Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "The Making Of The Western Mind | Tom Holland" video.

"The fact that there is power in being the victim..." No. Christianity is about there being power in being the SERVANT. Christ was *serving*, when He was on that cross. The idea that Christianity is worshiping something pitiful for its pitifulness, is a heresy. Probably the heresy of our time.
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Wedgewood's political slogan "Am I not a man and a brother?" is lifted directly from Paul's letter to Philemon (a slaveowner) about what to do with his escaped slave Onesimus who Paul had found. "12 I am sending him—who is my very heart—back to you. 13 I would have liked to keep him with me so that he could take your place in helping me while I am in chains for the gospel. 14 But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that any favor you do would not seem forced but would be voluntary. 15 Perhaps the reason he was separated from you for a little while was that you might have him back forever— 16 no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a dear brother. He is very dear to me but even dearer to you, both as a fellow man and as a brother in the Lord." This is another example of just how radical Christianity is. Imagine if America's Fugitive Slave Act had been written on this actual Christian basis.
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"The king is subject to the same law as the lowest person in the land, and that we get from Christianity" Are you sure? It seems like the story of Brutus and Tarquin also reflects it, although Suetonius reports a certain backsliding that is the opposite of David's trajectory in his story with Uriah and Bathsheba.
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The idea that humans should be treated well because they are made in the image of God is explicitly expressed in the third chapter of the epistle of James - 9 With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness. 10 Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be.
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The Americans (and the ANZACs, and the British) storming the beaches at Normandy in what Eisenhower called a Great Crusade, puts paid to the idea that in the modern world Christianity is a religion of the fundamentally weak. Christ did not come as a leper; He came as the healer. He is the one who pities. He was a healthy man in full possession of His faculties in the prime of His life, when He faced Pilate. The fact that this service resulted in His being reduced to a pitiful state was only a temporary thing -- He rose again.
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So Tom, if in Christ(ianity) there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, slave and free, how are the "pernicious" ideas about Jews to be considered "Christian"?
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