1) I think it's more complex than that, but that's certainly a factor.
2) Successful religions aren't designed -- they emerge, for good or ill, from the experience of a people. Much of what made Western Christianity so savagely opposed to nature for a time emerged in the wake of the hideous 14th-century subsistence crisis in Europe -- the Black Death was only the peak of a century of famine, economic crisis, internecine warfare, revolution, and general chaos -- and its aftermath. Thus you see very different attitudes toward nature in the Orthodox, Coptic, and other non-Western churches, as they had their own historical experiences. In a very real sense, the age of European empire was the backlash from a tremendously difficult age of troubles in Europe. More on this in an upcoming post!
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Re: Occult & astrological history, part II
Date: 2024-06-03 08:56 pm (UTC)2) Successful religions aren't designed -- they emerge, for good or ill, from the experience of a people. Much of what made Western Christianity so savagely opposed to nature for a time emerged in the wake of the hideous 14th-century subsistence crisis in Europe -- the Black Death was only the peak of a century of famine, economic crisis, internecine warfare, revolution, and general chaos -- and its aftermath. Thus you see very different attitudes toward nature in the Orthodox, Coptic, and other non-Western churches, as they had their own historical experiences. In a very real sense, the age of European empire was the backlash from a tremendously difficult age of troubles in Europe. More on this in an upcoming post!