@michaelvera@mastodon.social

I wasn't going to respond but I'll bite - and I will probably regret it - but here we go. I'm taking your comment as mostly tongue-in-cheek but with a bit of an edge.

There is a very rich vein of thought from Christian ethics and theology that has had a big impact on how we think in the modern Western world. For example, the idea of an individual having inherent dignity of the person in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is inspired in large part from the concept of the Imago Dei in Judaism and Christianity.

I'm only about a quarter of the way through the book but it is interesting to see how Christianity tried to merge ethical thinking from the ancient Greek world (natural law and virtue ethics) and Judeo-Christian approaches (rules for a particular people situated in a social context). It would be stupid of us to close ourselves off from various strands of thought because of a very loud subsection of that community. Strands of thought that have a hidden impact on contemporary Western culture, society, and ethics.

Truth be told it is not possible to talk about "Christianity" in the singular but rather it should be talked about as "Christianities." All religions are very wide tents and contain a multitude of different approaches and theologies. It is the same in secular ideologies.

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