A great deal of what I consider to be both highly appealing and yet toxic about Christianity is this core idea of a "true self" that's different from the actual person you are in the world And pitting this "true self" against the actual, physical, meat you as enemies
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That feel much more "modern" (if 2000 years ago can be said to be modern) Like we know a lot about the historical context in which they were written and in that context, the great writers of the Roman Empire wouldn't have given them the time of day
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They're written in "newspaper-level" vocabulary, not "college-level" vocabulary The argumentation really isn't nearly as involved as something you'd see from, say, Rabbi Hillel around the same time period They're not *books*, they're *blog posts*
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Huh, this is how I see the American presidential republic vs. the Westminster parliamentary systems of government. One evolved overseen by highly educated people over centuries, while the other was created ad hoc based on the older system by a bunch of colonial bumpkins.
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This is why Westminster parliamentary systems tend to be very stable while American presidential republics are unstable and tend toward undesirable outcomes.
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