Thread by @Delafina777

@science_gamer @whatanerd @unclefeezus That’s a super-obvious signpost to start with.

Less obvious baked-in societal Christian attitudes revolve around forgiveness, how to handle wrongdoing, the existence of evil, etc.

@science_gamer @whatanerd @unclefeezus Hell, someone just did a great thread on how the difference between Stephen King’s and Stanley Kubrick’s versions of the Shining is the difference between Christian and Jewish concepts of evil.

@science_gamer @whatanerd @unclefeezus We have different ethics (Jewish values strongly lean communitarian; Protestants are individualistic, Catholics tend toward the middle). Christian thought tends to be suspicious of ambiguity; Jewish though tends to be suspicious of certainty.

@science_gamer @whatanerd @unclefeezus We view authority differently. Christians tend toward centralized authority; Jews tend toward authority being located in the community itself. That goes for textual authority too.

@science_gamer @whatanerd @unclefeezus It goes for how we read our central texts. Christians tend to view important texts earnestly; Jews tend to view them playfully (which for us is not incompatible with taking them seriously).

@science_gamer @whatanerd @unclefeezus It affects how we view ritual, whether religious or secular/traditional/political. It affects how we view the leadership (for Christians, authority is pretty sacred; Jews view it as a duty to yell at people in power (the primary role of the prophet)).

@science_gamer @whatanerd @unclefeezus It affects how we view the role of charity in society, and the responsibility of the government toward the poor. It affects how we view things like abortion (required in Judaism if the health of the mother is at stake).

@science_gamer @whatanerd @unclefeezus It affects our end-games. For Christians, the end-game is apocalypse (which affects non-religious assumptions about politics). For Jews, there’s no end of the world disaster on the horizon: there’s humanity figuring shit out and living in peace. Star Trek society, basically.

@science_gamer @whatanerd @unclefeezus It affects tolerance for dissenting opinions. For us, you get in by birth or adoption, so what you believe doesn’t affect your membership. For Christians, you get in by belief. And that affects non-religious groups’ formation.

@science_gamer @whatanerd @unclefeezus Hell, we don’t even conceptualize time the same way.

And all of this stuff affects baked-in assumptions about how people work, about how society works, about how reality works that don’t go away just because you stop believing in God.