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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Mar 26, 2024 13:13:17 GMT
Has anyone seen Cabrini, which is getting a lot of attention right now?
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Post by annie on Apr 6, 2024 1:09:46 GMT
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Apr 6, 2024 15:35:30 GMT
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Post by Devotus Immaculatae on Apr 6, 2024 19:59:43 GMT
It's very slowly dawning on a few that the Christian culture and society they are fortunate enough to live in and have greatly benefited from, including its charities, schools, institutions, literature, art, hospitals and universities, cannot actually be sustained without Christianity.
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Post by hibernicus on Apr 7, 2024 21:47:23 GMT
This is an interesting review of Catherine Nixey's latest book, which basically argues that the dominance of what we know as orthodox Christianity was an accident and that some other religion, or one of the heretical forms of Christianity, might have come out on top. John Gray, who like Nixey is an atheist, points out that while emphasising Christian intolerance Nixey ignores the question of whether Christian teaching on compassion etc might have had something to do with its success (i.e. Nixey emphasises Darwinian accident but not the Darwinian point that the winner is best adapted to the circumstances because she is prejudiced against the possibility that it might have any rational element), nor does she seem to realise just how different a society which has definitively rejected Christianity might be. BTW I have noticed a couple of other recent examples of atheists writing books which use aspects of early church history (e.g. the existence of the apocryphal gospels, the Gnostics etc) which are familiar to anyone who knows the subject, as if they are some great new discovery. www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2024/03/personal-jesus-christianity-heresy
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