Originally Posted by
Wolves
This indeed is a very interesting thought. What place each has in the entwinement remains the real question. Has in some cases a Christian face merely been put over old heathen tradition?
I hear this a lot: we cannot just wake up one day and choose to be like our heathen ancestors. They had such a completely different culture, and it is now buried deep in time. Any (or most, depending on who you are talking to) attempt to see the world as they did is led astray by how we have been brought up to see the world - Christianized and modernized.
But this surely begs the question. How, then, on earth, were our heathen ancestors made to see through Christian eyes? Surely they would have been led astray by their heathen world view.
What this can only mean is that we ride a current of shifting cultural perspective, and are at no moment somewhere wholly new, yet nor does it appear we are ever quite in the same place as just before (the last ebb or flow, say).
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