil, you despise morality and human cooperation.

you love to sew dissent not unity.

you are evil.

How could you possibly think hume there is evil? I mean hume has said he/she/it hoped that I am violently murdered. What's evil about that?

 

[Daylight63]

The Christian Church hasn't always been anti-intellectual. There were some incredible thinkers who came out of the Church.

But these days we DO seem to see it going back the other way, with an elevation of "ignorance" as a virtue. Often because ignorance is something all of us share but if we are told that our ignorance is our strength and that, indeed, what we WANT to be true is most likely true by merit of our want.

It's hard to say if modern Americans are drawn to an anti-authority world view naturally or if our anti-authority view led us to be the most advanced nation on earth populated with people who largely don't understand the technical details of the world they live in and are so used to having their way that they assume THEY are the measure of all things.

 

[Daylight63]

A Harris voter calling others anti intellectual^^^^

Oh you are in for it now. I believe the poster is adamant that they despise Harris and what the Dems did to Joe B.

 

[Yakuda]

Oh you are in for it now. I believe the poster is adamant that they despise Harris and what the Dems did to Joe B.

That's a load of horseshit

 

[Daylight63]

That's a load of horseshit

Just you wait....

 

[Yakuda]

Just you wait....

I don't care. Hume already HATES me. He/she/it has told me they hope I am violently murdered. As much of a putz as I think you are I would NEVER hope you are violently murdered.

 

[Cypress]

“Paul held up as spiritual models innocent children, uneducated workmen, and lambs with vacant eyes, forever enshrining reverse snobbery as a Christian virtue"

I understand that Nietchze and Marx thought of Christian values as a slave morality, but I don't see how it speaks poorly of Paul to say that he hung out with slaves, women, peasants and laborers. Jesus' ministry was always concerned first and foremost with social justice for the poor, the orphans, the widows, the oppressed, and the diseased.

 

[Neoclitorus]

The Christian Church hasn't always been anti-intellectual. There were some incredible thinkers who came out of the Church.

But these days we DO seem to see it going back the other way, with an elevation of "ignorance" as a virtue. Often because ignorance is something all of us share but if we are told that our ignorance is our strength and that, indeed, what we WANT to be true is most likely true by merit of our want.

It's hard to say if modern Americans are drawn to an anti-authority world view naturally or if our anti-authority view led us to be the most advanced nation on earth populated with people who largely don't understand the technical details of the world they live in and are so used to having their way that they assume THEY are the measure of all things.

morality is simple.

the best part of religion is about moral teachings.

and morality is dirt simple.

it takes sophistry and word games to twist the truth.

and it's not intelligence, but guile.

 

[Hume]

I understand that Nietchze and Marx thought of Christian values as a slave morality, but I don't see how it speaks poorly of Paul to say that he hung out with slaves, women, peasants and laborers. Jesus' ministry was always concerned first and foremost with social justice for the poor, the orphans, the widows, the oppressed, and the diseased.

So, it is anti-intellectual.

 

[Hume]

yes.

reverse snobbery.

sign me up.

the snobs are always the genocidal maniac nazi green eugenicists.

You are incoherent. Please learn English grammar.

 

[Hume]

yes.

because you're evil, you despise morality and human cooperation.

you love to sew dissent not unity.

you are evil.

You are incoherent.

 

[serenity]

“It is no exaggeration to say that the history of western populism – spiritual and political – began with Paul.” He is “the cultured despiser of culture”, “a learned fanatic of the highest order”, who “held up as spiritual models innocent children, uneducated workmen, and lambs with vacant eyes, forever enshrining reverse snobbery as a Christian virtue”.

Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know by Mark Lilla review – the enduring power of stupidity

A New York scholar’s study of our long history of acclaiming the fool and ignoring the facts is timely and terrifically witty

www.theguardian.com

Great exaggeration on your part. Paganism ruled the western hemisphere/Orient was Eastern Hemisphere in those days before Christianity arrived when Rome changed how it governed in the 4th century AD.

 

[Cypress]

So, it is anti-intellectual.

Paul thought he was living at the end of time, and people needed to prepare for the imminent kingdom of God.
Explain why you believe Paul should have been educating people in literacy, logic, and the maths given that context.

As a general rule, peasants, slaves, laborers, aka Paul's laity, are not intellectuals either then or now.

Anyone who has read Romans knows Paul is not an ignoramus.

Pope Francis is probably the most highly educated leader of a nation-state on the planet.

Western science and intellectual history is heavily in debt to Medieval Christian scholasticism, logic, natural philosophy, and the Catholic universities. Scholasticism inculcated a habit of disputation, logic, and skeptical inquiry which in many ways still undergirds modern science. That kind of organized disputation, logic, skeptical inquiry was unique to Europe and is probably a major reason empirical science first developed uniquely in Europe rather than anywhere else.

The problem is, most of us were taught in junior high school in the 1960s, 70s, ad 80s, that the Medieval period was a "dark age" utterly devoid of anything intellectually interesting and really just worth forgetting about. Anyone who has read the historical literature of the last 40 years, knows the High and Late Medieval Age was a dynamic period of European history pregnant with historically important developments in natural philosophy, logic, disputation, and skeptical inquiry which are largely attributable to Christian institutional evolution.

 

[serenity]

Paul thought he was living at the end of time, and people needed to prepare for the imminent kingdom of God.
Explain why you believe Paul should have been educating people in literacy, logic, and the maths given that context.

As a general rule, peasants, slaves, laborers, aka Paul's laity, are not intellectuals either then or now.

Anyone who has read Romans knows Paul is not an ignoramus.

Pope Francis is probably the most highly educated leader of a nation-state on the planet.

Western science and intellectual history is heavily in debt to Medieval Christian scholasticism, logic, natural philosophy, and the Catholic universities. Scholasticism inculcated a habit of disputation, logic, and skeptical inquiry which in many ways still undergirds modern science. That kind of organized disputation, logic, skeptical inquiry was unique to Europe and is probably a major reason empirical science first developed uniquely in Europe rather than anywhere else.

The problem is, most of us were taught in junior high school in the 1960s, 70s, ad 80s, that the Medieval period was a "dark age" utterly devoid of anything intellectually interesting and really just worth forgetting about. Anyone who has read the historical literature of the last 40 years, knows the High and Late Medieval Age was a dynamic period of European history pregnant with historically important developments in natural philosophy, logic, disputation, and skeptical inquiry which are largely attributable to Christian institutional evolution.

What the hell is natural philosophy? Natural physics of evolving yes, as each brain navigates from its personal time living in series parallel positions daily since birth came 9 months after conception. 5 generation gaps came after inception of the species first set of great great grandparents.

 

[Margot]

The Christian Church hasn't always been anti-intellectual. There were some incredible thinkers who came out of the Church.

But these days we DO seem to see it going back the other way, with an elevation of "ignorance" as a virtue. Often because ignorance is something all of us share but if we are told that our ignorance is our strength and that, indeed, what we WANT to be true is most likely true by merit of our want.

It's hard to say if modern Americans are drawn to an anti-authority world view naturally or if our anti-authority view led us to be the most advanced nation on earth populated with people who largely don't understand the technical details of the world they live in and are so used to having their way that they assume THEY are the measure of all things.

The Christian Church hasn't always been anti-intellectual. There were some incredible thinkers who came out of the Church.

But these days we DO seem to see it going back the other way, with an elevation of "ignorance" as a virtue. Often because ignorance is something all of us share but if we are told that our ignorance is our strength and that, indeed, what we WANT to be true is most likely true by merit of our want.

It's hard to say if modern Americans are drawn to an anti-authority world view naturally or if our anti-authority view led us to be the most advanced nation on earth populated with people who largely don't understand the technical details of the world they live in and are so used to having their way that they assume THEY are the measure of all things.

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