This brings up a question - where is our Eusebius? So many have asked the question, "How did Christianity transform an entire empire?" Socialists are apt to respond without any decorum, "the state used religion to gain power over the people," while fundamentalist Christians might respond, "because the empire was so morally poisoned, the people naturally responded to a moral awakening provided by Christianity," and some secular Christians might talk about how Christianity offered a radically different model of family, natural rights, and community reorientation. So, after watching this video I downloaded Eusebius's "Preparation", and it's a 400+ page document, most of which is a meditation on modern trends in science, technology, philosophy, politics, morality - all using past thinkers to show how God worked through them. It's incredible. It's hard to imagine this document being used today at a Christian seminary. It needs to be though. Not the content, necessarily, but the model of approachability.
I wholly reject euhemerism, I do strongly believe that the ideas were put forth by early christians to lower the sense of importance of the Gods and Goddesses.
Pageau has an interesting video about how Medieval Christians believed that all the gods actually exist. That seems a bit more right to me nowadays.
^same
great show, very interesting topic
Have you explored any of the writings of Howard Fast? Any thoughts or recommendations?
This brings up a question - where is our Eusebius? So many have asked the question, "How did Christianity transform an entire empire?" Socialists are apt to respond without any decorum, "the state used religion to gain power over the people," while fundamentalist Christians might respond, "because the empire was so morally poisoned, the people naturally responded to a moral awakening provided by Christianity," and some secular Christians might talk about how Christianity offered a radically different model of family, natural rights, and community reorientation.
So, after watching this video I downloaded Eusebius's "Preparation", and it's a 400+ page document, most of which is a meditation on modern trends in science, technology, philosophy, politics, morality - all using past thinkers to show how God worked through them. It's incredible.
It's hard to imagine this document being used today at a Christian seminary. It needs to be though. Not the content, necessarily, but the model of approachability.
I don't know about you, but I'm gonna join Asatru!
I wholly reject euhemerism, I do strongly believe that the ideas were put forth by early christians to lower the sense of importance of the Gods and Goddesses.
nice podcast