>start with the Greeks>resume with the RomansAnd then the next logical step is "continue with the Christians." Surely /lit/ realizes this.
What's the next logical step after Christianity? Can we skip to that one at least?
>>25617278christianity is the consummation.sic transit gloria mundi
>>25617258The Greek Fathers are superior to the Latin. But I agree with your premise, there is a lot more continuity than later secularizing European historiography cares to recognize
>>25617290Hot dang what a coinkydink
very Christian of you to skip over the Jewishness of Christianity
>>25617278Socialism. Spengler speaks of this.
>>25617324Everything Socialism tries to borrow (steal) from Christianity doesn't work without the literal Power of God that fuels it in the Christian context.Like, communism/socialism itself is the most obvious example. It's clearly borrowed from the Early Church described in Acts, in which the Apostles and the small community of believers "held all things in common." The problem for the socialists is that the early Church could do this because of the Power of the Holy Spirit flowing through it. The same chapter in Acts mentions that people would be healed of disease when Peter's shadow fell on them.If you try to strip the literally-miraculous power away then, actually, you're not going to get a society where people "hold all things in common" because fallen, sinful humanity will inevitably fuck it all up.And it didn't even last in the Church forever, once it grew too big.
>>25617278The next logical step is genuinely becoming a saint and attaining theosis through love of God and neighbor
>>25617358All the previous steps left the current thing and went on to a different thing. That doesn't seem to be the next step, just more of the same.
>>25617278You can try to read some *snicker* atheist "thinkers", sure. Or maybe do what Schopenhauer did and desperately seek wisdom from the East? Your Buddhists, your Confucians, your Daoists, your Hindoos... you'll come crawling back to Christ soon enough.
>>25617278masturbate with the moderns
>>25617258>>start with the Greeks>>resume with the Romansthe real redpill is that the next logical step are the Byzantines and Russia
>>25617335or you could disregard the metaphysical nonsense, put your money where your mouth is and try the tolstoyan approach.
