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MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos
Mysticism is really the only spiritual tradition that can not just thrive, but be useful to a leftist society.

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MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos

Bilirubin posted:

Thesis: its Paul's fault ultimately that my family aren't still hanging sacrifices off the tree in front of the temple at Gamla Uppsala

IOW, Paul is ultimately responsible for the cultural genocide that took place across Europe before it was exported to the rest of the world.

Of course, colonialism was driven by economics, probably primarily so, but it took on the veneer of the evangelical call to teach the gospel to all the creatures. So, is Christianity ultimately responsible for Eurocentrism/white supremacy or is bigotry developed convergently in various pockets because people ultimately suck?

Christianity is undeniably the basis for white supremacy. The entire debate around whether whichever native peoples are actually human or human shaped animals was based around whether they accepted Christianity as truth. The genocides started because the savages proved their inhumanity by rejecting Christ (or just adding the Christian god to their pantheon).

That said, it's not like non-white nations aren't capable of having a racial cast system, the Europeans just got lucky in making a global one.

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