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As an anecdotal illustration, years ago the Israeli girlfriend (recent US immigrant) asked me about Easter and what it all meant. After giving her a whirlwind tour of the gospels and the crucifixion, she asks me, puzzled looking: "So where's the rabbit come into the story?"
Christianity's moral inversion of strong and weak, rich and poor (e.g. seeing divinity in the violent death of an alleged criminal) and fascination with messianic millenarianism (e.g. bringing the Kingdom of God into being either in this life or the next) is a radical philosophy.
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It's understandable why the Roman world of the time observed it with ridicule and then alarm: It was a complete break with the values of the time. Even now, it's unlike most cultural worldviews (though its values, e.g., 'human rights', have spread along with Western hegemony).
Long of way of saying: it's odd to see the Easter season 'from the outside' for the first time. Nothing quite like seeing what was once familiar as novel and foreign. It's an intellectual out-of-body experience: jarring and life-changing. A sort of religious phantom limb, almost.
British PM Benjamin Disraeli (born Jewish, converted to Christianity) when asked by Queen Victoria what religion he *really* was, supposedly replied: I'm the blank page between the Old and New Testaments in the bible. It's an interesting middle ground.
(As a personal note, I think I'm landing way before that blank page, somewhere in the middle of Ecclesiastes.)
As a side note and total plug, we'll have @holland_tom on BIG IDEAS this week, to discuss more about Christianity and Western thought.
S'ppose it's purgatory for me then
Girard could shine some light on the topic.
Judaism is also an inversion of moral rights of the time. You'll notice the heroes of the Tanakh are never the firstborn, are never high status (we came from slaves!), are never the most fit/large. It's a huge difference from ancient semitic religions.
Right. Much of Christianity is some piece of Judaic thought taken to an extreme. But note the tension between universalism and particularism in Judaism (wholly absent in Christianity): those rules applied only to Jews. The thought the covenant applied to gentiles was anathema.
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