Ancient worldviews might shed light on our contemporary culture wars
Pagan gods explore human archetypes, including cruelty by the powerful. This has justified fascism and a caste system and a stoic morality. Christianity is more humanistic on a good day. When it adopted Roman sexual idealism, it was not a good day. We have had a string of bad days.
A moral focus on man is not a bad thing if it has a living God in the background. When it simply swaps one authority structure for another, not so much. A City of God can be just as cruel as a city if gods. A flawed mythology, in our case about Eve, can be just as pernicious.
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