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How Christianity Remade the World: Tom Holland Interview

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The Christian Assumptions of the Me Too Movement

The Me Too movement is rooted in Christian assumptions about the sanctity of the human body and the rejection of it as a commodity for the rich and powerful. The movement gains its force from the Christian sexual morality that has been ingrained for two thousand years, where men and women equally understand that bodies are not to be objectified or exploited. This contrasts with the pre-Christian era where powerful men had the freedom to use their inferiors, including sexually, without repercussions. The condemnation of acts like those of Harvey Weinstein illustrates the prevailing Christian values that reject such exploitation and abuse of power.

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