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Originally Posted by peter12
What do you mean? Far-east atheism (is there such a thing? Buddhism?) is dramatically different from Late Modern Western bourgeois atheism.
I think - this conversation is already well off topic - that Christianity deserves a bit more credit than it has been getting lately. Especially in regards to how we view human beings vis-a-vis their own self-worth, relative only to itself, and not to one's place within a rigid social and political hierarchy.
All of the abolition movements of human history were Christian in origin.
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Agreed. The notion that suffering is ennobling, and that the meek have the moral high ground over the powerful, is a peculiarly Western notion embraced by non-Christian Westerners as strongly as by Christians. This belief (what Nietzsche called 'slave morality') is Christian in its roots, even though it has transcended its religious origins into secular Western morality.