A well-written and measured book that takes a look at the classical world and the early years of Christianity. It also provides a good argument against the notion that Christianity itself created Western civilisation. Biology is the primary factor in the health of a civilisation (that is not to say that religion is not important). Also, do not take this as an anti-Christian analysis.
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I aim to make a book review every week or every other week.
I will see how well I can stick to this schedule.
But I thought since I've read quite a few books, I might as well talk about them.
It's always interesting and fun to share some interesting passages I find in the books.
So I will start off by a book I've briefly mentioned before.
It's The Darkening Age.
It has a bit of a provocative title.
I'd say it's called The Christian Destruction of the Classical World.
And it is a bit more, it's a bit clickbaity.
You could say if this was a video, you would say it's a clickbait because it is much more measured than you know your usual stuff you hear.
So I was hesitant to make this video because I've seen a certain conflict over all of my years in the metapolitical crusade.
And that's been, you know, between pagans attacking Christianity, etc.
And I've always found it quite immature and quite bothersome.
But I thought to talk about this book anyway, because it's an interesting historical depiction of the Roman Empire, well, or the early days of Christianity.
So before I begin to talk about the book, I would just like to say that I found it especially interesting since the author, Catherine Nixie, and I we come from two completely different angles.
I come from an atheist Swedish household and you know during my upbringing in school and everything Christianity has always been seen as something outdated and something that wasn't really good for much.
She however comes from a Catholic religious household in Wales so for her she's come from the position that Christianity was something good then she realized it also had some bad sides.
For me however it's been the opposite.
I've come from yeah again atheist Sweden where Christianity has been under attack for a very long time and then I realized that yeah you know Christianity wasn't the worst at all times it also had some good parts but what this book is and why I even talk about it is because it's an excellent argument against something I've seen from certain Christian scholars or authors etc.
My daughter agrees exactly what I'm saying, as you might hear.
But anyway, some Christian scholars will say Christianity created Europe.
It was barbaric and uncivilized and not particularly good at all before Christianity, and this is obviously completely false, and this book is an excellent counter argument to it.
So let's read a few passages in it.
But before I begin to do so, this is the video I mentioned.
I talked about it briefly before because the Temple Of Serapis actually appears in Assassin's Creed, so I thought it was a really nice touch.
Really great game, by the way.
Assassin's Creed Origins.
The most magnificent building in the world.
And apparently we can actually go to this building in this day and age, even though it doesn't exist anymore.
And that is the Temple of Serapis in Alexandria.
So let's head on into Alexandria in Assassin's Creed Origins.
So here we see my aesthetic character being out and about in Alexandria.
So we're actually at the reconstructed Temple of Serapis.
Now in the book The Order, she describes how the Christians Decided to tear down this temple of false worship, and obviously, quite quite a tragic thing when magnificent buildings are disappearing like this under religious intolerance.
So, anyway, I thought to just show this building here and now, and I think it's really cool, tips Pickelhaube, to Ubisoft for including it in the game.
I thought it was a really neat detail, especially since figuring out that this building was actually present in the game.
So, now you have hopefully learned something new that the most magnificent building and the author in the book she elaborates quite a bit upon it.
So, now you know it existed, but it does not exist anymore.
And it might be prudent in this day and age when Notre Dame has just almost been destroyed that we can appreciate ancient and beautiful buildings.
And then, lastly, since we are already in Assassin's Creed Origins, I thought to quickly recommend the game.
I think it is much better than Odise, even though I made the Let's Play series in Odise, but I played the whole game, and I must say, I'm not overly impressed, especially compared with how good Origins was.
So, definitely, if you haven't played Assassin's Creed Origins, you should do so.
It captures the feel perfectly, and it's a very beautiful game.
And additional points for including this fine temple.
So, one passage here in page 21 explains how Christianity, how Christ could be added quite easily to the pantheon of the gods.
Same thing in Sweden, by the way, since we had many different gods, Christianity Christ was just one other god you could add into the pantheon.
So, the old laissez-faire Roman ways in which the worship of one god might simply be added to the worship of all the others were preachers told their congregations no longer acceptable.
Worship a different god, they explained, and you were not merely being different, you were demonic.
Demons said the clerics dwelt in the minds of those who practiced the old religions.
So, yeah, that explains quite well the difference between tolerance versus intolerance.
So, you could, as I said, in the old pagan religion, you know, add in different gods because it was a bit more libertarian in their views of the gods.
But when Christianity took over, you know, you can only have one god in Christianity, of course.
So, there we have the difference.
Then, also, the book contains quite a few pictures of various statues, etc., that were defaced and destroyed by the early Christians.
Now, I'm not going to go all too much into detail about the actual destruction that took place in primarily the Middle East, that part of the empire, the Roman Empire, but there was such a occurrence at least that the new religion took over in a violent way.
And what I really want to say with this video is that Western civilization began with this, basically, ancient Greece, or perhaps even more accurately, ancient Rome.
If you look at how our societies are built now, if you look at law practices, for example, we have gained so much, we have inherited so much from the Roman Empire, and that was, of course, pre-Christian.
Then, of course, Christianity had certain roles.
I write about this in my book as well.
But we also need to be clear that Christianity did not create Europe, Europe created Christianity.
Otherwise, you would have Christianity looking the same all over the world, but it's influenced by bioculture.
And that's ultimately how we need to analyze Western civilization, how we need to analyze Europe in terms of biology.
It's biological Europeans that created the Roman Empire, ancient Greece, the Holy Roman Empire, the Frankish Empire, whatever, whichever main power in Europe.
It's always been due to biology and not due to religion.
So that's something really important to keep in mind.
So if you want to trace the origins of Western civilization, yeah, you can start in, of course, pagan Greece, pagan Rome, then Christian Rome, and then Christian, the Frankish Empire, etc.
So religion is secondary to biology and bioculture.
Then also yes, in no terror, there is no such thing as Judeo-Christian.
That is a lie and that's stolen valor, I would say.
So if someone says that Christianity created Europe, it's absolutely false.
It has no bearing in history at all.
Europeans created Europe, Europeans created Christianity as we know it.
And the best argument for this is just to look at does Christianity look the same all over the world?
No, it doesn't.
It's because bioculture influence your religion.
And this is also why I show appreciation for churches, because it is nothing to do with religion as you knew it in the early days of Christianity in Jerusalem, but it has to do with what our ancestors made out of it.
So if I see a beautiful building, I see a beautiful building built by our ancestors.
I don't necessarily think about Christianity per se.
So that was just my little review of the book.
I would say it's worthwhile reading.
I think it's a really good measured response to Christianity in the early days, but it doesn't resort to this sort of unnuanced attacks on Christianity.
You hear that, oh, Christianity came in and destroyed everything.
As I said, the title is a bit provocative.
The book is not that simple.
It is, again, nuanced and well written and very interesting.
Then of course, I'm also aware that there are plenty of good Christian things you could bring up in terms of monks continuing on the path of knowledge that the classical world brought to us.
So it is also false to view it as Christianity came in and destroyed everything.
Christianity also preserved a lot of things.
But main point for me making this video is that Western civilization is based on European bioculture and not on religion.
Religion is secondary to biology.
So anyway, if you want to know more about Christianity in Sweden, I made a video which you can find on my channel.
You can just search Swedish history, then it appears.
