Is this book any good? I've been looking into it and it sounds interesting
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Looks like it toots it’s christian corruption bias, and will hardly mention the lost cultural hallmarks of the old “western mind”. But will no doubt be better than staying on lit these days.
>Reading pop history
Oh no no no IQfysisters don’t tell me you do this
It's good. It's basically all about how the world that we live in is culturally Christian and not Classical.
The thing I'm curious about is if the author is framing that as a good thing, a neutral thing or a bad thing. I'm interested in the sense that I want to learn more about the ways Christianity has damaged Western Civilization
Hello Varg
>I want to learn more about the ways Christianity has damaged Western Civilization
homie u high? Christianity is just as Hellenistic as it Semitic, possibly even more so. On a theoretical level, Christianity is basically an outgrowth of Hellenistic philosophy. Liturgically, sure, it owes a debt to Old Testament Judaism that can't be understated, but Christian Theology is largely a product of the European mind.
Good thing. If you're looking for a critique of Christianity you won't find it there.
His argument is just a more elegant form of the argument that you occasionally see on IQfy about how Europeans were snowBlack folk living in mudhuts before the israelites invented architecture, cuisine, and mathematics. Christianity paved the way for human rights, democracy, individualism, and universal equality. He sees Modernity as a good and necessary thing that is finishing off the last vestiges of gentile spirituality in the West, but those gosh darn post-modernists (who are all gentiles btw) are taking things just a bit too far with the RELATIVISM and DECONSTRUCTION! Capitalism could work just fine if we returned to the Church Fathers and accepted the universal biological equality as preached by Justin Martyr and Eusebius. And, get this, he's an ATHEIST who says that CHRISTIANITY isn't true, but we all HAVE to believe in it or else people can just do whatever they want! Woah!
So, it's really good for your goal, it's just that the author completely disagrees with you.
Sounds like your run of the mill "cultural cristian" coward
Correct, he's part of the "Wokeness is just like Early Christianity" crowd. He wants the state to step in and make #WOKE an official religion with codified doctrines and such. However, unlike Mary Beard, he wrote an entire book about why this needs to be the case. Turning Woke into a new religion will lead to a glorious renaissance (the Dark Ages didn't happen, they weren't Dark!).
Luckily for OP this is really easy to do CHRISTIANITY BAD with because this idea is completely fricking insane.
I assume you're familiar with Nietzsche?
Why the FRICK would I read a book by Spiderman
The question you should be asking is, why not?
The cover appears to suggest the author thinks Greeks were or are Westerners or that Westerners are somehow Greek, both of which are wrong.
Oh boy, this argument again.
It’s not an argument. It’s a fact. If you have convinced yourself that you, Mr. American, somehow correspond to the same cultural sphere as the ancient Greeks, or the modern Greeks for that matter, you’ve deluded yourself.
Just read it.
Tom Holland writes books as well as acts?
>expert on European history
What CANT he do?
Haven't read this piece of shit but I'm doing a phd in classics and at no point, undergrad or grad, could I have cited this guy except derisively in any paper; or, I couldn't cite his work and expect any respect. If someone does breathless sweeping edudocs for some British tv channel they're guaranteed to be the academic equivalent and those trampy sports reporter hoes that for some reason expect to be taken seriously instead of understanding they're sensationalists that deserve to be groped in the copier room during the office Xmas party. Plus he looks like a milquetoast b***h.
I read some of it but dropped it. Threw it away a long time ago. It's just another shitty ideological subversion of history. He has the same style as all those other shitty pop historians who top sell on Amazon like Noah Harari. He brings up a historical topic, gives the most basic and fleeting analysis of it, then makes a conclusion about how it fits into his political narrative. He treats the reader like a complete moron who knows nothing about history or philosophy, but I guess that's the only type of person who actually reads these books. These authors don't second guess themselves. They blunder blindly through history cherry picking the lightest of facts to support their stupid ideology. I'm just really sick of them, having been duped into reading a few at this stage. People like this guy are why I stay away from anything written after like 1950.