Known goods and bads require comparisons to what? SImpleton’s use contemporary k

Known goods and bads require comparisons to what?
SImpleton’s use contemporary knowledge esp the privilege of moral beahavior we’ve made possible by the gains from our previous ignorance, error, and conflicts, to judge the past, when those people in the past had different knowledge and different incentives, and in particular, they lacked our privilege.

In other words, your luxury beliefs and virtue signaling and critiques are the result of those who came before you not you or your particular character or wisdom. Even so you are clearly parroting a postmodern revisionism without likely knowing so.

I’m against all religions preicated on falsehood, but since christianity resulted in teaching greek and roman ethics under the trappings of the mythology more accessible to the ignorant than our natural religion of stocism, we learn from observing christian history and its result, that it is the least bad religion, that most prepared people for a high trust society – which all other civilizations failed to produce – and our luxury today is the product of that high trust society that of course you take for granted as human instince when it is the very opposite.

There is a reason we are called the WEIRD (western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic) people, and that’s because our civilization is LEAST LIKE every other civilization. Not only because of our presumption of individual sovereignty in norms, traditions, and law, and our demand for truth before face, but because our presumption of the christian ethics that solve the prisoners’ dilemma of cooperation, and as a consequence of those traditions whether legal, military and religious traditions, we are able to drag mankind kicking and screaming out of superstition, ignorance, hard labor, poverty, starvation, disease, suffering, child mortality, early death, and victimization by a nature and universe that tries to exteriminate us with disturbing regularity.

Stoicism is expensive and the only no-false religion, and we see the consistently emergent desire for some facimile of it over the past decades. But christianity contains enough of it despite that mysticism teaches people to lie, and fundamentilism more so, and the sick twisted and evil of the mythology other than the new testtament, and the germanization of christianity made it compatible with our trifunctional civilization (look it up).

So to claim chrstianity is not the best religion by far requires you be ignorant of the horrors of every other civlization, and ingore the fact, that despite that we did many things poorly, ended slavery, and created all but a tiny fraction of the innovations that benefitted man in human history, despite being a small poor poulation on the edge of the bronze age.

Evidencde is clear. Christianity made people prosper – and fast by creating the norms that bring about middle class trade. Colonialism was unprofitable, and resulted in the world wars, but it’s so painfully obvious that those where were colonized are infiniately better off today than those who were not.

ie: stop virtue signaling for the enemy.

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