Death, Birth, and MEDIEVALISM in Context

If we understand the origin and nature of the throes bedeviling cultures today, we can better deal with them. Global Christianity is heir to the imperial ideology/ theology of male patriarchy, based on fixation in the Garden of Eden mythology and male dominion over Earth/ Women. Medievalism evolved out of the merged politics of Roman Imperialism and the cult of Patriarchal Dominion. Christianity was contorted to fit inside the ideologies of fixation and dominion.

In the course of the Middle Ages, Medievalism hatched and grew full-fledged. MEDIEVALISM is the evolved product of Worldview and Cult fixed in dogmas of STATICISM (male hierarchicalism linked directly to God), CENTRISM (Earth-centered universe and Male Centrism), and SEXISM (woman created from man and for male companionship); background to the “Wars of Religion”.

Enlightenment, science and reason challenged cultic fideism and presumptions of the Garden of Eden Myth; Second Enlightenment continues the challenge to religious misdirection. The Councils of Trent and the First Vatican anathematized Enlightenment and evolution science (Modernity); the Second Vatican Council opened theology to truths of science, Enlightenment and evolution. The new insights of evolution science, cosmological acentrism, and male-female equivalency are correctives to staticism, centrism and sexism.

The angst and violence globally spread are about the death throes of Medievalism and the birth pains of Liberation Theology and cultural reconciliation. E-Communication is the midwife presiding over the birth of new culture even as the old passes away. It’s time we all get on the right side of history.

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Sylvester Steffen Feb 26, 2012, 10:28am UTC

libramoon, you say: Our “Pagan” President and our Pagan Democracy

what do you mean, please?

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Steve B. Feb 26, 2012, 10:30am UTC

Excellent article, as usual!!! Male dominion is what passes for christianity, when it really is little more than the roman empire (the roman church), with a cross painted over the door. Rome co-opted christianity, after persecuting it. Proof of that was seen in the inquisition - did that characterize christianity? Or did it characterize rome? I'd say the latter. At any rate, I hardly accept male dominion as a matter of christianity, and find it so "midevil" (misspelling intended) that women excluded from the roman church's "priesthood" - but I'm not surprised. I don't take religious institutions seriously - though religious stories remain spiritually instructional. What I take seriously is experience - and I trust that everyone has some direct experience of the divine. So - in a way - everyone IS a religion.

Margaret Garside Feb 26, 2012, 3:57pm UTC

I always thought Christianity jumped the shark when it became the state religion, something Jesus never intended.

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Sylvester Steffen Feb 27, 2012, 4:10pm UTC

libramoon and Margaret, I think I get it....
The shark, imperial (pagan) Rome, swallowed Christianity; in appetite and violence, Christianity learned predation. Christianity took on the paganity of Rome, commercially institutionalized. Can the shark be tamed? Can people break free from the jaws of consumerism?

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