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William Tucker Interview - Marriage and Civilization
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ACU Show 1127 - Marriage and Civilization Dennis Prager talks to William Tucker, editor for Real Clear Politics. His new book is Marriage and Civilization: How Monogamy Made Us Human. Marriage built civilization. Will its collapse lead to our downfall? In Marriage and Civilization, Tucker takes readers on a journey through the history of the human race to demonstrate how a pattern of life-long,...
Catherine Nixey - The Darkening Age (American Freethought Podcast)
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AMERICAN FREETHOUGHT PODCAST: interview Catherine Nixey about her new book The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World, which explores how the early Christians, once they gained power, did everything they could to eliminate the architectural, artistic and literary heritage of the non-Christian Roman Empire. Also recommend on the same subject matter: Bart Ehrman's The Tri...
Catherine Nixey - The Darkening Age (Interview)
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When it comes to the ancient world, what Catherine Nixey calls “the story of wicked, oppressing Romans crushing the Christians of the empire who just wanted to be free and wanted to praise God” in this episode of The World in Time is a familiar one. Unfortunately, “when you look at almost any element of that story, it’s nonsense.” In her book The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the ...
only an inquisitor will say she is evil ,sinister ,bad, possessed by demon and more names .
To be clear, Sappho was at most bisexual, not a lesbian in the modern sense at any rate. It's a minor point, but worth mentioning.
Suggested title change: Insufferable Ignorant Atheist Progressive Wastes The Time Of Charming And Intelligent Author. What an absolute fool. I wish Nixey was getting attention from better interviewers.
When you hear a journalist saying that the low points of Europe were the pogroms and the trial of Galileo, you know that a Cambridge education means ignorance.
I don't understand why you think the contemporary equivalent of early Christian fanatics is American evangelicals, rather than politically correct woke lunatics and the establishment that nourishes them.
Monotheisms such as Christianity and Islam are, in their natural feral state, inherently totalitarian. They claim to save, enlighten and redeem, but in fact primarily exist for the purpose of acquiring earthly wealth and power. They are the natural enemies of truth, justice and freedom. They are, in fact, a war on these things.
Early Christian Fathers demonized the pagan Gods. And I’m current times, the Christians are demonizing the Hindu Gods and Goddesses. Nothing changed in the thought and theology and practice of Christianity. They are destroying the current age too.
The current day Christianity is doing same around the world.
Or rather talmudic judaism.
GREAT INTERVIEW!
What a beautiful heretic she is
Her book is more polemic than scholarship
Sounds to me like you didn’t read it.
@@skepticus5705 i tried
@@ericmay7722 …and nobody does polemics better than Christians. Also highly adept at pogroms and propaganda.
@@ericmay7722 …and persecution
@@skepticus5705 Yes, that's true
Humans are fuckwits They deserve what they get I keep kicking my own arse for caring .
Just bought this book! amazing!
This 'Up to you' concept was learned by Romans from Indian Santana Dharma ( precursor of current Hinduism)
And what evidence is there for these bands of intolerant Christians destroying classical culture? I have yet to find any. In fact, the opposite seems to be true. You see the Christian monks in the eastern Roman empire preserving through translation the primary manuscripts of ancient classical civilization. The Imperial Library of Constantinople, founded in the 4th century, preserved ancient Greek and Roman manuscripts for 1000 years!
Her book is critically denounced not only by Christian scholars, but also by atheist scholars like Tim o'Niel.
because they are educated in a Christian way. They are not enlightened like Catherine who has awakened from the instilled social norms forming by Christian ideologies.
@@leowang5243 th-cam.com/video/1V-lD0KaoBA/w-d-xo.html This is an academic review by another historian. There are many such historians, having similar views of this book.
And lauded by countless others. Can't please everybody, nor should you expect to.
@@skepticus5705 not exactly lauded by countless. There is an in depth analysis and debunking the narratives in this book. th-cam.com/video/1V-lD0KaoBA/w-d-xo.html
Some aspects of her criticism of ancient Christianity reminds me of Nietzsche's criticism
It is well known that Christians have often been repressive and intolerant not only to pagans and Jews, but even to other Christians.
The Hebrews of the old Covenant did not call themselves Christians. Israelites/ Yasha'el
The Romans arent the only ones to have to suffer through this. They did the same thing to Indians. The Goa Inquisition is one big example of this, there is a Christian Pastor in india that wants a nation all for Christians. He wants to divide his own country, that man. They are silently converting indian pagans using deceit, and bribery and every way conceivable. The Indian Pagans give them freedom of practice and what not and they write Things such as Christ the only way on their Churches, some way of reciprocating Pagan Tolerance. You don't have to go back 2000 years to see how wicked this religion is. Just look at what they are doing to among the last of the few remaining pagans.
"So they were burning books, I mean it's like nazi Germany" What an incredibly stupid thing to say. No, if the Roman state was burning the bible, denouncing christian subversion and agitation, and encouraging them to leave - That would be comparable to nazi Germany.
Such poor, unscholarly history, getting so many things factually wrong.
The Romans arent the only ones to have to suffer through this. They did the same thing to Indians. The Goa Inquisition is one big example of this, there is a Christian Pastor in india that wants a nation all for Christians. He wants to divide his own country, that man. They are silently converting indian pagans using deceit, and bribery and every way conceivable. The Indian Pagans give them freedom of practice and what not and they write Things such as Christ the only way on their Churches, some way of reciprocating Pagan Tolerance. You don't have to go back 2000 years to see how wicked this religion is. Just look at what they are doing to among the last of the few remaining pagans.
@@richardfromengland580 The Romans didn't suffer through this - the book is unhistorical muck
@@topologyrob So no Pagans were Persecuted by the Christians? Ever?
@@topologyrob those christian crosses carved into the Roman Statues were carved by the Buddhists Then?
@@richardfromengland580 Well she includes some factual stuff (and yes, some Christians did vandalise Roman statues - hardly a major point), but she utterly messes up with leaving important information out and massively (fanatically) distorting the interpretation to make a comic-book view of history. If only the world (and history) were so simple, but people are messy and complicated.
I reccomend this book very strongly. One of the best books I have ever read.
WOW!!!
Peter Thonemann, professor of ancient history at the University of Oxford, argues that Nixey's work is problematic, and that "the argument depends on quite a bit of nifty footwork", because Nixey makes a large number of broad generalizations based on limited evidence. He also states that the deliberate destruction of ancient temples by Christians "seems to have been exceptionally rare in real life" and that the Christian book-burning was always directed towards heretical or "magical" writing, and not towards classical literature
And the Christians get to decide what’s “magical or heretical” lol ! Christianity did not have traditio hence it was not religio. This is why Romans did not allow Christians to take part in the “polis” ! To be a traditio you have to show that you have practices based in antiquity. The philosophers around Rome, trier, Alexandria and other parts of black Egypt (Hypatia) were especially critical of Christianity’s aversion to intellectualism. Even many scholars of early Christianity come from Egypt and Aetheopis who mocked Christianity.
@@RohitSharma-mi8gt ...mocked Christianity because they were Neoplatonists such as Hypatia... according to them human spirit can be united with the internal One (God) via magic, spiritualism and alchemy.... Christianity far more serious, that's why people... mocked.."philosophers"...in the end
@@300ik Neoplatonists were not the only pagans who mocked Christianity
@@SagesseNoir yes worshippers of animals, emperors, planets,.rivers, trees etc.... All sickness of the old world
@@300ik why sickness? all things are one. All things have values and should get respects. People in the old times know this and they respect and value all things.
So interesting to see parallels to early Christian intolerance and iconoclasm in 2021. Not just in the actions of ISIS and the Taliban but in attitudes and morality of the BLM movement, the social justice warriors, cancel culture and the Woke movement in general. If you look at these through a critical lens you cannot fail to discern a zealous and puritanical religious movement. It seems to me we are standing at the beginning of a new religious "awokening" of puritans fanatically looking to address and remediate perceivedacts of paganism.
we do it in india already. we dug up babri masjid to find ram mandir remnant below it. that was our classical hindu past. europeans should do it in europe instead of digging in egypt or india.
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we should rethink Christianity again. we should dug the old church ground to find remains of our classical past and we should uncover that past from christian church to reclaim classical victory over christian present.
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the same dark 🌑powers whoes hand is behind freemasons, is the same powers who create Christianity, islam to enslave people. the good God channel had exposed yahweh that he is the Satan himself, and also dr geni kin himself reveal this mystery in his channel real Bible seekers
It’s happening again.
Yep, exactly the same psychopathic manipulative trick. Fascinating stuff.
@@geofholmes206 Yep the Barbarians are within Romes gates again.
It's rather irritating that even when BLM & Co are engaging in the greatest iconoclastic spasm since the Bildersturm, this guy is glibly rehashing anti-Falwell talking points from the 1980s. Smdh.
@@Gorboduc Are you implying that’s not what I’m talking about? 😂🤣
@@windmillrespector- I was referring (with some exasperation) to the host, who seems to think John Ashcroft is still the most pressing threat to western civilization lol.
Stoicism was very close to Christian ethics. A lot of Stoic ethics was borrowed by Christianity.
Heard of Nero?
she's got a chapter on him in the book
and it’s revisionist
@AnarchoRepublican We didn't start the Fire (of Rome)...
@AnarchoRepublican Well christians set fire to Rome and he made them into marvellous Candlesticks seems like an appropriate retaliation for arson to me...
@AnarchoRepublican Yeah but Tacitus like Cicero was kind of a libtard and a fan of the Republic sort of the hysterical Nevertrumper or Michael Moore of his age, he would have blamed pretty much anything on Nero as long as it would have fited his narrative, so quite unreliable. That is also the only reason the Christians didn't destroy his writings, despite it's pagan character. As for burning being against the Christian Religion I don't think so, didn't they burn a whole lot of Witches and Heretics later? Sounds a lot like what Nero did to his enemies, if you ask me...
Thanks for the video. The mask is falling off
This book is excellent
I agree, very well written and a genius idea.
What a good interview!!!