>The “Theft of the Greeks” was a theory propagated by early Christian writers which claimed that anything Christians agreed with in pagan philosophy was actually directly stolen from Moses. They claimed that philosophers like Aristotle actually learnt from Jewish writings and distorted what they learnt to be more polytheistic.Why are Christians like this? There is no evidence to suggest that pagan philosophy has origins in Jewish monotheism (especially since the Old Testament doesn’t actually have anything resembling these ideas).Instead of admitting that they copied the Logos from pagan philosophy and that the guys who came up with the concept of the Logos identified it with Zeus and not some 1st century Judean preacher, Christians will go through mental gymnastics to claim “actually they glimpsed the pre-incarnate Christ” which is laughable.
Ancient pagans for their part claimed Moses ripped off Plato and modern atheists on /his/ are shitposting all the time to the same effect, so for some reason people of various worldviews across time think there’s some strong similarity between Moses and Plato.
>>18418452What did you except? They’ve always claimed credit for shit they had no involvement in. The church fathers were apparently aware that Genesis ripped off of earlier pagan myths (the Mesopotamian flood myth was actually mentioned in Berossus’ now-lost work Babyloniaca which church fathers like Eusebius seem to have read) and tried to cope with it by saying “ackshually ours is the original truth. Their version is a distorted memory” which is laughable, especially since it assumes that these myths even happened and weren’t complete fiction.
>>18418454>modern atheists on /his/ are shitposting all the time to the same effectWhy do you assume that everyone on /his/ opposed to Christianity is some kind of fedora-tipping Reddit atheist or even atheist at all? Have you considered that maybe, just maybe, other religions can disagree with another religion like Christianity?
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>>18418452Christians are anti-intellectual by-default
>>18418454Ngl I don't think it has to do with actual similarities as much as it has to do with polemics. It was basically an attempt to subordinate competing faiths/traditions to the one of the polemicist. Which was very comon and you can even observe in the gospels.
>>18418452Paganism is just an umbrella term for a bunch of unrelated Indo-European folk beliefs much like how Hinduism was constructed by British colonists in India.
>>18420077To be fair high intellect inversely correlates with reproductive success. You can be the smartest academic in the world and you will die childless. Cambodia was just the beginning.
