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Ask HN: How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ?
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Re: Ask HN: How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ?
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And you wish to speak of technology as if that is from your Christ.... What happened to gallileo? Copernicus? Descartes? Almost every great philosopher and scientist for the past 500 years has been in direct conflict with Christianity.... And Christianity is the reason TODAY in America we have to deal with anti-vaxxera, evolution isn't real, young earth creationist etc etc.... maybe you should stfu before opening you…
Galileo, copernicus, descartes were all christians, also newton. Some of them were in conflict with the church. Never with christ or god. If you’re ignorant and uneducated enough to not see the difference between the 2 then there is no point to argue with you. You’re likely brainwashed. Ps: Also if you didn’t know first western universities started as monasteries with monks seeking the truth in the name of christ.
Brainwashed? Try pasting your comment into an AI and ask for an analysis. Your weak argument is selectively true, historically shallow, and ideologically motivated. It reflects apologetics. It's not reflective of serious history.
You have a whole world of truth you are willfully blind to judging by your comments.
I am a fan of Dr. Dan McClellan, who uses the slogan “data over dogma.” He’s best known for his work in biblical scholarship and for presenting religious topics with an emphasis on evidence-based interpretation rather than theological assumptions.
Either his book or online content will challenge your views, and if you are honest with yourself, likely change your theological dogma.
Re: Ask HN: How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ?
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What about all the horror death and suffering done in his name ? Like a huge proportion of these Christmas culture things come from pagan Norse culture that was very forcibly christianized in a rather brutal way??? You seem to be overlooking a lot to make someone "awesome" or at least the horrors done in their name long after death.
All those horrors are not unique to human nature unfortunately, nor to the religion. Same or worth things were done in the name of any deity you can think of. It’s not something that he brought to this world. But what he brought was powerful and radical enough to slowly and eventually overcome many of the terrible animal-like human traits. Christian societies were the first that got rid of slavery, introduced human r…
Oh my. Paste your stuff into ai and have an impartial conversation. You are not grounded in reality and I believe your views are dangerous because they rewrite truths into a package that has been and will continue to be used as a cudgel against others.
I challenge you to provide one thing that jesus introduced. It turns out, EVERYTHING he taught already existed. I can paste a table of data, but ai is cleaner and faster.
And democracy is _famously_ Greek. Over half six hundred years before Jesus lived.
His historical impact comes less from novelty and more from narrative power, charismatic delivery, and, later, institutional amplification. And it is largely Paul who should be credited for amplification.
Re: Ask HN: How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ?
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
All those horrors are not unique to human nature unfortunately, nor to the religion. Same or worth things were done in the name of any deity you can think of. It’s not something that he brought to this world. But what he brought was powerful and radical enough to slowly and eventually overcome many of the terrible animal-like human traits. Christian societies were the first that got rid of slavery, introduced human r…
Oh my. Paste your stuff into ai and have an impartial conversation. You are not grounded in reality and I believe your views are dangerous because they rewrite truths into a package that has been and will continue to be used as a cudgel against others. I challenge you to provide one thing that jesus introduced. It turns out, EVERYTHING he taught already existed. I can paste a table of data, but ai is cleaner and fast…
You know that greek democracy had very little to do with what we called democracy in the west right?
Show me other religion that taught to love your enemies and survived to these days at the same time. Just a tiny example of why you totally miss the point by not seeing how innovative was his ethical approach for that time. And yes, one of his great achievements is that he succeeded to make those simple and already existed ideas popular. This is novelty by itself.
Re: Ask HN: How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ?
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Galileo, copernicus, descartes were all christians, also newton. Some of them were in conflict with the church. Never with christ or god. If you’re ignorant and uneducated enough to not see the difference between the 2 then there is no point to argue with you. You’re likely brainwashed. Ps: Also if you didn’t know first western universities started as monasteries with monks seeking the truth in the name of christ.
Brainwashed? Try pasting your comment into an AI and ask for an analysis. Your weak argument is selectively true, historically shallow, and ideologically motivated. It reflects apologetics. It's not reflective of serious history. You have a whole world of truth you are willfully blind to judging by your comments. I am a fan of Dr. Dan McClellan, who uses the slogan “data over dogma.” He’s best known for his work in b…
> I am a fan of Dr. Dan McClellan
Got it. You trust shallow youtube “celebrity” that nobody cares about and who is obviously biased towards his own set of beliefs, being a mormon.
Good luck