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Christianity insults our intelligence as well as our innate morality by insisting that we believe absurdities that are drawn from the mythology of paganism and barbarism.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Hitchens is the typical westerner. What we have to note is that he will attack the monotheistic priests of the church and flirt with sympathy for the noble savage pagan, but he will never touch the ethical part of the duality of ethical monotheism, most recently transfered to the nebulous entity of the <i>anglosphere</i>. At most, Ethics is present in every society( another case of equal equalism ) and is not an exclusive for the Church. The narratives of Krishna are simply those of the amoral heathen to Hitchens. Their presumed absurdity can be resolved by faith in the ethical anglosphere.
This should signify that the important transforming component was the ethical part of <i>ethical monotheism, </i>not the monotheism part.
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Contrary to what our authors claim, however, there are both a difference in degree and differences in kind: the former when one compares the Greek and Roman ethics with contemporary moral philosophy; the latter when one compares Indian writings on the subject with either of the two.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Christianity insults our intelligence as well as our innate morality by insisting that we believe absurdities that are drawn from the mythology of paganism and barbarism.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Hitchens is the typical westerner. What we have to note is that he will attack the monotheistic priests of the church and flirt with sympathy for the noble savage pagan, but he will never touch the ethical part of the duality of ethical monotheism, most recently transfered to the nebulous entity of the <i>anglosphere</i>. At most, Ethics is present in every society( another case of equal equalism ) and is not an exclusive for the Church. The narratives of Krishna are simply those of the amoral heathen to Hitchens. Their presumed absurdity can be resolved by faith in the ethical anglosphere.
This should signify that the important transforming component was the ethical part of <i>ethical monotheism, </i>not the monotheism part.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->http://colonial.consciousness.googlepages....politicaltheory
Contrary to what our authors claim, however, there are both a difference in degree and differences in kind: the former when one compares the Greek and Roman ethics with contemporary moral philosophy; the latter when one compares Indian writings on the subject with either of the two.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->