Morphic Tide
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You don't get nearly the same totalitarian governments or refusal of standards without the "One True Way" thinking or utopian expectations introduced by Christianity. Essentially, I'm looking at the horrors of the 20th Century as overwhelmingly post-Christian problems, created by its failings and characterized by parts of its ethics separated from the overall worldview.It sounds as if you are trying to blame Christians for the actions of non-Christians, as far as I can tell.
There's not exactly many "pagan" influential thinkers in 19th-century Germany to be influencing Karl Marx with all that much non-Christian thought, for instance.
No, the relative "flatness" of innate moral worth and largely independent church organizations with anti-nepotism measures made for a lot less endorsement for one man working to lord over all because entirely separately from any local law or tradition there were codified ethical standards in the way of writing off the masses as powerless labor to be expended like you got over in China.Are you confusing "extreme personal authority" with extreme personal autonomy?