The opposite of this view, that humanity has no common identity and that morality is specific to certain places/times, is paganism.
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Unfortunately, I don't know of any particular alternative. I think that's sort of the point though. It isn't by OUR plans that we're saved.
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If you want to take an Old Testament approach, the answer is clearly in a certain synthesis of the local and the universal.
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God ordains universalist ethics/tribalist society. Homogenous nations allow the faithful to buoy one another up. Cities prevent that
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Cities don't prevent that--have you seen Japan lately?
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True. But you agree all else equal, cities become trade hubs, bring in merchants and migrants, and thus demon-worshipping cultures?
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Other way around Trade hubs become cities; they are founded on mercantile activity--thus, capitalist
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moreover, *every* culture that isn't Christian is demon-worshiping. This includes nominal "Christians" who worship Mammon
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(And demon-worship was hyperbole; I agree w/ you, but the sociological dynamics are the same for eg Greco-Roman cultural breakdown.)
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I use Communist praxis w/ my own faith in Christ. I believe we can respect the local AND have a path to universal morality.
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Yes, I don't think a universal morality is possible that ignores the local.
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There is a bridge between the village & the city. There must be. If not, why would Love, & not power be at the center of the Gospel?
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But like you said, I represent a "pagan" tendency/minority among Xtians.
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