I’m going to have to see a big ol’source for that one. You’re saying that’s a Christian thing exclusively, and not found in any of the cultural or religious influences on Christianity? How could you even begin to draw that line? Even more, you’re saying that, despite roughly fifteen hundred years of change, that was a core value that existed in the exact same way from the beginning of Christianity to European colonialism? Not even translations effected something so fundamental? Why would Christian patriarchy do this, but not Greek or Roman or Iranian? Why was it absent in Judaism but present here?
Even beyond that, you just subscribed to a normative construction of humanity and morality by asserting that capitalism emerged through this religion, and not that specific property relations and systems of power influenced how both are understood within our culture over time. For example, domination and objectification of the living world are certainly elements in this, but it’s difficult to argue Christianity is why that’s so and not that that was so, and Christianity exists as it does as a result of that.
This podcast is where I first heard the argument. Coming out of Duke University, it’s very well researched. You’d have to listen to seasons 5 and 6 to get the whole story. They cover nuances that my blanket statement doesn’t.
I’m going to have to see a big ol’source for that one. You’re saying that’s a Christian thing exclusively, and not found in any of the cultural or religious influences on Christianity? How could you even begin to draw that line? Even more, you’re saying that, despite roughly fifteen hundred years of change, that was a core value that existed in the exact same way from the beginning of Christianity to European colonialism? Not even translations effected something so fundamental? Why would Christian patriarchy do this, but not Greek or Roman or Iranian? Why was it absent in Judaism but present here?
Even beyond that, you just subscribed to a normative construction of humanity and morality by asserting that capitalism emerged through this religion, and not that specific property relations and systems of power influenced how both are understood within our culture over time. For example, domination and objectification of the living world are certainly elements in this, but it’s difficult to argue Christianity is why that’s so and not that that was so, and Christianity exists as it does as a result of that.
https://sceneonradio.org/s5-e1-in-the-beginning/
This podcast is where I first heard the argument. Coming out of Duke University, it’s very well researched. You’d have to listen to seasons 5 and 6 to get the whole story. They cover nuances that my blanket statement doesn’t.