I am prepared to accept religion had positive effects on society. I've written abt how Catholicism formed England's 1st social care system https://twitter.com/ted7416/status/909410368786714624 …
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Sure, it may not be unique to Christianity, but it is certainly most developed by Western Christianity. The individual as an agent...
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Yes, Christianity discouraged that. I wrote a thing about it - Augustinian Confessionalism which was fairly standard for centuries.
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Discouraged what?
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Individualism. The self.
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Christianity discouraged its own very central doctrine of the divine value of the individual soul? Okay
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The soul was not intended to be individual but an aspect of God. It became fractured after the fall but the aim was to restore its unity.
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Recover the image of God. Augustine, in particular focused on this in de Trinitate & his conception dominated western Christianity.
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I linked my essay on this which looks closely at it &how it was being practiced in high to late medieval confessionalism. (That's what I do)
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