S///R///W/B Mythless Patterns

[Paul Mackin]

Saying Christianity is responsible for most of the ills of the modern
(post ancient) world is no more wrong I suppose than saying Western
Civilization is reponsible for the ills of the modern world. The
two entities are what make the modern world the modern world. They ARE
the modern world in good part and are implicated in equal measure in the
good and the evil found there. 

Seems to me Christianity had a lot going for it in its day. One nice thing
about it was it incorporated a lot of the old myth. Kept the people in
touch with the basis of their humanity in a slightly more updated format.
Another thing, it kept alive a lot of the best thought of the ancient
world. Plato, Aristotle, etc--the deciplines which later could be split
off from belief and made to work in the development of modern science
and such. And Christianity is still much with us today.  I don't mean only
in organized religion or spirituality in the various forms, which I
consider its least important current  manifestations--but more importantly
many of the most advanced and modern thought systems, causes, isms--say
post-structuralism or feminism or post-colonialism--a few examples--all
incorporate as their one (one and only) "absolute" the basic notion of
equality and justice in the world that derives at least in important part
from the ideal (if not all that often the practice) of Christianity?

GR is loaded with myth, Christian and otherwise. Not much Christianity as
belief or practice there I wouldn't think. 
 
				P.
    

On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Terrance F. Flaherty wrote:

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