Christianity says that mankind begins in a Garden, and ends in a City. But the FIRST city is founded by Cain. What's up with this?
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Replying to @380kmh
Not only is the first city founded by Cain, but cities routinely show up in the Bible as examples of humanity at its worst.
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Replying to @380kmh
My take: after the fall, humanity could no longer live as a part of "nature," and took to cities. To redeem man is also to redeem the city!
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Replying to @380kmh
But this is risky business. Virtually every effort to "redeem" cities has backfired horribly. Likewise with efforts to "redeem" humanity!
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Replying to @380kmh
I think there's an explanation for this though--all these attempts at making a New Man or Healthy City, etc, come from pride.
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Replying to @380kmh
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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Replying to @InaneImperium @380kmh
God ordains universalist ethics/tribalist society. Homogenous nations allow the faithful to buoy one another up. Cities prevent that
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Replying to @InaneImperium
Cities don't prevent that--have you seen Japan lately?
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Replying to @380kmh
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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Replying to @InaneImperium
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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Replying to @380kmh
(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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