Quote: (01-15-2019 04:11 PM)Lunostrelki Wrote:
To be honest, I've always respected Christianity, but I can't help seeing how it ultimately led to the Marxism of today. Faith and spiritual is crucial, and Christian teaching created a lot of good, but something about its theology just seemed artificial and overwrought, like it unwittingly carried the seeds of socialism and political correctness.
It is because most of modern Christianity have this doctrine of "Scripture exegesis according to our times". On the other hand you have Christ words "My kingdom is not of this world". Unfortunately, Church is of this world.
It cannot be undone, in my opinion, since Christanity expanded into the entire notion of Christian civilization, thus annexing European civilization as such. And since modern age became so materially affluent, naturally Christian exegesis shifted to all kinds of social justice positions, like liberation theology etc.
As a juxtaposition you have islam which closed exegesis (closed so called ijtihad gate) already in 10th century and refuses any change.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ijtihad
In the middle of spectrum there is judaism, where everything essentially depends on a given rabbi.
And Buddhism in Europe is just a Lifestyle Buddhism, especially as one of pillars of Buddhism is sangha, community. This Western sangha is all about lifestyle too, not about being a monk as it originally was intended by Buddha and Ananda. And it is really fun that even those few Europeans who became monks, later have often tried to set up their own Buddhist branch.
Deep in their hearts, Europeans are born heretics.