{"id":1623,"date":"2010-02-03T01:23:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T09:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2010-02-03T10:30:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T18:30:05","slug":"the-only-true-revolution-in-the-history-of-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2010\/02\/03\/the-only-true-revolution-in-the-history-of-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"The only true revolution in the history of the west"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More good stuff on how modern unbelief is essentially <a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2009\/04\/08\/we-are-post-christian\/\">post-Christian<\/a>. That is, it is defined throughout by Christian ideas and morals.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Much of modernity should be understood not as a grand revolt against the tyranny of faith, not as a movement of human liberation and progress, but as a counterrevolution, a reactionary rejection of a freedom which it no longer understands, but upon which it remains parasitic.<\/p>\n<p>Even when modern persons turn away from Christian conviction, there are any number of paths that have been irrevocably closed to them &#8211; either because they lead toward philosophical positions that Christianity has assumed successfully into its own story, or because they lead toward forms of &#8220;superstition&#8221; that Christianity has rendered utterly incredible to modern minds.<\/p>\n<p>A post-Christian unbeliever is still, most definitely. for good or for ill, post-CHRISTIAN. We live in a world transformed by an ancient revolution &#8211; social, intellectual, metaphysical, moral, spiritual &#8211; the immensity of which we often only barely grasp&#8230;It is perhaps the only true revolution in the history of the West.<\/p>\n<p>-David Bently Hart, Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and its Fashionable Enemies, p.108<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pay special attention to &#8220;philosophical positions that Christianity has assumed successfully into its own story&#8221;. That is the redemption of all culture right there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More good stuff on how modern unbelief is essentially post-Christian. That is, it is defined throughout by Christian ideas and morals. Much of modernity should be understood not as a grand revolt against the tyranny of faith, not as a movement of human liberation and progress, but as a counterrevolution, a reactionary rejection of a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2010\/02\/03\/the-only-true-revolution-in-the-history-of-the-west\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The only true revolution in the history of the west&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}