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Vincent Carroll
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Christianity On Trial
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2001
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5 editions
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中国当代启蒙的任务和对象: 歷史是邏輯的基礎邏輯是歷史的修正
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[Christianity On Trial: Arguments Against Anti-Religious Bigotry] [Author: Carroll, Vincent] [December, 2001]
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“Boys were disposed of when they were deformed; girls when they were inconvenient. The result was a society-not just in Italy but in the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa-in which males outnumbered females by 30 percent or more. Most families simply refused to raise a second girl. Consider the instructions written by a man named Hilarion to his pregnant wife around the year Jesus was born: "If you are delivered of a child, if it is a boy keep it, if a girl discard it." Such orders were so ordinary, so unexceptional, that they didn't require a single word of justification. Christians, on the other hand, had a starkly different attitude: female infants were to be cherished equally with males as gifts from God.”
― Christianity On Trial: Arguments Against Anti-Religious Bigotry
― Christianity On Trial: Arguments Against Anti-Religious Bigotry
“To put it plainly, women enjoyed higher status and more autonomy among Christians than among pagans, and could expect better treatment from their husbands. Pagan Roman women were "three times as likely as Christians to have married before age 13," according to the sociologist Rodney Stark.3 Christian women also exercised far more choice in whom they wed, and were less likely to be forced into an abortion (a frequent cause of death for women of the time).”
― Christianity On Trial: Arguments Against Anti-Religious Bigotry
― Christianity On Trial: Arguments Against Anti-Religious Bigotry
“Augustine countered with the long view: Empires rise and fall in the natural order of things, but the church's mission stands apart from any passing secular institution. Because the true church endures, it is government's duty to take instruction from religion, not the other way around. This view could reinforce arrogance and absolutism in the church, and eventually it did. Yet Augustine's political theory also provided a basis for ideals of human freedom and individual rights.”
― Christianity On Trial: Arguments Against Anti-Religious Bigotry
― Christianity On Trial: Arguments Against Anti-Religious Bigotry
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