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Re:The Last of the Hedgehogs: René Girard by TheOtherHobbes on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @06:03AM (#24196947)
People who suggest Christianity has a positive side sometimes show an astonishing lack of awareness about its history of self-promoting spin and its unarguable ethical and social flaws.
Re:The Last of the Hedgehogs: René Girard by pdabbadabba on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @09:13AM (#24198152)
I think you're proving GP's point. The very thought of conceding that there may be a positive side to Christianity (anything! no matter how small!) has you going on about its "unarguable ethical and social flaws." These may indeed be grave. But this don't even begin to justify your implicit contention that there is no positive side to Christianity.

I think the truth is actually pretty obvious: Christianity had both good sides and unarguable ethical and social flaws.

Re:The Last of the Hedgehogs: René Girard by coldtea on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @08:19AM (#24197740)
People who go on about its "unarguable ethical and social flaws" seldom have an understanding of the difference between it and the world that preceeded it, or the scale of its (the pagan world's) unarguable ethical and social flaws.