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And even in polytheistic religions things change. That is the nature of humans. The myths and practices change with time. A Greek Hellenistic culture would adapt to the current age without giving up its most important relationships.
First come first served. First civilisations emerged in East.
www.history.com
Just go back earlier in their culture and your statement would change.
This is true, but there were people living in Europe for thousands of years, into the Stone Age, and still nothing.First come first served. First civilisations emerged in East.
"The presence of those rivers had a lot to do with why Mesopotamia developed complex societies and innovations such as writing, elaborate architecture and government bureaucracies. The regular flooding along the Tigris and the Euphrates made the land around them especially fertile and ideal for growing crops for food."
How Mesopotamia Became the Cradle of Civilization | HISTORY
Environmental factors helped agriculture, architecture and eventually a social order emerge for the first time in ancient Mesopotamia.
What followed the age of enlightenment - Romanticism which saw there was more to life than what the age of enlightenment could offer.You might not like this, but here it is:
Age of Enlightenment - Wikipedia
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The central doctrines of the Enlightenment were individual liberty and religious tolerance, in opposition to an absolute monarchy and the power of religious authorities. The Enlightenment was marked by an increasing awareness of the relationship between the mind and the everyday media of the world,[12] and by an emphasis on the scientific method and reductionism, along with increased questioning of religious orthodoxy—an attitude captured by Kant's essay Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?, where the phrase sapere aude ('dare to know') can be found.[13]
Most of cultural controls in the Pauline epistles are a kinder, gentler form of Hellenistic culture so that the early Christians wouldn't be persecuted by the more hardcore Hellenistic culture. Do you want to bring back the gynaeconomi, much like the religious police in Iran?
Greece had a profound impact on philosophy and science. Also on theology.
Yes, but they are essentially connected to the ME, not the rest of Europe. The Romans are really the first true European, West-looking civilisation. Sure Greece had philosophies, but they hardly spread to the Scandinavians etc.
I don't want witch burning or executions for not accepting Christ to come back either. If you look into the earlier myths of the Greeks when there was still the oral tradition you get a different social culture although not well documented. Gynaeconomi was apparently not know until Demetrius of Phalerum thus and invention at that time when their culture was changing. So you can pick out something bad in any culture including the culture of the United Stated in our modern time. Given the long history of subjugation of women under Christian rule does not speak well for Christianity.
Yes. It's something that has come up multiple times as I've been reading more literature written by indigenous citizens. As a Druid who also connects deeply with the land, I feel I can relate but at the same time can't imagine how traumatic being ripped from one's ancestral lands is. Even today, indigenous communities have to fight the United States for basic respect of their traditions. The citizens here, who don't practice indigenous or nature-based religions, just do not understand that deep connection to the land. They don't get why it is a problem to erect a new fancy telescope on a sacred mountain. I try not to think too much about it because it makes me mad when I do.
Starting a world religion is a very rare thing. I agree with you that is is odd that 3 of the 5 came from the same area -- the middle east. I don't have an answer for you on that matter. Good question! Perhaps we can begin by examining that World Religions come from great civilizations, and the only civilization that happened in Europe or the Americas happened AFTER an already existent religion moved in. Thoughts?
The subjegation of women happened when Indo-European patriarchy spread nearly worldwide. It existed in pagan Athens every bit as much as in Christian Rome. I don't understand your need to single out Christians on this regard.
Actually, the Pauline Epistles of the New Testament, which were meant to protect the younger egalitarian Christian congregations from the wrath of the Greek Hellenistic culture, have actually served to perpetuate those practices and attitudes longer than it would have taken for them to fade away naturally
I did specify Hellenistic Greek culture which was from the time period of Demetrius of Phalerum.
I stand corrected and did not the time frame for what is considered Hellenistic. So is the archaic or classical Greek periods more acceptable.
I am not claiming perfection in pre-Christian societies but there were more options for women as seen in the druidic orders. Women were druids from what sources we have. The importance of the goddess is equally important as the god. After the Christian takeover woman were not allowed to be a part of the religious order. This was clearly a step backward for the place of women while we hear about the superiority of Christianity.
Patriarchal culture was rampant around the world since the time of the Indo-European conquest. The existences of goddesses in cultures did not protect women from oppression. Some cultures were a little more open than others, but all of them were pretty bad. Consider how deeply misogynistic Greek and Roman culture was. SMH no, sorry dude. You cannot claim that paganism necessarily gives women a better deal.
Because you seem to want to stay ignorant of actual history. You've got to stop generalizing things.
