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Christianity and Cultural Collapse with Paul Kingsnorth

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Sep 29, 2021
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INSIGHT

Pre-Modern vs Modern Worldview

  • Pre-modern societies viewed life as a mystery centered around God and the divine.
  • Modern Western culture rejects the divine and focuses solely on material reality.
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Modern Self as God

  • Modern man worships the self as God, driven by greed and self-fulfillment.
  • This self-centered pursuit leads to cultural and ecological collapse.
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Techno-Religion Lacks God

  • The technocratic vision of immortality is a new form of religion without God.
  • Efforts to upload the soul ignore the importance of the body and material reality.
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