>>511417335shut the fuck up then
>>511417141>But we enacted these revolutions eventually and each time they were regarded as secular revolutions."secular" but under a Christian metaphysic.
concepts like equality, inherent dignity, and linear progress aren't greco-roman, those came from Christian theology.
even secular humanism borrows the notion of the imago dei (mean created in God's image) stripped of its theological grounding but retaining its moral punch.
the french revolution rejected the Church yet retained a quasi-religious fervor, the "cult of reason" and "cult of the supreme being" were secular in form but metaphysical in function, replacing Christian ritual with state religion.
many enlightenment thinkers were deists or deeply shaped by Christian ethics. rationalism didn't arise in opposition to Christianity, but often as a reinterpretation of its moral obligations, sanitized for what they thought was going to be a post-theological age.
even movements like german nationalist socialism borrowed heavily from Christian motifs: martyrdom, redemption through suffering, apocalyptic struggle, while distorting them for ideological ends.
these "secular" revolutions were dressed in the garments of political reformed, but their skeletons were built on centuries of Christian metaphysical structure. they didn't escape the Christian paradigm, they merely secularized its myths ethics and eschatology.
the pretense of neutrality in secularism is a myth, it didn't birth morality, it inherited it.
atheism posits freedom, yet borrows its ethical compass from the faith it denies. Christianity didn't just shape the west, it is its foundation, and without it even "reason" loses direction, as we've seen in this post-9/11 world where secular humanism has taken the reins of culture from Christianity and given us pregnant men.