Sunday, April 24, 2016

Secularism: A Primer for Pagans

Divya Jhingran, in her own way, says that secularism is a concept that is meaningful only within a Christian framework.

The innumerable rites of the pagans were so closely interwoven with every circumstance of business or pleasure, in public and in private life, that it seemed impossible to escape them, without, at the same time, renouncing all human commerce and entertainment. The Christians with pious horror found themselves avoiding the circus and the theatre.

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Pretty sure that has nothing to do with secularism, it has to do with resistance to the mores of the prevailing religion. Early Christianity was in no way secular - it was just anti-pagan - and when it prevailed, it was quick to interweave its own rites with every aspect of business and pleasure.

Secularism is purely a construct of the scientific revolution, which substituted a new cosmology for the religious mythology.

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